Investment opportunities from MPR Lab

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Marco Polo Research Lab LLC builds a suite of products for teams using AI in startup operations, commerce, media and software.

One thesis, four distinct offerings

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Explore each market through a specific customer problem and product, business model and proposed use of capital. Each offering states its readiness and the evidence still to establish.

Opportunity 01 · Active · Seed · $5.5M · 18 months

MPR Platform

MPR Platform

An application platform for identity, credits, notifications, feedback, AI, and media.

  1. Your product

    • Application requirements
    • Users & access
    • AI workloads

  2. Shared services

    Build & operate
    MPR AI Gateway, MediaOps, TAuth, Ledger and ISSUES.md.
    Learn & respond
    Pinguin notifications and LoopAware feedback.

  3. Operating capabilities

    • Identity & usage controls
    • AI & media execution
    • Notifications & feedback

The ask: $5.5M for an 18-month Platform launch

The application platform starts with a small AI software team adding a provider or struggling to reconcile usage. Start with one MPR AI Gateway workflow, prove its value, then add services as that customer needs them. Capital funds two engineers, four commercial hires, customer pilots and market programs, AI infrastructure, and an operating reserve.

Target by month 18: 30 paid production accounts and eight customer references. Budget and milestones · How customers become a business

This ask covers MPR Platform. Financing for Poodle Scanner, creative production and AI software management is scoped separately.

AI Gateway route explorer

Inspect the available routes in LLM Proxy, the current gateway foundation for the customer pilot.

Explore model routes

Financing & milestones Software built; shared customer provisioning and paid adoption are launch milestones. The $5.5M round funds an 18-month commercialization plan.

Opportunity 02 · Investor conversations · B2B SaaS

E-commerce operations

Poodle Scanner

Recurring listing reviews for Amazon agencies and brands managing changing catalogs.

  1. Your catalog

    • Product ASINs
    • Listing standards
    • Scan schedule

  2. Checks & review

    Poodle Scanner
    Runs configurable checks and scheduled scans.
    Operator review
    Filters findings and prepares corrections for manual publication.

  3. Catalog findings

    • Listing findings
    • Exportable reports
    • Review history
A listing issue, found on screen

The partner demonstration shows a missing-video finding at 5:22.

Watch the finding

Commercial validation Built software and a partner demonstration support the workflow. Paid adoption, renewals and cost to serve remain to be established. Financing is scoped separately.

Opportunity 03 · Early investor conversations

Creative production

MediaOps + Creative Director

A complete media production workflow for agencies and in-house content teams.

  1. Your brief

    • Source material
    • Audience & style
    • Delivery format

  2. Production & review

    Creative Director
    Plans the story and checks the result.
    MediaOps
    Generates and assembles the media.

  3. Your deliverables

    • Narrated audio
    • Illustrated stories
    • Video
Review before publishing

The MediaOps walkthrough shows draft videos, pending changes, and upload review.

See the publishing workflow

Commercial validation Paid repeat use, cost per accepted deliverable and human review time remain to be measured. Financing scope to be defined.

Opportunity 04 · Early investor conversations

AI software management

ISSUES.md

A proposed standalone ISSUES.md offering for software teams and development agencies delegating work to coding agents.

  1. Your requirements

    • Work specification
    • Repository context
    • Acceptance criteria

  2. Agent work & review

    ISSUES.md
    Specifies work, delegates to agents and records validation.
    gix, ctx and Smith
    Support Git, repository context and reusable skills.

  3. Reviewed work

    • Code changes
    • Validation results
    • Traceable requirements
Requirements agents can act on

Inspect the issue format: a work specification, acceptance criteria, and a recorded status.

Explore the issue format

Commercial validation Paid team adoption, time to an accepted change, review effort and rework remain to be measured. Financing scope to be defined.

The opportunity standard

A consistent decision framework

Each opportunity has its own economics and evidence. Financing readiness and open terms are stated for each offering.

  1. 01OwnershipEntity + instrument
  2. 02ThesisCustomer + advantage
  3. 03EvidenceEstablished + open
  4. 04CapitalUse + milestones

Investor contact

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Discuss any of the four opportunities. Product pages, demonstrations and investor materials are available for MPR Platform and Poodle Scanner.

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