Teranode is raising a pre-seed.
Decision infrastructure for regulated financial advisors. Five independent reasoning roles produce one structured decision record an advisor can put on file. Materials below; founder is founders@teranode.ai; response within 24 hours.
Materials.
- 12-slide pitch deck. /council-deck — problem, insight, product, real anonymized record, architecture, competitive position, wedge, traction, ask.
- Methodology. /methodology — how Council quality is validated. Live eval count, head-to-head A/B record, model matrix.
- Public eval benchmark. /benchmark — every Council run shipped with consent, queryable.
- Trust + security posture. /trust + /security — vendor DD answers, sub-processors, controls.
- Try the product. Council demo on the homepage — runs against your own scenario, no signup, ~20 seconds.
- The artifact. /design/record — printable letter-size decision record, the artifact a regulated advisor would file.
Live signals.
- Vendor diversity. Five Council roles pinned across four distinct frontier providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek). xAI Grok is the Contrarian fallback. No single-vendor dependency.
- Eval scaffold. Live at /methodology. Every model pin backed by a documented head-to-head comparison.
- 20-scenario internal evaluation. Founder- judged anonymized advisory scenarios. The Council surfaced an additional material risk vs. a single-model baseline in each scenario reviewed. See the proof band on the homepage for full caveats.
- Design-partner pipeline. A forthcoming independent advisory practice (registration pending) is positioned as the first design-partner deployment. Standard SaaS terms — no equity, no fee-share, no per-transaction inducement. Conflict-of-interest posture on /trust. Additional design- partner conversations are open; pre-registration naming is held back deliberately.
The founder.
Dan Zimon — Series 7, Series 66, and insurance licensed. Fourteen years across institutional finance (hedge fund associate, research analyst and trader, portfolio manager at three institutions). Bio + arc on /about.
The ask.
Pre-seed for ~21 months runway at $70K/mo burn. Hiring shape: CTO (production engineering and security), Director of Distribution (RIA channel sales), three fractional advisors (compliance, distribution, technical architecture). Founder ships ~80% of the code with Claude (Anthropic) as development collaborator — team math is leaner than typical pre-seed.
Use of proceeds, milestones, and budget on slide 12 of the deck.
Book a meeting.
Investor inquiries: founders@teranode.ai
Teranode is software and not a registered investment adviser. Outputs are generated by AI models and must be reviewed by a qualified person before any action is taken. Internal evaluation results are not third-party validated and are not predictive of any other scenario, advisor, or client.