Your startup advisor, there every day
solvee is an AI business advisor for early-stage founders. It learns your business, questions your assumptions, and tells you the next move that matters. Every day, from $49 a month.
From $49 a month · No equity · No retainer
What does a startup advisor do?
A startup advisor is an experienced operator or expert who helps founders make better decisions. They pressure-test your strategy, share lessons from companies they have seen succeed and fail, open doors to customers, hires and investors, and hold you accountable. Most advise part time, meeting every few weeks.
What a good advisor helps with
- Focus. Which customer to serve first, and what to stop doing.
- Market. Who you compete with, including the customer doing nothing.
- Offer and pricing. What to sell, and what to charge for it.
- Fundraising. When to raise, how much, and how to tell the story.
- Network. Introductions you could not get on your own.
- Accountability. Someone who notices when you drift.
How founders usually pay an advisor
Early-stage advisors are often paid in equity, commonly a small stake under 1% that vests over one to two years, set out in a standard advisor agreement. Others charge a monthly retainer. Experienced business coaches typically start around $1,000 a month.
solvee is an advisor you pay for in dollars, not in your company: from $49 a month, no equity, no retainer.
A great human advisor is worth a lot. Most early founders cannot get enough of one.
A human advisor brings things no software can: a network, lived experience in your industry, and the judgment of someone who has made these calls before. If you can find the right one, keep them.
But at the earliest stage, three things get in the way.
Access
The advisors you want are busy, and they choose who they help. Before you have traction, it is hard to get their attention.
Time between conversations
You meet every few weeks. Your decisions happen every day, and most of them are made alone.
Context
An advisor sees your business for an hour at a time. You spend part of every meeting catching them up, and their advice can only be as good as the picture you give them.
None of this is a flaw in human advisors. It is the shape of the arrangement. What early founders often need most is something in between: daily guidance that knows their business, before they have the network that brings the right human advisor.
What an AI business advisor does differently
solvee is not a chatbot you prompt. It is a business advisor that builds a picture of your business, then advises against it, every day.
It learns your business before it advises.
solvee starts with structured questions about your customer, your offer and your market. It finds the gaps in its own picture, then builds a lasting understanding of one business: yours.
It is there when the decision is.
Every day, your business advisor turns your situation into direction: what to focus on, what to fix, and what to do next.
It pushes back.
solvee questions your assumptions instead of agreeing by default. Your decisions rest on evidence, not enthusiasm.
It says what it does not know.
Before it answers, it checks your question against what it knows about your business. If that is not enough, it tells you and asks.
It runs on proven methods.
Guidance is anchored to established frameworks, such as April Dunford's approach to positioning, so it stays grounded in what has worked for other companies.
From $49 a month. No equity, no retainer.
Human advisor, AI chat, or AI business advisor?
| Human advisor | General AI chat | solvee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knows your business | What you tell them each meeting | Only what you paste into each chat | Builds and keeps a picture of your business |
| Available | Every few weeks | Any time | Every day |
| Pushes back | The good ones do | Usually goes along with you | By design |
| Admits what it does not know | Yes | Often answers confidently anyway | Checks first, asks when unsure |
| Network and introductions | Yes, often the main reason to have one | No | No |
| Industry experience | Yes, when well matched | General knowledge | Proven frameworks, not lived experience |
| Cost | Equity, or $1,000+ a month | Low | From $49 a month |
No single option does everything. That is the point of the next section.
Use both. Arrive at every mentor meeting prepared.
The best setup is not one or the other. solvee handles the daily work: clarifying your customer, testing your positioning, deciding what to do this week. Your human mentor or advisor gets a founder who already knows the open questions, so every hour together goes to judgment, experience and introductions instead of catching up.
Founder communities are already working this way. In our first partner community, mentors use solvee to see which founders are moving, which are stuck, and where to help next.
How your AI business advisor works
- 1
See where you stand.
Enter your website. solvee scores your customer, value proposition, positioning and offer from 1 to 10, and names the three gaps to fix first. Free.
- 2
Build your foundation.
A guided program takes you through your ideal customer, your market, your value proposition and your positioning, tested against real customer conversations, not assumptions.
- 3
Get daily direction.
Your business advisor knows all of it. Ask it anything, and it tells you what to focus on, what to fix, and what to do next. When it needs more context, it asks first.
Prefer to work on paper first? The free templates for Ideal Customer Profile, Market Research, Value Proposition and Positioning Strategy are included in solvee's guided program.
New to the terms? Start with the ideal customer profile, product-market fit and the positioning statement, or browse the full startup glossary.
What founders say
“It allows me to go deeper, and I feel like I can trust the output in a way that I haven't always been able to in other situations. And especially for solo founders, having that kind of always-on advisor is something we really need.”
Kim RichardsFounder and CEO, Caring for MamaWatch the story →“If you wanna make it into a real business, I think that that's where the real work is.”
Claire WagnerFounder and CEO, BuildhopWatch the story →Every good advisor starts with a diagnosis
Before advice, an advisor needs to see where your business stands. Enter your website and solvee shows you how your customer, value proposition, positioning and offer score today, and the three gaps that matter most.
Ready for daily guidance? Start with solvee, from $49 a month.