2026-07-15 · Companion to the LATAM Operating Manual 2026–2028 (v1.0 draft) · Fills all Open Data Gaps with verified internal actuals · Data period: 2025 Q4 + 2026 Q1, USDT · CONFIDENTIAL — aliases only, no splits/ratios
10.52MLATAM half-year revenue
≈1.99MLATAM half-year net profit (~19%)
64%of group net profit = Mexico
84%of group net profit = LATAM
150k/moLATAM local burn (fixed plan #)
2 + 2licenses held + in progress
1 · Financial Baseline by Country
Merge into: MEMORY.md + Country/*.md · Half-year = Oct 2025 – Mar 2026 · Source: group P&L workbook (13 entities) 2026-06-16
Entity
Revenue
Gross
Net
Net %
Payment Cost
PC % Rev
Payroll
Mexico Starpay
3,898,679
1,821,410
1,142,003
29.3%
1,720,421
44%
533,409
Mexico Starpago
871,486
417,654
372,016
42.7%
394,973
45%
32,509
Chile
715,838
300,742
284,240
39.7%
396,887
55%
0 *
Colombia
1,578,549
687,264
246,737
15.6%
768,885
49%
343,795
Peru
509,349
202,266
188,947
37.1%
266,005
52%
0 *
Brazil Starpago (non-gaming)
303,079
126,013
7,248
2.4%
73,289
24%
85,949
Argentina
3,849
1,834
−19,041
—
1,870
49%
0
Brazil Bcpay (gaming)
2,639,290
1,340,348
−234,800
−8.9%
1,094,585
41%
739,571
LATAM total
10,520,119
—
≈1,987,350
~19%
4,716,915
~45%
~1,735,232
Group total (incl. Asia)
21,971,447
6,212,307
2,368,929
10.8%
13,792,469
63%
2,731,846
* Chile & Peru payroll booked at 0 — almost certainly recorded elsewhere / outsourced / consolidated. True net margins are overstated. Finance must reallocate.
Key facts
Mexico (both entities) half-year net 1,514,019 = 64% of group net profit. LATAM ≈ 84% of group net profit (all Asia ≈ 0.38M).
"Payment cost eats 63%" is the group number dragged up by Asia (PK 84% / PH 82% / IN 75%). LATAM runs 45–55% — never quote 63% as a LATAM figure.
caliber issue Payment-cost % quoted inconsistently across meetings (40%+ / 62% / 63% / 68%). CFO to fix one canonical number before external use.
Mexico Starpago net: 98k / 65k / 51k / 60k / 26k / 72k. Same gross margin as Starpay; higher net margin (no payroll/servers).
Brazil Bcpay net: −70k / −100k / −73k / −102k / +66k+44k — turned positive Feb–Mar 2026; quarterly payroll 320–420k is the drag.
Colombia: Q4 0.86M → Q1 0.72M (−16%), major client shifted volume; March recovered to 280k on new clients (March net 86,886).
Chile: monthly net 32k → 89k, strongest grower (Feb revenue +61% MoM). Peru: volatile, March core revenue −58% MoM.
Argentina: essentially zero revenue (pure test); half-year −19k is mostly a one-time 20,875 management-fee booking in Feb.
TPV / GMV & OTC
Group half-year TPV: pay-in 1.373B USD, pay-out 1.351B USD. gap LATAM per-country TPV/tx-count not recorded (workbook blank) — Finance to backfill with Q2.
known issue Mexico StarPay↔StarPago bridging double-counts volume; unify management accounts before quoting Mexico TPV.
Withdrawal (back-to-USDT) profit, half-year: MX Starpay 168,685 / MX Starpago 70,978 / CL 102,797 / CO 44,896 / PE 88,134 / BR Bcpay 229,724. No separate OTC/FX cost line exists — currently mixed into payment cost.
2 · Country Classification — Corrections vs the Framework
Merge into: 03_Country_Strategy.md + country pages · Three places where the v1.0 framework does not match verified actuals
① Brazil is not a steady-state Cash Cow today. Bcpay is the group's largest loss (−234,800 half-year) with the group's highest payroll; non-gaming Brazil barely breaks even. Agreed framing (2026-06-17 correction): Brazil = #1 strategic core + the group's "veteran cash cow" — it historically financed the group; the current loss is a transition-period result. No "black hole" labels, and budgets must not count on Brazil shared-cost contribution until the central-bank license lands. Recommended label: Cash Cow (transition — rebuild year). Positive signal: Feb–Mar 2026 turned profitable.
② Chile & Peru behave like profit engines, not early Growth Markets. 39.7% / 37.1% net margin, ~473k combined half-year net. Growth-Market missions stand (infrastructure incomplete), but their KPI sets should include profit/margin now. Caveat: both book payroll at 0, margins overstated.
③ Colombia = Growth Market under margin pressure, not a blank build-out: 15.6% net margin, Q1 major-client volume loss, March recovery via new clients. #1 mission = cheaper direct channels + success rate (routing quality) — consistent with the framework's Growth KPI set.
Argentina matches the framework (Expansion Market; revenue not a KPI; −19k = intentional small-scale testing, explicitly not to be shut down).
