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 / 15

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.

artist's monthly listeners —

select one to see earnings

the model

artist's monthly listeners —

today

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

— times more
on halo

on halo

— per month

—

halo · Problem 03 / 15

01 / 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 04 / 15

02 / 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.

halo · Solution 05 / 15

03 / 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 06 / 15

04 / Product

halo integrates:

Spotify

Streaming

Full catalog, all formats, one subscription

TikTok

Discovery

Short-form video drives organic creator reach

Instagram

Social

Creator-to-audience direct relationships

Patreon

Monetization

Fan-to-creator subscription routing engine

Core Experience

Unified feed — short + long form in one scroll
Creator-owned audience relationships
Subscription routing engine — value follows engagement

halo · Business Model 07 / 15

05 / 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 · Why Now 08 / 15

06 / 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 09 / 15

07 / 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 10 / 15

08 / 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 11 / 15

09 / Traction

Pre-launch validation.

3 years of model development and iteration

Financial and legal architecture complete

Strategic discussions with Apple ecosystem (active)

Strong industry relationships in place

Raising $500K tranches — first close in progress

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 12 / 15

10 / 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 13 / 15

11 / 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. Y Combinator-backed experience. Built and scaled systems that process millions of real-time transactions.

halo · Financials 14 / 15

12 / Financials + Strategic

Monthly Subscription

$10/mo

Per user · all access

Platform Take Rate

~20%

80% routes to creators · scales with creator success

Current Raise

$500K

Tranches · first close in progress

Apple Ecosystem Partnership — In Progress Active strategic discussions around catalog licensing and distribution infrastructure. Details under NDA. Partnerships accelerate the timeline — halo stands independently.

Catalog + Distribution Leverage Strategic relationships compress the path to content parity. The model, economics, and differentiation stand completely on their own. No partnership is load-bearing.

halo · Vision 15 / 15

13 / Vision

The internet turned people into products.

halo turns them back into participants.

Where creativity is valued — not extracted. Where everyone who participates in the system benefits from it.

Contact

Stephan Garcia — Founder & CEO

stephan@join-halo.com

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