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New Business Formation Finder ·
If an entrepreneur "adopted" this product today, here's the realistic math.
Fermi summary
Get 80 CPAs paying $100/mo and you're at $96k ARR - but there's only a 14% shot you close that many given entrenched competition and a buyer base that hates cold outreach.
Market size (TAM)
$12.0M
~10,000 small CPA firms (1-10 staff) actively seeking new small-business clients × $1,200/yr avg lead-gen subscription spend
Year-1 ARR range
$18k - $300k
midpoint $96k
Investment to production
$20k
Dev: $12k for 50-state SOS data pipeline, normalization, delivery UI, auth+billing. Marketing: $5k for outbound email sequences to CPA firms
Probability of success
14%
P(reaching mid case in 12 months)
Expected take-home Y1
$-8944
probability-weighted, after investment
Go-to-market motion
Cold email + LinkedIn outreach to solo/small CPA firms → 20 demos/month → 3-4 closes at $99/mo, leaning on 'be first to reach new LLCs in your zip code' angle.
Key risks
- State SOS data is public and freely scrapable - ZoomInfo, Apollo, and Seamless.ai already sell new-formation lists, so CPAs who want this data likely already have a cheaper path to it
- CPAs are referral-culture buyers, not outbound hunters - the slice willing to cold-pitch brand-new LLCs is small, so churn will be high once they realize conversion rates on cold formation leads are poor
- Data freshness and normalization across 50 states is a maintenance treadmill - states change their filing formats and portals constantly, so the pipeline will break repeatedly and silently degrade lead quality
Generated by the Wishdeal Factory financial-analysis agent. Numbers are honest Fermi estimates, not guarantees. Real outcomes depend on the operator. The studio is bullish on the engineering quality, agnostic on the business outcome.