Looptai. The introduction economy.
The introduction economy · Seed · 2026

Welcome to the
introduction
economy.

You declare. AI finds. Your network trusts. You get paid cash on close. Four protocols. One category nobody named yet.
// Seed · 2026 // DFW wedge // 3-entity hold-co // $40M to $100M Y1 GMV
The Big Problem

The world changed. Selling didn't.

Attention costs more. Trust costs more. Inventory hides. AI flooded the channel. Cold outreach is dead. Warm intros are scarce. The infrastructure to clear them at scale doesn't exist.

0%
Cold reply rate
Down from 8.5% in 2019. Outbound is a tax on engineering capacity. It does not scale anymore.
0%
Captured by toll booths
Brokers, recruiters, marketplaces take 5 to 30% of every deal. The toll booths are the product.
0%
Inventory hidden
Only 15 to 20% of deal flow lives on listings. The rest sits in human minds. Most assets are invisible.
Looptai
One protocol. AI does the finding. Your network does the trusting. You get paid cash on close.
The old system was never built for this moment. Looptai was.
The Shift

Old way. New way.

// The selling economy

Cold outreach. Toll booths. Strangers.

Reply rate3.43%
Time to close84 days
Trust tax5 to 30%
Goes toInstitution
Inventory shown15 to 20%
Match cost4 to 12 weeks
// The introduction economy

Warm intros. Paid humans. Permissioned graph.

Reply rate10 to 34%
Time to closeCompressed
Trust tax10% to Looptai
Goes toThe connector
Inventory shownL1 + L2 + L3
Match cost8 seconds
The same six pieces. Two of them collapsed to zero.
Watch a Deal Close

From declaration to cash on close.

Six seconds. One screen. Real money moves.

Person A declares an ask. The graph fires. Your connectors vouch. The deal closes. Cash routes to the human who carried the trust.

This is the Connector Dashboard. Every closed deal is a public receipt of how the protocol clears.

looptai.com/connectors/dashboard
Highland Park · $5M+ off-market// declared by Person A · 09:42
Declared
AI matched 3 sellers · trust path 2 hops// 8 seconds · scored 91/100
Matched
Connector vouched · sell-side// JC + 2 trust validators · 11:18
Vouched
Contract executed · $6.4M close// title escrow · Stewart · 14 days
Closed
$192,000 paid · Stripe Connect// 50% introducer · 30% connectors · 10% trust
The Reframe

For ten thousand years we did this without toll booths.

Brokers, agents, listings, platforms. Innovations? No. Taxes. The introduction economy is the original one.

The trust tax now routes to the human who carried the trust. Not the institution that taxed it.

10,000 BC
People introducing people
The original economy
1960
Institutions scale it
Toll booths arrive
2026
The protocol that clears it
★ Looptai
The Structural Insight

Every sale has six pieces. Two are everything.

Two atoms hold 50 to 70 percent of all friction. The whole company lives in two atoms.

// Share of friction per atom
Residential real estate · NAR, HBR, Wharton
5 to 10%
// 01
Need
5 to 10%
// 02
Supply
25 to 35%
// 03 ★
Discovery
25 to 35%
// 04 ★
Trust
5 to 10%
// 05
Terms
10 to 15%
// 06
Transaction
Selling brute-forces atoms 3 and 4. Introducing collapses them into one moment.
The Mechanism

Four protocols. Watch them fire.

The first one is the consent layer that turns a network into queryable inventory. That's the part nobody else built.

// Protocol 01
Declare
Your assets, your asks, your network's assets.
// Protocol 02
AI finds
8-second search across the permissioned graph.
// Protocol 03
Network trusts
Connectors who know one or both sides vouch.
// Protocol 04
Get paid
Cash on close. Stripe, USDC via BVI, or Credits.
What If

Drag the slider. Watch the payout.

Move the deal size. The 10/50/30/10 split recalculates live. This is what your connectors take home on close.

// Deal size
$1,600,000
$500K$5M$10M$20M

Assumes 3% effective commission as the connector pool. Every deal pools and distributes via Stripe Connect, USDC via BVI, or Loopt Credits.

10%
Platform// Looptai · protocol fee
$4,800
50%
Introducer// 1 to 2 actors · equal split
$24,000
30%
Connector(s)// 1 to 5 · lead-weighted 3x
$14,400
10%
Trust validator(s)// 1 to 5 · equal split
$4,800
Where the Money Goes

10 / 50 / 30 / 10. Locked.

A $1.6M Highland Park close at 3% effective commission. The connector pool is $48,000. Watch it split.

// Connector pool
$0
$48,000 total
10%
Platform// Looptai · protocol fee
$4,800
50%
Introducer// 1 to 2 actors · equal split
$24,000
30%
Connector(s)// 1 to 5 · lead-weighted 3x
$14,400
10%
Trust validator(s)// 1 to 5 · equal split
$4,800
The Growth Engine

Every introduction makes the next one easier.

