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Verbatik AI

Artificial Intelli…Listed on TrustMRR· Sep 18
$40.0K
Asking Price
$1.9K/mo
Monthly Revenue
$1.6K/mo
Monthly Profit
2.1x
Profit Multiple
5 years
Business Age
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Why We Picked This

Verbatik AI is a verified 5-year-old text-to-speech platform generating $1,850/mo revenue with exceptional 85% profit margins and a highly attractive 2.1x annual profit multiple. The business model is recurring (character-based consumption), financials are platform-verified, and the valuation sits well below typical SaaS multiples. Key diligence should confirm customer retention, churn rate, and whether revenue growth is stable or declining, as mature single-product offerings can face headwinds without visibility into user acquisition trends.

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Strengths

  • ✓Verified financials on established platform (TrustMRR) with 100% data quality score—strong confidence in reported numbers
  • ✓Exceptional 85% profit margin indicates efficient operations and pricing power relative to hosting/API costs
  • ✓Attractive 2.1x annual profit multiple well below market norms for recurring SaaS (typically 3–4x)
  • ✓5-year operating history demonstrates product-market fit and customer retention beyond early stage
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Details to confirm

  • •Confirm monthly and annual churn rate and customer retention cohorts to validate recurring revenue durability
  • •Request customer count, average revenue per user (ARPU), and breakdown of active vs. inactive accounts to assess concentration risk
  • •Clarify whether the $1,850/mo revenue is growing, flat, or declining, and provide a 12–24 month revenue trend to understand maturity stage
  • •Verify the primary customer acquisition channel(s) and whether growth is organic or dependent on paid marketing with measurable ROI

Buy vs Build: BUY

76
AI-native cash cost
$8.0K–$16.0K
Estimated time
10 weeks
Asking price
$40.0K

The primary asset being acquired is a 5-year-old recurring revenue stream with verified paying customers and established integrations with third-party TTS engines (likely AWS Polly, Google Cloud TTS, or similar). Rebuilding TTS orchestration, character management, and billing infrastructure would cost $8K–$16K in AI-assisted development and 8–10 weeks to MVP parity. However, the critical competitive moat is *not* the software—it is the customer base, their willingness to pay for character packs, and the predictability of that revenue. Buying locks in $1,573/mo verified profit immediately; building requires acquiring customers from zero and competing in a crowded TTS marketplace. Unless the buyer has an established distribution channel or a materially differentiated feature set, acquiring the business at 2.1x profit is lower-risk than rebuilding and re-acquiring.

Cash estimate includes the AI tools, APIs and infrastructure needed for a solo founder to recreate the software. Build time is informational and lightly weighted. The verdict is driven mainly by customers, users, verified earnings, retention, distribution, brand, data and operating history.

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Financial Snapshot

$22K
Annual Revenue
$19K
Annual Profit
$1.9K
Monthly Revenue
25 mo
Est. Payback
Profit Margin85%
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Business Overview

Verbatik is a Text-to-Speech software which sell their ability for clients to buy Characters and then using Characters to create Realistic Speech from Text.

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Quick Facts

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Type
Artificial Intelligence
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Age
5 years
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Source
TrustMRR
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Listed
Sep 18, 2026

Deal Score

82
Strong Deal
Evidence confidence100/100
2.1x
Good Multiple
Asking$40.0K
MRR$1.9K/mo
Profit$1.6K/mo
Profit Multiple2.1x
Age5 years
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Preliminary screening based on marketplace and public data. Verify all financial, legal, technical, customer, and operational claims independently before making an acquisition decision. This is not financial or legal advice.