A year of Apparently, free.

TankShark is Apparently’s quarterly cohort for startups entering regulated markets. Winners get 12 months of Pro, worth $2,400, with $100 of credit every month.

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Five minutes. No equity, no fee, no pitch deck.

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Credit every month

Pro includes $100 of Apparently credit a month for the agent that writes your app, with every risky change held before it merges.

Example data: Invented bank, applicant, people and figures, shown in the real app.

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Ready for your law firm and your processor

See how ready you are for a law firm’s opinion and a processor’s review, state by state, with the next moves ranked by what each adds.

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How TankShark works

  1. 1. Apply in five minutes

    Tell us what you are building, the market, and the regulatory question in front of it. No pitch deck required.

  2. 2. Start building now

    You do not wait on selection: download Apparently and start on your own account, at the published prices, the same day.

  3. 3. Cohort selection

    Winners are chosen each quarter on the regulatory question, the market and the company’s stage, and told at the start of the quarter.

Apply to TankShark

Tell us what you are building and the regulatory question in front of it. Every applicant hears back, selected or not.

Applying is free and takes nothing from you: no equity, no fee, no commitment.

About the cohorts

  • Quarterly cadence

    Cohorts are selected at the start of each calendar quarter. Apply any time; your application rolls into the next selection.

  • Judged on the question

    We look for a real regulatory question in a regulated market: gaming and sweepstakes, prediction markets, payments and digital assets. The harder the question, the better the fit.

  • No equity taken

    TankShark takes no equity, warrants or advisory shares. What Apparently gets is good companies building on it early.

  • Small by design

    We would rather give a few companies meaningful support than spread thin across many.

TankShark is a programme of Apparently AI LLC, which is software and not a law firm. Nothing in it is legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship, and no attorney is engaged by applying or winning. Apparently Law has no part in TankShark and does not advise or represent applicants; your legal opinions come from your own law firm.

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