Lotlsoft LabsWhat bootstrapped founders actually said about AI, pricing and getting acquired
15 claims that held, each with the quote it rests on and the date it was true.
Seen in the corpus 2 times, 2024-03-19 to 2025-08-12. Claims that did not hold are not listed here: they were written by research agents rather than by Braden Dennis, so they belong with the other refusals, grouped by how they failed.
Fiscal.ai is a financial data company
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Beautiful all-in-one research platform.
Accurate financial data connected into your AI tools.
The data feed API that powers the data behind institutions and investing platforms.
Fiscal.ai is sold as a data-feed API for institutions and investing platforms
Choose how you'll use Fiscal.ai
Beautiful all-in-one research platform.
Accurate financial data connected into your AI tools.
The data feed API that powers the data behind institutions and investing platforms.
Braden Dennis's rebrand was alongside a $10M Series A led by Portage Ventures with Social Leverage and VanEck.
Fiscal.ai, formerly known as FinChat, has announced the successful completion of a $10 million Series A funding round
The round was led by Portage Ventures , with additional backing from Social Leverage and strategic investor VanEck , bringing the company’s total funding to $13 million
With over 350,000 registered users and partnerships with leading fintech platforms, Fiscal.ai is positioning itself as a foundational layer for financial decision-making in the AI era.
Braden Dennis's team has 34 people
you’re a 29-year-old CEO of a company that now has 34 people on your team and you have six more starting shortly
Braden Dennis's team is about to have about 40 people
you’re a 29-year-old CEO of a company that now has 34 people on your team and you have six more starting shortly
Braden Dennis is 29 years old
you’re a 29-year-old CEO of a company that now has 34 people on your team and you have six more starting shortly
Braden Dennis generates over $400K per month.
>$400K a month
We’re making mid-seven figures and we expect to hit eight figures within six months.
We’re approaching eight figures in ARR and then we’ll figure out how to double again.
Braden Dennis expects to reach eight-figure ARR within six months.
>$400K a month
We’re making mid-seven figures and we expect to hit eight figures within six months.
We’re approaching eight figures in ARR and then we’ll figure out how to double again.
Braden Dennis's business model includes a B2B data licensing layer where over 50 enterprises license Fiscal.ai data into their own products
Hundreds of thousands now trust Fiscal.ai , and over 50 enterprises now leverage our data in their products.
Braden Dennis uses product-led growth with zero ad spend for the self-serve B2C side.
We’ve always leaned into product-led growth, which works great for self-serve B2C. We haven’t wasted any money on ads yet.
But we also do B2B, so we’re increasingly doing direct sales.
Braden Dennis uses direct sales for the B2B/enterprise data side.
We’ve always leaned into product-led growth, which works great for self-serve B2C. We haven’t wasted any money on ads yet.
But we also do B2B, so we’re increasingly doing direct sales.
Braden Dennis renamed the company away from 'chat'.
a lot of big bureaucratic financial buyers. They had almost all AI chat domains blocked on the server.
So we figured we pivot a little bit away from the chat name. People were kind of pigeonholing us to that name, doing it with the series A makes sense.
Enterprise finance buyers had AI chat domains blocked on their servers.
a lot of big bureaucratic financial buyers. They had almost all AI chat domains blocked on the server.
So we figured we pivot a little bit away from the chat name. People were kind of pigeonholing us to that name, doing it with the series A makes sense.
Enterprise finance buyers were pigeonholing FinChat as a chat app rather than a data terminal.
a lot of big bureaucratic financial buyers. They had almost all AI chat domains blocked on the server.
So we figured we pivot a little bit away from the chat name. People were kind of pigeonholing us to that name, doing it with the series A makes sense.
Perplexity is a named data customer
Accurate financial data connected into your AI tools.
“Fiscal.ai provides a dependable way to deliver financial data extracted from filings as soon as new disclosures are available. For Perplexity, that means investors can get accurate, source-backed financial metrics far sooner than they could through traditional data pipelines.”