Recite Me
👤 Ross Linnett (Dyslexic, diagnosed after university, Linnett built the assistive tool he'd needed — lived experience overlay rivals can't fake.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Dyslexic founder, 7M+ users, logos like Boots and VW — a toolbar riding a wave of accessibility law.
Will it work? · our read
Mandated demand. A dyslexic founder built the toolbar he needed; regulation made it a business. But a widget masks, not fixes, accessibility — the laws that sell it can reject it.
01How the money moves
Law (Equality Act, EAA, ADA) forces orgs to make sites accessible
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Org embeds Recite Me toolbar + accessibility checker
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Org pays annual SaaS license -> recurring revenue
02The numbers
£8.8MStatedtotal BGF investment
2024-11
the sentence on the page
its accessibility offering. The additional equity funding takes BGF’s total investment in Recite Me to £8.8 million. Commenting on the deal, BGF investor John Healey said: “Since 2012, Ross and the…
Revenue undisclosed — these are hard first-party figures. BGF
Private, BGF-backed; revenue undisclosed. Est. about £5M ($6.5M) ARR.
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Recite Me — Our Story: founding, 100+ staff, clientsBGF: £4.6M ($6M) follow-on (total £8.8M/$11M), 7M+ usersTechRound: Ross Linnett interview (dyslexia origin)Accessibility.Works: overlays attract ADA lawsuitsRecite Me: toolbars 'mask', don't fix a11y (own blog)
Revenue is NOT publicly disclosed. Recite Me files abridged UK accounts, so aggregators (Endole) mis-tag it 'micro / under £1M ($1.3M)' — which conflicts with 100+ staff and £8.8M ($11M) BGF raised, so I don't treat that as real. First-party facts I DID confirm: 7M+ annual toolbar users (BGF 2024), £8.8M ($11M) BGF growth funding, 100+ staff, blue-chip clients (Boots, VW, Coca-Cola, Gatwick, British Gas). The only first-party revenue figure is old and partial: new-business revenue grew from £65K ($85K) in 2017 to £415K ($530K) in 2018. My revenue.value (about £5M ARR) is a LOW-CONFIDENCE estimate from staff/funding — treat as directional, not a fact. The overlay-vs-WCAG critique is documented (UsableNet 2024; NFB opposition); Recite Me's own blog admits a toolbar 'masks' not 'fixes' accessibility, and the FTC's action against overlay rival AccessiBe over deceptive compliance claims is real — so my read that Recite Me's honesty is a genuine edge is grounded, not fabricated drama. We never score you.