halo — Investor Deck

halo · 2026 Confidential

halo

a place built for artists,
creators, and humans.

the answer 10 million artists
have been demanding is now here.

halo · the gap 02 / 16

the model

see the gap.

Select an audience size below. See what artists earn today on all major platforms — versus what they will on halo.

select artist's followers on halo —

select one to see earnings

the model

select artist's followers on halo —

today

Spotify $0.003 · Apple Music $0.010 · YouTube $0.002 · TikTok $0.003 per stream

on halo

— per month

— times more
on halo

—

halo · Business Model 03 / 16

How It Works

User Subscription

$10/mo

Flat monthly rate — all access

Creator Share

100%

Pre-fee · Engagement-weighted distribution

Platform Take Rate

~20%

Infrastructure + delivery fee

Incentive Alignment

Unified

Users · Creators · Platform — all benefit together

halo · Revenue Distribution 04 / 16

Revenue Distribution

$10/mo

User subscription · all access · all content

100%

Earmarked for artists · zero pooled with the platform

−

Platform Fee (~20%)

Infrastructure · platform development · artist support · growth reserve

−

Content Service Fee

Direct per-stream delivery cost · compute · CDN · passed through at actual cost, not marked up

= Artist Net Revenue

Your fans' dollars, routed directly to you. Transparent, itemized, deductible as business expenses.

Artist earnings by followers on halo

Having followers on halo earns more than having streams. Select a follower count:

Select a follower count above

halo · The Raise 05 / 16

The Raise

$5–7M

Pre-Seed · SAFE Note · $500K tranches

Instrument SAFE Note

Valuation Cap $35–50M

Tranche size $500K minimum

Series A discount 20%

Governance Non-voting preferred

What this capital builds

1

Platform Build · $4–5M Full technical infrastructure — audio + video streaming, creator dashboard, subscription routing engine, API stack. Team of 20–25, 5–6 months to working beta.

2

Founding Creator Cohort · $1.25M 500 pioneer artists guaranteed a minimum pre-launch. We go live with real creators — not an empty platform. Artists bring their audiences on day one.

3

Beta Launch + Operations · $1M Community launch, beta marketing, and a 12-month runway to the subscriber data that closes a Series A at a meaningful valuation.

Mission governance stays with The J Foundation · Pro-rata rights included · No board seats · Converts to non-voting preferred at Series A · This is an offering of securities under a SAFE instrument — not registered securities

halo · Problem 06 / 16

Problem

of artists earn less than $1,000 per year

97.7%

Platforms monetize attention — not creators
Users are the product, not the customer
The people creating value are not getting paid for it

halo · Core Insight 07 / 16

Core Insight

Creators are forced to choose between scale and income.

Model	Strength	Failure
Spotify	Scale + Discovery	Low Earnings
Patreon / OnlyFans	High Earnings	No Discovery

No platform delivers both at scale.

The deeper problem

Artists today engage their audiences across fragmented networks — each with its own algorithms, rules, and monetization model. halo is the first platform to unify the full creator-fan relationship into a single ecosystem.

halo · Solution 08 / 16

Solution

halo delivers scale and monetization in one system.

1

Aggregation All content in one place — music, video, short-form, long-form

2

Social Discovery Short + long form — creator-driven organic reach at scale

3

Monetization Driven by Engagement Value flows to creators based on how users engage — not platform algorithms

Users are not the product

Creators are not exploited for scale

Value flows back to people who create it

halo · Product 09 / 16

Product

Three fragmented ecosystems. One unified platform.

Each platform serves a different audience relationship. halo is the first to serve all three — and monetize them.

Spotify

Music Fans

Committed listeners — the streaming relationship. High intent, low earnings for creators.

TikTok

Discovery Fans

Viral reach — the discovery relationship. Massive scale, zero monetization for creators.

Instagram

Community Fans

Friends, family, network — the community relationship. Deep loyalty, zero earnings for creators.

halo

All Three

One subscription captures every fan relationship — and pays creators for all of it.

Unified feed — music, short-form, long-form in one scroll
Creator-owned audience — fans follow the creator, not the algorithm
Subscription routing engine — value flows to creators based on engagement

halo · Why Now 10 / 16

Why Now

1

Creator economy exceeds $250B The market is there — the economics are broken

2

Artist dissatisfaction is rising Creators are actively seeking alternatives to Spotify, YouTube, TikTok

3

Streaming model is plateauing Growth is slowing — subscription economics need reinvention

4

AI is flooding content supply Human creativity needs a platform that values it — not commoditizes it

The system is breaking — and ready to be rebuilt.

halo · Market 11 / 16

Market Opportunity

$30B+

Global streaming market — direct wedge entry point

$250B+

Creator economy — the full addressable market halo is built to serve

10M+

Independent artists globally — our initial target creator base

Initial wedge: Independent creators with direct audiences — 10K to 100K followers — who stand to earn 10–80x more on halo.

halo · Go-To-Market 12 / 16

Go-To-Market

1

Creator Acquisition Target artists with 10K–100K followers. Offer a clear income model with 10–80x earning upside versus current platforms. Sign founding creator cohort pre-launch.

2

Audience Migration Creators bring their audiences. Direct fan relationships already built transfer to halo. No cold start. Network effects activate from day one.

3

Network Effects Discovery loops and social mechanics compound growth. Each creator brings more fans. More fans attract more creators. Flywheel in motion.

halo · Traction 13 / 16

Traction

Pre-launch validation.

3 years of model development and iteration

Financial and legal architecture complete

Strategic discussions with Music Catalog (active)

Strong industry relationships in place

Pre-seed raise underway in $500K tranches via SAFE note — capital deploys directly to platform build and founding creator cohort

halo is at the inflection point between architecture and activation. The capital we raise now gets us to launch — and to the data that proves the model at scale.

halo · Competition 14 / 16

Competition

Platform	What They Do	What's Missing
Spotify	Scale + Global Reach	Monetization
TikTok	Discovery + Virality	Creator Earnings
Patreon	Direct Monetization	Scale + Discovery
halo	All three — unified	First to deliver both

Spotify was right about aggregation — but wrong about economics
Patreon was right about monetization — but wrong about scale
halo is the first system to deliver both

halo · Team 15 / 16

Team

Stephan Garcia

Founder & CEO

Capital markets, M&A structuring, and international deal architecture. Built halo's financial model, legal structure, and investor strategy from the ground up. Former managing partner, Ascend Strategic Capital Consulting.

Theodore Economy

CTO

40+ patents in distributed systems. Engineering leadership at FreshDirect and Lutron. Techstars-backed experience. Built and scaled systems that process millions of real-time transactions.

halo · Mission 16 / 16

Mission

The internet turned our shared lives, creativity and relationships into a product.

halo sees us as participants in a shared experience.

halo is where human creativity is valued — not extracted. Where everyone who participates in our ecosystem benefits from it.

Contact

Stephan Garcia — Founder & CEO

stephan@join-halo.com

investors.join-halo.com