Staydium Financial Model — DCF · Scenarios · Investor Returns

Operating Expenses

Category-level opex with inflation and driver overrides — Year 1 envelope $1.0M

Scenario
Opex Lines (Year 1 disaggregation of $1.0M source envelope)
LineCategoryYr1 AmountInflation% of Envelope
Platform DevelopmentProduct$175,0003.0%17.5%
Software SubscriptionsProduct$75,0003.0%7.5%
Cloud HostingInfra$70,0003.0%7.0%
Cybersecurity & Data PrivacyInfra$50,0003.0%5.0%
Sales & MarketingS&M$180,0003.0%18.0%
Travel & School SupportTravel$120,0003.0%12.0%
Legal, Compliance & InsuranceLegal$120,0003.0%12.0%
Accounting, Finance & ProfessionalFinance$80,0003.0%8.0%
Office, Admin & BoardOffice$80,0003.0%8.0%
Contingency & OtherContingency$50,0003.0%5.0%
Total (Year 1)$1,000,000
Operating Expense Rollforward
FY2026FY2027FY2028FY2029FY2030
By functional bucket (personnel + opex)
Sales & Marketing476,295603,834786,686790,974814,704
Product & Technology370,000381,100392,533514,709570,038
Data Operations216,225199,537205,523211,689218,039
General & Administrative986,4101,183,8671,317,1911,343,5741,383,881
Other Opex (Travel, Contingency)170,000175,100180,353185,764191,336
Total Opex (excl. COR & D&A)2,218,9302,543,4382,882,2863,046,7103,177,999