TEIA.CAFE · PITCH SUMMARY 2026 · pitch.teia.cafe Blockchain analytics for the art world. Do Your Own Research, made possible. teia.cafe Inc., Delaware C-Corp since 2023 · Pre-seed round PROBLEM The blockchain is public, but almost nobody can read it. Artists find their work copyminted and can't prove it; collectors buy into wash-traded or rugged projects with no way to see it coming, or to measure a portfolio. The confusion feeds fraud: 38% of NFT trades on major marketplaces show wash trading (Boston University, 2026) and 4 in 5 free mints were plagiarized, fake or spam (OpenSea, 2022). SOLUTION Immutable records turned into analytics people can use: checkable by anyone, explained in plain language, priced per report with no subscriptions. Edge: five years building the platforms the data comes from, encoded as published rubrics (22-question token audit, 16-question baker score) and scaled with AI-assisted research. PRODUCT One engine, five report types, on mainnet now, public launch Oct 1, 2026: portfolio dashboard (dashboard.teia.cafe) · wash-trading analysis (washing.teia.cafe) · token project audit (audit.teia.cafe) · copyright protection (copyright.teia.cafe) · baker inspector (baking.teia.cafe). 1 tez a report, free credits at sign-in. We lead with wash-trading and copyright. WHY NOW Capital is moving on-chain (73% of institutions raising crypto allocations), regulation now requires ledgers be read (GENIUS Act, MiCA; compliance analytics $2.9B -> $14.6B by 2032), and AI needs provenanced data (EU AI Act). Each creates the same need, an honest reading of the ledger, which we sell at $2 to the people compliance tools ignore. ORIGIN Built on TEIA, the community-owned DAO that took over hic et nunc in 2022; our founders helped build it. Platform numbers since 2021: 880K works minted, 3.6M sales, $62M traded (14M XTZ at time-of-sale prices), 5 years online, 2.6K token holders, 1-2K daily users, 11K monthly radio visitors, 60+ media interviews, 10 DAO-funded art events in 4 months on 3 continents. That audience is our distribution. These are TEIA's numbers, not ours: teia.cafe's own tools are on mainnet now, public launch Oct 1, month-one goal 100 paid reports. MARKET Every transaction, multiple reports: a buyer, a seller, and the artist whose work it is. Bottom-up at $2 a report, growing left to right: SOM $250K (our Q4 2027 run rate, ~3% of objkt's 190K users buying one report a month); our start, Tezos art, $26M (500K+ wallets x $24 a year, plus a yearly $2 copyright scan of 7.2M one-of-one works); SAM $140M (2.1M NFT wallets on every chain, ~34 trades a year each, a $2 report per trade = $68 a year); TAM $1B (~500M reports a year: both sides of 72M NFT and 41.5M art sales, plus 268M new NFTs). Later, institutions through the API ($14.6B on-chain analytics by 2032). WHY TEZOS Undervalued (~$370M market cap, 96% below its 2021 high); sophisticated, verifiable governance (20 on-chain upgrades with no hard fork, 196 active bakers, 30% of supply staked); low barriers (transactions under $0.001, a validator needs 6,000 tez, ~$2K); an active, grassroots art community (hic et nunc, TEIA, objkt, fxhash; 9.5M NFTs); and rollups enshrined in the protocol, so scaling does not fragment. When hic et nunc closed in 2021 its works stayed on Tezos and IPFS, and TEIA relaunched it within 24 hours. RIVALS Art services (Verisart, Pixsy) sell certificates or takedown claims from private registries; enterprise analytics (Nansen, Dune, Chainalysis) cost $65-750 a month and serve traders; free scanners give one score with no context. teia.cafe is art-specific, in plain language, on public records anyone can verify, at $0.35 -> $2 a report. MODEL Pay per report: 1 tez (~$0.35) at launch, $2 basic / $10 premium within a year; marketplaces and platforms pay ~$300 a month through the API. Plan: 1,000 -> 6,000 reports a month over 2027, ~$21K a month by Q4 2027, break-even by end of Q3 2027 on ~$13K a month of costs (two founders, who are the whole engineering team, plus infrastructure). COSTS Lean by design: no AI tokens per report (AI is used sparingly, a few times a year, to update trend data); costs move with demand (an image search is ~$0.0035, ~90% gross margin at $2, est.); minimal account upkeep (wallet sign-in, so no passwords or personal data to store, reset or secure); every paid report settles on-chain to a public treasury wallet, so usage and revenue are verifiable live. The indexing ladder, climbed as revenue covers each step: TEIA (shared server, ~$50/mo) -> objkt.com (small indexer, ~$200/mo) -> all of Tezos (full indexer, ~1 TB, ~$1K/mo) -> Ethereum (archive node, ~3 TB, ~$5K/mo) -> the web (data-centre scale, $10K+/mo). TEAM Ryan Tanaka, CEO/COO: founding member of TEIA DAO, raised $30K for its treasury, runs teia.cafe radio (11K monthly visitors) and 60+ media interviews; composer, former PhD researcher in art history; in crypto since 2013. Johannes Simon, CTO: systems architect and smart contracts, TEIA's CTO and European lead, wrote ~90% of teia.art updates since 2023. ASK $200K post-money SAFE (valuation negotiable), target close Q1 2027, 12 months of runway. Use: 75% founders and development, 10% infrastructure plus image-ID APIs (Google Lens and others) for the copyright scan, moving to our own image model over time, 15% events and outreach. Backed by the TEIA community and the Tezos Foundation, past funders of our projects. CONTACT ryan@teia.cafe · pitch.teia.cafe · teia.cafe · github.com/teia-cafe Verify on-chain: ryangtanaka.eth · ryangtanaka.tez · tecca.tez · teia-multisig.teia.art LISTEN Recommended listening: The Lost Album for teia.cafe, by stereohopper (TEIA member, Germany): teia.cafe/curations/6/883796