Acquisition project | Thriday
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Acquisition project | Thriday

Elevator Pitch

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If you struggle with a blank canvas, use this boilerplate to start. Remember, this is a flexible resource—tweak it as needed. Some sections might not apply to your product and you might come up with great ideas not listed here, don't let be restricted.

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Elevator Pitch:

“Ever wanted to automate your business admin and save hours to do more of what you love?’

Thriday provides a highly intuitive user experience. It leverages AI to allow you to reconcile and categorise your business transactions automatically and offers an easy tax submission experience without involving a Tax agent.

As of today, we have served 1200 Customers, saving them ~8 hours a week, and they earned 3% interest banking with us.

Unlike older accounting platforms, which are way too challenging to use and navigate, often requiring an accountant to handle their admin, Thriday allows users to be on top of their financial admin easily by automating complex and time-consuming tasks.

Download the Thriday App to explore the simplicity of accounting while earning 3% Interest today. Visit Thriday.com to read our customer reviews.












Understand the user

(Go and speak to different users of the product and the people in the chain: households buying the product, shopkeepers selling the product, churned users, and users using competitor's products. In the case of B2B products identify the decision makers, the influencer, the blocker, and the end-user)


Understanding your ICP

(There are separate tables for both B2C and B2B products, put down your your ICP’s in a Table Format, use this as a reference.
This table makes it super clear for anyone to understand who your users are and what differentiates them)


B2C/B2B Table

Criteria

User 1

User 2

Name

Sole Traders

Sole trader

Age

21-30

​28-40

Demographics

Australia - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Australia - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Product

Fitness App

​Contractor

Need

  • Ease of understanding Fin Admin
  • Mobile App
  • Intuitive UI/UX
  • Accessible Customer support
  • Tax return assistance
  • Low pricing
  • Save Time
  • Low Tech complexity
  • Avoid dependency on Tax agents
  • Hassle-free tax and BAS submissions
  • Easy integration between all financial tools. One place for all.
  • Quick and efficient customer support

Pain Point

  • Poor Education in Accounting and Tax
  • Less time for mundane tasks
  • Reduce cognitive load for admin

Solution

  • Educative blogs, videos and guides for Business Financial Admin.
  • Mobile app with intuitive UX
  • Quality support for usage and info
  • Tiered pricing
  • Intuitive Web and Mobile app with good UX
  • Automating reconciliation categorisation for easy tax submission
  • In house Tax agent low price
  • Premium Customer support for higher price

Behaviour

  • LinkedIn
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Google




Perceived Value of Brand

Not heard much about it

Not mature enough

Marketing Pitch

Peaked interest to look at the webpage to get more info.

Asked for differentiating features.

Goals

​Basic accounting ease.

Better Tax Management UX.

Frequency of use case

3-4 times a week

Once week

Average Spend on the Product

monthly subscription

​monthly subscription

Value Accessibility to product

High

High

Value Experience of the product

Intrigued to use

Intrigued to use. Friction to convert data.

Note: This is not an exhaustive list, you know your product better, add/remove as per the context!


B2B Table:

Criteria

ICP1

ICP2

Name


Company Size


Location


Funding Raised


Industry Domain



Stage of the company



Organization Structure



Decision Maker



Decision Blocker



Frequency of use case



Products used



in workplace



Organisational



Goals



Preferred Outreach Channels



Conversion Time



GMV



Growth of company



Motivation



Organization Influence


Tools Utilized in workspace



Decision Time


Note: This is not an exhaustive list, you know your product better, add/remove as per the context!



We have multiple users of a product and not all of them can be our ICP for whom we make our strategies, we need to prioritize.
(use this ICP prioritization table)

Criteria

ICP 1

ICP 2

Adoption Curve

Low

High

Appetite to Pay

Low

High

Frequency of Use Case

High

Medium

Distribution Potential

High

Medium

TAM

  • TAM: ARPU * No of potential users =
  • $360 * 185000 = ~66M
  • TAM: ARPU * No of potential users =
  • $360 * 330,000 = ~110M

Key Industries: Construction, Professional, Scientific, Tech and Rental Highering and real estate. (30%)

$360 * 79500 = ~2M

$360 * 99,000 = ~36 M
















Understand the product

(Before you begin, you need to know what your product is, what are its features, what is the problem being solved by your product?)

​Understanding Core Value Proposition

(Build your core value proposition by exact what your product does and what problem are you solving)

AI-powered automated financial admin tasks, such as auto-reconciliation and categorisation and auto-allocating income.

Problem

Value Proposition

Time-consuming Financial Admin

AI-powered automated financial admin tasks, such as auto-reconciliation and categorisation, auto-allocating income.

Leaving no room for errors.

Complexity and clunky UX

It is a user-friendly platform, with no prior accounting knowledge and no setup or training required.

Lack of integration and different applications for payroll, banking, tax, and inventory.

All-in-one financial management tool. Eliminating the need for multiple apps and integrations.

This includes in-house Payroll, bookkeeping and tax management tools.

We operate as a registered banking entity that provides an interest-generating business transaction account to help automate your financial administration.

