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Resultwire
Turns a verified result into a donor update and a provider payout trigger
An API for SGOs and scholarship program operators.
- Infrastructure and APIs
- Enterprise
- 'Texas
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similar startups, last 2 years (16 all-time)
yes
8 matching federal grants and programs
Direction supported by government programs and grants
Test it before you build it
$900 · 6 weeks · 15 prospects
Prove SGOs will prepay $2,500 for a milestone-triggered disbursement and donor-notification pilot, for $900 in 6 weeks, the length SGO board approval cycles force.
Riskiest assumption · SGO operators facing the January 1, 2027 donor-reporting start will pay money now for automated result-verified disbursement and donor notification, rather than covering the new requirement with the spreadsheet, ACH and mail-merge process they already run.
1Focus group: who and where
The executive director or program director of a state-certified scholarship granting organization (5-50 staff) in an ECCA opt-in state, who must show donors where dollars went before the first claiming year opens January 1, 2027 and today runs disbursement and donor reporting on spreadsheets, ACH batches and mail merge.
where to find 15 · The Arizona Department of Revenue's published list of certified School Tuition Organizations plus the certified SGO rosters of other opt-in states, with large operators like Step Up For Students and Georgia GOAL as anchors (directories); the American Federation for Children and EdChoice networks for warm introductions to SGO leadership (community); ExcelinEd's National Summit on Education in November, where SGO and school-choice program leaders gather (event); and 1EdTech's Open Badges certified-issuer directory for the results side.
2Sell first, build later
A design-partner pilot: Resultwire encodes one milestone rule for one seat pool, and for the spring 2027 cycle a verified MATHCOUNTS or AMC result triggers the tuition tranche release on the SGO's existing rails and sends every consented donor a pseudonymous update within minutes of publication, with a written report the SGO can hand its state regulator and donors.
the ask · $2,500 per pilot, invoiced 100% up front, credited against year-one API pricing.
a real yes · A real yes is a signed SOW with the $2,500 invoice paid and a dated spring cycle. 'Send us more information', unpaid pilots, letters of support and conference enthusiasm do not count.
3Small experiments
The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.
1. Fifteen SGO director pitches
$300 · 14 days
Build a list of 25 SGOs from the state certification rosters, get warm introductions through AFC and EdChoice contacts where possible, and cold email plus call the rest. Pitch one concrete milestone rule: a state MATHCOUNTS or AMC placement releases the spring coaching tranche and notifies every donor to that seat pool within minutes; ask for a scoping session toward a $2,500 design-partner pilot.
keep going if · 5 of 15 directors book a pilot scoping session
2. Results-source feasibility count
$100 · 10 days
Contact the MATHCOUNTS national office, the MAA (which runs the AMC), and four state or regional science fair organizers. For each, establish whether results are published as issuer-signed Open Badges 3.0 credentials, a structured export, or PDF only, and get a named issuer contact.
keep going if · At least 3 of 6 sources provide machine-readable or badge-based results with a confirmed issuer contact
3. Paper milestone cycle demo
$200 · 7 days
Build a 10-screen clickable walkthrough using real public AMC score-report formats: credential arrives, matches the funded seat, tranche releases, pseudonymous donor note fires. Run it live in every scoping session and end with the pilot one-pager.
keep going if · 3 of 5 scoping sessions ask to see the pilot SOW
4. Invoiced pilot close
$300 · 21 days
Send each interested SGO a one-page SOW plus a $2,500 up-front invoice: Resultwire runs one spring 2027 milestone cycle for one seat pool, with the first cycle executed manually behind the API contract and donor notifications sent to a consented donor segment on the SGO's rails. Have counsel review the SOW template once.
keep going if · 2 SOWs signed with $2,500 paid and a dated spring start
4Collect a deposit up front
Tesla took $1,000 refundable reservations for the Model 3 and $100 for the Cybertruck before building either: the deposit is the measurement, not the revenue.
$2,500
per prospect, refundable
how · A $2,500 design-partner pilot invoiced fully up front against a signed one-page SOW; the SGO's executive director signs and the founder countersigns. An invoice against an SOW is the right instrument because nonprofit SGOs pay vendors by check or ACH on invoice and will not put an organizational card into a checkout. set up: Stripe Invoicing ↗
what it reserves · One of 3 founding design-partner slots, the build of their specific milestone rule for the spring 2027 cycle, and year-one API pricing locked at 50% off.
refund · Refunded in full if the pilot's milestone cycle does not run by the date written in the SOW.
target · 2 paid $2,500 pilots from 15 directors pitched within 45 days
before taking money · Tax-credit scholarship dollars are state-regulated and the ECCA credit is IRS-governed, so the pilot must trigger disbursements on the SGO's existing rails without Resultwire ever holding funds, and no result about a minor may reach a donor without written parental consent.
