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AI image-to-vector converter for cutting, laser and embroidery machines · France

VectoSolve: Revenue, team and how it was built

Solo founderB2CDesign tools

VectoSolve (AI image-to-vector converter for cutting, laser and embroidery machines, France): US$2.7K revenue in the last 30 days, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder and sole developer; the operating company, GTA GO TO AGENCY SAS, lists two co-directors. Launched October 2025; still running, revenue falling.Added 25 October 2026

Outcome
US$2.7K revenue in the last 30 days, October 2026Revenue falling
Evidence
A disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor
Launch
October 2025
Status
Still running
Team
1 founder and sole developer; the operating company, GTA GO TO AGENCY SAS, lists two co-directors
Outside funding
None (bootstrapped, per the founder's TrustMRR profile)
Group
Photos and portraits
Main channel
Search and AI answers

VectoSolve converts a raster image, a picture stored as a grid of coloured pixels, into a vector file, a drawing stored as lines, curves and filled shapes that stay sharp at any size. Cutting machines such as a Cricut, laser engravers and embroidery machines need such outlines, not pixels. The company's terms say the conversion is done by Recraft AI, an outside AI service, through its API, the official interface that lets one program send work to another. VectoSolve adds its own cleanup (it says it removes stray specks, merges nearly equal colours and closes outlines) and exports to the file formats each machine reads. It also sells AI logo, animation, image and video tools that run on Google Gemini, Recraft, Kling and fal.ai.

The founder is Robin Monteiro. The site's About page says he is self-taught, worked as a landscaper and plasterer before he learned to code, and builds and runs the product alone. The legal notice names the publisher as GTA GO TO AGENCY, a French SAS (simplified joint-stock company) registered in Dijon, with Robin Monteiro as publication director. TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a company's payment provider, shows Stripe revenue of US$6.50 in January 2026, US$2,034 in April, US$4,261 in June, US$3,141 in September, and US$2,651 in the 30 days to 25 October 2026. US$21,351 has come in since the start. MRR, monthly recurring revenue, the value of the active subscriptions for one month, was US$1,634 from 250 subscriptions on that day.

The headline number is grade A, because TrustMRR reads it from Stripe through an API key. It is close to this site's floor of US$2,000 a month, and it is falling: the last 30 days were 37.8% below June. MRR covers only about 62% of the 30-day revenue; the rest is mostly one-file payments and yearly plans paid at once, which TrustMRR does not split. The business has been listed for sale on TrustMRR since 10 September 2026. The page also shows four failed companies that sold browser image editing or automatic design before such models existed.

VectoSolve: US$2.7K revenue in the last 30 days, October 2026. AI image-to-vector converter for cutting, laser and embroidery machines, France, solo founder, evidence grade A.
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01

How much revenue does VectoSolve make?

Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.

