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See it on your skin before anyone picks up a needle.
Vivid answers the two questions that stop people getting tattooed: what will it look like on me, and who does it for how much. Pick a design from a curated gallery or upload your own, hold the camera to the place you are considering, and put the design on your own skin in the live view. When one is the one, Vivid takes it to real studios and comes back with offers. Free for the person; the studios pay.
Marketplace · Interactive pitch
A tattoo cannot be returned, and almost nobody sees it before they commit to it. A design on a screen says nothing about how it sits on a collarbone. So the decision gets postponed for months, or made in the chair with the stencil already on.
See it on your own skin first, then let the studios come to you. Both hesitations gone before anyone is contacted, and the person pays for neither. The studios pay, because someone who has chosen a design and looked at it on their own body is a client, not an inquiry.
The designs are curated, not generated. Browse a gallery of ready-made pieces, refresh it for a different set, or upload an image you already have - a drawing, a photograph, something an artist sent you. Vivid does not make the art.
Point the camera at the place you are considering and the design appears over the live view. You place it yourself: one finger moves it, two scale and turn it. Move the camera and you see it from another angle. It runs in the browser, with no app to install and nothing uploaded.
When one design is the one, you finalize it - size, color, placement, the city you want to be tattooed in, an email, and an Instagram handle if you want to give one - and the request reaches the Vivid team. They approach studios in that city and the offers come back to you. You never pay Vivid anything.
Vivid sends a photograph of someone's body to strangers. So consent is typed, not ticked: the person writes "I confirm" against a line naming exactly who may contact them and how. The wording is versioned and stored with the request, so an old record still shows what that person agreed to.
Live worldwide, free. The gallery, the upload, the camera try-on, the finalize step, the typed consent, the stored request and the hand-off to the team all work today. Not built: the studio side. No studio accounts, no dashboard, no bidding inbox, and nothing bills anybody.
Free for the person. Studios get one month free, then $49 a month to keep receiving session requests. The person is never the customer, in any version of this.
Vivid is in a live public first round, raising $250,000 - the software-track figure. A runway requirement, not a valuation: the operating layer, fundraising costs, human hours, AI and infrastructure, marketing, legal and tax reserves and an operating buffer, published line by line. Offers are non-binding and start at $1 - no card, no money moves, and nothing is binding until the round closes and the company is incorporated.
What it is
A free camera try-on for tattoos, and a route from a chosen design to real studio offers. Curated designs or your own image, placed on your skin in the live camera view, then taken to studios on your behalf. Open in any city in the world.
Who it is for
The person who has wanted a specific tattoo for months and has not booked it. The studios are the paying side, and they are introduced to someone who has already decided what they want.
Why it is different
It sits between inspiration and booking - not competing with the places people browse, not competing with the studio, but qualifying the client before either. Revenue scales with the studio network rather than with compute.
How the AI is actually used
Barely, deliberately. No generation - the designs are curated or the person's own - and no body-tracking model. Lumi guides the person through the flow. The camera try-on is a live feed with a design the person positions by hand.
What is free, what is paid
Free: Everything the person does: the gallery, uploading your own image, the camera try-on, and sending the design out for offers. Permanently free. Paid: Studios. The first month is free; after that $49 a month to keep receiving session requests.
The growth loop
City-shaped: once four or five studios in one city are on it, offers start to compete and the app becomes the first thing a person opens. Nothing outside that city benefits, and no such density exists yet anywhere. The app is open worldwide so the requests themselves say which city to build density in first.
Strongest
The consent design. A typed confirmation, versioned wording stored with the record, and a plain statement of what Vivid is answerable for once an image of someone's body leaves. In a category that handles photographs of people, that is checkable.
Weakest
Half the marketplace does not exist. No studio accounts, no offer inbox, no billing - so the revenue model, $49 a month from studios, has never been put to a single studio.
What must be proven
That a studio pays after the free month. That a handful of studios in one city is enough density for offers to feel like offers. That people finish the flow rather than trying the camera and leaving.
Next thing to fix
Build the studio side and charge somebody. Until a studio has been billed and stayed, the business model is a sentence rather than a finding.
What is being built
A free tattoo try-on that ends in real offers from real studios, paid for by the studios rather than the person.
What already exists
The curated gallery and upload, the live camera try-on with hand placement, the finalize step, typed and versioned consent, a stored request written before the mail goes out, and a request that reaches the team from any city in the world. Installable on the phone.
What remains
The studio side in full - accounts, an offer inbox, billing - and the first city with real studio density in it.
What the funding enables
Eighteen months of building and operating it: the studio half of the marketplace, the billing that lets the model be tested, and the work of opening the cities the requests point at.
What the founder receives
The venture stays the founder's. Dream x Destiny holds no equity at the close and takes its 1% only after the venture reaches its first 3x Profit Checkpoint and makes that distribution - and it comes from the founder's own ownership, so the syndicate's holding does not move at that event. That is a fact about that event and not a permanent protection: Round 3 and later financings may create new shares and dilute existing holders.
$250,000
First-round funding need
Funding sum is not a valuation. The first-round funding sum is the amount the venture needs to operate, build, launch and grow during its initial runway. It is calculated from expected operating costs, development resources, fundraising costs, marketing, reserves and contingency - not from an early-stage valuation.
A software venture funds people, infrastructure and reach. There is no physical unit to engineer, tool or manufacture, so the whole budget goes into building, running and growing the product for its first 18 months.
The Dream x Destiny operating layer and the funding platform's costs are part of the funding requirement, sized into the sum along with every other line. The founder does not pay them separately upfront: they are budgeted inside the amount raised rather than taken off the top of it. Dream x Destiny's platform revenue is a fixed operating fee, not a percentage of capital raised.
Grok
Brand and wedge - the F2 audit
Gave it the hook "Try it on your skin in AR. Local studios quote you. Free for you - the studios pay", and a voice like a tattooer who respects both skin and code: short sentences, zero fluff. Then wrote a rule into the voice itself: never imply AI generation - Vivid curates real ready-made designs and lets you try them on.
Claude
The build
Gathered demand before asking supply for anything, because a studio will not join an empty marketplace. Cut the style choice to three enforced options after an open field produced drift between what was picked and what was rendered. Made consent typed and versioned rather than a checkbox, because an image of somebody's body is being sent to strangers. And wrote the record before the mail, after the route was found returning early when mail was unconfigured.
monday produced no assessment - its artefacts for this venture are floor completion gates, which passed. No ChatGPT assessment exists for this venture.
