Chat Nexus
INVESTOR NARRATIVE · JULY 2026
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INVESTOR NARRATIVE · JULY 2026
The agentic operating systemfor the creator economy.
Chat Nexus builds agentic AI that runs creator businesses end-to-end. Our agency BAE proves it: 3 creators under beta management added $30K in MRR — 2 more onboarding, all on our own stack. Agency today. Autonomy tomorrow.
XLIINK
7,329
creators acquired · $0 CAC
TRAFFIC
65M+
page impressions, last 30 days
XSPLIT
$1.96M
creator earnings processed
REVENUE
~$40K
monthly revenue, growing
Derick Manlapeg, CEO  ·  derick@chatnexus.com  ·  chatnexus.com  |  xsplit.pro  |  xliink.com  |  bae.agency  ·  Raising $1.5M @ $24M post
How we got here
Every pivot was the same search
Three years, one direction: hunting the highest-leverage place to stand in the creator economy. Three acts of building — all converging into one system.
2023–2024
Act I · Platform
XChatter → WeFans
Went head-to-head with OnlyFans — and learned the market's real physics: creators, not fans, are the scarce side.
UNLOCK  Don't fight the platforms — arm the creators.
2024–2025
Act II · Tools
XPix · XSplit · XLiink
Built the picks and shovels. XLiink quietly began compounding at zero CAC while SaaS sales crawled.
UNLOCK  A funnel we own — creators arrive daily at $0 CAC.
2026
Act III · Agency
BAE — beta live & earning
Took the highest-margin seat: run creators ourselves, on our own stack, at a 15–30% take.
UNLOCK  Revenue now — and the training ground for autonomy.
THE ENDGAME
Chat Nexus OS
One agentic brain
Three years of playbook, encoded into one agentic brain that runs creator businesses end-to-end — ours first, the industry's next.
UNLOCK  Everything before this was R&D for the brain.
  Full circle: we own the funnel, the rails, the talent — and now we're encoding the playbook into software.
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The problem — and what the industry gets wrong
A $250B industry, still run by hand
Creator management is a 24/7 labor business. Agencies throw people at it — linear costs, burned-out chatters, inconsistent quality. We ran the ops floor ourselves, on our own accounts, and learned exactly where it breaks.
Chatting is the business — and it doesn't scale
Revenue closes one DM at a time, 24/7. Top fans spend $90K+ lifetime — each — and they aren't buying content, they're buying the relationship with their favorite creator. A rotating shift of strangers can't be that at scale.
→ Be the creator, perfectly, for every fan — only AI can.
Managing a creator is running a company
Content, editing, social media, pricing, promos, funnels, platform risk — every creator is a full-stack business. One human manager can only run a few creators before quality breaks — so agencies scale headcount, not margin.
→ One system has to run the whole roster.
Nothing anyone learns ever compounds
Every pricing call, winning script and fan insight lives in one chatter's head or one manager's gut — and dies there. Every new creator starts from zero. Agencies don't get smarter as they grow; they just get bigger.
→ An OS that learns across every account — and never forgets.
The answer isn't more people — it's one agentic system. AI that speaks as the creator with perfect memory, runs the whole operation end-to-end, and never puts an account at risk. The pieces are built — XLiink · XPix · XSplit · the OS — and they lock together.
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The product suite
Five products. One connected system.
Every piece was built to run a real creator business — and already does, on our own accounts, every day: acquire the fans, create the content, work every conversation, collect the money.
ACQUIRE
XLiink
Monetizable link-in-bio fan funnel — 7,329 creators in at $0 CAC.
xliink.com ↗
CREATE
XPix
AI images & video — content that fuels socials and sells on paid platforms.
xpix.ai ↗
OPERATE
FLO
AI account manager & real-time chatter, in the creator's voice.
getflo.pro ↗
COLLECT
XSplit
Automated payout tracking & commission collection — $1.96M processed.
xsplit.pro ↗
THE BRAIN
Nexus OS
One agentic brain under all four — every event, every fan, every dollar flows through it, and every loop makes it smarter ↺
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Where this is going
The agency is the wedge. The OS is the market.
Think LiveNation or WME — for creators and influencers. Own the talent, the funnel and the IP, then turn the operating playbook into the software every creator business runs on. Services first, software forever.
bae.
STAGE 1 · NOW
BAE — the AI-operated agency
Real revenue at a 15–30% take. Three creators in beta added $30K in MRR — two more onboarding, all on our stack — the proving ground where the OS trains on real accounts, real fans, real money.
Funds the build · de-risks the tech · compounds the playbook
Chat Nexus
STAGE 2 · THE PRIZE
Chat Nexus — the autonomous OS
The machine that runs creator businesses end-to-end. Scale our own roster at software margins first — then open the OS to every agency and creator in the category.
Software margins on agency-level take rates · platform optionality
THE ECONOMICS
15–30% of managed revenue today — run by software instead of headcount tomorrow.
PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC
The OS isn't tied to any platform — it runs creator businesses on OnlyFans, Fansly, Passes, and whatever comes next.
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Why it compounds
One company, one flywheel
Each loop lowers the cost of the next creator and raises the revenue per creator — the funnel is free, the agency is high-margin, and the OS makes it scale.
01
XLiink funnel  Organic creators in, at $0 CAC.
02
BAE signs talent  15–30% of revenue · 5 signed today.
03
The OS runs accounts  Chat, sales & content at scale.
04
Results attract more  IP, proof & word-of-mouth compound.
The loop repeats — and gets cheaper and higher-margin every turn.
FLYWHEEL
compounding
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Traction · the funnel
XLiink: the funnel compounds at $0 CAC
Total creators on XLiink
158 7,329
since launch · May 2025
Cumulative creators · recent months
3.3K
Feb
3.7K
Mar
5.2K
Apr
6.3K
May
7.3K
Jun
65M+
page impressions · last 30 days
4.09M
unique visitors · last 30 days
$0
marketing spend, ever
~30%/mo
avg. growth since launch
$5–$350+
subscription tiers /mo · live now
15
agencies run rosters on XLiink
Acquisition is solved. Reach independently verified at Cloudflare's edge. Every creator is a warm lead for BAE; every agency aboard is a licensing seat.
Corinna Kopf
BIGGEST CREATOR ON XLIINK
Corinna Kopf  @corinnakopf
$50M+ lifetime OnlyFans revenue  ·  200K XLiink page impressions / mo
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Traction · the agency
BAE: three creators proved the playbook — now we scale it
We held tight while we perfected the operating playbook — three creators added $30K in MRR. It works, so we're scaling: two more are onboarding straight onto the OS. Every account is live product validation, not a demo.
SIGNED CLIENT
Qimmah Russo
Fitness · ~4.5M IG followers · 3 OF pages
$100K+ /mo
25% take
SIGNED CLIENT
Riska
Direct-to-fan creator · scaling
$30K+ /mo
30% take
NEW — JUNE/JULY 2026
+3 creators signed
One already proven in beta · two more onboarding straight onto XSplit, XLiink and the autonomy stack.
~$40K+
company MRR, before new signings ramp
3 + 2
proven in beta + onboarding now
15–30%
take rate on managed revenue
Why run our own agency?  Make money now while the OS matures · dogfood everything on real talent · encode the playbook before we scale it.
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Traction · the rail
XSplit: the money already moves
The commission-collection rail every agency needs — XSplit takes a 2.75–4% fee on every split it collects. Live, monetizing, and the financial backbone BAE runs on.
$1.96M
creator payouts processed
$706K
agency commissions tracked
91.0%
split collection rate
14 / 64
agencies / creators live
Real money, really moving. $643K in commissions collected across 1,027 completed payouts, plus $563K disbursed back to agencies — a working two-sided rail. It's deliberately slow to scale: onboarding an agency then migrating its creators takes months, which is exactly why we run the agency ourselves — every BAE creator lands on the rail on day one.
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The vision · Chat Nexus OS
One brain runs the whole creator business
Six systems replace the ops floor. Autonomy is earned per fan on a graduated ladder — hard guardrails make it safe to hand over the keys.
LIVE
Memory
Remembers every fan — every conversation, purchase and preference, forever.
LIVE
Conscience
The safety layer — spending caps, kill-switches and an audit log on every AI action.
IN PRODUCTION
Voice
Speaks as the creator — copilot on top fans first, full autonomy as it's earned.
BUILDING
Vault
The content library — every asset auto-tagged, priced and preview-ready to sell.
NEXT
Brain
Decides what to send, to whom, at what price, at exactly the right moment.
NEXT
Sidekick
The creator's own AI manager — what to shoot, when to post, how to grow.
THE AUTONOMY LADDER
L3
Full auto
Earned per fan — AI beats the human baseline.
L2
Supervised
AI live, with escalation triggers.
L1
Approve
AI drafts; human one-tap approves.
L0
Copilot
Human chats; AI briefs & drafts.
One blown reply at the top of the fanbase costs more than a month at the bottom — so autonomy graduates from the low tier up, fan by fan.
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Why this isn't just an agency
AI turns services into software
Agencies don't scale because revenue tracks headcount. The OS breaks that link: software absorbs the routine, humans keep judgment and escalation — margin expands as the ladder graduates.
TRADITIONAL AGENCY
Linear — and it caps out
One chatter ≈ a handful of creators
Every new client = new headcount
Margins compress as you grow
No equity value in the ops
CHAT NEXUS — AI-OPERATED
Leverage — margin rises with scale
Pulse works the edges — first touch & re-engagement, autonomously
FLO dispatches the high-value middle with AI-drafted replies
The ladder graduates fans to full autonomy, one by one
One operator supervises an ever-growing roster
The result: operating margin moves from ~30% today toward ~70% as autonomy graduates — software economics on agency take rates.
