🚀 Raising $50K–$400K Pre-Seed | AI Operating System for Businesses

Hi everyone—I'm Marwan, founder of AIBotsAutomations.

Most companies don't need another AI chatbot. They need an AI workforce.

We're building AI employees that run sales, operations, customer support, HR, and business workflows from one intelligent platform.

We've already delivered enterprise AI solutions, including helping Golden Carthage Hotel (Tunisia) implement AI across multiple departments, laying the foundation for what we believe is the country's first dedicated AI-driven hotel operations initiative.

Now we're raising $50K–$400K to scale globally and become the AI infrastructure powering the next generation of businesses.

If you're an angel investor looking for a founder building beyond AI wrappers and into real enterprise infrastructure, let's talk.

I’ve been in contact with a lot of web agencies and web developers, and I personally haven’t found many people who run their agency in a more efficient way than I do. A lot of them have too many meetings, wait too long for client approval, don’t know how to price projects, and spend way too much time on each client instead of finishing the work and moving on to the next one.

I’ve been running my agency for four years, and after a lot of trial and error, I’ve managed to make the process as efficient as possible. I wanted to share some of the steps because I think they could be valuable for anyone just starting out.

Running a web agency alone or with a partner isn’t easy because there are a lot of things to take care of. When it comes to client acquisition, I recommend focusing on either cold calling or email automation. Which one you choose depends on whether you run the agency alone or with someone else.

If you have a partner, one person can handle sales while the other focuses on building websites, connecting domains, setting up emails, and taking care of the technical work. If you’re running the agency alone, or neither of you enjoys cold calling, I highly recommend email automation.

That’s what I’ve been doing for years. It’s powerful because you can send emails at scale, set up automatic follow ups, and wait for businesses interested in a new website to reply. While you’re working on one client, another opportunity can come in without you having to stop everything and search manually.

I don’t do regular email automation where I target businesses with no website. I do the opposite and target businesses that already have one.

I use a tool called Swokei to find businesses with websites, add them to campaigns, analyze each site, score it, and generate personalized outreach emails based on problems it finds with the design, layout, speed, SEO, and mobile optimization.I schedule the campaign, set up follow ups, and wait. 

I think this approach is much better for a few reasons. You’re targeting someone who already understands the value of having a website. You’re also not just asking whether they need a redesign. You’re pointing out real problems with their current site, which makes it clear that you actually took the time to look at it. Selling also becomes easier because they’ve already paid for a website before and understand the process.

Inside Swokei, you can choose the goal of the campaign. You can offer a free draft, try to book a meeting, or simply start a conversation. I always choose the free draft because that has worked best for me.

Once you’ve figured out how to get clients, the next part is building the website. I recommend using AI because it makes the process much faster. For anyone who still thinks AI can’t build great websites, I think they’re mistaken. You can use Claude, Base44, Lovable, or any other tool that works for you.

When someone replies interested, I call them and say, “Hey, I saw that you replied to my email. I’ve already built you a free draft of your website. Do you want to take a look?”

Then I invite them to a Google Meet.

At that point, it becomes much harder for them to reject the meeting because they already replied interested and now know you’ve built something for them. During the meeting, I present the website, explain why it’s better than their current one, stack the value, answer their questions, and try to close the deal.

These meetings usually go well because the client isn’t trying to imagine what the website might look like. They can already see a better version of their current site. They also took the time to join the meeting, so taking the next step becomes much easier.

I either take payment during the meeting or send them a contract to sign. Any changes and updates come after that, once we already have a deal in place.

Pricing depends on the business. I charge anywhere from $500 to $3,000 depending on the company, the size of the project, and how much value the website can bring them. I also charge a monthly retainer of around $50 for hosting, maintenance, support, SEO, and future changes.

That’s basically the entire process. Smaller steps, faster delivery, less wasted time, and more money made.

Hey, looking for an attorney who’d be open to working for equity with Shema. We’re building an anonymous peer support platform for people in recovery and navigating mental health challenges, and we’re currently raising our pre-seed round. Need legal help around privacy, compliance, and corporate structuring as we head into beta.

If you’re a lawyer who cares about mental health and mission-driven work and would consider equity instead of cash right now, DM me. Happy to share more about what we’re building and how you’d fit in.

There is a new approach I started using in my web agency that completely changed my results. For years, I did what most people tell web designers to do. Go on Google Maps, find businesses without websites, and contact them.

What I started doing differently was targeting businesses that already had websites.

The reason is simple. If a business already has a website, it means they understand the value of having one. You do not need to convince them why a website matters because they have already paid for one before. The market for businesses with outdated, broken, slow, or poorly designed websites is also massive, and selling becomes much easier because they are already familiar with the process.

My biggest issue was figuring out how to send mass outreach to these businesses without sounding generic. I did not want to send thousands of emails saying, “Hey, your website needs a redesign,” and just assume that every business needed one. I wanted to send emails at scale while still telling each company exactly what was wrong with their website.

