The path from idea to realization can be magical and validating for entrepreneurs. Despite many individuals having business ideas and believing they have the resources to start a business, a significant gap exists in the actual number of businesses started. This gap is attributed to challenges such as not knowing where to start, being overwhelmed by numerous tasks, and lacking momentum. Encouraging individuals to switch from creation mode to edit mode, taking small steps to build momentum, can increase the likelihood of success in business creation by getting people out of their heads and providing a structured approach.
Nicholas Thorne is building Squarespace for the AI age. It’s called Audos, and it’s an AI chatbot to help any entrepreneur go from idea to:
- Pitch deck
- Working website
- Custom GPT
- User interviews with real customers
All in just a few minutes. And he did it using ChatGPTapp. It’s AI all the way down—and it’s one of the most impressive AI businesses I’ve ever seen.
Nicholas is a general partner at Prehype, an incubator that launched Barkbox and Ro Health. It’s also where I started Every, so it was great to come full circle.
Nicholas’s job at Prehype is to launch new companies. He’s taken everything he’s learned running an incubator and used it to help entrepreneurs start businesses at scale—with AI.
As we talk, Nicholas walks me through the interactions of Audos’s chatbot with a user live on the show.
Nicholas tells me that he used ChatGPT to prototype most of Audos’s features—despite being non-technical himself. He shares exactly how he did this by showing me how he’s using AI to create a new feature for the product.
We get into:
- Ways AI can make you a more effective founder
- How to use ChatGPT to build your prototype
- Strategies to refine problem statements with AI
- Using GPTs to gather and synthesize customer feedback
This episode is a must-watch for anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of starting a business—and wants to do it with AI.If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Teaser
00:00:48 - Introduction
00:12:10 - How AI can make you a more effective founder
00:17:03 - Live demo of Audos!
00:24:07 - Why Nicholas built an AI tool to enable entrepreneurs
00:25:35 - How Audos puts you in “edit mode” instead of “create mode”
00:28:12 - Tools to gather customer feedback, generated by Audos
00:32:58 - How Audos actually works
00:35:07 - Nicholas uses ChatGPT to prototype a new feature
00:42:37 - How to establish checks and balances while using ChatGPT
00:57:20 - AI as a force for pushing entrepreneurship to new heights
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Nicholas Thorne: @thorneny; nicholas@prehype.com
Audos: https://www.audos.com/
Nicholas’s book, Me, My Customer, and AI, is slated to publish next month. Follow him on X for updates: https://mmcai.super.site/