The system compounds. Six gears. One wheel.

// 01
Connectors join
// 02
Graph deepens
// 03
AI matches better
// 04
Deals close faster
// 05
Cash on close
// 06
Reputation compounds

This is not growth. This is compounding scale.

Every connector who gets paid attracts the next one. Every closed deal sharpens the AI's trust scoring. Every match makes the graph more queryable.

A property can be copied. A compounding network cannot.

100M
Permissioned graphs · north star
5 axes
AI trust scoring per match
8 sec
Graph search latency
3 rails
Stripe · USDC · Credits
Most founders build products. The rare ones build systems.
The Long-Term Moat

A property can be copied. A protocol cannot.

Eight compounding advantages. Every closed deal makes the next one harder to compete with.

01
Permissioned graph
L1, L2, L3 with consent. The first protocol indexes what you have, what you want, and what your network holds. Nobody else shipped this.
Defensibility
02
Trust ledger
Every vouch, decline, and silence becomes a reputation signal. Compounds with time. The longer we run, the better the scoring.
Defensibility
03
Connector pools
ROSCA-inspired pools of 10 to 25 connectors who vouch for each other and share a bonus pool. Social becomes financial.
Defensibility
04
AI at protocol layer
Matching is not a bolt-on feature. It is the protocol. Every closed deal trains the next match. 8-second search across the full graph.
Defensibility
05
Three-rail payments
Stripe Connect for licensed US. USDC via BVI for unlicensed. Loopt Credits for AI-sole matches. RESPA-clean by design.
Defensibility
06
Owned brokerage
Texas brokerage subsidiary holds the TREC license. We can sponsor agents, route commissions, close deals. Most competitors cannot.
Defensibility
07
Agent-native rails
Every tier is fillable by an AI agent. The agent's owner gets paid. We are the rail when 30% of deals involve agents.
Defensibility
08
Category ownership
We named the introduction economy. Categories are decided by who builds first. The window is roughly 18 months.
Defensibility
Competitors can buy properties. They cannot buy our graph, our ledger, or our connectors. The moat deepens every day.
Looptai vs Incumbents

Same atoms. Different math.

Dimension
Traditional broker
LinkedIn
Recruiter
Looptai
Trust tax
5 to 6%
$10K/seat
15 to 30%
10% to platform
Goes to
Institution
Microsoft
Agency
The connector
Match latency
4 to 12 weeks
Days
6+ weeks
8 seconds
Inventory accessed
L1 rolodex
L1 public
L1 + L2 manual
L1 + L2 + L3 permissioned
Trust signal
Brand
Connection count
Reference checks
Network vouches
Payout speed
30 to 60 days
N/A
90+ days
Same day · close
AI-native
No
Bolt-on
Bolt-on
Protocol layer
Every incumbent built a feature. Looptai is the infrastructure layer.
The Wedge

DFW. Regional, not single-city.

Three sub-zones. Three buyer profiles. The largest concentration of $5M-plus cash buyers outside Manhattan and Greater LA.

// Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex
DFW NORTH Frisco · The Colony · Plano DALLAS CORE Highland Park · UP · Preston Hollow FORT WORTH Westover · Tanglewood · Rivercrest HQ FRISCO CEO · THE COLONY
// Sub-zone 01 · Old money
Dallas core
$5M to $50M · multigenerational
// Sub-zone 02 · New money + tech
DFW North
$2M to $10M · fastest growing
// Sub-zone 03 · Oil + corporate
Fort Worth
$3M to $20M · family office
20 to 50
Year 1 closed deals
$40M to $100M
Year 1 GMV target
30
Connector-agents · Y1
$500K to $1.5M
Brokerage acquisition
Why DFW

The most underpriced luxury market in America.

While capital fights over Miami, LA, and New York, DFW sits at the intersection of constrained supply, rising demand, no state income tax, and the highest concentration of new $5M-plus cash buyers in the country.

// Population growth
+1.2M
Net new residents since 2020. Fastest-growing major metro in North America.
// State income tax
0%
Texas takes nothing. California takes 13.3%. NYC takes 14.8%.
// Luxury off-MLS
~15%
Share of $5M-plus deals that close off-MLS. Made for the introduction protocol.
// One license
3 zones
All under one TREC license. Three buyer profiles. One brokerage subsidiary.
F500 HQ count
2nd in the US, after NYC
DFW Airport
4th busiest in the world
Avg luxury close
$3.2M (2026, vs $1.8M in 2020)
DFW is not a bet on the future. It's the arbitrage already happening.
The Structure

Three entities. One protocol. One brand.

Software multiple on top. Compliance shell in the US. Crypto rail offshore. Each entity carries the right legal posture.

// Parent · Valuation entity
Loopt Inc.
Delaware C-Corp · Frisco, TX
// Compliance shell
Loopt Brokerage TX, LLC
Texas-licensed · wholly owned
Sponsoring broker. Holds the TREC license. Cost center.
// Crypto rail
Loopt International, Ltd.
BVI · wholly owned
Pays unlicensed connectors via USDC. RESPA-exempt by design.
The Path

Year 1 wedge. Year 2 expansion. Year 3 the coasts.