A little over a year ago, I watched a YouTube video from Nick Saraev where he built a workflow that analyzed business websites and turned issues with design, SEO, layout, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails. Each company received a professional email that made it clear someone had actually taken a look at their website.

The idea was great, but building and maintaining the workflow took a lot of time. I still had to find the leads myself, the messages were not always consistent, and the automation kept breaking.

But it worked.

I was getting more clients than ever before, at one point around 10 websites a week, while my business partner focused on building the websites as quickly as possible.

I started searching online for a tool that could do everything in one place, and a few months later I found Swokei. It did exactly what I was looking for.

It lets you find businesses with websites, add them to campaigns, analyze and score each website, and set a quality threshold so websites that do not need fixing are automatically skipped. It then turns problems with design, layout, speed, mobile optimization, and SEO into personalized outreach emails.

You can also set up follow ups, manage replies through your own inbox, and organize leads inside the CRM without moving between five different tools.

I switched over and scaled even harder.

Sometimes the fastest way to grow your agency is not building every workflow from scratch. It is finding the right tools and using your time to focus on sales, clients, and growing the business.

Hi everyone,

I run an influencer marketing agency with creators across multiple niches. I'm looking to partner with freelancers, agencies, or individuals who are good at bringing in brands.

If you can acquire clients, I'll handle creator sourcing, campaign execution, and communication. Revenue-sharing model.

If you're interested, feel free to DM me.

So I’m writing this for anyone running a web agency who’s struggling to get consistent clients or build scalable systems. I understand how stressful it can be because I was in the exact same position.

I’ve been running my web agency for 4 years, but only in the last year did I start using AI seriously, and honestly it changed everything for me.

I used to build websites on WordPress and do all my outreach manually. It worked, but it was inconsistent and exhausting. Once I started implementing AI into my business, I went from constantly chasing clients to doing around $20k/month recurring.

This is basically what changed for me.

At first I was targeting businesses with no websites, but switching to businesses that already had websites worked way better.

There are SO many businesses with outdated websites that clearly need upgrading. Plus, these business owners already understand the value of having a website because they’ve already paid for one before. It’s way easier convincing someone to improve something they already believe in than trying to convince someone from zero.

The second big shift was moving from manual outreach to automated email outreach that actually feels personalized. Instead of sending generic emails, I now use a tool that mass analyzes a business’s website and generates personalized outreach based on things like design issues, SEO problems, site speed, mobile optimization, and overall user experience.

The third thing that changed everything was offering a free redesigned draft version of their current website.

Realistically, who says no to free?

I can build these drafts really quickly using Claude Code, and most of the time they already look way more modern than the client’s existing site. Once business owners see a better version of their own company in front of them, selling becomes way easier.

Another huge mistake I used to make was just sending preview links through email.

They open it later when they’re busy, nobody’s there to explain the improvements properly, and eventually the lead goes cold.

Now I always present the website live on Google Meet and try to close them on the spot. That alone massively increased my close rate.

Also, always charge upfront for the website build, but don’t ignore monthly recurring revenue. Hosting, maintenance, edits, SEO, ongoing changes, etc. That’s where stability comes from if you actually want predictable income every month instead of constantly hunting for new clients.

For anyone curious about the tools I use, it’s honestly pretty simple.

Swokei for outreach. I find businesses with websites there and it analyzes each business website, scores it, and turns flaws in design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails automatically. Pointing out actual issues on their website increased my reply rates massively.

Claude Code for building websites. And honestly, people saying AI built websites don’t perform well are just wrong. If you know what you’re doing, you can build pretty much anything now.

And Cloudflare for hosting client websites.

That’s pretty much the system I run now.

Trying to decide the name of our platform that connects companies with vetted freelance teams for custom projects, not a marketplace like Upwork.

• flinkr
• 2match
• La Freelancería

Made a form to make the voting easier: https://forms.gle/zCnrSoBxGxrgmM736

Which one sounds more professional/trustworthy for a B2B service like this? And first word or feeling that comes to mind when you read each one?

Appreciate any honest takes 🙏

Hey everyone, I recently built a website that helps users find free parking spots near their location. The idea is to help people avoid expensive parking fees and make parking easier.
I’ve finished creating the website, but I’m not sure what the best next steps are. For those who have built websites or launched startups:
How do I get my first users?
What are the best ways to validate if people actually need this?
Should I focus on SEO, social media, partnerships, or something else?
How do I collect feedback and improve the product?
Would love to hear advice from people who have launched apps/websites before. Thanks!

