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PayAttention

Pay with attention,
not money.

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Problem

Marketing is built into the price.
Customers want to pay for products, not ads.

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Illustrative price composition An example with marketing accounting for 30 percent of the price, alongside other costs. The arrow highlights its contribution to the price. Price Other Marketing
30%savings
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Solution

Brands reward
customers directly.

Customers get upfront discounts at local stores.
In return, they use sponsor offers.

Local coffee shop
Regular price$10
With PayAttention
$0today

Complete the brand offer to keep the discount, or pay the regular price.

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Business model

Businesses bring each other new customers
with upfront discounts.

PayAttention retains a platform fee.

  • Advertisers pay for verified actions.
  • Their budgets fund customer incentives.
PayAttentionPlatform fee
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Advertisers
Cost per action model
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Customers
Discounted price
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Local businesses
New customers
Verified action
Win-Win-Win
MVP Traction

Target: positive unit economics.
High-value customer data.

85%
Start paying through PayAttention
34%
Open our chat messages
20%
Share bank data and purchase history
21%
Complete an offer
Current advertisers
  • Amazon
  • Prime Video
  • Amazon Music
  • Microsoft
  • Instacart
  • HelloFresh
  • Nike
  • Netflix
  • Google
  • Meta
Network effect

We help businesses
share customers.

Local businesses invite nearby businesses to reach more customers.

Bank

Advertiser

Coffee shop

Promoter + advertiser

Nail salon

Promoter + advertiser
PayAttention
Vision

“Instinct” with
a reliable GTM

Local trust

Traffic from local businesses

Upfront discount

Direct relationship

  • Phone + chat
  • Saved card
  • Transaction history + email

Repeat sales

Personalised cross-selling

Complete agreed actions or pay only the unearned portion.

Market

300M target transactions
every day in the US

Just 2% of this market is an Instagram-sized marketing channel.

Our early pilot already shows 85% adoption at checkout.

Team

Built by founders with fintech and B2B2C experience

Andrey Monastyrskiy
Andrey Monastyrskiy
Co-Founder & CEO

Founded and sold a B2B2C startup to X5. Today its GMV is over $1B.

Previously we co-founded a social-media app for the US market and ran performance marketing ourselves — so we know the pain on both sides.
Danil Larionov
Danil Larionov
Co-Founder & CPO

Product Owner at Revolut, where he runs a product with a model similar to PayAttention.

The ask

Raising $500K to prepare for scale

Increase repeat usage. Build reliable merchant operations.

SAFE · $5M cap ● $100K already committed
Month 4 targets
20
Merchant locations in Miami
$600K
Monthly volume through PayAttention
$50K
Monthly commission revenue

Then we scale.

Andrey Monastyrskiy
Co-Founder & CEO
andrew@payattention.now LinkedIn
Danil Larionov
Co-Founder & CPO
daniel@payattention.now LinkedIn
Appendix

Additional materials

Financial plan, exit strategy, why now, moat, matching, framing & long-term vision.

Target unit economics

Contribution per action

ActionBusiness paysCustomer getsContribution
Google review*$10$3+$7
Instagram Story$10$10$0
Anonymous feedback$5$3+$2
Bank connection$0~$4−$4
−$0.20Processing per paid order
$0 targetCashier incentives

Current pilot: $5 cashier incentive per new paying customer. We plan to remove this cost.

Target scenario. Full pilot totals await a matching server-ledger report. *Google prohibits review incentives.

Financial plan · Earlier scenario

$150K MRR at M6, break-even at M9,
$400K MRR at M12

$150K
MRR at month 6
M9
Operating break-even
$400K
MRR at month 12
PayAttention retained MRR Costs EBITDA
$400k $200k $0 $150k M9 break-even $400k M1 M6 M9 M12
Appendix · Exit strategy

Acquiring-led sales for banks

A way for banks to open more business and retail accounts — by giving real value to both.

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Standard acquiring
Moves money. A commodity — competes on basis points.
Processes payments
+ PayAttention→
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Enhanced acquiring
Processes payments and grows merchant revenue.
Acquires customers · covers purchases · drives loyalty
Natural acquirersBanksAcquirersCard networks
Appendix

Why now?

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CAC keeps climbing.
Covering a customer’s bill is now cheaper than performance marketing.
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SMB margins get thinner by the day.
Many local businesses live on the edge — they need new revenue streams.
Appendix · Moat

Why this compounds

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Two-sided flywheel
More businesses → more sponsors → better offers → more businesses — and any merchant can flip sides and advertise.
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Loyalty lock-in
Swapping acquiring is easy; ripping out a loyalty program wired into checkout is not.
Team advantageFounded & sold a B2B2C startupFintech DNA — Revolut
Matching · users × advertisers

How we match users and advertisers

Four layers of offers — from the merchant's own world, to universal, to personal, to ones users never knew existed.

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Merchant-related offers

Native to the checkout you're in

Offers tied to the business’s own world — add-ons, upgrades and partner services around the purchase.

Add-ons & upgrades Memberships Partner services
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General financial offers

Anyone qualifies · no data needed

High-value financial actions advertisers pay heavily to acquire — applicable to every user out of the box.

Open a bank account $20–400 Switch your payroll $40–1000 Switch your insurance $40–1000 Refinance your loans
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Personalized offers

Substitutes for what you already use

Users share their data — via screenshots, Plaid and Gmail — and we offer cheaper or better substitutes for services they already pay for.

Screenshots Plaid Gmail → cheaper substitute
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Discovery offers

Offers they didn't know existed

With that data we surface relevant offers the user never knew were available — ones that save them money, effort or time.

Save money Save effort Save time
Frame · what we should be compared with

Our model is a combination of already-proven concepts

PayAttention
AppLovin
$160B valuation
Advertiser-funded actions
Klarna
$6B valuation
Alternative checkout
Rokt
$3.5B valuation
Transaction-moment monetization
Paylode
Acquired by Moved
Embedded perks and incentives
Vision · how to become a unicorn

Sponsored attention becomes
a new class of payment rail

$$$
Credits
Let people pay later
Huge checks$12K average
$$
BNPL
Made credits consumer-friendly
Middle checks$135 average
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Sponsored payments
Let brands pay for you
Small checks≤$50

As vibe-coding and AI content explode, attention becomes the most valuable asset — and a positive LTV/CAC ratio gets harder to achieve.