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June 4, 2026

Soft Launch

“We soft-launch your life events so you don’t have to commit. New job, new partner, new personality — just a wrist, a silhouette, a vibe. Reveal optional.”

The Problem

Should I post about it? · decision tree · 11:47pm
something happened
↓
post it → jinx it, ex sees, mom asks
don’t post → no one knows you are thriving
↓
spend 4 hrs drafting a caption · delete it · cry · sleep
You have approximately 0 narrative bandwidth to commit to a life event in full resolution. You need the option to retreat.

The Solution

Soft Launch ships your good news at a calibrated ambiguity level. Our in-house art directors photograph just enough of the thing — a wrist, a coffee cup, the corner of a W-2 — so the people who need to know get it, and the people who’d ruin it stay confused.

Ambiguity Funnel · phased reveal · standard packagedeniability ↘ · engagement ↗
Wrist
day 1
deniability 98%
Silhouette
day 4
deniability 82%
Back of head
day 9
deniability 55%
Caption-less reveal
day 17
deniability 12%
Hard launch (or recant)
day 30
deniability 0%
you may exit the funnel at any stage · refunds in clout, not dollars

The Studio

softlaunch.studio · post composer · draft
Event
▼ new boyfriend (probationary)
Ambiguity
wrist onlyeveryone knows
Block list (will not see this)
momex-Andrewex-Andrew's momcoworkersthe group chatDad (will tell mom)
Caption
(none) · AI auto-detected this hits harder
Preview
(a wrist · maybe two wrists)
posts 9:14pm · golden hour · max plausible deniability

Engagement, modeled

DMs from exes · per ambiguity level · n=1
Hard launch (caption + tag)3 DMs · they will not reach out
Caption-less reveal11 DMs · “hope you’re doing well”
Back of head24 DMs · “who is THAT”
Silhouette38 DMs · “are you ok”
Wrist only47 DMs · “we need to talk”
The wrist is undefeated. The wrist is the entire product.

Pricing

Wrist
$9/mo · for the noncommittal
  • ✓1 wrist/month
  • ✓Up to 2 fingers, no rings
  • ✓AI removes background pets
Silhouette
$29/mo · most popular
  • ✓Unlimited silhouettes
  • ✓Block list (50 people)
  • ✓Caption ghostwriting (vague)
  • ✓1 graceful recant per quarter
The Unveil
$199/event · for engagements & job changes
  • ✓Full hard-launch production
  • ✓Coordinated friend reposts
  • ✓Mom is the 7th to know (engineered)
  • ✓Crisis comms if you break up in 30d

TAM

Total addressable indecision
2.1B people with a follower count × $29/mo × 12 mo
= $730.8B
(we are choosing not to confirm or deny this number)

The Ask

$6M seed for: 2 engineers, 1 photographer who’s done Vogue, and a crisis comms specialist on retainer for the breakups our customers will absolutely have within 90 days.

Series A pitch:“We’re Instagram, but every post is a maybe.”