Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of presentation

This summary of significant accounting policies is presented to assist in the understanding of the financial statements. These policies conform to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) and have been consistently applied. The Company has selected December 31 as its financial year end.

For financial reporting purposes, DIGI was considered the accounting acquirer in the Merger and the Merger was therefore accounted for as a reverse merger. Accordingly, the historical financial statements presented herein are those of Digi and do not include the historical financial results of Totaligent through December 3, 2021. The stockholders’ deficit section of Totaligent’s consolidated balance sheets has been retroactively restated for all periods presented to reflect the accounting effect of the reverse merger transaction. The net loss per share and weighted average common shares outstanding also reflect the retroactive restatement for all periods presented. All costs associated with the reverse merger transaction were expensed as incurred. Unless the context indicates otherwise, Totaligent and CSES are hereinafter referred to as the “Company”.

As a result of the Merger, the former stockholders of Digi owned approximately 73.7% of Totaligent’s outstanding shares of common stock immediately following the consummation of the Merger, reflecting effective control at the closing of the transaction. Upon completion of these actions, Edward C. DeFeudis was appointed to the role of CEO and Ben Hansel remained on the board of directors. Accordingly, for legal purposes Totaligent was the legal acquirer and Digi was the legal acquiree, but for accounting purposes, Digi was the accounting acquirer and Totaligent was the accounting acquiree.

Going Concern

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company had a net loss of $402,170, had $1,038,868 in negative working capital, accumulated deficit of $860,127 and stockholders’ deficit of $910,016. As a result, management has concluded that there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date that the accompanying consolidated financial statements are being issued. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon its ability to obtain the necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when they come due, to fund possible future acquisitions, and to generate profitable operations in the future. At December 31, 2023, the Company had cash of $167,735. Management is currently seeking to raise additional funds, primarily through the issuance of debt or equity securities, and estimates that a significant amount of capital will be necessary over a sustained period of time to advance the development of the Company’s business to the point at which it can become commercially viable and self-sustaining. However, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in this regard.

As market conditions present uncertainty as to the Company’s ability to secure additional funds, there can be no assurances that the Company will be able to secure additional financing on acceptable terms, or at all, as and when necessary to continue to conduct operations. A debt financing may contain undue restrictions on the Company’s operations and/or liens on the Company’s tangible and intangible assets, and an equity financing may cause substantial dilution to the Company’s common stockholders. If cash resources are insufficient to satisfy the Company’s ongoing cash requirements, the Company would be required to scale back or discontinue its operations, obtain funds, if available, although there can be no certainty, through strategic alliances that may require the Company to relinquish rights to its technology, or to discontinue its operations entirely.

The development and expansion of the Company’s business in 2024 and thereafter will be dependent on the capital resources available to the Company. No assurances can be given that any future financing will be available or, if available, that it will be on terms that are satisfactory to the Company or adequate to fund the development and expansion of the Company’s business to a level that is commercially viable and self-sustaining.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Totaligent, Inc. and Digi Messaging & Advertising Inc. Digi is a wholly owned subsidiary of Totaligent. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and cash equivalents

The Company maintains cash balances in a non-interest-bearing account that currently does not exceed federally insured limits. For the purpose of the consolidated statements of cash flows, all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less are considered to be cash equivalents. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, our cash balances were $167,735 and $14,001 respectively.

Fair value measurements

Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures ("ASC 820"), provides a comprehensive framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures which are required about fair value measurements. Specifically, ASC 820 sets forth a definition of fair value and establishes a hierarchy prioritizing the inputs to valuation techniques, giving the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities and the lowest priority to unobservable value inputs. ASC 820 defines the hierarchy as follows:

Level 1 – Quoted prices are available in active markets for identical assets or liabilities as of the reported date. The types of assets and liabilities included in Level 1 are highly liquid and actively traded instruments with quoted prices, such as equities listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Level 2 – Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices in active markets but are either directly or indirectly observable as of the reported date. The types of assets and liabilities in Level 2 are typically either comparable to actively traded securities or contracts or priced with models using highly observable inputs.

