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goodwaves.news · 2026 · Seed Round Open
No doom. No outrage. Only waves of good news shared by real people — governed by agentic AI, built on radical joy.
The pipeline is deliberately tiered for speed. Posts scoring ≥72 with high confidence auto-approve in sub-200ms — imperceptible to the user.
Steps 3–5 only activate for the ~15% in the ambiguous 55–72 band. 97% of posts resolve before the user finishes reading the success confirmation.
Approval path latency
7-step agentic pipeline · scroll to explore
Strips metadata, normalises text, detects language across 27 European languages. Posts with images route in parallel to a vision model. Logs full pseudonymised context into short-term memory — purged after 90 days per GDPR.
Fine-tuned transformer (Mistral 7B / Llama 3 class) evaluates four dimensions: factual positivity, emotional tone, social impact framing, and authenticity signals. Produces Joy Score 0–100 with confidence interval. ≥72 + high confidence: auto-approves instantly.
Separate model trained on 800K irony-annotated adversarial examples. Hunts for positive framing on genuinely negative events, sarcasm with positive surface language, and toxic positivity — dismissiveness of real suffering. Can modify the Joy Score or escalate.
Activates only for the ~15% in the 55–72 band. Pulls pseudonymised post history, current regional trending topics, and related posts. A verified journalist posting a nuanced recovery story receives different treatment than an anonymous account with unusual patterns.
Decline explanations use constrained generation — selecting from pre-validated, brand-reviewed templates. Free-form generation is never used for user-facing messages. Eliminates hallucinated reasons and satisfies DSA Article 17(3) transparency requirements for automated decisions.
3% of posts reach a Trust & Safety analyst — an analyst whose decision feeds immediately as a labelled training example. Every review makes the AI smarter. The EU AI Act requires this layer for consequential automated decisions. Regulatory compliance and model training simultaneously.
Users contest declines via a structured appeals interface. Senior Trust & Safety rulings become high-weight training signals. Consistent appeal patterns trigger model audits. User objection becomes product improvement — turning human oversight into a training asset.
Joy Score decision matrix
Cost model · 97% structural saving at every scale
Posts scoring ≥85 ('High Energy') are auto-flagged as Local Spotlight candidates. The same AI that protects the feed surfaces premium ad inventory. At 30M MAU, own-model GPU hosting reduces inference cost a further 80%.
| Scale | MAU | Agentic AI / yr | Human-only equiv. | vs Human | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch Y1 | 250K | ~€8K | ~€320K | 97% | |
| Grow Y2 | 3M | ~€48K | ~€1.8M | 97% | |
| Scale Y3 | 15M | ~€180K | ~€7.5M+ | 97% | |
| Global Y4+ | 30M | ~€280K* | ~€15M+ | 98%* |
* At 30M MAU, own-model GPU hosting reduces inference cost 80% vs API pricing.
Virtuous loop
2× Wave Energy, Story Boost into Global Feed, unlimited radius, analytics, exclusive themes. 3% conversion at launch → 5% at scale. AI identifies High Energy stories for Plus Boosts. Strava benchmark: ~4.5%.
Businesses sponsor city-level positive story placements — all pass the positivity filter. B2G layer: municipalities pay €490/mo for a Verified Civic Channel. 50 cities Year 2 = €294K/yr recurring B2G ARR.
Schools, hospitals, corporate wellness teams and media outlets embed curated GoodWaves feeds in their own apps and intranets. B2B2C distribution at zero additional content cost.
GoodWaves Joy Summits, local meetups, branded merchandise. Community revenue that deepens loyalty and generates massive organic reach with zero advertising spend.
Revenue model · conservative 3-year
Competitive landscape
| Feature | GoodWaves | Twitter/X | Positive News sites | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive-only content | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Social / community | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Gamification / rewards | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Location-based feed | ✓ | ✗ | partial | partial | ✗ |
| Agentic AI moderation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EU data sovereignty | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ad-free subscription | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Age safeguarding (16+) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Roadmap
The team
AI strategist and generative media specialist focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence, content, and human wellbeing. Ivaylo brings a practitioner's perspective to GoodWaves — translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into real-world social media impact across European markets.
Multi-level computer vision scientist, AI Agentic Researcher and Analyst. Serial entrepreneur across 10+ companies in breakthrough technology across the USA, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Seed round · 2026
We are raising a €6.46M seed round to build the technology, acquire the first 250,000 Europeans, and prove the Zero CAC flywheel.
goodwaves@goodwaves.news · Ivaylo Nikolov · Orvar Geir Fridriksson