US$2,651 of Stripe revenue in the 30 days to 25 October 2026, from a one-person converter that rents its vectorization from an AI provider
FactValueGradeHow we knowSources
Revenue in the last 30 days, to 25 October 2026US$2,651AStripe data read by TrustMRR, last synced at 16:43 UTC on 25 October 2026. The profile also stores a snapshot of US$2,658 and a change of -13.8% against the 30 days before. The 30 daily rows add up to US$2,624.16 (calculated); the difference is probably the time window.[1]
Run rate from that figureabout US$31,812 a yearcalcCalculated: 2,651 times 12. This is the outcome value used on this page.[1]
Revenue in the last 30 days, to 12 October 2026US$2,847AAn earlier copy of the same TrustMRR profile, synced on 12 October 2026. The figure fell 6.9% in 13 days (calculated).[1]
Best monthUS$4,261 in June 2026AStripe monthly revenue on TrustMRR. The months before: March US$969, April US$2,034, May US$2,527.[1]
Revenue, July to September 2026US$3,248, US$2,949 and US$3,141ASeptember was 26.3% below June (calculated). The three months together, US$9,338, were still 5.8% above April to June, US$8,822 (calculated), so June looks like a single strong month.[1]
Revenue, 1 to 25 October 2026US$2,156AA partial month. The daily rows range from US$6.99 to US$261.[1]
First month with revenueJanuary 2026, US$6.50AFebruary was US$58.55. April 2026 was the first month above US$2,000.[1]
Total revenue since the startUS$21,351AAll-time Stripe revenue on 25 October 2026. The monthly rows add up to US$21,350.05 (calculated).[1]
Monthly recurring revenue, 25 October 2026US$1,634 from 250 active subscriptionsADown 8.4% in 30 days, per the profile. On 12 October it was US$1,731 from 255 subscriptions. The average subscription is worth about US$6.54 a month (calculated: 1,634 divided by 250).[1]
Share of the 30-day revenue that MRR explainsabout 62%calcCalculated: 1,634 divided by 2,651. The rest comes from one-file payments, credit purchases and yearly plans paid at once; TrustMRR does not split them.[1, 6]
Paying customers and accounts1,892 paying customers, 20,020 registered accounts, 98 countriesCFounder-written text on TrustMRR. The same text says 226 active subscriptions, while the Stripe count is 250, so the text is older than the data. All-time revenue per paying customer: about US$11.28 (calculated: 21,351 divided by 1,892).[1]
Google Search impressions in the last 30 days673,924ARead by TrustMRR through a connected Google Search Console account. An impression is one appearance of a page in Google's results. On 12 October the figure was 610,446.[1]
Visitors in the last 30 days19,761CShown on TrustMRR, but neither Google Analytics nor DataFast is connected, so this is not read from an analytics API.[1]
Profit margin in the last 30 days85.0%CShown on TrustMRR with the same value on 12 and 25 October. Costs are not part of the Stripe verification.[1]
Engine behind the paid conversionRecraft AI's vectorizationCThe terms say the service uses third-party AI vectorization technology (Recraft AI), and the privacy policy lists Recraft AI as the sub-processor for AI image vectorization. TrustMRR's description also mentions a local centerline engine for line art. Recraft's documentation does not say how its vectorizer works inside.[9, 8, 1, 10]
Recraft's list price for one vectorizationUS$0.01 per requestBRecraft's API pricing page, October 2026. No source says what VectoSolve actually pays.[10, 11]
VectoSolve's price per file against that list priceabout 32 timescalcCalculated: the Starter plan, US$7.99 for 25 conversions, is about US$0.32 a file, divided by US$0.01. A single file at US$6.99 is 699 times the list price.[6, 11]
Team1 personCTrustMRR says Team size: 1 person. The About page says the founder is the sole developer and answers every support email himself. The legal notice lists two co-directors of the operating company; only Robin Monteiro appears on the product pages.[1, 3, 2]
Operating companyGTA GO TO AGENCY, SAS, Dijon, France, share capital 1,000 eurosCNamed in the legal notice (mentions légales, last updated 3 March 2026), the terms and the privacy policy. The same company runs Datalenk, a web analytics product that VectoSolve also uses.[2, 9, 8, 18]
Outside fundingnone foundCThe founder's TrustMRR profile says Bootstrapped.[1]
Asking price on TrustMRRUS$74,000, listed since 10 September 2026CSet by the seller. The profile gives a revenue multiple of 2.3x, which matches the 30-day revenue times 12 (calculated: 74,000 divided by 31,812 equals 2.33). It also shows 4 offers received.[1]
Search traffic stated by the company22,000+ Google clicks in 28 days, July 2026CFrom the company's advertising page, which says the figures are rounded down and come from Search Console.[14]
Time from launch to the October 2026 figure12 monthscalcCalculated: October 2025 to October 2026. The founded date on TrustMRR is 7 October 2025 and the first Internet Archive copy is from 14 October 2025. The About page says building started in 2024.[1, 12, 3]

How to read this table: a grade A value comes from Stripe or Google Search Console, read by TrustMRR through the company's own connections. A grade B value comes from an independent party: the Internet Archive or the price list of the AI supplier. A grade C value is a statement by the founder or the company. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.

VectoSolve prices in October 2026, from its pricing page; the Production and API plans from the company's llms.txt file (grade C)
PlanPer month, billed yearly (US$)Per month, billed monthly (US$)Limit
Free preview001 watermarked preview a day, no signup
Just this file6.99 one-time6.99 one-timethe file just converted, full quality
Starter4.087.9925 conversions a month (5 credits)
Pro10.7514.99100 conversions a month (20 credits)
Production, for print and embroidery shops82.50991,500 conversions a month, every machine format, batch and API
API plans19.92 to 279.0829 to 399500 to 8,000 API conversions a month
Customcustomcustommore volume or a new format, agreed with the company

One conversion costs 0.20 credits, so 5 credits buy 25 conversions. The same credits pay for the other tools: background removal 0.07, upscaling 0.15, an AI logo 0.25, an AI image 0.50 and a video from 2.00 credits. SVG, AI and EPS exports are free on the web app; DXF and G-code cost 0.10 credits and an embroidery file 0.25. Unused subscription credits roll over. Yearly prices are shown as a monthly amount: Starter is US$49 a year, Pro US$129 a year, Production US$990 a year. Prepaid API lots cost US$19.99 for 100 conversions, US$79 for 500 and US$259 for 2,000.

