Tristan Luis

President & CEO, Casebook PBC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Tristan Louis leads Casebook PBC, a public-benefit SaaS company providing human services and child welfare case management software incubated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Over his tech career, he co-founded Mecklermedia and Earthweb, served as Global Chief Innovation Officer at HSBC, and contributed early concepts to RSS and podcasting.

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1 prediction · 7 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Tristan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Luis: HSBC did not own HSBC.com until he purchased it from a choir

“When I joined the company did not even own the name HSBC.com on the internet. I actually had to go and purchase that from the Harlem school boy choir”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 1:26 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Tristan Luis on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said10 Episodes1

Everything Tristan Luis said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported

Luis: US Local Governments Spend $24B on Human Services Software

“Twenty-four billion dollars is spent on software in that space by the U.S. Government in state and counties level, and yet there isn't a platform for this particular space.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 2:44 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Insight

Luis: Casebook's Main Competition Is Pen and Paper

“And the enemy that they've got or the competition that we're dealing with is very similar. It's pen and paper.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 3:36 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Luis: Casebook has experienced only one churned customer

“Our churn numbers are ridiculously low in that we've had one customer turnout. And that was because the organization we were dealing with actually ran out of money. And so it couldn't pay us anymore.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 5:23 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2024

Luis: Casebook PBC targets a $16M to $20M valuation

“So I figured, you know, based on where the market's sitting and on numbers that we're doing and figuring something in the 16 to twenty million dollar range.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 7:31 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Luis: Casebook burns $600k-$700k monthly excluding legacy contract funding

“So really our upper our total burn, if you were to take out that contract is sitting closer to six, 700,000 dollars.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 10:36 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Disclosure

Luis: Casebook bootstrapped SaaS platform using a $7M legacy contract

“That contract was a seven million dollar contract. And that was closed in. 20, 10, 20, 11. We still have another year plus on it. And so we're basically using it as our outside investor from our standpoint, right? Is that we've been working on building a SaaS …”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 10:52 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Contradicted

Luis: HSBC did not own HSBC.com until he purchased it from a choir

“When I joined the company did not even own the name HSBC.com on the internet. I actually had to go and purchase that from the Harlem school boy choir”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 1:26 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Partly supported

Luis: 40,000 US Human Services Nonprofits Employ 3.2M People

“There's about 40,000 human services organization that employs 3.2 million people in the country and deliver services to one in five Americans.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 3:07 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Luis: Casebook was at $50,000 ARR one year ago

“One year ago, we were at we were at 50,000 in ARR last year.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 8:19 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Luis: Casebook has customer count in the low hundreds

“You know, low hundreds is really what we're seeing in terms of our logos.”

Tristan Luis Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 6:17 Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising	Oct 14, 2021	10m

Tristan Luis

The record, in short

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