3 · Organization — Current Roster
Merge into: 02_Organization.md Current Role Map · Reporting: country/functional leads (Rio, Hai, Enjoy, Tina) → Founder (AD, directly oversees LATAM)
Person (alias)
Role
Owns
Base
Rio
Co-Founder & CSO, LATAM partner, resident
LATAM licenses, local business, cost center, expat BD compensation
Mexico
Hai
Brazil country lead, resident
IP/SCD build-out, state gaming licenses, bank accounts, partner network; monthly state circuit
Mexico gets a Country Manager title; foreign team splits into BD Dept (upstream) vs Sales Dept (merchants).
Local hires in every country; standard BD pod = 3 (1 lead + 2 support), minimum 2. Chinese core staff → direction/strategy; execution → locals + AI.
to reverse >60% of LATAM team energy currently not on their local market.
open positions LATAM Sales/marketing head (events ownerless); group COO / CTO / head of legal & compliance; LATAM settlement & risk middle office.
Compensation on record: living allowance 1,000 USD/person/mo (uniform); dual-track incentives (equity + token), bonus pool at volume milestones — ratios live in signed documents only, never in this repository. Payroll envelope MX/CO/CL/PE: 43,115 USD/mo, per-head breakdown pending (owner: Sanyuan).
4 · Entity & License Ledger
Merge into: 06_Entity_Strategy.md + Entity/*.md · Top: Cayman STAR BLOOM HOLDING MANAGEMENT LIMITED (auth. capital US$28.88M), founders 50/50, no BVI layer yet
Core licenses — honest status
Country
Entity
License
Status
USA
Qsmile Inc
FinCEN MSB (incl. Money Transmitter, 50 states), EIN, renewed 2023/24/25
Central Bank payment-institution license (13-policy compliance pack filed)
In progress
Rule (founder-confirmed 2026-06-22): externally we hold TWO licenses, with two in progress. Never state "four licenses held" in any BP or investor material.
Entities by country
Mexico — 6 entities, 8,123 USD/mo (70% of all entity maintenance): STARX TRANSFER (FX core asset, license applicant) / Strax Coin / STAR PAY TECNOLOGIA (API permit) / Whole World Salers (most complete files) / CoreRail / OmniRail. cut candidates CoreRail + OmniRail: 830 USD/mo each, no activity. Nominee arrangements tracked in the internal register, not here.
Colombia — 3: Starpago Technical SAS (chamber-registered) / Altera Technologies SAS (tax ID only) / StarX Colombia (in registration, placeholder shell, nominee: Tony).
Chile — 1: STAR TECNOLOGY CHILE SpA — best-documented entity in LATAM (bylaws, RUT, Scotiabank account, tax clearance, AML manual). Local compliance officer 1,000 USD/mo.
Peru — 1: STAR PAGO S.A.C. (MINCETUR holder; nominee-held structure on record).
Brazil — 7+: 6PAY (core) + 3 holdings + 2 trading + gaming-line entities (locally nominee-held 100%; one e-commerce entity used for gaming-related processing — compliance review) + SPEED (MCN/digital entertainment).
Singapore: STARPAGO PTE. LTD. (nominee director, tech branding). Transitional shells: one Mexico shell; Indonesia PT (purchased, no effective control); mightymahal (no control).
Costs & banking
Total entity maintenance 11,605 USD/mo (Mexico 70%). One-time to date: Mexico license ≈58.3k USD, Colombia legal ≈9k USD.
gap Only Chile has a complete bank-account record. Finance DD flagged: no finance system, manual reporting, missing corporate bank statements — precondition to fix before fundraising/audit.
Use 50k after tax true-up. Salaries 86,550 BRL, contingency 60–80k BRL, office 20,610, housing 19–26k, staffing company 18,000
of which Mexico local
60–80k USD (use 70k)
Subset of west line + local extras
One-time investment items to date ≈ 90k USD (MX license 58.3k + CO legal 9k + BR vehicle 22.5k) — booked as Investment Cost, never in monthly burn.
Shared tech/server cost ≈ 78,600 USD/mo (Bcpay 27,000 / StarPago core 16,000 / country instances 22,200 / SaaS 4,500 / Starpay 3,900 / other 5,000). reconcile competing "≈100k" figure from July meeting.
Where money actually goes: LATAM local cost ≈ 3.8% of group monthly revenue, ≈35% of group monthly net. Payment/channel cost dominates. Heuristic on record: −1pt payment cost > −10pt local cost.
Known holes (systematically understated baseline): ① tax + social security booked 0 across countries ② payroll 43,115 has no per-head detail ③ Brazil vs west-line boundary double-counts housing/salary.
Three-year frame (2026-06-26 forecast, group)
Revenue 64.9M (2026) → 135M (2027) → 279M (2028); net profit 6.7M → 100.5M; gross margin stepping toward 60% on license-driven channel-cost reduction. ~$12M of any raise earmarked for LATAM license acquisition (Brazil largest ticket). gap Q2 actuals + per-country break-even points required before next quarterly review.
1,000 limit, 72h complaint window — under evaluation
Aviv
pending in-person meeting (owner: Hai)
Mexico: target = 4 direct connections. At ~2.3M/mo channel spend, every 5 points saved ≈ 110k USD/mo — more than the entire LATAM local payroll. Single biggest profit lever.
Strategic rule on record: self-held licenses are the root fix for channel cost ("channel cost is 10M+/year — that buys the licenses").
FX for planning: USD/BRL ≈ 5.11, USD/MXN ≈ 17.5 (Jul 2026); official book rates set by CFO.