Keywork is a new capital solution for real economy businesses. Our investment comes with an AI assisted operating system product to supercharge your business.
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Real businesses deserve real backing. Keywork is here! Learn more at keywork.co
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An excellent in-depth profile of Keywork founding partner @immigreating! Nitin covered a lot of ground including his background, Keywork’s unique capital + AI offering
Nitin Pachisia of Keywork has built a venture model for the real economy -- roofing, auto-repair, daycares, waste management. "Unlike AI roll-ups, where they talk about margin lift, we think the primary metric is the number of hours saved for the owner." vcuncovered.substack.com/p/n…
Main Street businesses deserve a fund built for them.
Our funding application is now open. Building, buying, or growing a local business? If you need early-stage capital, we want to hear from you.
Apply → keywork.co/founders
Our 1st Keyworkers Community event is here! Join us for practical advice on raising $$ for an early stage SMB. From an investor who has funded dozens of SMBs & an operator who has successfully raised for his own businesses. 👉🏾 keywork.co/founders 👈🏾
this is exactly why we built Keywork OS. SMB founders are leaving a lot on the table simply because they don't have the time to discover, validate, integrate, and maintain the right AI tools for their business. Keywork does that for our portfolio comapnies 🙌🏽
My friend Corey makes $1,000/hour doing the simplest AI business I've seen all year.
Only 5% of businesses use AI beyond ChatGPT, the other 95% need you.
He sits with a small business owner for 45 minutes, finds where they lose 5-10 hours a week, and prescribes off-the-shelf AI tools that fix it. He charges $999 for that assessment.
He's a doctor writing prescriptions. The tools already exist. He just knows which ones. Everyone wins.
50% of his clients then hire him to implement it, and that's where the $1,000/hour work comes from.
Corey came on the podcast @startupideaspod and gave away a full course for free.
Like actually the full way you can copy his system and run it yourself on your own:
- The exact offer (with a money-back guarantee that makes it a no-brainer)
- The 4-phase system to deliver it
- A template you can download and use today
- 6 things to upsell after the assessment
- 7 ways to get clients with zero audience and zero capital
Even if you never start this exact business, watching @coreyganim break it down will get your brain working on your own productized AI service. That's the real reason to press play.
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=dhbcVxYh…
Or watch below (1hr course)
Yeah, I know it's an hour. But if you're serious about startup ideas in the AI age right now, this is one of the most useful hours you'll spend all week. Corey holds nothing back.
I love this era. A laptop, a few conversations, and a real business.
Go get it.
Keywork is built on the thesis that vertical AI for "boring businesses" is very interesting. Great to see big players catching on!
While enterprises were tokenmaxing, SMBs are quietly adopting AI for real use cases with *real results.*
Probook just raised $40M (a16z + Sequoia) to own dispatch for HVAC, plumbing, electrical. A midwest customer booked 2,500 jobs in a month with zero human dispatchers.
40% of small business owners plan to retire within a decade, and 70% have no formal succession plan. [source: JPMorgan Chase succession survey] This gap is the biggest buying opportunity in the real economy!
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We founded @HelloKeywork on this exact thesis: real-economy businesses won't vibe-code their way to AI adoption. Good to see PE + OpenAI + Anthropic come at it from the enterprise end, while we bring AI adoption in real-economy businesses at the earliest stages.
this is exactly why we built Keywork - to fund ambitious operators to build and run real business with an "AI operating system" as their secret sauce
A lot of smart people are paralyzed right now - convinced AI is going to change everything but not doing anything about it.
The people I'm not worried about are the ones buying a $500k HVAC company and using AI to cut their back-office costs in half.
Pick a business, use the tools to boost efficiency, and let everyone else argue about what's coming.