Earn my first recurring customer
We spent too much time building a great product without building the pipeline. People want to integrate us as part of their own offering so no direct payments
Arkova
Developer Tools · built by Carson Seeger
Issue Once, Verify Forever. Arkova anchors a tamper-evident document fingerprint to a public network without retaining the original file.
Where is the first-customer funnel breaking?
WHO THEY ARE TRYING TO REACHIT departments, legal departments, financial departments, students - we are a document verification layer for agents and humans. We anchor a documents unique metadata to an immutable cryptographic ledger giving organizations the ultimate control of their most sensitive documents (IT logs, contracts, financial statement
PROBLEM IN CUSTOMER LANGUAGEAccording to a Docusign and Deloitte study, $2T in global economic value is lost annually to poor document management, do we think that will improve with agents? Organizations staying compliant with SOC 2, ISO, and other regulatory standards have strict document retention requirements that are hard to track down and easy to forge. We anchor metadata so documents are instantly verifiable by anyone - agent or human - anytime, anywhere
CURRENT OFFERReduced time spent on audit prep, document disputes, and contract disputes. A middleware that integrates with the systems you already use to help enforce AI governance policies
WHERE THEY ARE LOOKINGLinkedin
WHERE PEOPLE STOPSales conversations did not close
What the founder has actually tried.
Each entry keeps the audience, offer, result and next move together so “no sales” can be diagnosed instead of guessed at.
Experiment 2Oct 2, 2026
Tried: Build out irrefutable proof that our tech (being used a way literally nobody else is) works before building a network.
Audience: IT departments, legal departments, financial departments, students - we are a document verification layer for agents and humans. We anchor a documents unique metadata to an immutable cryptographic ledger giving organizations the ultimate control of their most sensitive documents (IT logs, contracts, financial statement
Channel: Linkedin
Offer: Reduced time spent on audit prep, document disputes, and contract disputes. A middleware that integrates with the systems you already use to help enforce AI governance policies
Result: Built a great product with nobody to sell it to
Drop-off: Sales conversations did not close
Learned: Should’ve spent 2 months building my network with a minimal proof of concept and built off that
Next: Increased marketing and social media activity
Experiment 1Oct 2, 2026
Audience: IT departments, legal departments, financial departments, students - we are a document verification layer for agents and humans. We anchor a documents unique metadata to an immutable cryptographic ledger giving organizations the ultimate control of their most sensitive documents (IT logs, contracts, financial statement
Offer: Reduced time spent on audit prep, document disputes, and contract disputes. A middleware that integrates with the systems you already use to help enforce AI governance policies
Drop-off: Sales conversations did not close
Next: Pushing for referrals from existing partners
What changed?
Google Drive and Docusign integrations live, API SDK MCP CLI and Webhook live. 2 speaking events last month. 4 non paying integration partnerships. IP protected
Oct 2, 2026Where the founder wants help.
How do we monetize existing partnerships where we make money off integrating with their system and taking a small fee
What is Arkova?
Issue Once, Verify Forever. Arkova anchors a tamper-evident document fingerprint to a public network without retaining the original file.
Topics: AI, Blockchain, Compliance, SaaS.
From shipped to recurring revenue.
✓Built
✓Launched
✓First users
✓First experiment
First recurring customer
$100 MRR
$1K MRR
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Arkova: product, audience and early traction context.
Arkova is listed in SkillChirp's Developer Tools category. This page documents the founder-reported stage, target customer (IT departments, legal departments, financial departments, students - we are a document verification layer for agents and humans. We anchor a documents unique metadata to an immutable cryptographic ledger giving organizations the ultimate control of their most sensitive documents (IT logs, contracts, financial statement), current offer, traction bottleneck, experiments and progress toward recurring revenue. Club status is a discovery signal, not an investment recommendation or independent revenue verification.