Heinrich Vardelin has spent the last 15 years that help entrepreneurs to manufacture big brands like Barkbox through their startup studios EbbhusNow, with its new, New York -based venture AudisHe is betting that AI can help him to increase the process “thousands of thousands” for business owners “from” tens of “from” tens of “from” tens “.
Time definitely feels right. Large -scale trimming in different types of industries has left many workers to reconsider their career paths, while AI devices have clearly reduced the barrier in manufacturing digital products and services. Wordelin is the latest venture in the center of the Wayne diagram, which has his own promise to help “make everyday entrepreneurs to create million dollars AI companies” without the need for technical skills.
The journey from Prehype to Audos of Werdelin currently reflects the comprehensive change in entrepreneurship. In Prehype, the focus on working with technical founders to create traditional startups was focused on the way millions can increase and aim to exit the Arab-Dollar.
Now, he explains Techcrunch, “What we are trying to do is all knowledge, all functioning that we have created in the years of building all these big companies, and are actually trying to democratic it.”
The idea is that “everyday entrepreneurs” can understand that there is a change, but may not be eager to know how to experiment with the so -called AI agents or reach customers. Audos is happy to help them, these individuals supply these individuals with AI tools to manufacture sophisticated products using the natural language, and take advantage of them social media algorithms to find their top customers.
“Facebook and many of these platforms are just incredible algorithms, and they are incredible to detect a customer group (how to reach their customer),” called Wordelin, “who co-installed Audos with his preheip partner Nicolas Thorn. In fact, Audos uses this system to quickly tested whether the founder’s commercial idea is the durable customer acquisition cost.
The approach is working. Audos has helped launch “less hundreds” of businesses since its beta launch, their own customers have discovered the platform through Instagram advertisements, “Have you ever thought of starting something, but don’t know where to go?” Among them, Vordelin says, there are car mechanics who want to help people evaluate repair quotations, a person who is selling “after” death logistics “services, virtual golf swing coaches and AI nutritionist. In a vinking context for billion-dollar businesses, or so-called marks, he says” Doncorn teams “in a vinking context for billion-dollar businesses, or so-called marks.
All passed through the same process: They clicked on Audos’s advertisement, its AI agent started a conversation to detect problems that they want to deal with these individuals and they want to serve, and when it was satisfied with the answers, Audos found them as soon as possible.
For returns, Audos works on a fundamentally different model than traditional accelerator or enterprise capital. Instead of taking equity, the company takes 15% revenue stake from businesses that help launch it. In turn, founders get up to $ 25,000 in funding, access to those AI-operated business development equipment, and help with distribution (again, mainly through social media advertising).
“We are not taking any equity in their business,” says Wordelin. There is not much point. “We don’t think these companies can be sold anytime,” they say. “We are really inspired by mother-and-pap shops that are the backbone of our society.”
Similar to the platform fees charged by Apple’s App Store, the revenue stake continues indefinitely. For founders, this means that a significant part of their revenue is always given – a 15% deduction that can give entrepreneurs to a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars over time. Some will undoubtedly see that business as meaningful; Other people may question whether the long -term cost justifies the profit.
The price proposal of Audos also raises other questions, given how soon the landscape is changing. While wordelin insists on helping founders having relationships with customers, it is not clear how much AI agents can actually do. There is also a matter of discrimination. As Vordelin easily accepts, “the world is full of these devices” and they are getting better rapidly. What happens when entrepreneurs can reach equal AI capabilities without paying permanent revenue tax?
Audos’s VCS are not worried about those scenarios. True Ventures led Audos’s $ 11.5 million seed round, with partner Tony Conrad interpret an appeal in a zoom call this week. In addition to being confident in wordelin and thorn, Conrad says, “I think there are lots of people and many” who can eagerly embrace the opportunity to work with an audose such as Audos.
Conrad draws similarities with only 13 employees to exit the Instagram $ 1 billion, suggests that AI can take even more profit, even though Audos – which gives employment to all themselves perfectly employs only five people – is not pursuing the unicorn. As Vordelin explains, “What we are doing here, there are millions of people who can create a million-dollar business or half million dollars business that are turning real and life.”
Werdelin separately connects why he increased Audos, “what we are trying to do is to find out how you make a million companies that make a million dollars (in annual revenue). It’s a trillion dollar turnover business.”
Through 2025, it is not crazy. Extending the benefits of entrepreneurship for those who traditionally had no access to startup capital or technical skills, a rapidly hypnotic proposal because traditional employment begins to feel less and less stable.
“We believe that there should be someone who goes out and actually helps these small entrepreneurs who are making something that is not something that is not higher,” says Vordelin. “We believe that the world is better with more entrepreneurship.”
Other Audos’s other investors include offline venture and bungalow capital, as well as several high-profile Angel investors-nickels Zenstrom and Mario Shloser.
Painted above, left to right, Audos co-founder Nicholas Thorn and Heinrich Vardelin.