Go: build it if
2 SGOs pay $2,500 up front with dated spring 2027 cycles, and at least 3 of 6 results sources prove machine readable: build the API.
Kill: stop if
0 paid pilots and fewer than 3 scoping sessions after 15 pitches, or fewer than 2 of 6 results sources machine readable: stop.
5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open
outreach message
Starting January 1, 2027 your donors can claim the federal credit, and they will expect to see what their dollars produced. I'm building Resultwire: when a funded student's MATHCOUNTS or AMC placement publishes as a signed credential, it releases the next tuition tranche to the training program and sends every donor to that seat pool a consented, pseudonymous update within minutes. I'm signing 3 SGOs as $2,500 design partners for a spring cycle. Do you have 20 minutes this week?
landing page
Verified results release funds and update donors automatically. $2,500 design-partner pilot: one milestone rule, one spring cycle, donor notifications included. Book a scoping call to claim one of 3 founding slots.
deposit terms
The $2,500 pilot fee is invoiced up front on SOW signature and reserves one of 3 founding design-partner slots for the spring 2027 milestone cycle. It is refunded in full if your cycle does not run by the date in the SOW. Design partners keep year-one API pricing locked at 50% off.
Would you run this test?
One tap. The yes-share feeds the Demand pillar of this idea's score; nobody sees who answered.
Budgets are out-of-pocket estimates for a team of one to three, US market. Size the deposit to the deal, and check the terms before taking money in a regulated line.
Scorecard
Ranked against every idea in the catalog: trend, demand and 100x potential from the corpus, competition relative to the other ideas. A generated concept has no judges or swipes yet, so its pillars use the data signals only.
47
Idea Score, 0-100 · raw 29.3 x 1.61
Warm
competition: more crowded than 44% of ideas · headwind x0.78
+4.5
government priorities, secondary (75 matching grants)
Trend
20
Is the wave forming now? 2025-26 entrants vs 2023-24, rounds since 2025, the sector's live-batch direction, the 2026 trend analyst.
- Entrants 2025-26 vs 2023-24 (similar companies)15
- Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector44
- Sector direction (live batch)0
Demand
80
Does anyone want it? YC's current RFS, companies already paid for something similar, the operator judge, founders' yes-rate in decks, readers who would run the test.
- YC asks for it (current RFS: idea / sector)60
- Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)100
100x potential
20
Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.
- Neighbours still alive20
Score = 100 x cbrt(Trend x Demand x 100x) x (1 - 0.5 x crowding) + government bonus (max 5), calibrated so the 95th-percentile idea scores 90 (order never changes). A geometric mean: a weak pillar cannot be papered over. Percentiles are among the 382 ideas in the catalog; the terms matched were verified, result, donor, update, provider, payout, trigger, sgos.
The concept in full
- What
- An API for SGOs and scholarship program operators. An olympiad placement, science fair award or exam score arrives as an issuer-signed Open Badges 3.0 credential; Resultwire matches it to the funded seat, releases the next tuition tranche to the training program, and fires a consented, pseudonymous notification to the donor within minutes of publication. Operators define objective milestone rules combining need eligibility with results, and students see each verified result land in their own record.
- Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
- Texas SB 2 signed May 3, 2025, $1 billion in year one, more than 150,000 applicants, Odyssey chosen October 6, 2025; Open Badges 3.0 issuers including Accredible, Canvas Credentials and Credly certifying in 2025-26; the federal SGO credit claimable from January 1, 2027 with 27 states in as of June 8, 2026.
- What it rides
- 'Texas: a billion dollars of education accounts, paid to approved providers': Odyssey on ClassWallet proves provider-side payment at state scale, and Resultwire adds the proof-and-donor layer those rails lack for the SGO side of the same market.
- Why now
- SGOs in the 27 opted-in states must show donors where dollars went before the first claiming year opens on January 1, 2027, and 2025-26 is when the major issuers certify on Open Badges 3.0, so signed results finally exist to build disbursement logic on.
- Wedge: first customer and entry point
- One math olympiad training program and its sponsoring SGO: wire a single milestone rule where a state MATHCOUNTS or AMC placement releases the spring coaching tranche and notifies every donor to that seat pool.
- Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
- Blerify verifies ID credentials, Andamio is an open protocol for interoperable credentials, and Sertifier issues badges; none of them connect a credential to disbursement and donor notification.
- Main risk
- Every results source integrates differently and the long tail of olympiad bodies and fair organizers never standardizes.
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