AI Project Collabs
Apply to List Your AI Startup — Curated, Not Auto-Approved
Apply to list your early-stage startup for free. You get a landing page with a diagnostic waitlist for validating your market with real buyer segments, signals, and contact info. Each application is reviewed by me.
HOW AI STARTUPS ARE WINNING
Fast, cheap market validation experiments
In a world where AI startups are a dime a dozen, independent feedback helps entrepreneurs break through the noise
Feedback from real prospective buyers
Potential buyers and partners in your social network or online communities answering questions to help guide your strategy and build your pipeline.
Youpose questions and post online
Othersanswer questions
Samprovide you the responses and the respondents
Help from experienced founders, like me
I have services for helping founders find market-fit and build momentum. Answer a few questions.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Nothing. Listing is free.
If you are approved, your project gets its own page on this site, with a backlink for 90 days. The /projects page shows the three newest listings first, then the rest by waitlist size. Each week I pick a few to share with my network in the Working Theory newsletter and on LinkedIn. And every visitor takes the diagnostic before joining your waitlist, so you get buyer segments and what they need, not just email addresses.
I read every application myself and reply within a week, yes or no. I list early-stage AI projects with a real problem and a founder who will act on the signal.
Because a list of opinions proves nothing. The diagnostic records what people do: pick an urgency band, name a price, say what they already pay for, under their own name on a date. That is evidence you can put in front of an investor. What actually counts as traction →
Edit the words, keep the shape. Six categories, one question each, single-select, price as bands and never open text. The post walks through every field and what each one defends later. Read it before you apply →
Twenty of the right people. Send your page to twenty named people who match your problem, one at a time, then twenty more. Do not broadcast it: a general audience adds curious people who inflate the count and prove nothing.
The diagnostic is the better next step — it reads where your business is and tells you where to start. Find where to start →
A listed project is your validation work, run in the open on /projects: it goes up as we run it, with my read on what you are testing and how to test it cheaply. What it is not: a plan, a program, or a paid engagement. It costs nothing. No collab has been published yet — when one is, it will be on /projects.
Three steps. Apply — the form, in three short parts: your project, the diagnostic your visitors will take, then your contact info. Get a decision — I read every application myself and reply within a week, yes or no. Run it in public — we scope it on a call, then the work goes up on /projects as it happens.
Yes. AI Project Collabs are coached working sessions, not advice calls: we do real work on your project together. You leave with progress shipped, tokens spent well, and the skills to keep going on your own. Four ways to start:
- Discovery (free) → Working Session (paid)
- Market Validation → Pick the right bet, test it cheaply, land the first customers who prove it.
- Business Launch → The whole launch: market, best-fit customers, positioning, messaging, site.
- Business Systems → Design your growth plan and operationalize your AI sales and marketing playbook.