Lack of Financial Knowledge

Provide resources, community and networking events, and exclusive customer support to guide you.

Tax management is complicated and needs an Accountant

We also provide easy bookkeeping and ATO lodgment services.

Understand the market

(Let's begin by doing a basic competitor analysis)

Factors

Thriday

Xero

MYOB

HNRY

Quick Books

What is the core problem being solved by them?

Simplifies financial admin

Accounting solutions for complex businesses.

Payroll and accounting for tax compliance.

Tax obligations, Automates income tax, GST and compliance for Sole-traders

Bookkeeping and financial management for small businesses with global scalability.

What are the products/features/services being offered?

Automated bookkeeping, BAS lodgement, AI-powered categorization, built-in business banking.

Payroll, financial reporting, multi-currency support, integrations with 1,000+ apps.

Payroll, invoicing, GST/BAS compliance, inventory management, Single Touch Payroll (STP).

Tax calculations and lodgements (income tax & GST), automatic deductions for self-employed individuals.

Invoicing, expense tracking, payroll integration, project tracking, mobile app support.

Who are the users?

Australian sole traders and small businesses seeking automation for financial admin tasks.

SMBs globally; accountants and bookkeepers needing advanced features and integrations.

Australian SMEs requiring payroll and compliance tools; accountants managing multiple clients.

Sole traders and freelancers in Australia/New Zealand who want hands-off tax management.

Global small businesses looking for scalable bookkeeping solutions with mobile access.

GTM Strategy

All-in-one solution.

Partners with accountants. Global Scalability through integrations and usability.

Focuses on Australian Tax compliance. Partners with Accountants. Localised marketing campaigns

Promotes simplicity via digital marketing for sole traders. Emphasizingemphasizing 'No accountants needed'.

Global reach through digital ads; focuses on ease of use for SMBs across industries worldwide.

What channels do they use?

SEO, Partnerships

Partnerships, paid ads, events, webinars

Digital marketing campaigns, direct sales, partnerships

Social Media ads, content marketing, affiliate partnerships.

Google Ads, Social media, partnerships worldwide.

How have they raised funding?

Raised funding

Raised capital through IPO and stock offerings.

Acquired for 2 Bill

Raised $35 mill from Investors

Owned by Intuit. funding from Intuits operations.

What pricing model do they operate on?

Tiered Subscription + Add ons

Tiered Subscription

Premium and essential subscription models. Feature specific plans

Percentage of income.

Tiered Subscription.

Brand Positioning

"All-in-one financial admin solution for Australian sole traders."

"The most trusted accounting software for SMBs globally."

"Australia’s go-to accounting software for SMEs needing compliance tools."

"The easiest way to manage taxes for self-employed professionals."

"Global leader in bookkeeping software that scales as your business grows."

UX Evaluation

Optimised Interface. Tied to its own banking.

Feature rich, steep learning curve, complex.

User friendly. Outdated designs.

SImple interface. Lack of broader accounting features.

Clean UI. Cluttered due to feature overload.

What is your product’s Right to Win?

  • All in one platform
  • Automation and Efficiency
  • Affordable Pricing
  • Ease of use
  • Localized platform





What can you learn from them?

  • Completes on Pricing and simplicity with MYOB and Reckon, but automates better.
  • Completes with HNRY on Tax specific focus
  • Globally Xero and Quickboooks strong, but Thriday stands out locally.







(Then let's try to understand the market at a macro level and evaluate the trends and tailwinds/headwinds.)

Now it’s time for some math, calculate the size of your market.

TAM = Total no. of potential customers x Average Revenue Per Customer (ARPU)
SAM = TAM x Target Market Segment (percentage of the total market)
SOM = SAM x Market Penetration/Share


  • Market - 680,000 Sole traders in Australia
  • ARPU = $360


TAM = 680k * 360 = 245 Million

  • Target ICP = 12.5+22 = 33% * 680000 = 200,000 users

SAM: 200k * 360 = $72 Million


  • With five key competitors, it leaves ~2/5 of the market since HNRY, Reckon and MYOB are targeting a similar ICP

SOM: 72M * (2/5) = 28 Million











If your product is in early scaling stage

Designing Acquisition Channel

(keep in mind the stage of your company before choosing your channels for acquisition.)


Early-stage scaling requires experimentation and quick feedback to understand where to invest and where to cut down on costs.

(*) = Potential Channels to consider and experiment


Channel Name

Cost

Flexibility

Effort

Speed

Scale

Organic

​Low

High

High

Slow

High

Paid Ads*

High

High

Medium

Fast

Medium

Referral Program*

Medium

High

Medium

Fast

High

Product Integration

Medium

Low

High

Medium

High

Content Loops

Low

Medium

Medium

Medium

High

partner

Medium

Low

High

Slow

High

Social Media *

Low

High

Medium

Fast

Medium

App Store Optimisation *

Low

High

Medium

Fast

Medium


Detailing Paid Advertising

(Understand what is already being done, what is working out well and what needs to be stopped)


Step 1 → Define the CAC: LTV ratio. If your product has a healthy CAC:LTV ratio, proceed with paid ads.

