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Seatwise

Disbursement rails for scholarship granting organizations under the 2027 federal credit

Back-office infrastructure for new and small SGOs: receipts donor gifts, applies objective merit-plus-need selection criteria, and pays K-12 schools and tutoring providers by ACH against verified enrollment, with prorated refunds when a student leaves.

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similar startups, last 2 years (2 all-time)

yes

1 matching federal grants and programs

Direction supported by government programs and grants

Test it before you build it

$900 · 5 weeks · 12 prospects

For $900 in 5 weeks, prove that three newly forming Texas and Florida SGOs will pay a $1,000 launch deposit for disbursement rails before incumbents reach them.

Riskiest assumption · Founders of newly forming Texas and Florida SGOs will pay an unproven two-person vendor now to run their receipting and disbursement rather than wait for ClassWallet or a state incumbent to bolt the federal credit onto existing systems.

1Focus group: who and where

The founder or executive director of an SGO incorporated in Texas or Florida in 2025 or 2026 to take the January 1, 2027 federal credit, with board and donors lining up but no donation receipting, selection or school-payment system, and a hard go-live four months out.

where to find 12 · A Candid (GuideStar) search for 501(c)(3)s registered in Texas and Florida in 2025-2026 with scholarship granting language in name or purpose; referrals from American Federation for Children state chapters and EdChoice staff, who track forming SGOs in credit states; the ExcelinEd National Summit on Education attendee network, where new school-choice operators gather each fall; the Texas Private Schools Association, whose member schools hear first which SGOs are forming.

2Sell first, build later

Seatwise operates the SGO's entire first credit year: donor gift receipting, objective merit-plus-need selection support, ACH disbursement to schools and tutoring providers against verified enrollment, prorated refunds when a student leaves, and audit-ready donor statements, live for January 2027.

the ask · $1,000 launch deposit plus $2 per disbursement, deposit credited against first-year fees

a real yes · A real yes is the $1,000 deposit paid or a signed launch agreement with a dated January 2027 start; 'talk to us after our board meets' and undated letters of interest are not

3Small experiments

The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.

  1. 1. Forming-SGO census and interviews

    $250 · 14 days

    Run one month of Candid Pro to pull every 2025-2026 Texas and Florida nonprofit with scholarship granting in its name or purpose, then ask AFC state chapters and EdChoice contacts to fill gaps and make intros. Book 12 calls with founders and ask three things: how they plan to receipt donations, how they will pay schools by January 2027, and whether any vendor is signed.

    keep going if · 8 of 12 confirm receipting and disbursement are unsolved and no vendor is signed

  2. 2. Priced launch-slot offer

    $500 · 14 days

    Send every interviewed SGO a one-pager: Seatwise operates your first credit year end to end, donor receipting, ACH disbursement to schools against verified enrollment, audit-ready statements, for a $1,000 refundable deposit credited against $2 per-disbursement fees, three launch slots. Have an attorney spend one hour reviewing the deposit and launch-agreement terms before sending.

    keep going if · 3 of 12 pay the $1,000 deposit or sign the launch agreement with a dated January 2027 start

  3. 3. School onboarding dry run

    $150 · 10 days

    With the first deposit-paying SGO, send ACH enrollment and W-9 packets to 5 of its partner schools and track turnaround, testing whether the rails can actually be operated by hand at launch.

    keep going if · 4 of 5 schools return complete packets within 10 days

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.

$1,000

per prospect, refundable

how · A $1,000 refundable launch deposit invoiced alongside a one-page launch agreement signed by the SGO's executive director; an invoice against a signed agreement is the instrument a nonprofit board can approve, and the deposit is credited against first-year per-disbursement fees set up: Stripe Invoicing ↗

what it reserves · One of three January 2027 launch slots, named onboarding starting within a week of signature, and the $2 per-disbursement price locked for year one

refund · Refundable in full any time before the SGO's first live disbursement, and refunded automatically if state certification or the readiness review does not clear by December 15, 2026.

target · 3 deposits from 12 conversations within 35 days

before taking money · Do not hold or move donor funds in Seatwise-owned accounts before counsel confirms the agent-of-the-SGO structure avoids money transmission licensing and each client SGO has completed its state certification.

Go: build it if

3 SGOs pay the $1,000 deposit with dated January 2027 starts within 5 weeks, and 4 of 5 schools return onboarding packets within 10 days

Kill: stop if

0 deposits after 12 conversations and delivered offers, or 8 or more of 12 SGOs say they have already committed to ClassWallet or a state incumbent processor

5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open

outreach message

You're standing up an SGO for the January 2027 federal credit, and receipting, selection and school payments all have to work before your first donor gives. I run Seatwise: we operate your donation receipting and ACH disbursement to schools end to end for your first credit year, audit-ready, priced per disbursement so cost tracks volume. I'm taking three Texas and Florida SGOs as launch partners this fall. Can we take 20 minutes this week to walk through your first-year money flow?

landing page

Donation receipting and school payments for your SGO's first credit year $1,000 reserves a January 2027 launch slot, then $2 per disbursement with receipting, ACH and donor statements included Book a scoping call and reserve your slot

deposit terms

The $1,000 deposit reserves one of three January 2027 launch slots and is credited in full against your first-year disbursement fees. It is refundable any time before your first live disbursement, and refunded automatically if your state certification or our readiness review does not clear by December 15, 2026. Onboarding starts within one week of signature.

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.

55

Idea Score, 0-100 (partial) · raw 33.8 x 1.61

Open

competition: more crowded than 12% of ideas · headwind x0.94

+1.4

government priorities, secondary (1 matching grants)

Trend

21

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)21
  • Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector44
  • Sector direction (live batch)0

Demand

38

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)17

100x potential

50

Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.

  • no signal yet, taken as 50

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 disbursement, rails, scholarship, granting, organizations, 2027, federal, back-office.

The concept in full

What
Back-office infrastructure for new and small SGOs: receipts donor gifts, applies objective merit-plus-need selection criteria, and pays K-12 schools and tutoring providers by ACH against verified enrollment, with prorated refunds when a student leaves. Donor statements show where each dollar went without naming the child; the student gets a private progress page showing which verified results keep the seat funded.
Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (July 4, 2025) created 'a nonrefundable federal credit of up to $1,700 per taxpayer for cash gifts to Scholarship Granting Organizations', and 'On June 8, 2026 the IRS reported 27 states had elected to participate, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado and Tennessee among them' (IRS IR-2026-76).
What it rides
'Federal scholarship tax credit from 2027, 27 states in': every SGO in a participating state needs compliant intake, objective selection and provider-payment plumbing before the credit becomes claimable.
Why now
The credit is claimable from January 1, 2027, and as of June 8, 2026 27 states are in; SGOs forming over the next months must stand up donation receipting and provider disbursement before the first credit year opens.
Wedge: first customer and entry point
Newly forming SGOs in Texas and Florida. Sign one SGO, run its donation receipting and school payments end to end, charge per disbursement; a 1-3 person team can operate this as a service while hardening the API.
Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
First Gen X does scholarship discovery for first-gen students, the demand side; Seatwise is the money side, moving SGO funds to providers with audit-ready reporting. Scout is a student information system for schools, not a payer.
Main risk
Incumbent state tax-credit scholarship processors bolt the federal credit onto their existing systems before new SGOs ever shop for a vendor.

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Public money in this direction

US federal grants and open opportunities matched to the concept's terms.

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