
- July 13, 2023
- By Farzad Khosravi
Leveraging AI to build systems in your startup
AI is the number #1 startup funding area in 2023.
Looking at Y Combinator’s first 2023 batch as it’s released so far (and expected to grow), 51 of the growing 183 are AI startups, 32 of which classify themselves as generative AI. (source: Caleb Naysmith)

Every major tech company is working actively on AI.
Notion, Hubspot, Apollo, and every other tool that I use on a daily basis integrated AI into their systems.
Some people are even letting ChatGPT be the CEO of their company.
We’re only at the beginning of this trend and there is a lot of opportunity to do amazing stuff.
But how can we actually build systems and products with AI that are going to benefit our startup and customers?
Let’s jump in 👇
Identify areas for AI integration:
Start by identifying specific areas within your startup where AI can make a significant impact. Some thoughts:
- Customer service: Train a bot to be the ChatGPT of your company for customers. ChatBase a fantastic tool for this purpose.
- Internal Communications: Similarly, you can have a ChatGPT bot in Slack to answer employee questions. Once again, I recommend Chatbase
- Product Development: Analyze hundreds of data points in seconds and come up with data-based feature requests
- Marketing: Improve how quickly you make videos, images, and more with AI.
- Finding product-market fit → A great post on using GPT for this purpose on Indiehackers called Can ChatGPT help you reach product-market fit?
Choose the right AI tools and models:
I have listed a bunch of AI tools below, but do your research and choose the ones that align with your business needs. 👇
Rationale AI: AI assists business owners and managers in making rational decisions.
Algorithmia: Deploy and scale ML models in the cloud. Good for startups looking to implement their own AI model.
CleverTap: An AI-powered mobile marketing automation platform that can help startups increase user engagement and retention.
Phind: The AI search engine for developers. Code your startup faster, fix bugs sooner, and get more done.
Appier: AI-powered marketing automation platform that can help you optimize your ad campaigns and increase your ROI.
You can view more at https://nobsstartupguide.com/top-ai-tools-for-startups-in-2023/
Hire an AI engineer to help:
Here how you can do this:
- Identify the specific expertise needed.
- Explore platform where you can find Good engineers, here are some of them.
Alternatively, you can also use LinkedIn and GitHub to find great engineers.
Data is the KEY 🔑
Common areas to look at:
- OpenAI Whisper: A tool by OpenAI for speech recognition and transcription.
- Kaggle Datasets: Provides a wide range of datasets for machine learning projects.
- Google Dataset Search: Helps discover publicly available datasets for research and analysis
You can use DATA from recorded interviews, support tickets, emails, and notes to fine-train your ML models.
The more diverse and high-quality data you have, the better your AI models can perform.

Your focus when leveraging AI in your startup is not to just integrate AI but to solve a customer problem, by applying AI.
The ML and AI landscape is a fast-paced, ever-changing domain. To stay ahead, you must commit to continuous learning and development.
That’s all for this week.
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