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Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company
Key takeaways
- Polsia's own recurring line is just $4.6M of it — and at their own ~48%/mo churn, what actually recurs rounds to $0.
- Polsia raised on the pitch of a fully autonomous AI company-builder at "$10M ARR" across "120,000+ companies." We pulled their public API and reconstructed their own published source map.
- We did the technical due diligence the $30M round skipped.
Polsia's own recurring line is just $4.6M of it — and at their own ~48%/mo churn, what actually recurs rounds to $0. ( Polsia is literally AI Slop spelled backwards.)
Polsia raised on the pitch of a fully autonomous AI company-builder at "$10M ARR" across "120,000+ companies." We pulled their public API and reconstructed their own published source map. The AI has a lot of human help — the "ARR" is about half one-off — and 93.7% of the companies are dead. None of this needed a login.
We did the technical due diligence the $30M round skipped. Hold ARR to its actual meaning — revenue that recurs a year out — and their own snapshot (2026-05-22) gives three different numbers:
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