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Organization and Business
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization and Business Organization and Business
 
Company Overview
 
Inuvo is a technology company that develops and sells information technology solutions for marketing and advertising. These solutions predictively identify and message online audiences for any product, service or brand across devices, formats, and channels including video, mobile, connected TV, linear TV, display, social, search and native. These solutions allow Inuvo’s clients to engage with their audiences in a manner that drives responsiveness. Inuvo facilitates the delivery of hundreds of millions of marketing messages to consumers every single month and counts among its client's numerous world-renowned brands across industries.

The Inuvo solution incorporates a proprietary form of artificial intelligence, or AI, branded the IntentKey. This patented technology is a model of the human language built from crawling public content on billions of webpages. The AI uses this model of the language to predict and action audiences based on the reasons why consumers are interested, not who the people are within those audiences. In this regard, the technology is designed for a consumer privacy conscious future while
addressing the components of the advertising value chain most responsible for return on advertising spend, the intelligence behind the advertising decision.

Inuvo technology can be consumed both as a managed service and software-as-a-service. For certain clients, Inuvo has also developed proprietary digital properties collectively branded as Bonfire Publishing where content is created specifically to attack the audiences those clients are targeting. These online publications provide information across a wide range of topics including health, finance, travel, careers, auto, education and lifestyle. Collectively, these websites also provide the means to market test various Inuvo advertising technologies.

There are many barriers to entry associated with the Inuvo business model, including a proficiency in large scale information processing, predictive software development, marketing data products, analytics, artificial intelligence, integration to the internet of things ("IOT"), and the relationships required to execute within the IOT. Inuvo’s intellectual property is protected by 19 issued and eight pending patents.

Liquidity
As of September 30, 2023, we have approximately $7.0 million in cash and cash equivalents. Our net working capital was $1.7 million. We have encountered recurring losses and cash outflows from operations, which historically we have funded through equity offerings and debt facilities. In addition, our investment in internally developed software consists primarily of labor costs which are of a fixed nature. Through September 30, 2023, our accumulated deficit was $165.0 million.

Our principal sources of liquidity are the sale of our common stock and our credit facility discussed in Note 6 - Bank Debt.

On May 30, 2023, we raised $4.0 million in gross proceeds in a registered direct offering, before expenses, through the sale of an aggregate of 16,000,000 shares of our common stock. The shares were offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Shelf Registration Statement”) and a prospectus supplement relating to the offering was filed with the SEC on May 26, 2023.

In March 2021, we contracted with an investment management company to manage our cash in excess of current operating
needs. We placed $2.0 million in cash equivalent accounts and $10.0 million in an interest-bearing account. At September 30, 2023, our funds with the investment management company were approximately $68 thousand and were invested in cash and cash equivalent accounts. A detail of the activity is described in Note 3 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

On May 28, 2021, we entered into a Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, as sales agent (the “Sales Agent”), pursuant to which we may offer and sell through or to the Sales Agent shares of our common stock (the “ATM Program”) up to an aggregate amount of gross proceeds of $14,611,900. During the year ended December 31, 2021 and through March 31, 2023, we did not issue any shares of common stock or receive any aggregate proceeds under the ATM Program, and we did not pay any commissions to the Sales Agent. During the quarter ended June 30, 2023, we sold 173,558 shares for gross proceeds totaling $63,136 under the ATM Program and paid the Sales Agent a commission of $1,902. We did not issues any shares of common stock or receive any aggregate proceeds under the ATM during, and we did not pay any commissions to the Sales Agent during the quarter ended September 30, 2023. Any shares of common stock offered and sold in
the ATM Program will be issued pursuant to our universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3. The ATM Program will terminate upon (a) the election of the Sales Agent upon the occurrence of certain adverse events, (b) 10 days’ advance notice from one party to the other, or (c) the sale of the balance available under our Shelf Registration Statement. Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Sales Agent is entitled to a commission at a fixed rate of 3.0% of the gross proceeds from each sale of shares under the Sales Agreement.

We have focused our resources behind a plan to market our collective multi-channel advertising capabilities differentiated by our AI technology, the IntentKey, where we have a technology advantage and higher margins. If we are successful in implementing our plan, we expect to return to a positive cash flow from operations. However, there is no assurance that we will be able to achieve this objective.

Management plans to support the Company’s future operations and capital expenditures primarily through cash raised through the sale of stock in May 2023, cash generated from future operations and borrowings from the credit facility until reaching profitability. The credit facility is due upon demand and therefore there can be no assurances that sufficient borrowings will be available to support future operations until profitability is reached. Our collection period is less than 30 days and can also be used to meet accrued obligations.We believe our current cash position and credit facility will be sufficient to sustain operations for at least the next twelve months from the date of this filing. If our plan to grow the IntentKey product is unsuccessful, we may need to fund operations through private or public sales of securities, debt financings or partnering/licensing transactions over the long term.

Customer concentration

For the three-month period ending September 30, 2023, three customers accounted for 87.2% of our overall revenue at 75.0%, 10.0% and 2.2% and for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2023, 79.8% of our overall revenue at 57.6%, 15.6% and 6.7%, respectively. Those same three customers accounted for 55.2% of our gross accounts receivable balance as of September 30, 2023. As of December 31, 2022, the same customers accounted for 23.9% of our gross accounts receivable balance.