Underground bootstrappers, curated daily.
Start free. From $2.13 per dossier on Starter — investor-grade memos on 2–24-month-old founders with real customers and no VC.
- 1 vertical of your choice
- Name + 1-paragraph summary + score band
- 1 fully-revealed Founder's Pick / mo
- Weekly email digest
- Full PDF dossier
- Founder contacts
- Cross-vertical access
- 1 vertical
- Daily dossier (Mon–Fri)
- Full external PDF
- Founder contact details
- Telegram or email delivery
- Multiple verticals
- T+24h or T+0 access
- Partner office hours
- 3 verticals of your choice
- Daily dossier across all 3
- T+24h early access
- Full external PDF + founder contacts
- Monthly partner office-hours call
- REST API access — see /api-docs
- All-verticals access
- T+0 internal-window
- All active verticals
- T+0 release — same window as internal team
- Full external PDF + founder contacts
- Monthly partner office-hours call
- Early-access to newly-activated verticals
- REST API access — see /api-docs
- All verticals + custom verticals
- API access to raw research
- White-label dossiers
- Dedicated relationship manager
- Possible exclusive lead arrangements (per MSA)
Common questions.
What's a 'vertical'?
A discovery lens with its own sourcing rules, scoring rubric and editorial team. Today: AI-native, Open-source, Bootstrapped OSS. Activating next: Fintech.
Why one dossier per day per vertical?
Quality over volume. Our pipeline runs daily and ships the ONE highest-signal underground bootstrapper per vertical. You read it in 6 minutes.
What is the Founder's Pick on Free?
Once a month, the partner hand-picks the strongest surfaced candidate of the month and fully reveals it for Free Preview users — full PDF, founder contacts, everything. It's our way to show what Starter looks like daily.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Starter / Pro / Fund cancel any time, no commitment. Annual saves 25%. Enterprise has annual MSAs.
Do you take fees from founders?
No. We're funded by subscribers (you), Arcada services, and TTL Capital's investment performance. Founders are never charged for being featured.
What's the access window?
Fund / Enterprise / internal team see candidates at T+0. Pro at T+24h. Starter at T+72h. Free Preview at T+7d (summary-only, plus one fully-revealed Founder's Pick per month).
What does Founding Member mean?
First 30 paying subscribers get 50% off forever, locked-in, and transferable across tier upgrades. Marked on your Stripe customer record.
What if I want a custom vertical?
Enterprise includes one custom vertical (sourcing prompt + scoring rubric tuned to your thesis). Talk to partners@arcada.team.