Rewards4All is a UK credit-card rewards optimiser. Live app on iOS, Android in preview. Early traction, small but real — we're raising to turn the first paid-acquisition channel on.
These are real numbers from our prod database, not projections. Small but honest — every metric below is measured, not estimated.
UK consumers hold an average of 2.7 credit cards each. Almost none of them know which card earns the most at which merchant, at any given moment.
Cashback and rewards sitting unearned each year because UK cardholders use the wrong card at the wrong moment, or don't know their rewards expire.
Reward structures differ by card, by merchant category, by month. Understanding them requires hours of research that nobody has time to do.
They guess at the till. They check TopCashback or Quidco after the fact. They use MoneySavingExpert once when applying — then never revisit. Nothing tells them which card to tap, right now, at this shop, before they pay. That's the gap.
Rewards4All connects your cards via Open Banking, learns your spending patterns, and pushes the right card recommendation before you tap to pay.
FCA-regulated TrueLayer connection reads your real spending history across all cards. No manual entry, no guessing.
iOS geofencing detects when you're near Tesco, Sainsbury's, or Costa, and notifies you which card earns the most before you walk in.
Proprietary engine maps 60+ UK cards' reward structures, bonus categories, and merchant-specific rates in real time.
See what you've earned, what's expiring, and your best-performing card across categories, all in one clean interface.
Track sign-up bonus progress, quarterly rotating categories (Chase, Amex), and limited merchant promotions automatically.
The UK market conditions are working in our favour right now. Our job with the seed is to establish a credible foothold before a better-funded entrant arrives.
Annual credit card spend accelerating post-pandemic. Consumers are reward-conscious for the first time, but have no tool to act on it.
UK pioneered Open Banking globally. APIs are stable, adoption is mainstream, and consumer trust in bank-linked apps has crossed the tipping point.
Investors putting money in now benefit from 50% income tax relief on up to £200K. Maximum upside, maximum tax protection, at the earliest stage.
We don't need to invent behaviour. We need to serve UK consumers who already use credit cards for rewards but have no smart tool to maximise them.
Card issuers pay £50–£150 per successful application. We sit at the highest-intent moment in the acquisition funnel.
£4.99/month premium tier for power users: advanced analytics, unlimited card tracking, priority nudges.
Retailers pay to reach high-spending card users at the point of decision. Incremental revenue with zero user friction.
Every time a user takes our recommendation, we can monetise, whether via the card issuer, the retailer, or a subscription.
Per successful card application. We show users the best card for their spending profile. When they apply, we earn. High intent = high conversion.
Unlimited card tracking, advanced analytics, early access to new features, ad-free experience. Predictable ARR that compounds with user growth.
Supermarkets, travel brands, and retailers pay for promoted placement in our deal feed at the moment users are nearby and ready to spend.
No hockey stick. No 10× assumptions. A ramp from 0 → 5,000 MAU gives an average base of ~2,500 users through the year — here's the funnel broken down against that.
| Avg MAU through Y1 (ramp 0 → 5K) | 2,500 |
| × 10% tap a card recommendation | 250 |
| × 20% apply + approved | 50/mo |
| × £75 blended commission | £3,750/mo |
| Y1 total | £45,000 |
| Y1 exit-rate (Dec at 5K MAU) | £7,500/mo = £90K run rate |
UK issuer affiliate commissions currently range £50–£150 per approved application. £75 is the conservative blend.
| Avg MAU through Y1 | 2,500 |
| × 3% upgrade to Premium | 75 |
| × £4.99/mo | £375/mo |
| Merchant / B2B deals (Y2+) | not modelled Y1 |
| Y1 total | £4,500 |
| Y1 exit-rate (Dec at 5K MAU) | £750/mo = £9K run rate |
3% free-to-paid is conservative for a utility-grade fintech tool (comparable UK apps run 5–8%).
Not a plan — here's what we've tested and what we'll double down on with seed capital. Dated numbers; will be refreshed weekly.
Year 1 revenue reflects a realistic ramp from 0 → 5,000 MAU (~2,500 avg through the year). Year 2 and Year 3 are target projections assuming the Y1 funnel holds and the user base compounds — to be refined against live cohort data by the end of Q2 2026. Assumptions: £75 blended affiliate commission, 3% free-to-paid conversion, 5% monthly churn on premium.
