Discover good music easily through conversations.
Pre-Seed Round
Fall 2026
Verst is built by experts who know every side of music.
Knows how the industry works.
7 years at WMG: startup licensing and investing; digital innovation and M&A; GM of Level, a D2C tech biz.
Knows how music works.
Lifelong DJ and former professional music producer.
Knows how the tech works.
Math major; designed and built the MVP entirely himself.
Additional Team Expertise:
Hiring: lead dev (Jan '27), marketer (Mar '27)
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Finding music is easy.
Finding good music is hard.
Too much to sift through
150,000 new songs uploaded to streaming platforms every day.
From too many places
Algorithmic playlists, social media, friends, blogs, magazines, radio, etc.
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Verst makes it easy to discover good music.
Finds songs that fit, so you don't have to dig
Contextualizes recs, so you can connect with them
Sends one song at a time, so there's nothing to sift through
Learns from feedback, so it keeps getting better
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The best recs come from friends.
Verst is the first music platform built to scale friend-quality recs.
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Meet Verst's AI agent: Annie.
Annie learns your taste and earns your trust by talking to you. Just like our friends do.
Phone
Text
Web
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Verst uses scalable LLMs to make taste convos actionable.
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Incumbent assistants do admin work.
Verst does friend work.
Friend work isn’t a feature. Copying Verst means changing what they’re built for.
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Verst natively builds a proprietary data asset.
phone call minutes
user messages
*collected from 132 beta testers so far.
Conversational taste graph, built from our users' own words.
- Non-existent elsewhere
- Can't be inferred, must be disclosed
- Gold-standard training data captured with consent
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Verst grew from idea to 132-user private beta in 9 months.
Pivoted
Nov '25
Customer research
Dec '25 - Jan '26
Closed $150K F&F SAFE
Jan '26
Built MVP v1
Jan - Mar '26
Onboarded 19 beta users (round 1)
Apr '26
Built MVP v2
Apr - Jun '26
Onboarded 113 beta users (round 2)
Jul - Aug '26
Standardized ops
Rec cadence, churn, integrated referrals
Sep '26
Raising $1M pre-seed round
Now
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Verst's beta testers are very engaged.
recs sent
of sent recs are opened
vs. 10-20% relevant benchmark
of opened recs are listened to
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Verst's users are having great experiences.
"Verst…is tracking probably like a 5/10 save rate for me which is insanely high…I have also used ChatGPT a bunch to try to get it to do music recs and it's nowhere near that hit rate."
-Alexander M.
"I've discovered some amazing artists I would never have otherwise found, and had my own taste reflected back to me in ways that make me feel both seen and surprised….all in the wake of one rambling conversation!"
-Ruth M.
"Verst allows me to tap into the why behind the music, and it makes me think about things differently. I've dug into a wide range of music in a short time, and I wouldn't have pushed myself that far had it not been for Verst."
-Jonathan N.
"Because it learns through actual convos and keeps adapting based on what I respond to, it has managed to introduce me to things that feel natural for my taste while still being genuinely new."
-Josh C.
"Verst breaks me out of the same tired circles, offering a seamless, deeply human way to discover incredible music through tastes I didn’t even know I had, powered by technology capable of reaching far beyond what any person could uncover alone."
-Michael S.
"It feels less like a traditional music recommendation service and more like having someone who genuinely understands my musical preferences."
-Cameron V.
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Verst is here at the right moment.
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There are ~38M frustrated, paying, adult listeners in the US.
38M × $5.99/mo × 12 = ~$2.7B wedge market.
Next: social discovery: connecting users with similar taste.
Sources: Census, IFPI, Surveys
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Verst is ready to emerge from stealth and grow.
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Verst is raising a $1M SAFE to launch and prove PMF.
15 months runway, to Dec 2027
Use of Funds
Major Milestones
Public beta launch; lead engineer hired
Jan 2027
Lead marketer hired; K-factor ≥ 0.3
Mar 2027
V3 released; pricing test live
May 2027
5K active beta users
Oct 2027
Seed round with proven retention, virality, and WTP
Dec 2027
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Talk to Annie yourself!
create an account: getverst.ai/investor
password: verstpreseed
E-mail: [email protected]
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