For investors
AI-native services is consensus. The question is who owns the publisher vertical.
A47 already does. A live, dogfooded newsroom shipping 15,000+ verified stories at $0.20 each, with a pipeline of publishers, all inbound. We were the publisher; we built the engine for ourselves, and now we run it for them.
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The 80-second story.
Real, and running today.
- verified stories shipped from a47news.ai, fully automated
- 15,000+
- cost per multi-format story, 400x to 5,000x cheaper than a desk
- $0.20
- manual correction rate, 100% multi-source verified
- 0.1%
Roughly 500 stories a day, in five languages, across article, video, audio, and social. Five paid engagements delivered, three recurring, zero spent on acquisition. The proof is the product: see it run live at a47news.ai.
Why now.
Two curves crossed in 2024 to 2026: agentic AI got good enough to run a newsroom end to end, and capital reorganized around AI-native services. Sequoia calls services the new software; YC’s requests for startups ask for companies that sell the work, not the tool. A47 is that company, in news.
The opportunity.
Of the ~12,900 to 18,000 news publishers worldwide (IBISWorld, WAN-IFRA), we target the top tier with $1M+ content budgets. At roughly $150K ARR each, that is an ~$825M wedge, before the larger mid-market opens on a self-serve platform. The moat compounds: per-client editorial DNA deepens every month, and switching means rebuilding it from zero.
Operators, not tourists.
Built by Ali Rizvi, who scaled a $22M PE-backed newsroom to 200 staff before this (acquired by ARY), and Andre Teow, who scaled India’s #2 short-video platform to 30M users in under two years. One ran the exact newsroom A47 replaces; the other scaled the content platform.
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