LTV = ARPU * Gross Margin / Churn rate = 360 * 60% / 10% = $2160

CAC should be 30% of 2160 = $ 648



Step 2 → Choose an ICP
ICP = Sole traders, with Annual Revenue <200k.

Hypothesis: Early stages, might not have accounting knowledge. They will find the ease of use attractive and may easily be aquired due to less infrastructure to transfer


Step 3 → Select advertising channels
They would spend most time on either Google, youtube or LinkedIn.
Let's focus on YouTube + Reels.

Step 4 → Write a Marketing Pitch for each ICP segment &
Step 5 → Customize your message for different customer segments to ensure relevance

PMF segment: ICP - 28-40 year olds, ~120k Income, Construction/Rental/Hiring/Tech/Real estate industries.

Marketing pitch:

ICP 1: 21-28 “Ever wanted to automate your business admin and save hours to do more of what you love?’

Thriday will do all the accounting for you. All you need to do is to use the transaction account to perform business transactions, and our innovative AI platform will reconcile, categorise you invoices, do the bookkeeping and keep your tax details ready to submit.

Experience the simplicity with a Free 30 day trail. (No payment details needed). Download the App Today! <QR code>

ICP 2: 28-40

Financial admin slowing down your business. Let’s automate it for you, so can do more of what you love!

No more clunky platforms and manual accounting. Thriday automates is all. Thriday provides an easy user experience, to automatically reconcile and categorise your business transactions. Automated income allocation sets you up for easy bookeeping and tax submission. No need for an accountant, because Thriday does all for you.

Read our customers experience, saving them upto 8 hours a week, and also earning 3% interest banking with us.

Start a Free Trial now! and Download The Thriday App Today <QR code>



Step 6 → Design at least two ad creatives (e.g., images, sketches, videos, text ads) that reflect your marketing pitch.


Reel 1:



Video 1:













Detailing Product integrations

(Understand, where does organic intent for your product begins?)

Step 1 → Identify complementary products used by your ICP
Step 2 → Use the selection framework

Channel Name

Time to go live

Tech Effort

New users we can get (monthly)

New Users we can get in Month 1

New Users we can get in Month 2

New Users we can get in Month 3

Integration Partner 1






Integration Partner 2






Integration Partner 3






Step 3 → Collaborate with necessary stakeholders.
Step 4 → Map the customer journey
Step 3 → Design the wireframe with the new integration
Step 3 → Run pilot tests before launching
Step 3 → Measure post-integration metrics


Thriday integrated with Easy companies early on to acquire any sole trader while creating an ABN.

I'm not sure which other partners they can leverage.
However, they have recently developed an entire API suit, which opens up many exploration opportunities.

Detailing Referral / Partner program

(For B2B companies, if referral does not make sense you'll take a crack at a partner program for your product)

Step 1 → Flesh out the referral/partner program
Step 2 Draw raw frames on a piece of paper to get the gist.

(Don't spend a lot of time on design. This is for you to communicate how the referral hook will look)


we hope this helped you break the cold start problem!

Reminder: This is not the only format to follow, feel free to edit it as you wish!


Thriday already has a partner program: https://www.thriday.com.au/partner-program


Here we will explore a referral program:

  1. Define the Aha moment. Cnce achieved trigger the referral.
  2. Gamify onboarding with money for completing tasks. On signing up, offer the users $50, but it unlocks incrementally by completing 3 tasks.
    1. Create and send a Quote.
    2. Upload a receipt
    3. Setup Allocations and
    4. Setup profit first accounts
    5. Set up 2FA
  3. Now they experience the simplicity of use, the aha moment is felt, we now design the referral UI flow.
  4. In-App - On the home page show a referral gold coin icon on top. On click of which the popup says,
    1. “Earn 1 month free, when you refer someone and they sign up to Thriday.”
    2. <Share button> opens up share via panel to easily share (Low effort to share)
  5. Sharing referral on Social media -
    1. At the end of the month, provide them with a summary card. e.g. Thriday automatically reconciled <X> invoices, Allocated <$x> in <X> accounts, Saved <X> reciepts. Saved me <23 hours> this month.
    2. Then show a ‘Share’ button to share the post on linkedIn. On sharing the summary post it will automatically generate a link for people to click and sign up.
    3. This is will help spread the word and our customers can drive traffic.
  6. Trigger Referral Requests at Key Moments:
    1. After using any feature completely, prompt them to refer.
    2. After any of the first 5 task they complete. Show the referral popup
    3. At the end of month. Show them the summary to share their aha report.
    4. On submitting BAS or Tax. Generate an ultimate image or post to share.
  7. Display a progress tracker showing how many successful referrals the user has made.
    1. Tiered rewards (e.g., 1 referral = $10 credit, 5 referrals = 2 free month of subscription).
  8. Promotion:
  • After sign up, Include messaging like “Love Thriday? Share it with your friends and earn rewards!”
  • Use ‘ReferralHero’ referral tracking software to monitor referrals and reward both parties automatically.
  • Provide users with real-time updates on their referral status in the app.


Existing home page of the app:

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A pop-up that triggers the of completing a task.

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