02

When did VectoSolve launch, and how did it grow?

From a first archived page in October 2025 to US$2,651 in 30 days, 12 months later. Each entry carries its grade.

  1. 2024CThe About page and the company's llms.txt file say the founder has built VectoSolve since 2024. No source from 2024 was found. [3, 4]
  2. 7 October 2025CFounded date that the founder entered on TrustMRR. [1]
  3. 14 October 2025BFirst Internet Archive copy of the site: a PNG to SVG converter with AI-powered vectorization, where a free account gets 5.00 credits, or 25 conversions. [12]
  4. January 2026AFirst Stripe revenue: US$6.50 for the month. [1]
  5. 3 March 2026CThe legal notice, last updated that day, names GTA GO TO AGENCY SAS in Dijon as the publisher and Robin Monteiro as publication director. [2]
  6. April 2026AUS$2,034 of revenue, the first month above US$2,000. The advertising page says two sponsored placements were bought in its AI logo generator comparison that month. [1, 14]
  7. 2 May 2026CA comment in the site's robots.txt file says the marketplace, shop and creator pages were closed that day, in a change of direction, and now return 410 Gone. [13]
  8. June 2026ABest month: US$4,261. [1]
  9. July to September 2026AUS$3,248, US$2,949 and US$3,141 a month. [1]
  10. 10 September 2026CListed for sale on TrustMRR, with an asking price of US$74,000. [1]
  11. 10 October 2026CThe robots.txt file now lets AI crawlers such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot read the site, after blocking them before; the comment calls the AI assistants a traffic channel. [13]
  12. 12 October 2026AUS$2,847 of revenue in 30 days and US$1,731 MRR. [1]
  13. 25 October 2026AUS$2,651 of revenue in 30 days, US$1,634 MRR from 250 subscriptions, and US$21,351 since the start. [1]
03

Why did VectoSolve work?

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

Rent the model, sell the file

The conversion runs on Recraft AI's vectorization, which Recraft sells to any developer at a list price of US$0.01 a request. VectoSolve charges about US$0.32 a file on the Starter plan and US$6.99 for one file without a plan. The customer does not pay for the model call. The customer pays for a file that opens without errors in Design Space, LightBurn or an embroidery machine, and that work is VectoSolve's own.

02

One page for each machine and each job

The site has a page for nearly every cutter and laser (Cricut Maker 3, Cricut Joy, Silhouette Cameo 4, Glowforge, xTool, Bambu Lab) and for jobs such as tattoo stencils, neon signs and memorial engraving. TrustMRR, reading the company's Google Search Console, shows 673,924 search impressions in 30 days, and the founder lists SEO and a blog as the marketing channels.

03

See the result, then pay

Every visitor can convert one image a day without an account and see the full result with a watermark. The paid step comes only after the preview. This fits people who need one file once, which explains why much of the revenue is single payments rather than subscriptions.

04

Many tools on one credit balance

The same credits pay for background removal, upscaling, AI logos, animations from Google Gemini, and videos from Google Veo, Kling or fal.ai. Each new tool is another page that can rank in search, and each is a reason to buy a plan instead of one file.

How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages (About, privacy policy, terms, llms.txt) and from the founder's TrustMRR profile. They are grade C. [3, 1, 9, 8, 5, 4]

  • Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS for the web app, hosted on Vercel. Supabase, a hosted Postgres database with login, holds the accounts. The TrustMRR profile also lists Node.js, Redis, AWS and Sentry.
  • Recraft AI's API does the image vectorization. The terms tell users that they also agree to Recraft's terms of service.
  • Google Gemini writes the CSS animations and the Etsy listings, alt text and blog articles; the company's file names gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite. Recraft v3 makes the AI logos. Google Veo, Kling and fal.ai make the videos.
  • Stripe takes the payments. Amazon SES sends the transactional email and Upstash limits requests per IP address.
  • Datalenk, an analytics product of the same company, measures visits and ties purchases to the channel that brought the buyer.
  • Other ways to use the product, per the TrustMRR profile: a Chrome extension, a Firefox add-on, an embeddable widget, a public REST API, a hosted MCP server for AI agents, npm packages, a GitHub Action and a Rhino plugin.
  • The company states its limits: lettering becomes outlined shapes, not editable text, and embroidery output has no satin columns and no pull compensation, so fine lettering still needs a professional digitizer.