| Metric | Year 1 (2026) | Year 2 (2027) | Year 3 (2028) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Active Users | 5,000 | 50,000 | 250,000 |
| Affiliate Revenue | £45K | £900K | £3.2M |
| Premium Subscribers | 75 → 150 | 1,500 | 7,500 |
| Subscription Revenue | £4.5K | £90K | £450K |
| Merchant / B2B Revenue | — | £75K | £350K |
| Total Revenue | ~£50K | £1.065M | £4.0M |
| Y1 Exit Run Rate (Dec, annualised) | £99K | — | — |
| Operating Costs | £480K | £720K | £1.4M |
| EBITDA | −£430K | +£345K | +£2.6M |
| Cost Category | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (2 founders) | £120K | £180K | £350K |
| Cloud infrastructure (GCP) | £24K | £60K | £120K |
| User acquisition (paid + organic) | £200K | £280K | £500K |
| API costs (OpenAI, TrueLayer) | £36K | £80K | £180K |
| Legal, compliance, FCA | £60K | £60K | £100K |
| Office + admin | £40K | £60K | £150K |
| Total Operating Costs | £480K | £720K | £1.4M |
Benchmarks from UK fintech peers and public affiliate commission data.
The rewards market isn't empty. It's just full of tools that solve the wrong part of the problem. Here's what users actually do right now.
Most people carry 2–3 cards and pick whichever is easiest to reach. No idea which actually earns most for a specific shop.
These tools reward online shopping through a portal. They don't help when you're standing in Tesco with a trolley of groceries.
Comparison sites optimise card application. They're excellent for that. They don't help with daily decisions post-application.
Geofenced nudge at the shop, before you pay. No portal. No research. No guesswork. Free.
We're not entering a crowded market. We're solving the point-of-decision moment that cashback portals and comparison sites structurally can't.
The real-time optimiser model is proven in the US ($71B global market by 2031, 14% CAGR). We're bringing a UK-native version with Open Banking built in.
We combine location intelligence, social gamification, and AI advisory in one app. No competitor has all three. MaxRewards proved the model at $108/yr in the US. We're bringing it to 32M UK card holders for free.
MaxRewards has 800K+ members paying $108/yr ($86M+ ARR). SaveSage raised funding in India. The model works globally. The UK market (£224B card spend) has zero smart optimisation tools.
UK Open Banking is mature but no rewards app has leveraged it. Competitors would need 12+ months to build what we have. Every month of user data compounds our moat.
At 5K users our moat is thin, but the direction is clear: Open Banking + geofenced retailer data + user wallet patterns get stronger with every new user. Our job is to compound this early.
The more spending data we process, the better our recommendations. Every linked account teaches the engine. Competitors starting today face 12 to 24 months of data catch-up.
Affiliate partnerships with card issuers take 3 to 6 months to negotiate. We're building these now, creating a structural barrier for fast-followers.
Location + spending pattern + card portfolio creates a three-dimensional user model. The recommendation quality compounds with use, making switching costs high.
App is live on the App Store, free to download today. Backend is production-ready on Google Cloud Run. We're 6–9 months ahead of any competitor who would need to build from scratch today.
| Feature | Rewards4All | MoneySuperMarket | TopCashback | Generic Banking Apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time card recommendation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open Banking integration | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Partial |
| Location-based nudges | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multi-card reward optimisation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| UK-specific reward mapping | ✓ | Compare only | ✗ | ✗ |
We've each built this problem out of our own wallets. Two of us, one live app, working code.
A decade in UK fintech — product, partnerships, and affiliate economics. Why he cares: he holds 4 UK cards and has watched ~£600/yr of rewards slip past because nothing tells you what to tap at the till. Leads product, GTM, and issuer partnerships.
Engineer who has built and operated live systems handling millions of transactions at a Fortune 100. Shipped the whole Rewards4All stack solo — iOS app, Android preview, backend, Open Banking — and keeps it running. Why he cares: he's the one who first noticed he was losing £14 a week to the wrong card tap.
I switched to my Amex before going into Waitrose and earned more cashback in one shop than I had in the previous three months combined.
Finally someone's built what the banks should have built years ago. I have four cards and genuinely had no idea which one to use where.
The nudge notification as I walked into Tesco was a genuinely new experience. It felt like having a financial advisor in my pocket.
We're offering one round, one set of terms. No tranches, no ratchets, no complexity. SEIS approved, so investors get 50% income tax relief from day one.
Rewards4All is a strategic acquisition target for banks, card issuers, and fintech comparison platforms, all of whom want the user data and acquisition funnel we're building.
Likely acquirers: Amex, Barclays, Chase UK, HSBC. They spend £100M+/yr acquiring new cardholders. Our app delivers pre-qualified, high-intent applicants at a fraction of their current CAC. We become their most efficient acquisition channel.
Likely acquirers: MoneySuperMarket Group (LSE: MONY, £1.2B), Experian, ClearScore, Credit Karma. They compete for UK financial consumer data. Our Open Banking-linked, spending-categorised user base is the data asset they can't build organically.
At 250K+ MAU and £4M revenue run rate, we attract institutional fintech VCs. Series A at £30–50M valuation returns 6–10x on this round before any liquidity event.
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