Three years. Texas first. South Florida organic. Coasts last on protocol momentum.

Y1 · DFW AustinHoustonSouth FL Bay AreaLANYC
// Year 1 · 2026 to 2027
DFW. Prove the math.
Dallas + DFW North + Fort Worth. 20 to 50 deals. $40M to $100M GMV.
// Year 2 · 2027 to 2028
Austin. Houston. South FL.
In-Texas expansion (same TREC license). South Florida organic.
// Year 3 · 2028 to 2029
California + NYC.
Entered last on protocol momentum. 100M graphs north star.
Projected Trajectory

The dashboard. Three years out.

// Looptai · projected metrics
Live preview · Q4 2028 projection
// GMV cumulative
$0M
3-year projection
▲ Y3 trajectory
// Connectors active
0
Across DFW + Y2 markets
▲ +94 / week
// Deals closed YTD
0
2028 calendar year
▲ +12 / week
// Connector payouts
$0M
Paid to humans · cumulative
▲ Same day · close
$640M $320M $100M Y1 wedge Y2 TX + FL Y3 · COASTS Q4 2026 Q4 2028
DFW · YEAR 1
20 to 50 deals · $40M to $100M GMV
TX expansion · Year 2
Austin · Houston · South FL · same TREC
Coasts · Year 3
LA · Bay Area · NYC · protocol momentum
Forward-looking projections. Anchored to DFW Year 1 math.
// 04 · The Mechanism

Four protocols. Eight seconds. Three rails.

This is how the deal clears. Step by step. Numbers, latencies, dollar flows. The mechanism is the moat.

// Protocol 01
You declare.

Onboarding maps three things in three minutes. What you have. What you want. What your contacts hold. Voice-first or text. Calendar and email signals are opt-in. L1 (declared), L2 (inferred), L3 (network-attested). Indexed as the permissioned asset graph.

3 min
Onboarding time
3 layers
L1 · L2 · L3
Opt-in
Consent at protocol layer
// onboarding · L1 + L2 + L3
Assets declared 3 properties · 1 fund LP slot
Asks declared Highland Park · $5M to $50M
Network assets 87 contacts · 12 vouchable
Calendar signal 3 luxury closings nearby
// Protocol 02
AI does the finding.

Search across the full permissioned graph in 8 seconds. Matches scored on five axes. Relevance. Trust path. Timing. Geography. Compliance. 4 to 12 weeks of human discovery collapses to one query. Match quality compounds with every closed deal.

8 sec
Graph search latency
5 axes
Match scoring vector
91/100
Average match score
// scoring · 5-axis match
Relevance
96
Trust path
88
Timing
92
Geography
90
Compliance
89
// Protocol 03
Your network does the trusting.

Match routes to connectors who know one or sometimes both sides. They vouch, decline, or stay silent. Reputation is the collateral. Trust is inherited from the real human relationship. The trust tax now routes to the human who carried it. Not the institution that taxed it.

2 hops
Median trust path
10 to 34%
Warm intro conversion
3.4%
Cold benchmark (NAR)
// vouches · trust ledger
JC (sell-side)
vouched
Sarah K. (mutual)
vouched
M. Thomas (deal-side)
stayed silent
B. Reyes (broker)
vouched
C. Park (1-hop)
vouched
// Protocol 04
You get paid cash on close.

Connector who introduced the buyer, seller, and/or carried the trust gets paid automatically when the deal closes. Three rails. Stripe Connect for licensed US connectors. USDC via BVI for unlicensed contributors. Loopt Credits for AI-sole-match cases. No invoice. No chase. No net-90.

Same day
Wire-to-Stripe latency
10/50/30/10
Locked split
$23K+
Average payout
// payout · $6.4M close · $192K pool
Platform (10%)$19,200
Introducer (50%)$96,000
Connectors (30%)$57,600
Trust validators (10%)$19,200
Four protocols. Four sentences. Never three.
The Math

Seed today. Protocol multiple at scale.

Not driven by hype. Driven by structure. Protocols compound.

$48,000
Connector pool · per $1.6M close
$40M to $100M
Year 1 GMV target · DFW
100M
Permissioned graphs · north star
// Tranche 01 · Pre-seed
Founding allocation
$3M raise
★ Open now
// Tranche 02 · Seed
DFW proof close
$10M raise
2027
// Tranche 03 · Series A
Multi-market expansion
$75M raise
2028
// Tranche 04 · Exit
Public listing
IPO
2035
Now · $3M2027 · $10M2028 · $75M2035 · IPO
Forward-looking projections. Not an offer to sell securities. Any offer to invest will be made only through official offering documents to qualified investors. All investment involves risk including possible loss of principal.
Most seed companies are valued like products. Looptai is being built like infrastructure.
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