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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
Organization and Business | Organization and Business Company Overview Inuvo, Inc. is a technology company that provides data-driven platforms that can automatically identify and message online audiences for any product or service across devices, channels and formats, including video, mobile, connected TV, display, social and native. These capabilities allow Inuvo’s clients to engage with their customers and prospects in a manner that drives engagement from the first contact with the consumer. Inuvo facilitates over a billion marketing messages to consumers every single month and counts among its clients numerous world-renowned names in industries that have included retail, automotive, insurance, health care, technology, telecommunications and finance. Inuvo counts among its many contractual relationships, three clients who collectively manage over 50% of all U.S. digital media budgets. Inuvo’s solution incorporates a proprietary form of artificial intelligence, or AI, branded the IntentKey. This sophisticated machine learning technology uses interactions with Internet content as a source of information from which to predict consumer intent. The AI includes a continually updated database of over 500 million machine profiles which Inuvo utilizes to deliver highly aligned online audiences to its clients. Inuvo earns revenue when consumers view or click on its client’s messages. Inuvo’s business scales through account management activity with existing clients and by adding new clients through sales activity. As part of Inuvo’s technology strategy, it owns a collection of websites like alot.com and earnspendlive.com, where Inuvo creates content in health, finance, travel, careers, auto, education and living categories. These sites provide the means to test Inuvo’s technologies, while also delivering high quality consumers to clients through the interaction with proprietary content in the form of images, videos, slideshows and articles. There are many barriers to entry to Inuvo’s business that would require proficiency in large scale data center management, software development, data products, analytics, artificial intelligence, integration to the internet of things, or IOT, the relationships required to execute within the IOT and the ability to process tens of billions of transactions daily. Inuvo’s intellectual property is protected by 15 issued and 8 pending patents. Liquidity On October 11, 2018, we entered into the Amended and Restated Business Financing Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Financing Agreement”) with Western Alliance Bank. The Amended and Restated Financing Agreement, which is secured by all of our assets, superseded in its entirety the prior the Business Financing Agreement, as amended, that we entered into on March 1, 2012 with Bridge Bank, N.A. which is now owned by Western Alliance Bank. The Amended and Restated Financing Agreement does not have a term and either party may terminate upon notice to the other party. During the third quarter of 2017, we filed an S-3 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to replace an existing, expiring S-3 "shelf" registration statement, which permits us to offer and sell up to $15 million of our securities from time to time in one or more offerings. In May 2018, we took down from this shelf registration statement approximately $2.3 million in the underwritten public offering. The underwritten public offering of 2,860,000 shares of our common stock at a public offering price of $.70 per share and an additional 429,000 shares to cover overallotments in connection with the offering. The net proceeds were $2.0 million after deducting the underwriting discounts, commissions and offering expenses payable. For the year ended December 31, 2018, our revenues declined 7.8% from the prior year. The lower revenue in 2018 is principally responsible for our $5.9 million net loss in 2018. Of the $5.9 million loss, approximately $4.1 million was depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation expense. Further, we had roughly $500 thousand of merger related costs and an additional $175 thousand dollars in other non-cash accruals. Since our credit facility is dependent upon receivables, and we do not know when, if ever, that our revenues will return to historic levels or if we will be able to replace those lost revenues with revenues from other sources, the combination of lower credit availability and recent negative cash flows generated from operating activities introduces potential risk of operation without interruption. As described earlier in this report, on November 2, 2018, we entered into the Merger Agreement. At the closing the Merger, which is subject to a number of conditions precedent, the Company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of CPT. In addition, on November 1, 2018, we borrowed $1 million from an affiliate of CPT which we are using for working capital, and on November 2, 2018, four directors of the Company lent us $62,500 each, for an aggregate of $250,000, to cover certain costs associated with the pending Merger. In March 2019, we sold an aggregate of $1,440,000 Original Issue Discount Unsecured Subordinated Convertible Notes due September 1, 2020 in a private placement and received $1,200,000 in proceeds which we are using for working capital. Subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement and the credit facility with the additional borrowing, together with this additional capital raise, we believe we will have sufficient cash and credit to operate until the Merger closes. There are no assurances we will be successful in our efforts to generate revenues, report profitable operations or close the Merger in which case we would need to find additional sources of credit and make substantial reductions to operating expense. |