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for founders and startup CEOs

Inbox protection for the way founders actually work.

Investors, customers, and advisors walk in. Cold sales pitches and BEC spoofs wait at the door.

What this audience is up against.

Numbers from public sources, attributed below each card. None of these problems are hypothetical.

$125K
Median Business Email Compromise loss per incident in 2023.

Source: IC3 / FBI BEC Update 2023

83%
of small companies hit by a phishing-led incident, never recovered to baseline operations within 30 days.

Source: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2024

20+
Cold pitches a typical founder receives every working day from VCs, recruiters, vendors, and strangers.

Source: First Round Founder Productivity Survey 2024

What changes when Rythm is on.

Three concrete scenarios, written for this audience.

Investors, advisors, and customers walk in.

Anyone you have already corresponded with is on your guest list automatically. Existing customers, current investors, design partners, and advisors flow without friction.

Investor and exec impersonation lands elsewhere.

A spoofed email "from your CFO" or "from your lead investor" asking for a wire either has to pay the cover charge or sit in the unverified folder for your review. Either way it never lands silently in your main inbox. The verification call you make is to a number you already have, not the one in the spoof.

New cold inbound becomes self-qualifying.

A real prospect with a project has two paths: pay a small cover charge (about four cents) to land in your inbox, or wait in the unverified folder for you to review on your schedule. SaaS pitches, recruiter spam, and PR pitches that pay are pitches that valued your time. Most do not. The signal you get back is dramatically cleaner.

What Rythm is not for, here.

Rythm is not a CRM, not a sales engagement tool, not a hiring inbox, and not a substitute for verifying any wire request, banking change, or board action by phone. It does not manage your pipeline, schedule meetings, or replace your existing fundraising stack. Rythm sits in front of your inbox and decides who gets through. Everything else stays where it lives today.

One plan. One price.

Keep your existing Gmail or Outlook. Cancel anytime.

$1.65
per month
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Annual on Lightning includes one bonus month. See full pricing.

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