Level 3 – Significant inputs to pricing that are unobservable as of the reporting date. The types of assets and liabilities included in Level 3 are those with inputs requiring significant management judgment or estimation, such as complex and subjective models and forecasts used to determine the fair value of financial transmission rights.

The Company’s financial instruments consist of our prepaid expenses, accrued compensation, accrued interest, notes payable, convertible notes payable and derivative liabilities. The carrying amounts of the Company’s prepaid expenses, accrued compensation, accrued interest, notes payable, and convertible notes payable approximates their fair values because of the short-term maturities of these instruments. The fair value of derivatives liabilities are valued using an option pricing model.

Treasury stock

Treasury stock is recognized at acquisition cost and are presented as a deduction from shareholder's equity. Upon sale of treasury shares, the realized gain or loss is recognized through the statement of stockholders’ equity in additional paid-in capital.

Related party transactions

A related party is generally defined as (i) any person that holds 10% or more of the Company’s membership interests including such person's immediate families, (ii) Company management, (iii) someone that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the Company, or (iv) anyone who can significantly influence the Company’s financial and operating decisions. A transaction is considered to be a related party transaction when there is a transfer of resources or obligations between related parties.

Convertible Debentures

The Company adopted the guidance in Accounting Standards Updated (“ASU”) 2020-06, Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity on July 1, 2022. ASU 2020-06 simplifies an issuer’s accounting for convertible instruments and its application of the derivatives scope exception for contracts in its own equity. Additionally, ASU 2020-06 removes the requirements for accounting for beneficial conversion features.

The Company adopted ASU 2020-06 utilizing the modified retrospective method, which resulted in an immaterial impact to the Company. Prior to adoption of ASU 2020-06, if the conversion features of conventional convertible debt provided for a rate of conversion that is below market value at issuance, this feature was characterized as a beneficial conversion feature ("BCF").

Derivative Liability

The Company evaluates convertible instruments, options, warrants or other contracts to determine if those contracts or embedded components of those contracts qualify as derivatives to be separately accounted for under ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. The result of this accounting treatment is that the fair value of the derivative is marked-to-market each balance sheet date and recorded as a liability. In the event that the fair value is recorded as a liability, the change in fair value is recorded in the statement of operations as other income (expense). Upon conversion or exercise of a derivative instrument, the instrument is marked to fair value at the conversion date and then that fair value is reclassified to equity. Equity instruments that are initially classified as equity that become subject to reclassification under ASC Topic 815 are reclassified to liabilities at the fair value of the instrument on the reclassification date. The Company currently has no derivative liability instruments.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment is recorded at cost. Major improvements are capitalized, while maintenance and repairs that do not improve or extend the useful life of the respective assets are charged to expense as incurred. Gains and losses from disposition of property and equipment are included in income and expense when realized. Depreciation of property and equipment is provided using the straight-line method over the following estimated useful lives:

Plant equipment	5 years
Computer equipment	5 years
Furniture and fixtures	7 years

Finite-lived Intangible Assets

Our internal software development costs primarily relate to internal-use software. Such costs are capitalized in the application development stage in accordance with ASC 350-40, Internal-use Software ("ASC 350-40"). We also capitalize software development costs upon the establishment of technological feasibility for a product in accordance with ASC 985-20, Software to be Sold, Leased, or Marketed (“ASC 985-20”). Software development costs are amortized on a straight-line basis.

Long-Lived Assets

The Company reviews long-lived assets, consisting primarily of property and equipment, for impairment at each fiscal year end or when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of these assets may exceed their current fair values. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the assets. Assets to be disposed of are separately presented in the consolidated balance sheets and reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell and are no longer depreciated. The Company has not historically recorded any impairment to its long-lived assets. In the future, if events or market conditions affect the estimated fair value to the extent that a long-lived asset is impaired, the Company will adjust the carrying value of these long-lived assets in the period in which the impairment occurs. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had not deemed any long-lived assets as impaired, and was not aware of the existence of any indicators of impairment at such dates.

Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes is computed using the asset and liability method, under which deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, and for operating losses and tax credit carry-forwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the currently enacted tax rates that apply to taxable income in effect for the years in which those tax assets are expected to be realized or settled. The Company records a valuation allowance to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that is believed more likely than not to be realized.

Uncertain tax positions

The Company evaluates tax positions in a two-step process. They first determine whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, based on the technical merits of the position. If a tax position meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, it is then measured to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The tax position is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. The Company classifies gross interest and penalties and unrecognized tax benefits that are not expected to result in payment or receipt of cash within one year as long-term liabilities in the financial statements.

Revenue Recognition

The Company’s revenues are generated from managing branding and awareness campaigns to publicly traded companies and political candidates. These campaigns typically consist of writing landing pages, editorials, creating ads, setting up and managing email, SMS, Push, SEO, PPC and programmatic campaigns, as well as social media marketing. The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606). In accordance with ASC 606, revenue is recognized when promised services are transferred to a customer. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for these services. To achieve this core principle, the Company applies the following five steps:

Identify the contract with a customer.

A contract with a customer exists when (i) the Company enters into an enforceable contract with a customer that defines each party’s rights regarding the services to be transferred and identifies the payment terms related to these services, (ii) the contract has commercial substance and, (iii) the Company determines that collection of substantially all consideration for services that are transferred is probable based on the customer’s intent and ability to pay the promised consideration. The Company applies judgment in determining the customer’s ability and intention to pay, which is based on a variety of factors including the customer’s historical payment experience or, in the case of a new customer, published credit and financial information pertaining to the customer.

Determine the transaction price.

The transaction price is determined based on the consideration to which the Company will be entitled in exchange for transferring services to the customer. To the extent the transaction price includes variable consideration, the Company estimates the amount of variable consideration that should be included in the transaction price utilizing either the expected value method or the most likely amount method depending on the nature of the variable consideration. Variable consideration is included in the transaction price if, in the Company’s judgment, it is probable that a significant future reversal of cumulative revenue under the contract will not occur. None of the Company’s contracts at December 31, 2023 and 2022, contained a significant financing component or variable consideration terms.

Allocate the transaction price to performance obligations in the contract.

If the contract contains a single performance obligation, the entire transaction price is allocated to the single performance obligation. However, if a series of distinct services that are substantially the same qualifies as a single performance obligation in a contract with variable consideration, the Company must determine if the variable consideration is attributable to the entire contract or to a specific part of the contract. Contracts that contain multiple performance obligations require an allocation of the transaction price to each performance obligation based on a relative standalone selling price basis unless the transaction price is variable and meets the criteria to be allocated entirely to a performance obligation or to a distinct service that forms part of a single performance obligation.

Recognize revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

The Company satisfies performance obligations at a point in time. Revenue is recognized at the time the related performance obligation is satisfied by transferring the promised service to a customer. Under both managed services arrangements and self-service arrangements, the Company’s promised services under the contracts include identification, bidding and purchasing of advertisement opportunities. The Company also generally has discretion in establishing the pricing of the ads. Since the Company is controlling the promise to deliver the contracted services, the Company is considered the principal in all arrangements for revenue recognition purposes. The performance obligations are satisfied, and revenue recognition, primarily upon performing the set up on content creation and monthly for the management fees.

Advertising Costs

The Company expenses advertising costs when advertisements occur. No advertising costs were incurred during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Stock-Based Compensation

The cost of equity instruments issued to employees and non-employees in return for goods and services is measured by the grant date fair value of the equity instruments issued in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation. The related expense is recognized as services are rendered or vesting periods elapse.

Net loss per share calculation

Basic earnings (loss) per common share ("EPS") is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average shares outstanding, assuming all dilutive potential common shares were issued. Dilutive loss per share excludes all potential common shares if their effect is anti-dilutive.

The following potential common shares were excluded from the calculation of diluted net income (loss) per share available to common stockholders because their effect would have been antidilutive:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Convertible notes payable		45,221,645		46,915,395
Total		45,221,645		46,915,395

Recently accounting pronouncements

The Company has reviewed all the recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and do not believe any of these pronouncements will have a material impact on our financial statements.