/breakout
AI products ready to be acquired.
/breakout is Deploiable’s model for bringing new AI products to market. We validate a need, fund development, grow the product to paying customers and transfer it to the company best placed to scale it.
The idea
Out of the cycle of idea, startup and round. A new way to bring innovation to market.
The innovation model repeats itself: an idea, a startup, a round, another round. /breakout is the way out, one brick at a time.
From an idea to a working business, one step at a time: verified need, product, traction, revenue, transfer.
Idea
Working business
- Verified need
- Product
- Traction
- Revenue
- Transfer
Every brick taken down is a step reached: verified need, product, traction, revenue, transfer.
A third way
Between building in-house and acquiring a startup.
To innovate its offering, a company usually has two roads. /breakout opens a third one.
Three roads to a new product. Building in-house: no proof before you invest, and it costs team, time and budget. Acquiring a startup: it already works, at valuations often in the millions. /breakout: customers and revenue before you invest, at a value consistent with the results achieved.
The third way
/breakout
Lean products designed to be transferred, offered when they already have customers and revenue.
- Proof before you invest
- Customers and revenue
- What it costs
- A value consistent with the results achieved
Customers and revenue before the decision, at a value consistent with the results.
Who it is for
For companies that know their market.
Without the time, the team or the risk of building from scratch.
You bring your market and customers; Deploiable brings AI products already running. Together they make a new line in your portfolio.
You bring the market, we bring a product that already runs.
What you acquire
A working business, not only the software.
A product that has already proven it meets a real need. After the handover, we can keep running it for you.
Customers
Paying customers already on board.
Revenue
Income the product already generates.
Brand
The name and identity it sells under.
Data
Everything the product has learned from its users.
Proof
Real-world evidence that the market wants it.
How it works
Five phases. No startup, no round. Just results.
From a proven need to a business ready for acquisition, one step at a time.
- 01
Need Discovery
Alongside the companies we work with, we spot recurring needs that their sectors still leave unmet.
- 02
Buyer Fit
Every product starts with one question. Who would want to buy it once it’s up and running? If there’s no clear buyer, we don’t build it.
- 03
Demand Validation
Before development, we check with potential customers that the need is real and that they’d pay to solve it.
- 04
Build to Revenue
We build the product, bring it to market and grow it into a business that stands on its own, with a base of paying customers.
- 05
Ready to Be Yours
We present the product directly to the companies that will get the most value from it, and showcase it at our Product Days. Then we hand it over to the one best placed to scale it.
Who carries the risk
We fund development. You acquire a proven product.
Innovation always comes with uncertainty, and the risk usually falls entirely on whoever invests. With /breakout, we take on our share of it.
Deploiable funds development in phases 01 to 04, from the first version to paying customers. The company acquires the product in phase 05.
We fund development. You acquire a proven product.
Development
Funded by Deploiable, from the first version to paying customers.
The decision
Made once the product has customers and revenue, not on a prototype.
The value
Priced on the results the product has already achieved.
Questions
What companies ask about /breakout.
Who funds products developed through /breakout?
We do, from the first version to the first paying customers. The acquiring company only steps in once the product has customers and revenue.
What does the acquiring company receive?
A working business, with paying customers, revenue, a brand, data and proof that the product meets a real need.
How is the value of the product set?
On the results it has already achieved, not on its growth prospects.
How is /breakout different from acquiring a startup?
A startup is usually valued on what it might become. A product developed through /breakout is lean, built to be handed over, and offered only once it has customers and revenue.
Can Deploiable keep running the product after the handover?
Yes. After the handover, we can keep running it for you.
Why is it called /breakout?
In code, “break out” is the instruction that exits a loop. The name also recalls Breakout, designed in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs: a wall taken down brick by brick, the way /breakout reaches a working business one step at a time.
Innovation that has already proven it works.
Tell us about your market and your customers. We will show you how /breakout can add a working product to what you offer.
Let’s build your AI product