Raybo.
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Raybo in an RV park at dusk
Seed round · Open

Every park already pays for this. Badly.

Raybo replaces a line item that exists on almost every lot-based property in America, sold through software those properties already run on.

Minimum close$650,000
Target raise$1,200,000
InstrumentSAFE · $6M cap
Hardware payback15.1 months
The problem

Every park pays somebody in free rent to do the night shift.

The standard arrangement across the industry: comp one resident's lot — $400 to $500 a month — in exchange for after-hours check-ins, light patrol, and being the person who picks up when something goes wrong at 2am.

It is unreliable, unauditable, and it walks off the property when that resident moves. There is no record of whether the patrol happened. There is no plate log when a vehicle gets broken into. And a guest arriving at 11pm still finds a dark office.

$4,800–6,000Annual cost per park, in waived rent
0Auditable patrol records produced
15,000US RV parks with this arrangement
The insight

We're not selling a robot.
We're renting back a lot.

At $549 a month, Raybo sits inside a budget the operator is already spending — and hands back a rentable site worth $400–500 on top.

The pitch to an owner isn't "buy futuristic technology." It's: stop comping lot 14, put a paying guest in it, and get a patrol log you can hand your insurer. That conversation closes in one call.

$549Monthly lease
+$450Recovered lot revenue
$99True net monthly cost to the park
The product

Prototype operational today.

Drivetrain and navigation stack running, blueprints complete, majority of software written.

Most outdoor autonomy assumes a stable map. An RV park is the opposite — the geometry changes every time a rig pulls in. We navigate on RTK GNSS fused with IMU and wheel odometry, treating vehicles as dynamic obstacles rather than landmarks.

ComputeRaspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-8L
SensingUnitree 4D L2 LiDAR + RTK
Drive4WD skid-steer, VESC
StackROS 2, Nav2, YOLOv8
FallbackWebRTC teleop < 10 s

Teleop fallback means no deployment depends on full autonomy. A human can drive any unit, which makes early installs sellable while autonomy matures.

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Raybo robot
Distribution

We own the software these properties already run on.

LotRush is the operating system for lot-based properties — reservations, billing, site maps, resident leases, valuation. Ray Faraj is CTO, COO, sole engineer and a majority shareholder.

Raybo does no cold outbound into the hardest-to-reach operator segment in America. The robot is an upsell inside software the owner logs into daily, sold to a customer whose payment details we already have, integrated with the reservation system on day one.

~$400Blended CAC through channel
$3–5kTypical hardware outbound CAC
50:1LTV to CAC

The attach rate we actually need

LotRush reaches roughly 3,000 accounts by year three. About 1,200 are large enough to carry the lease. Our plan needs 300 of them. We can miss our attach rate by four times over and still hit the number.

Market

110,000 properties
shaped exactly the same way.

A piece of land, divided into numbered lots, each rented to somebody. One platform addresses all three because the operational problem is identical.

SegmentPropertiesAnnual value
RV parks & campgrounds15,000$99M
Mobile home communities43,000$283M
Self-storage facilities52,000$343M
Total addressable110,000$725M
At $6,588 per property per year, single unit. Larger properties support two or more. Budget-qualified serviceable market approximately $254M. Our year-five plan takes 2% of the total.
Unit economics

Pays for itself in 15 months,
then runs for 33 more.

Bill of materials$5,000
Assembly, QA, burn-in$900
Crating and field install$400
Deployed cost per unit$6,300

$5,000 is the bill of materials, not the deployed cost. We plan against $6,300, and against $7,000 for the first three units built at volume one.

Monthly lease revenue$549
Cash cost to serve$132
Gross margin76%
Cash payback15.1 months
48-month revenue$26,352
Return on hardware3.2×

Cost to serve is connectivity, cloud, a maintenance reserve at 8% of hardware annually, and shared teleoperator labour at one operator per forty units.

Projections

Fleet growth is the only number that matters.

