Founder compensation, benefits, payroll burden

$270K

AI Engineer (triggered hire at customer #2)

$180K

Marketing Operator (triggered hire at customer #3)

$150K

Forward-Deployed Engineer (triggered hire at customer #5)

$125K

Marketing / field program (regional events, content, capture kit)

$225K

Contingency / hiring-slip reserve

$150K

Product infrastructure, models, data, security, AI ops

$150K

Founder-led GTM acceleration (M0–M6 travel, demos, deployment costs)

$130K

Customer onboarding automation (tools only; build in-house)

$30K

Legal, governance, insurance, accounting, ops

$70K

Round closing costs

$20K

TOTAL

$1.5M