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startup concept
Floatworks
Treasury operations for the stablecoin float that funds agent budgets
Software for finance teams that fund fleets of paying agents: it provisions per-agent stablecoin balances, sweeps idle float back nightly, keeps dollar and euro balances inside GENIUS and MiCA-compliant issuers, and produces the reserve and rewards documentation auditors will ask for.
- Software subscription
- Enterprise
- Stablecoin rails under GENIUS and MiCA
21
similar startups, last 2 years (158 all-time)
yes
8 matching federal grants and programs
Direction supported by government programs and grants
Test it before you build it
$950 · 4 weeks · 20 prospects
Prove in 4 weeks and $950 that finance leads at agent-platform startups will pay $3,000 up front for nightly float sweeps and GENIUS reserve packs their custodian does not provide.
Riskiest assumption · Finance owners at agent-platform startups holding $100k+ of USDC float will pay a third party now for nightly sweeps and GENIUS reserve documentation rather than wait for Circle or their custodian to ship it free inside the account they already have.
1Focus group: who and where
Head of finance or the operations-owning cofounder at a seed-to-Series-B agent-platform startup (10-60 people) that funds per-agent wallets from $100k-$5M of USDC operating float and has to answer GENIUS reserve and rewards questions from auditors or investors this quarter.
where to find 20 · Filter the YC Startup Directory and a16z portfolio pages for agent-infrastructure companies that publicly run on USDC to build the list; Circle's developer Discord and USDC ecosystem partner directory, where these teams already ask operational questions; warm intros through the prospects' seed investors; the Stablecon speaker and attendee network out of the This Week in Fintech community.
2Sell first, build later
A 4-week read-only design-partner pilot on the buyer's existing custody: nightly sweep recommendations on idle agent-wallet balances and a weekly GENIUS-ready reserve and rewards pack, first delivery within 14 days of signing.
the ask · $3,000 per pilot, invoiced up front; converts to $1,500 per month plus per-managed-wallet pricing, locked for year one
a real yes · A real yes is the $3,000 invoice paid by ACH before kickoff; a signed agreement without payment, an unpaid trial, or 'send this to our controller' does not count.
3Small experiments
The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.
1. Float pain interviews
$250 · 12 days
Build a list of 40 agent-platform startups from the YC directory and Circle's ecosystem pages, email the finance owner with the outreach script, and run 20-minute calls. Ask three numbers: current float size, how idle balances get swept today, and who compiles reserve documentation for auditors. One founder runs all calls and logs answers in a sheet.
keep going if · 8 of 15 completed calls confirm over $100k of stablecoin float, manual or no nightly sweeps, and name GENIUS documentation as a this-quarter problem
2. Sample reserve pack test
$200 · 7 days
Build a two-page mock deliverable by hand: a nightly sweep report plus an auditor-ready reserve and rewards pack modeled on public issuer attestation formats. Send it to every interviewee and 10 more prospects with one question: would your auditor accept this for your accounts.
keep going if · 5 of 25 recipients ask for the pack built on their own accounts or forward it to their auditor or controller
3. Paid design-partner pilot
$500 · 14 days
Offer the 5 warmest prospects a 4-week read-only pilot: they share read-only API keys to their existing custody, Floatworks delivers sweep recommendations nightly and the reserve pack weekly, $3,000 invoiced up front against a one-page agreement reviewed once by a startup attorney. No client funds are ever touched.
keep going if · 2 of 5 scoped prospects sign and pay the $3,000 invoice before the pilot starts
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.
$3,000
per prospect, refundable
how · A design-partner pilot invoiced up front and paid by ACH: the finance lead signs a one-page pilot agreement and pays $3,000 before any work starts. An invoice is the native instrument for an enterprise finance buyer and paying it proves budget authority, not just interest. set up: Stripe Invoicing ↗
what it reserves · One of three design-partner slots, weekly reserve packs throughout the pilot, and a founding price of $1,500 per month locked for the first year.
refund · Full refund on request any time before the second weekly reserve pack is delivered.
target · 2 paid pilots ($6,000 collected) from 15 conversations within 30 days
before taking money · Run the pilot strictly read-only against the client's existing custody and never take possession of or move client stablecoins, which would trigger money transmitter licensing.
Go: build it if
2 pilots paid ($6,000 collected) and 8 of 15 calls confirming six-figure float with manual sweeps, inside 4 weeks.
Kill: stop if
Fewer than 5 of 15 calls confirm six-figure stablecoin float, or 0 of 5 pilot offers are paid after 2 weeks of follow-up.
5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open
outreach message
You're funding agent wallets from a USDC float, and between GENIUS taking effect and your next audit, someone on your team has to prove where every dollar of that float sits and what it earned. I'm building Floatworks: nightly sweeps of idle agent balances plus the reserve and rewards pack your auditor will ask for, on top of your existing custody. I'm taking three design partners at $3,000 for a 4-week read-only pilot. Open to a 20-minute call this week?
landing page
Your agent float, swept nightly and audit-ready $3,000 buys a 4-week read-only pilot: nightly sweep reports plus a GENIUS reserve pack, then $1,500 per month locked for year one Book a pilot slot - 3 design-partner seats
deposit terms
Pay $3,000 today to reserve one of three design-partner pilot slots starting within 14 days. The pilot runs 4 weeks, read-only on your existing custody, and locks your subscription at $1,500 per month for the first year. Full refund on request any time before your second weekly reserve pack is delivered.
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.
50
Idea Score, 0-100 · raw 30.3 x 1.64
Crowded
competition: more crowded than 91% of ideas · headwind x0.55
+3.8
government priorities, secondary (30 matching grants)
Trend
63
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)70
- Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector33
- Rounds announced 2025+ matching the idea100
- Sector direction (live batch)50
Demand
65
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)30
- Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)100
100x potential
28
Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.
- Neighbours still alive28
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 treasury, operations, stablecoin, float, funds, budgets, finance, fund.
The concept in full
- What
- Software for finance teams that fund fleets of paying agents: it provisions per-agent stablecoin balances, sweeps idle float back nightly, keeps dollar and euro balances inside GENIUS and MiCA-compliant issuers, and produces the reserve and rewards documentation auditors will ask for. It manages the money agents spend, not the spending itself.
- Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
- GENIUS Act signed July 18, 2025; OCC proposed rule March 2, 2026, Treasury rule April 3, 2026, final rules due July 18, 2026. The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking on May 14, 2026, and its January 2026 draft bans interest for merely holding a balance but allows activity-linked rewards. MiCA fully in force since December 2024. SpotPay (yc W26) and Karsa (yc W25) show stablecoin accounts productizing fast.
- What it rides
- Stablecoin rails under GENIUS and MiCA: GENIUS defines who may issue the float Floatworks manages, and the CLARITY Act's pending yield rules define what a corporate holder may earn on it.
- Why now
- Between the July 18, 2026 GENIUS rule deadline and a CLARITY floor vote set up on August 8, 2026, the rules on holding and earning on corporate stablecoin balances are being fixed right now, and every company funding agent wallets will need a compliant answer within two quarters.
- Wedge: first customer and entry point
- Agent-platform startups holding five to seven figures of operating stablecoin float: start as a sweep-and-report tool connected to their existing custody, priced per managed wallet.
- Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
- Panax (plugandplay 2025) does AI cash management for fiat treasury, not agent float on stablecoin rails; SpotPay (yc W26) provides the stablecoin account itself, while Floatworks orchestrates across accounts; Crebit (speedrun SR006) locks FX rates, one adjacent slice.
- Main risk
- Custodians and stablecoin issuers ship float management natively and Floatworks becomes a feature of the account it sits on.
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