YearFleet at exitRevenueExit ARR
Month 24 (seed)45$319k$319k
Year 118$59k$119k
Year 290$356k$593k
Year 3300$1.28M$1.98M
Year 4780$3.56M$5.14M
Year 51,700$8.17M$11.20M
Blended at $549 on the $1.2M plan, assuming a Series A closes around month 20. Seed capital alone funds 45 units by month 24; fleet growth beyond that is financed by the Series A and by equipment debt against signed contracts. Assumes Concierge-weighted mix and 8% annual churn. Excludes government and commercial lines.

Fleet capex is not an equity ask

A leased robot with a signed contract is a financeable asset. From year two, fleet growth is funded with equipment debt at 60–70% loan-to-value. Equity buys the product and the go-to-market. Debt buys the steel.

The ask

$1.2M on a
$6M cap.

$1.2M

One SAFE at a $6,000,000 post-money cap. $1.2M buys 20% of the company; the $650,000 minimum close buys 10.8%. Rolling close, 120-day deadline. The minimum funds 18 months, FCC certification and 18 deployed units — a complete Series A story on its own.

Use of funds$1.2M
Team and engineering$538k
Hardware, tooling, certification, fleet$282k
Facilities, insurance, legal$177k
Cloud infrastructure and deployment$63k
Go-to-market$55k
IP and contingency$85k
Two plans, not one. The $650,000 minimum runs 18 months at approximately $36,000 per month — founder, contract engineering, and a part-time field technician — reaching 18 deployed units. The full $1.2M runs 24 months at $50,000 per month, adding a full-time robotics engineer from month four and reaching 45 units: 30 funded directly by the round, the remainder by revenue and early equipment financing.
InstrumentPost-money SAFE
Valuation cap$6,000,000
Target raise$1,200,000 — 20%
Minimum close$650,000 — 10.8%
DiscountNone
Liquidation pref1x non-participating
Board seatsNone — observer rights available
Pro rataIncluded
Option pool10% post-close
Close structureRolling, 120-day deadline
Founder retains 70% post-close. These terms are indicative and standard for the stage; we are not seeking a priced round at this size.
Candour

The five things
I'd ask about if I were you.

Channel concentration

LotRush is our distribution and I don't control it alone. Mitigated by an exclusive reseller agreement with defined term and revenue share, executed before close.

BOM at low volume

$5,000 holds at 20+ units. First builds run closer to $7,000. Budgeted at $6,300 blended, with contingency on top.

Outdoor autonomy

Gravel, mud, weather and constantly moving vehicles. Teleop fallback means no install depends on full autonomy; a human takes over in under ten seconds.

Liability

A moving machine near children in a campground. Product liability bound before first install, geofenced speed limits, hardware e-stop, full patrol video retention.

Incumbent entry

Knightscope and RAD are priced for corporate campuses at 5–10× our point and have no reason to come down-market. Our defence is channel, not technology.

Churn on ownership change

Parks change hands often. Contracts assign to the buyer, and LotRush gives us visibility into ownership changes before they close.

Team

An operator, an engineer
and a marketer.

Unusual in one person, which is the reason this is buildable at this size.

DOMAIN

I ran one of these parks

Took a property from $4,000 to $15,000 a month, then sold it in twenty days against seventy offers. I have personally comped a lot in exchange for night coverage. I know who I'm selling to because I was them.

ROBOTICS

Four-time world champion

Ten years building and competing internationally under the Raybo name. The company carries the team's name because the engineering discipline is the same one.

SOFTWARE

CTO, LotRush

Built the platform that runs these properties end to end — reservations, billing, site maps, resident leases, valuation. Sole engineer and majority shareholder.

GO-TO-MARKET

Seven years in demand generation

Digital marketing and business development in some of the hardest verticals there are. The channel is warm, but the playbook to convert it is already written.

Next step

Request the data room.

Full financial model, cap table, prototype documentation, LotRush reseller agreement and customer pipeline.

This page is provided for information only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities. All forward-looking figures are estimates based on stated assumptions and are not guarantees of performance. Hardware visuals are concept renders of a product in development.