CadetCatch

Help academy families find one cadet inside thousands of event photos.

A narrowly targeted photo-search application for Coast Guard Academy families, supported by a live search service, paid access options, and a free-preview funnel.

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Commercial opportunityLive App Store product

Academy photo discovery

Help academy families find one cadet inside thousands of event photos.

01Add a reference photo
02Search the event
03Review likely matches
04Unlock or subscribe

Investor classification

Commercial opportunity

A working asset with a defined next value milestone.

This product is available for the kind of conversation that fits its stage: commercial investment, distribution, licensing, or acquisition.

The opportunity in plain English

The customer, the problem, the offer, and how it makes money.

Target customer: Military-academy families first; event photographers and institutional photo platforms as potential partners.
Costly problem: Families care deeply about event photos but manually scanning large galleries is slow and unreliable, especially across repeated academy events.
Product offer: Upload a reference photo, search an event collection for likely matches, then unlock a single result or ongoing family access.
Pricing today: $1.99 for a one-time photo check, $1.99 to view one photo, and $12.99 per month for family access.

Where it stands

What is working today—and what comes next.

$1.99 / $12.99one-time checks and family subscription

Working today

01
The public iPhone app lets a family preview a search, make a purchase, subscribe, and restore access.
02
A free preview creates a measurable search-to-purchase funnel.
03
The initial audience is concentrated around predictable academy events and parent communities.

The next stage will establish

01
The next event rollout will establish downloads, active use, paid conversion, subscriptions, and revenue.
02
Match quality, repeat-search behavior, and photo-supply rights will be tracked as core operating metrics.
03
The first signed academy or photographer distribution partnership remains the key channel milestone.

Why it could become valuable

How customers arrive, why they stay, and where the upside can come from.

Revenue model: One-time search and photo unlocks, family subscriptions, and potential photographer licensing or revenue share.
Distribution: Academy calendars, parent communities, event guides, and photographer partnerships.
Customer alternatives: Manual gallery browsing, photographer tagging systems, or general-purpose face search without academy context.
Potential advantage: Trust, event context, permissioned photo inventory, and a longitudinal family archive could become defensible if supply and repeat use are secured.
Route to investor value: A profitable vertical subscription, expansion to other academies, or strategic integration with a volume-photography platform.

Next value milestone

Prove paid conversion and repeat search across one complete academy event, then secure permissioned photo supply or a photographer partnership before expanding academies.

This is the operating goal for the next stage, not a forecast or guarantee.

01
Measure search quality and free-preview conversion.
02
Secure permissioned event-photo supply.
03
Run one complete academy-event acquisition test.
04
Validate whether family subscription or B2B licensing is the stronger route.

What could get in the way

Biometric privacy, consent, match errors, photo rights, and a small initial market are central investment risks. Expansion should follow paid conversion—not precede it.

Ownership and operating structure

A founder-built product distributed through the App Store, with ownership and investment documents available in the investor package.

Product and market evidence

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