Pre-seed · Investor Brief · 2026

We help beverage brands sell more inside restaurants.

An AI-powered trade-marketing channel. $60B a year is spent pushing drinks into restaurants - mostly offline and unmeasurable. We digitize it, measure it, and own the channel: the restaurants.

+30% Coca-Cola sales lift
Profitable since May 2026
Raising $1M pre-seed
Raising$1M SAFE
Runway18 months
Target$3M ARR
AnchorCoca-Cola live
Our story

We built an AI to run restaurants' social media. Then we found the real business.

Daily WhatsApp chats with owners earned us something rare: trust. So we slipped a brand into a restaurant's own offer, "Coca-Cola for 10 CZK with any kebab," and within days Coca-Cola sales jumped 30% while the rival drink's fell. That's when it clicked: we don't sell content. We control the offer, the most fought-over real estate in a $60B channel nobody had digitized.

Samarkand Kebab offer — $1 Coca-Cola with any kebab
Coca-Cola dropped into a kebab venue's offer
Pizza + Cola offer post
Pizza + Cola, woven into the menu
Pasta with Coca-Cola Classic offer post
Coca-Cola Classic as the night's special
Built & backed by operators from
Coca-Cola· Kofola· Wolt / DoorDash· METRO· NutritionPro· Official Meta Partner
The opportunity
$60B/yr

Spent every year pushing drinks into restaurants - and almost none of it is measurable.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Red Bull and others pour billions into pouring rights, menu placements, distributor reps and branded glassware. On-premise is their highest-value channel - margins are roughly 2× retail. Yet the spend is offline, fragmented, and impossible to attribute.

01

Restaurants are the channel. Whoever controls which brand appears in the offer controls the sale.

02

It's invisible. Reps, posters and POS deals can't be measured, optimized, or rotated in real time.

03

We digitize it. One platform. Real offers, in real restaurants, with measurable sales lift.

How it works

From a one-tap WhatsApp yes to measurable sales lift - in 14 days.

We run a restaurant's entire social media for free, created by AI. A paying brand is woven naturally into the venue's own offer - so it shows up online and on the menu. Zero effort from the restaurant.

Step 01
💬

Approve in WhatsApp

We send a ready-made branded offer. The owner approves with one tap - no apps, no dashboards.

< 60 seconds
Step 02
🤖

AI creates everything

Venue-specific post, story, reel and ad creative - the brand integrated into the offer, native to the feed.

No human in the loop
Step 03
📣

Goes live + 1km ads

Published to the venue's Instagram & Facebook, boosted with targeted Meta ads within 1km. It also lands on the physical menu.

~25,000 views/mo
Step 04
📈

Measured lift

Brand SKU sales rise at the point of purchase. The restaurant gets foot traffic; the brand gets attribution.

+30% in pilot
The one-tap yes
WhatsApp chat: a restaurant owner approves a Coca-Cola offer in one message
A real owner approves the offer - and sets the boost budget - without leaving WhatsApp. No app, no dashboard.
What the AI ships, minutes later
AI-generated Pizza + free Coca-Cola offer post for the venue
The exact post from that chat - the brand woven into the venue's offer, published to Instagram & Facebook and boosted within 1km.
Why it compounds

Both sides win - and once a brand is in the offer, it can't afford to leave.

Supply · Restaurants

Free marketing they'd otherwise pay for

  • Full AI-run social media, $0 - standalone agency value $1,500–6,000/yr.
  • Brand-funded ad budget on their own accounts: $112–340/mo of Meta spend.
  • Everything runs in WhatsApp - daily contact builds the trust that closes brand deals.
  • No contractual lock-in - but a stack of value no standalone tool replicates.
Demand · Beverage brands

Measurable scale across fragmented venues

  • One campaign reaches hundreds of restaurants - no per-venue negotiation.
  • Outcome-based CPM pricing - pay for the offer placement, not just impressions.
  • A digital, attributable alternative to offline trade dollars.
  • Brand managers buy quarterly without C-suite or procurement overhead.
The insight from 18 months on the ground
"When a brand is in the offer, its sales go up and the competitor's go down. If it stops paying, a competitor takes its place. The brand cannot afford to leave."
Traction · May 2026

Validated in Czechia. Coca-Cola paying. Profitable today.

