The second a lead comes in, AI takes over the conversation, qualifies it, and books it straight into the calendar — $500 collected before any code was written
40 paying customers · costs <10% of revenue
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[Video] Joseph met his co-founder at a coworking space in Bali; the two launched a "12 startups in 12 months" challenge, and Setter AI is #4 — they've now worked on it about 1.5 years. The pain-point insight: companies that live on sales leads take a day to a week to follow up manually — by then the lead has long gone cold. The validation path is textbook: first a bare-bones landing page with nothing but an AI voice-call demo (no product), and within a few months 20-30 people proactively booked calls; then, without any dashboard whatsoever, they wrapped a YC company's voice AI API and sold the first deal for $500 — collect the money first, build later. Today: $120K ARR (≈$10K MRR), 40 active paid subscriptions, 2,000+ registered users.
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