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PromptWise
promptwise.com · multi-model AI creative studio · founded by Mateo Starcevic Filipovic & Daniel Riley
$36,976MRR · TrustMRR↑ 3074% mom · last crawled 2026-08-11⚠ stripe tracking on trustmrr began ~mid-july 2026 — ~97% of "all-time" landed in the last 30 days, so the all-time figure is a window artifact, not lifetime revenue 1,113 subscriptions$62,706 all-timelaunched dec 2025▲ 1 discrepancy
01 / detected channel mix
b2b2c 60%
founder audience 25%
word of mouth 15%
Paid community funnel (Skool) 60%Founder thought leadership 25%Slack communities + light content 15%
// mix weights are our estimate from detected signal volume
01b / strategy evolution
Croatian founder's arc: agency (BrightDock, 2x Deloitte Fast 50) → paid education community (AI Video Bootcamp on Skool, 25k+ members claimed) → PromptWise SaaS launched Dec 2025 under ZeroTen Media with the bootcamp community as the built-in distribution engine. Now raising seed-to-A with Forbes Technology Council thought leadership. Essentially no SEO surface (13 sitemap URLs), no visible affiliate program, no app store — the community IS the channel.
02 / channel claims — with receipts
RANK 1
Paid community funnel (Skool)
detectedstated▲ discrepancyThe sister property AI Video Bootcamp — "a structured 9-phase curriculum and community on Skool that has grown to over 25,000 active members" (their claim) — is cross-promoted on the PromptWise homepage as its academy, making the paid course community the top of the SaaS funnel. The founder's conference talk title says it plainly: "Community as the Ultimate Growth Engine".
Founder says
PromptWise is "hitting 1.35M ARR in under 6 months" (founder's PODIM 2026 speaker bio)
good confidence
RANK 2
Founder thought leadership
third-partyForbes Technology Council profile, PODIM 2026 speaking slot, and fundraise-cycle positioning ("raising its seed to A round, with angel funding already secured") — authority surfaces aimed at the same creator/founder audience the community feeds on.
good confidence
RANK 3
Slack communities + light content
stateddetectedSelf-declares Slack communities as a channel on its TrustMRR profile; the owned content surface is minimal — 13 sitemap URLs with 6 blog posts and no programmatic clusters. Organic search is not a real channel today (DR 4).
good confidence
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