CORUVE | Privacy-First Product Intelligence - Sell Project

Key HighlightsA complete, live product — not a prototype. Coruve runs in production at coruve.com: marketing site, dashboard, event ingestion, billing, transactional email, background workers. Real events from external websites are flowing through it today.Three products in one subscription. Coruve is positioned to replace GA4 + Clarity/Hotjar + the attribution spreadsheet: full web/product analytics, consent-free engagement analytics (click-density and scroll maps, rage-click/dead-click frustration signals — architecturally without session recordings, so no consent banner is needed), and revenue attribution (Stripe Connect / Shopify → MRR, LTV and sales by channel, campaign, page, country).The AI-analyst layer is built, not a roadmap slide. "The Brief" is a ranked feed of findings (with weekly email digest) generated by deterministic statistics engines — anomaly detection, contribution analysis — and only narrated by an LLM, so numbers can't hallucinate. "Ask Coruve" answers plain-English questions via constrained tool-use. Every finding ships action buttons (create alert, save segment, track funnel). AI cost is ~$0.08/customer/month against $19–49 plans.An uncontested wedge: AI traffic intelligence. Every event is classified human / AI-agent / crawler at ingest; referrals from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & co. are attributed like any other channel. ~70% of this traffic shows up as "direct" in GA4. No competitor offers this combination at SMB prices (the research mapping this is included in the sale).Proven market, proven price points. Plausible alone: 14k+ paying subscribers, ~$3.1M ARR, built with zero ad spend. AI-visibility tools (Profound, Peec, Otterly) prove separate, urgent budget for the AI-traffic question. Coruve sits exactly between those two markets.Exceptional economics. Single-meter pricing (events/month), tiers at Free/$19/$49/$99, 92–97% modeled gross margin. Current infrastructure cost is on the order of [$50–150]/month.The biggest opportunity is unspent. The product has never been publicly launched or marketed. The complete GTM playbook is written and included: Hacker News / Product Hunt launch posts (drafted strategy), a free "AI Traffic Checker" lead-magnet tool (already built), the "Coruve AI Traffic Index" content flywheel, SEO lanes, and migration landing pages. A new owner starts at the fun part.OperationsCoruve is a subscription SaaS. Customers add a lightweight JavaScript snippet (or npm package) to their site — auto-instrumentation means no tracking code to write — and pay monthly via Paddle (merchant of record, so Paddle handles global sales tax/VAT) on a single events-per-month meter: Free (10k events), Starter $19 (100k), Pro $49 (1M), Growth $99 (5M). Higher tiers unlock deeper analyst output (daily Brief, tracked fixes, Ask Coruve quota), engagement maps, revenue attribution, and the API.The stack is a clean TypeScript monorepo: Next.js 15 dashboard + marketing site, Fastify ingestion service, BullMQ background workers, Postgres (Prisma), and a self-hosted ClickHouse event store. Production runs on Railway (EU, Amsterdam) with the event store on a dedicated VPS in Frankfurt — an EU-data-residency story that matches the privacy positioning. A separate staging environment auto-deploys from its own branch. Everything is documented: setup guides, deployment runbooks, an execution roadmap with a per-session progress log, and a verified security baseline. The test suite (140 tests plus Playwright end-to-end tests) runs green.Ongoing time commitment in its current state is low: roughly [2–5] hours/week for infrastructure monitoring, dependency updates, and support. The realistic commitment depends on what a new owner chooses to do with it — run it lean as a portfolio product, or execute the included growth plan (content cadence of ~2 posts/week is what the plan assumes). Notably, the entire product was built and operated by a solo, non-technical founder working with AI coding agents — the documentation discipline that made that possible (three governing documents, runbooks for every operational task) is exactly what makes this a turnkey handover.CustomersThis is an early-stage, pre-revenue sale, and the listing is honest about that: Coruve launched into production in July 2026 and has not yet been publicly marketed. Current usage is [N] registered accounts, including the first fully external website install (a real business site, tracking live traffic today). There is no paying-customer base yet — which is precisely why the asset is priced on the build and the opportunity, not a revenue multiple.The designed customer is the international SMB web: SaaS founders and product managers (the beachhead — they pay best and fit Stripe attribution), content publishers (who feel the AI-crawler pain most), and later Shopify merchants and agencies. The product ships with onboarding presets for these segments. Acquisition was designed to be zero-ad-budget and entirely inbound — the Plausible playbook on a hotter wedge: launch posts, a free AI Traffic Checker as lead magnet, a monthly public AI-traffic benchmark ("the Index") for backlinks and SEO, and switcher landing pages ("leaving GA4", "Plausible too basic", "Clarity without the consent banner") backed by importers. Analytics is naturally a high-retention, recurring product once installed — the snippet stays on the site, and the weekly Brief email is engineered to be the habit that keeps customers.FinancialsCoruve is pre-revenue; there is no P&L to present, and no revenue decline to explain — there has simply been no monetization attempt yet. What a buyer should evaluate instead:Cost base today: approximately 30$/month all-in (Railway hosting, ClickHouse VPS, email, domain). The staging environment runs on a free tier.Modeled unit economics (all assumptions documented in the included master plan): ~92–97% gross margin at every scale stage; infrastructure ~$300–600/month at ~1,000 sites; total AI/LLM cost under $75/month at 1,000 active users.There are no employees, no debt, no outstanding liabilities, and no seasonality.Additional NotesWhat's included in the sale: the coruve.com domain and brand; the complete monorepo (dashboard, marketing site, ingest service, workers, tracker SDK, billing integrations); the self-hosted ClickHouse setup and all infrastructure configurations (transferable accounts on Railway, Hostinger, Paddle, Resend, Render); the free AI Traffic Checker tool; and the full document set — product master plan with market validation research, competitive analysis (including a candid "graveyard" study of failed competitors), execution roadmap, security baseline, and operational runbooks.Evolution: the concept was developed in mid-2026 on top of an earlier analytics codebase; between July and August 2026 it was systematically completed phase by phase — with security hardening, measurement completeness, the AI-traffic dimension, segmentation and funnels, the engagement layer, revenue attribution, the AI-analyst layer, and launch preparation. The analytics store was migrated from a third-party service (Tinybird) to self-hosted ClickHouse in August 2026, removing the largest external dependency and cost risk.Why it's for sale: I have built this as a side project and noticed that it's simply grown larger than expected. I work full time and never had the chance to market it so far, ever since finishing development. I'm looking for someone who is willing to take this over. No development effort needed, everything is working, live and completely finished and ready to sell.Handover: full documentation transfer plus a reasonable handover period with full support.