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

Recraft APICGoogle Gemini APICKlingCfalCNext.jsCTypeScriptCTailwind CSSCReactCVercelCSupabaseCRedisCUpstashCGoogle OAuthCStripeAPayPalCGoogle AdsCMeta adsCPinterest TagCYouTubeCProduct HuntBAmazon SESCCrispBSentryCDatalenkCGoogle AnalyticsCMicrosoft ClarityCGoogle Search ConsoleATrustMRRAGoogle Tag ManagerBAwinC
04

Who tried this before VectoSolve, and why did they fail?

Four companies in the Loot Drop database sold image editing in the browser, or automatic design, as a cheaper way around desktop software and designers. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2005 to 2012Burned US$3.5M

Picnik

The promise

Simple photo editing in the browser, without installing Photoshop.

Why it died

Google bought it in 2010 and folded its technology into other products such as Google+, then closed it in 2012, while mobile apps with built-in filters took its users.

CompetitionLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2006 to 2009Burned US$20K

Snipshot

The promise

Edit photos in the browser without Adobe software.

Why it died

Larger rivals such as Picnik offered more features, free tools did the same job, and it never found a clear way to earn money.

CompetitionLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2007 to 2010Burned US$20K

Splashup

The promise

Online photo editing with real-time collaboration.

Why it died

It was built on Flash as browsers moved to HTML5, and it had no business model that paid for its users.

Product/Tech FailureLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2014 to 2020Burned US$4.7M

The Grid

The promise

Websites designed by AI, without paying a designer.

Why it died

The AI of the time produced uneven designs that were worse than manual work or templates from WordPress, Wix and Squarespace.

Product/Tech FailureLoot Drop entry ↗

The failed startups come from Loot Drop, a free database of dead startups, retold here in our own words. Loot Drop describes its entries as AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.

What changed

Picnik, Snipshot and Splashup sold the same promise as VectoSolve: do in a browser what otherwise needs Adobe software. They had to write every editing function themselves, and they sold to everyone, so free tools and larger rivals copied them. The Grid sold design by AI before the AI could do it well.

Two things are different for VectoSolve. The hard part, turning pixels into clean shapes, is now a paid API call at a list price of one US cent, so one person can sell the result without building the model. And the buyers are a narrow group with a concrete need: owners of cutting, laser and embroidery machines who need a file in a format that their machine reads. The risk is also clear in the data: the same API is open to every competitor, and revenue has fallen since June 2026.

05

Can one person copy VectoSolve now?

The method, yes. A lasting lead, no.

Everything VectoSolve uses can be bought by anyone: Recraft's vectorization API, Gemini, Stripe and Vercel. What one person can add is the work around the model for one group of buyers: their machines, their file formats, their questions in search. That is repeatable in other niches, and for the same reason it is easy to copy in this one.

Where it is still open: Other conversions that machine owners pay for: photos to 3D relief files for CNC routers, sketches to sewing patterns, logos to embroidery files with real satin stitches (VectoSolve says it does not make those), or scanned drawings to clean CAD files for small workshops.

  1. 1Pick a buyer group whose machines or software need a specific file format, and learn those formats exactly.
  2. 2Rent the AI step through a public API and spend your own work on cleanup and export.
  3. 3Write one useful page for each machine, brand and job that the buyers search for.
  4. 4Show the full result before payment, sell a single file for people who need one, and a plan for those who return.

What could go wrong for VectoSolve?

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

Revenue fell after June

Monthly revenue was US$4,261 in June 2026, then US$3,248, US$2,949 and US$3,141. The 30 days to 25 October brought US$2,651, 37.8% below June and 6.9% below the 30 days to 12 October. July to September together were still 5.8% above April to June, so the fall is recent.

Most of the money is not a subscription

MRR is US$1,634, below this site's floor of US$2,000 a month. The 30-day revenue is above the floor only because it includes one-file payments, credit purchases and yearly plans. That revenue comes from many small buyers each day, not from one contract, but it must be earned again every month through search.

