account_balance PROGRAM ALLOCATION

Budget

Strategic deployment of $220,000

Allocation Distribution
41%
14%
6%
39%
Founder Sustainability
$90K
Founder salaries — full-time execution through program and beyond
person 41% of funds

Muhamad Hamza Khan — $3,000/month × 18 months = $54,000. Full-time CTO focus: product architecture, matching engine, and platform engineering.

Hamza Kamran — $1,500/month × 12 months = $18,000 (Pakistan market-rate). Covers transition to full program commitment alongside existing US-hours PM role.

Areeb Durani — $1,500/month × 12 months = $18,000 (Pakistan market-rate). Funds full-time commercial execution: advertiser outreach, brand partnerships, and financial model ownership.

Total: $90,000. Salary is staged and proportional — highest allocation where full-time technical execution is most critical.

Team Expansion
$30K
Protocol Engineer + Community Growth Specialist (staggered)
group 14% of funds
Protocol Engineer — $18K (3-month contract engagement, remote)
Onboarded at month 3 to architect the Reputation Protocol.
Community Growth Specialist — $12K (3-month contract, performance-based extension)
Dedicated hire to drive creator acquisition, community engagement, and retention programs.
Infrastructure & Security
$14K
Cloud hosting, audits, payment processing
shield 6% of funds
Server scaling, CDN, Stripe processing fees, and independent architecture review of the Reputation Protocol immutable ledger before public launch.
Milestone-Staged Deployment Reserve
$86K
39% of funds — milestone-triggered deployment
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Not idle capital — staged deployment tied to two explicit triggers:

Creator Density Capital — $72K

Activates at 1,000 confirmed active creators. Funds Layer 2 GTM: affiliate program launch ($1/verified signup), Discord server partnerships, and paid Reddit expansion. This is when paid acquisition becomes efficient — not before.

Seed Round Preparation — $14K

Activates at Demo Day. Covers legal filing and data room preparation for the $1.5M Seed round. Lean by design — legal costs are minimised through Techstars network introductions to partner law firms.

Every dollar has a trigger. The reserve is a strength, not a gap.

diversity_3 Beyond Capital
chevron_right Mentors with gaming and creator economy networks to accelerate our first brand partnerships
chevron_right Warm introductions to large Discord gaming communities (50K+ members) for Layer 2 GTM seeding
chevron_right Reputation Protocol architecture review — stress-testing the immutable creator ledger before public launch
chevron_right Capital efficiency by design: global remote hiring means StreamFuse operates at significantly lower burn than a co-located team — the $220K stretches further, and the reserve is a strength, not a gap

Key Risks & How We're Built for Them

MITIGATED

Platform API Dependency

The risk: Twitch or YouTube could monetise their data layer and charge for API access — as Twitter/X and Reddit did in 2023 — regardless of policy compliance. How we're built for it: StreamFuse is platform-agnostic by design. We currently support Twitch and YouTube, with Kick and TikTok Live on the roadmap. No single platform API kills us. More importantly, our most valuable asset — the creator reputation graph — lives tamper-proof, permanently outside any platform's control. The matching engine uses platform APIs. The moat doesn't. (Reputation Protocol — full explanation: slide 3)

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Key Milestone
12,000 Active Creators — Product-Market Fit