+30%
Coca-Cola SKU sales lift, measured in pilot
$19K/mo
Combined revenue - $11K SaaS MRR + $8K Coca-Cola brand
90%+
Gross margin on brand revenue (80%+ on SaaS)
100+ & NYC
Paying restaurants in CZ, plus 4 live in NYC (10+ in US pipeline)
2.5M+/mo
Brand views delivered across the network
Profitable
Reached May 2026 - raising from strength, not survival
Coca-Cola Czechia - commercial contract signed, first invoice paid, scaling across ~120 restaurants
Birell (Asahi group) - 20-venue pilot in motion, ahead of plan
3 markets - Czechia (anchor), USA & Germany (first revenue)
Burger and Coca-Cola served together on a restaurant table
Brand in the offer — Coca-Cola on the table, in the venue
A new SKU added by hand to a restaurant's physical menu
Brand onto the menu — a new SKU, added by hand
Business model

Brands pay a CPM. Three tiers, tied to outcome.

Every restaurant delivers ~25,000 brand views per month across feed, stories and menu. We sell that inventory by the thousand impressions - priced by how deep the brand goes.

Tier 1

Brand Awareness

Brand featured in restaurant content. Priced at parity with the standard digital ad market.

CZ CPM$5
US CPM$15–20
Performance premium
Tier 2

In Offer

Brand integrated into the restaurant's own promotional offer - driving measurable foot traffic and sales.

CZ CPM$15
US CPM$45
Tier 3

In-Venue Push

Brand pushed inside the venue - menu placement, staff recommendation, in-venue signage.

CZ CPM$20
US CPM$50
Distribution moat

We don't cold-call restaurants. We make them famous first.

Our AI films a high-quality reel about a target venue and posts it from a city food account (e.g. @thefoodie.nyc), tagging the restaurant. The owner sees their venue featured - for free. Then the conversation is warm from the first message.

The roadmap: 100–200 city food accounts at 3 reels/day - a near-zero-CAC supply engine that is also its own ad inventory.

30×
Hit rate vs cold outreach (60% engagement vs ~2%)
60%
Of tagged restaurants repost to their own feed
10%
Convert to an active partner in the network
~$70
CAC on the organic curator channel
Tacos reel filmed for a target venue
Taquería
Burger reel filmed for a target venue
Burger bar
Pasta reel filmed for a target venue
Pasta house
Bubble tea reel filmed for a target venue
Bubble tea
Team

Operators who have done brand, AI, and scale before.

ES

Elisey Sviridov

CEO · Co-Founder

Built FRES (acquired by Grovy, 2022). Co-founded NutritionPro ($5M+ raised). Former Prague restaurant owner. Owns sales & brand strategy.

AH

Anton Hartell

CTO · Co-Founder

20+ years in engineering & AI. Ex-CTO at WhoAPI (500 Startups) and FRES. Owns product and the personalization-at-scale architecture.

DJ

David Janíček

CCO · Head of Growth

Ex-Head of Sales at NutritionPro - scaled $0 → $7M ARR across 3 countries. Owns restaurant growth and brand-side commercial.

Advisors - the full chain from brand budget to restaurant feed to exit
Jakub Will Loos - ex-CMO Coca-Cola CZ/SK/HU. Angel + pilot partner; opens Coca-Cola doors.
Jaroslav Barták - ex-CEO Kofola (~$90M) & Lavazza CZ. Angel investor; 35 yrs FMCG, intros to 10+ beverage CEOs.
Oksana Lukyanenko - ex-GM Wolt Germany / DoorDash. Knows how restaurant platforms scale and exit.
Tomislav Kostanjevac - ex-Head of Sales DISH (METRO). Acquired 300K restaurants in 5 years.
The ask

$1M to launch the US and turn the channel on.

$1MSAFE - MFN + pro-rata for lead. 18 months of runway.
$3M ARRTarget by month 15 - 1,000 active venues at ~$250 blended.
4 brandsCoca-Cola live + 3 new anchors; US market launched.
3,000Restaurants in network - 1,000 running campaigns at any time.
Use of funds
50%
US restaurant growth & ops
25%
Brand sales (2–3 more brands)
15%
Product & AI automation
10%
Operations & runway flexibility
Receiving entity: HeroContent Inc. (Delaware C-corp). Operating entity: HeroContent s.r.o. (Czechia). Prague + NYC.
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