$99 billion industry. Zero trust layer.
57.9M
U.S. anglers
50,000
Tournaments per year on the honor system
0
Verification. Structured data. Accountability.
VERIFIED FISHING
TRUST INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FISHING INDUSTRY
DERBYFISH • THE FISHING VERTICAL OF THE KALA VERIFICATION PROTOCOL
Three tectonic plates met in 2024.
Verification-as-a-Service was not buildable until last year. Three independent technologies hit consumer-grade reliability inside the same eighteen-month window. First-mover lock-in window is open now.
PLATE 01
AI Vision
Species ID, object measurement, and authenticity analysis hit consumer price points. GPT-4V class models on commodity hardware.
PLATE 02
Phone Sensors
Gyroscopic, inertial, optical, GPS data became cryptographically signable at the OS level. Every phone is now a tamper-evident witness.
PLATE 03
Onchain Primitives
Low-cost L2s like Flow made it economically viable to mint a verified record of every event — permanent, portable, programmable.
$4.9B TAM. $580M SAM. No funded tournament verification.
$4.87B
VFaaS infrastructure (fishing wedge)
$6–10M
ARR run rate by end of 2026 (plan §SOM)
1M
Users target by end of 2026 — 1/20th of Fishbrain peak
Three pillars of verification.
Cryptographic seal locks evidence at capture. AI identifies species from 419+ database and cross-references GPS, weather, solunar. Captain consensus resolves edge cases. Score 0–100.
One catch. Five outcomes. Data compounds.
01
Tournament entry — verified on the leaderboard
02
Social post — FishCard auto-generated
03
Gear attribution — rod, reel, lure tracked
04
Species record — lifetime verified log
05
Data asset — feeds the DerbyFish Index
Code is not the moat. Data is.
462K+
Lines of code, 22 repos
55
dbt Gold models, 9 indices
$2.5M
Equivalent code value
We can replicate any competitor's software in weeks. They can do the same. The moat is compound data — every verified catch makes every prior catch more valuable. Network effects lock in. Switching costs escalate.
Memberships + BAIT + Enterprise.
COMPETE BADGE
$20/yr
Leagues, seasons, loot, prizes. Bundle with Captain: $80/yr.
CAPTAIN BADGE
$60/yr
Host competitions. Branding tools. Promotion features.
BAIT
$1/hr
1 BAIT = 1 Verified Fishing Hour. 98% gross margin.
ENTERPRISE
$1K–$100K
Tournament hosting, branded seasons, title sponsorships. Matt motion, §5.
First revenue: May 2026. Anchored at WalleyeFest, Oneida Lake.
DerbyFish co-produces WalleyeFest — virtual derby April 11, main event May 1–3. First paid season kickoff. First commercial revenue. First public content moment. The plan's MRR ladder runs through 2026 from there.
APR 2026
WalleyeFest virtual derby
First verified event
MAY–JUN 2026
Commercial launch • 50 shops
$10K MRR
JUL–SEP 2026
Summer season • ICAST • 200+ shops
$50K MRR
OCT 2026 → MAR 2027
Gear Index, data licensing, BLE scale, dev portal
$500K MRR
Two founders + commercial lead + AI. Out-executing teams of 20.
Gianangelo Dichio
CEO • 3,041 COMMITS
Co-built entire platform. Full-stack engineer. Business strategy, product architecture, fundraising. Built Nucleus AI orchestration. Stevens Institute • Launchpad Venture Program.
Anthony Tedesco
CTO • 1,069 COMMITS
Co-built platform. 7 services, 113 tables, mobile + web + AI + blockchain. ETHDenver 2025 finalist.
Matthew Gutchess
COMMERCIAL LEAD
WalleyeFest organizer. Tackle shop + charter captain experience. Leads high-ticket enterprise sales: tournament hosting, branded seasons, title sponsorships.
LEGAL ADVISOR
Gerry DiFiore
Retired senior partner, Reed Smith LLP. Corporate formation, IP strategy, fundraising. 27+ year fisherman.
COMMERCIAL ADVISOR
Franco Dichio
Founding-round equity holder. Industry relationships and commercial strategy.
AI FORCE MULTIPLIER
Nucleus
In-house AI orchestrator coordinating 7 pillar agents across engineering, product, data, revenue, ops, CS, and people.
$750K
55% GTM. 20% Engineering. 15% Ops. 10% Reserve.
Pre-Seed SAFE at $5M post-money cap (YC 2026 standard). 18-month runway to $10M ARR.
EVERY CATCH COUNTS.
DERBY.FISH
KALA VERIFIED INC. (DBA DERBYFISH) • GIAN@AGFARMS.DEV