One supplier does the core work

The terms and the privacy policy name Recraft AI as the vectorization provider. Recraft sells the same API call to anyone at US$0.01, so a change of Recraft's price, terms or quality changes VectoSolve's product, and a competitor can buy the same engine.

Paid positions in comparison articles

The advertising page sells a top-3 position with a review in the article's voice for 1,500 euros, in articles such as 10 Image-to-Vector Converters Tested. In the AI logo article, the paid entries are labelled Partner and their links carry rel="sponsored", the mark Google asks for on paid links. These payments go by bank transfer, so they are outside the Stripe figures. The page says once that one placement was sold to date and elsewhere that two were bought in April 2026.

Company figures that do not agree

The About page says building started in 2024; the founded date on TrustMRR is 7 October 2025, and the first archived page is from 14 October 2025. The About page says 21,500+ makers and 25,000+ images converted; the TrustMRR text says 20,020 accounts, and the company's llms-full.txt file speaks of 100,000+ conversions. The founder's text says 226 active subscriptions; Stripe shows 250. The 85.0% profit margin is the same in both TrustMRR copies.

For sale

The business has been listed on TrustMRR since 10 September 2026 at US$74,000. A buyer would get a product that depends on Recraft's API and on Google search rankings, run until now by its founder alone.

Sources

The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.

  1. A TrustMRR: VECTOSOLVE, Stripe-verified revenue profile (data as of October 2026)
    Read the markdown profile (https://trustmrr.com/startup/vectosolve.md) in full, once, on 25 October 2026, synced at 16:43 UTC that day; compared with the pipeline's copy synced on 12 October 2026. Grade A for the Stripe and Search Console metrics in its Verification Sources section; the description, founded date, team size and customer counts are founder-written, grade C.
  2. C VectoSolve: Mentions Légales (legal notice), last updated 3 March 2026
    Read in full. Source for the operating company, its registration in Dijon and the publication director.
  3. C VectoSolve: About, Built by Robin
    Read in full. Source for the founder's background, the solo team, the stack and the user counts.
  4. C VectoSolve llms.txt, last updated 10 October 2026
    Read in full. The company's summary for AI assistants. Source for the founder's full name, the Production and API plan prices and the stated limits of the output.
  5. C VectoSolve llms-full.txt
    Read the sections on the tools, the Gemini models, the affiliate program and the statistics.
  6. C VectoSolve pricing page, read 25 October 2026
    Read in full. Source for the plan prices and the credit cost of each tool.
  7. C VectoSolve home page, read 25 October 2026
    Read in full; the copy downloaded earlier the same day was identical in size. Source for the product description, the free preview and the cleanup steps.
  8. C VectoSolve Privacy Policy
    Read in full. Source for the list of sub-processors, including Recraft AI, Google Gemini and Veo, Kling, fal.ai, Amazon SES, Upstash and Datalenk.
  9. C VectoSolve Terms of Service
    Read in full. Source for the operator and for section 7.3, which names Recraft AI as the third-party vectorization technology.
  10. B Recraft API documentation: Vectorize
    Read the page. The supplier's own description and price of the vectorization endpoint.
  11. B Recraft API documentation: Pricing
    Read the price tables. Source for the US$0.01 list price of Vectorize image.
  12. B Internet Archive copy of vectosolve.com, 14 October 2025
    Read the archived home page in full; the earliest capture in the archive's index is from the same day.
  13. C VectoSolve robots.txt, read 25 October 2026
    Read in full. Its comments date the closing of the marketplace and shop (2 May 2026) and the decision to allow AI crawlers (10 October 2026).
  14. C VectoSolve: Advertise, sponsored placements in ranking comparisons
    Read in full. Source for the rate card, the search traffic the company states and the placements sold.
  15. C VectoSolve blog: best AI logo generators 2026
    Read the article and checked the page source of its links. The two paid entries are labelled Partner and carry rel="sponsored".
  16. C VectoSolve: Affiliate Program
    Read in full. A 20% commission on each referred customer's first purchase, paid by PayPal from US$50 or as credits.
  17. C VectoSolve: Creator and Influencer Partner Program
    Read in full. Checked for income promises: its earnings table multiplies a number of referrals by an average US$5 order and 20%.
  18. C Datalenk home page and terms
    Read the home page and the terms. The terms say Datalenk is operated by GTA Go To Agency SAS, the company behind VectoSolve.
  19. C Loot Drop database export, failed startups
    Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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