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Stop Being a 'Team of One'. Meet Your New Co-founders

August 21, 2025
AICE Team
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Stop Being a 'Team of One'. Meet Your New Co-founders

Stop Being a "Team of One." Meet Your New Co-founders.

If you’re a founder, you know the feeling.

It’s that late-night realisation that you are the CEO, the Head of Marketing, the Lead Developer, the Sales team, and the office administrator, all at once. You’re fueled by a world-changing vision, but you’re bogged down by a thousand tiny tasks that pull you away from what truly matters: building your product and talking to your customers.

We know this because we’ve lived it. AICE was born from our own experience as builders who were frustrated by the constant context-switching and operational chaos of the startup grind. We call this relentless drain on your time and focus the "Founder Tax".

The Crushing Weight of the "Founder Tax"

The Founder Tax is the invisible force that pushes so many great ideas to the brink. It's the sum of all the essential, yet low-leverage tasks that consume your days. Our research shows that early-stage founders spend upwards of 20-25 hours every single week on this manual work.

Think about that. It's half of a full-time job spent on scheduling, reporting, lead research, and administrative follow-ups. It’s the single biggest driver of burnout, and it’s what keeps you trapped working in your business, instead of on it.

The market offers a dizzying array of tools that promise a solution, but they often create more complexity, a "SaaS sprawl" of disconnected apps that weren't built for the scrappy, agile reality of a founder.

We believe founders don’t need another tool. You need a team.

Introducing AICE Team: Your AI Co-founders

This is our core belief: AI's true power isn't just task automation, it's team augmentation.

That’s why we built AICE Team. We aren’t giving you a better chatbot or a more complex workflow builder. We are giving you a team. An "AI Co-founder" is a specialised, collaborative AI team designed to give you the leverage and expertise of a real executive team, instantly.

Imagine this "magic moment":

You open a simple, conversational canvas and type: "Find 10 potential investors for our pre-seed round, research their portfolios for conflicts, and draft personalised intro emails for the top 3."

Instantly, you see your AI Research and Comms teammates emerge. They collaborate, exchange information, and present you with the finished work in minutes. That’s the feeling of leverage. That's the power of managing a team, not just using a tool.

This Is What It Means for You

When you have a dedicated AI team, the entire dynamic of your startup changes.

  • End the Chaos: You get an instant executive team to handle the operational boilerplate, so you can focus on the big picture.
  • Eliminate the Cost: You gain C-suite level expertise in areas like fundraising and marketing at a fraction of the cost of a single hire.
  • Reclaim Your Time: You get those 20-25 hours back. That’s more time to build, more time to sell, and more time to be the visionary your company needs.

We are building AICE Team because we are founder-obsessed. Our entire strategy is built on serving the millions of aspiring and early-stage founders who are ignored by the enterprise-focused giants.

Your journey is hard enough. You shouldn't have to do it alone.

Ready to meet your team?

We are launching our private beta soon. Join the waitlist to be among the first to experience your AI Co-founders and become a founding member of a community built for founders, by founders.