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The model · BAE on the OS
What the roster looks like at scale
XLiink compounds at $0 CAC; BAE converts a sliver of it into managed creators. With 3 proven and 2 onboarding, 18 by year-end is a signing plan — and even 2029’s 550 is under 0.5% of our own funnel.
$1.2M
2026E
$3.1M
2027E
$9.6M
2028E
$22.6M
2029E
~$51M
2029E @ 1%
BAE commission ARR run-rate · dashed = same engine at 1% capture
2026E2027E2028E2029E2029E @ 1%
XLiink creators (yr-end)12K26K57K125K125K
Captured into BAE0.15%0.23%0.35%0.44%1.0%
Creators managed18602005501,250
— at $50K+ / mo13102762
Avg GMV / creator / mo$21K$18K$19K$19K$19K
Blended take26%24%21%18%18%
BAE ARR run-rate$1.2M$3.1M$9.6M$22.6M~$51M
Operating margin32%48%61%70%70%
Operating income$0.4M$1.5M$5.9M$15.8M$35.9M
From here to there: ~$0.5M ARR run-rate today. The base plan never captures more than 0.5% of our own funnel — the purple column turns that one dial to 1%, nothing else, and the model more than doubles.
The pricing endgame: the blended take steps down by design — every gain in autonomy cuts our cost to serve, so we keep cutting price and taking share. Endgame: ~10% — below any human agency's cost floor — at software margins. Agencies staffing chatters can't follow us down. That's how the market tips.
Illustrative ARR run-rate (year-end), not booked GAAP revenue. Funnel modeled at ~2.2×/yr — below its current trajectory; capture and take stepped as shown. Subject to execution and market conditions.
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The prize
A proven category — monetized at the highest layer
TAM~$250B
SAM~$8B+
SOM7,329
TAM creator economy · ~50M creators
SAM adult / direct-to-fan creator sales
SOM 7,329 creators already in our funnel, climbing
Beachhead: adult / D2F — the highest transaction volume per creator.
TAM: Goldman Sachs creator-economy research — ~$250B today, ~$480B by 2027.
Two comps prove both halves of the model
Linktree — the funnel comp
50M+ users, ~$1.3B valuation on word-of-mouth growth. It monetizes at only ~$1.30 / user / yr — and in 2025 started chasing the take-rate model XLiink was built on.
→ XLiink earns a cut of fan spend — 50–100×+ more per creator
Talent agencies — the BAE comp
Music & talent management built billion-dollar franchises on owning the artist relationship. BAE takes 15–30% — and automates the back office.
→ The LiveNation playbook, for creators
Timing: today's market is point tools — chat assists, ops dashboards — bolted onto human agencies. No one has shipped an agentic suite that runs the whole loop — funnel → content → chat → payout — as one learning system.
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The ask
$1.5M to scale autonomy across the category
~$100K
in the bank
~$40K
monthly revenue
~$65K
monthly costs
~$25K
net burn / mo
~$40K MRR: ~$35K agency · ~$5K SaaS
XLiink SaaS live — creator $5–$15 · agency $35–$350+
$2.72M raised: $170K pre-seed + $2.55M @ $15M post
RAISING
$1.5M
@ $24M post · SAFE
~6% dilution
1.6× step-up from last round
priced by traction, sized to ship autonomy
USE OF FUNDS — BUILD THE MACHINE, FEED IT CREATORS
Ship autonomy to production
FLO, Vault + Brain — the OS pillars that turn the ladder loose.
Scale the roster 5 → 200
Sign from our own funnel — 18 by year-end, 200 by 2028, every creator on the stack day one.
Paid fuel on the SaaS suite
First ad dollars behind XLiink, XSplit and FLO — a funnel compounding ~30% a month on $0 spend finally gets fuel.
30+ months of runway
Funds engineering, the roster build-out and the payout float — through software-margin proof at scale.
$1.5M turns a working agency into the autonomous platform for the creator economy's most profitable segment.
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WHY NOW
Agency today. Autonomy tomorrow.
The window is open: the market is still point tools — no one has shipped the agentic suite. We have the funnel, the revenue, and the machine already running in production.
A funnel that costs nothing
7,329 creators compounding at $0 spend — the distribution others burn millions trying to buy.
An agency that already earns
3 creators proven in beta (+2 onboarding) · ~$40K MRR · $1.96M on our own rail at 91.0% collection.
An OS that already runs
Every BAE dollar already flows through it — memory & guardrails live, autonomous chat & sell proving itself on real accounts.
We’re not promising a category — we’re already operating it.
Derick Manlapeg, CEO  ·  derick@chatnexus.com  ·  chatnexus.com  |  xsplit.pro  |  xliink.com  |  bae.agency