Every one of these feels fine at 10 stakeholders. The gap only shows the moment you cross into real option grant territory and the per person pricing kicks in. On pricing, carta and pulley both bill in a way that climbs with headcount, so a growing option pool quietly turns into a line item you defend to your board every year Besides the free tier, and for a cap table software, Mantle's flat pricing includes unlimited stakeholders on every plan, which is why it shows up once teams smack into the 25-stakeholder wall other tools put in front of them. That ceiling is a real migration trigger for a lot of people. On the edges, eq vista sits at the budget end and ledgy leans european, both worth a look depending on where your entity actually sits. Short answer, past 25 stakeholders the question stops being about features and becomes about how the price behaves as you keep hiring. Anyone regret their pick after they scaled?

Our carta renewal is up next month and the quote came in noticeably higher than last year, mostly because we added headcount and the pricing scales with stakeholders. The tool itself works fine, no complaints on function, it's purely the cost curve that's got me looking around.

Switching feels like a hassle right when we're heavy into hiring but paying more every single year as we grow also feels dumb if flatter options exist. For anyone who changed equity management platform at renewal instead of just resigning the contract, was the migration actually painful or did you end up wishing you'd done it sooner?

I own a business where we create visual renderings for commercial property renovations and developments. I have contacts within commercial real estate and several major franchisor brands are currently interested. 11 paying customers currently. Seeking $250,000 in capital. Already have a pitch deck, business plan, and existing customers. Any interest?

Hi everyone,

I've been researching the cosmetics and beauty industry and I'm curious to hear different perspectives.

If you could change or improve one thing about the industry, what would it be?

Some ideas:

• New product concepts

• Sustainable or eco-friendly packaging

• Personalized skincare using AI or technology

• Better ingredients or transparency

• Affordable luxury products

• Solutions for underserved skin tones or skin conditions

• Better online shopping experiences

• Refillable or zero-waste cosmetics

I'm looking for fresh ideas, unmet customer needs, or pain points that current brands aren't solving well.

Hi everyone,

I’m one of the founders of iGentity.ai, an AI platform that helps startups create and manage social media content without stitching together five different tools and subscriptions.

We already have paying users, but we recently made a significant pivot toward startups — especially companies building products that are innovative, technical, or simply difficult to explain.

We’re now adapting the platform around challenges we kept hearing from startup founders and marketing teams:

• Turning complex products and ideas into content people can actually understand
• Building the founder’s personal brand alongside the company brand
• Creating UGC-style content using personalized AI avatars
• Producing content for multiple social platforms from one place
• Using top-tier LLMs and creative models behind the scenes, without managing separate subscriptions for every tool
• Maintaining a consistent understanding of the company, product, audience, voice, and evolving story over time
• Combining AI-generated content with the startup’s real, authentic materials — conference moments, employee photos, product videos, company updates, and behind-the-scenes content — as part of the ongoing content calendar

That last part is especially important to us. We don’t believe a startup’s content should look like it was generated in a vacuum. The platform is designed to take the real things happening inside the company and turn them into an active part of the content plan, so the output feels more human, specific, and authentic.

The “brain” behind the platform is inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki approach: instead of treating every prompt as a new, isolated task, the system builds and maintains a living knowledge base about the startup. The goal is for the content to become more accurate and useful as the platform learns more about the company.

But we know that building for startups is not the same as building with startups.

So we’re looking for 5–6 design partners who already have some form of funding — even a small friends-and-family round — and are actively trying to improve their content and social presence.

Selected startups will receive full access to all platform features for one month, completely free.

During that month, you’ll be able to create, plan, adapt, and manage content across your social channels, as well as experiment with founder content, avatars, images, video, and your own existing company materials.

In return, we’re looking for honest, direct feedback:

What’s missing?
What’s confusing?
What still feels too generic?
What would make this genuinely useful for your startup every week?

We’re looking for a small group of founders and teams who are willing to use the product properly and help us shape the next version.

Interested? Comment here or send me a DM with:

1. A few words about your startup
2. Your current stage and funding
3. Who currently handles your content
4. The biggest content or social media challenge you’re facing

Happy to share more details and a product demo privately.

Hi everyone,

Lately, I've been thinking more seriously about investing in SEO for my business, but I'm still

unsure whether it's really worth the cost.

On one hand, many people say organic search traffic is one of the most profitable customer

acquisition channels in the long run. On the other hand, I keep coming across stories from

business owners who paid agencies for years without seeing any meaningful growth.

I'd love to hear from people who have been through the process.

Specifically:

● Did you see a real increase in leads or sales?

● How long did it take before you noticed results?

● Did you hire an agency or build an in-house team?

● Was the investment worthwhile?

I'm looking for honest opinions rather than promotional responses.

Does SEO still make sense as an investment today, or are there better channels to focus

on?

Hi everyone,

I'm Saadullah, an AI Engineer focused on AI agents, machine learning, and intelligent automation.

I enjoy solving real business problems whether that's automating workflows, building AI assistants, or integrating LLMs into SaaS products.

I'm here to learn, contribute to discussions, and connect with founders and builders working on interesting products.

Looking forward to being part of the community.