How One Founder Is Working to Eliminate the AI Subscription Nightmare

Artificial intelligence has proved exceedingly useful to the modern professional. The problem is that each tool tends to do just one thing particularly well, while struggling in other areas. So you might turn to Claude for coding, ChatGPT for writing, and Perplexity for AI research, but it's rare to see someone settle on just one tool for all their purposes.

Meanwhile, you're running up monthly subscriptions like many do with streaming services, often paying more than $100 a month just to have access to a given tool when you need it.

Like many others, Muath Juady found himself managing multiple AI subscriptions and finding it hard to justify the cost, so he decided to build the product he wished existed. His platform, SearchQ.AI, aims to solve this fragmented problem, intelligently orchestrating the right AI models for each task and returning the best output without you ever having to leave the page.

Building While Bootstrapping: From Freelance to Founder

As a self-taught freelance web developer, Muath Juady pursued a degree in computer science in 2020 and launched DyNotify as his graduation project, an extension-based shopping assistant that compares products across 100+ shopping websites to find the best deals for users. As CEO, he worked in multiple roles, including developer, designer, marketer, and business strategist, and DyNotify would go on to win more than $200,000 in prizes and achieve second place in the 2020 Pioneer Startup Accelerator Tournament.

After that, Juady joined dOrg, a collective of developers building decentralized applications. There, he led Web3 projects as both a project manager and a full-stack developer, worked with distributed teams to build complex blockchain projects, and deepened his understanding of modular software design.

But in October 2024, just after completing his third master's degree in information systems engineering and management, he began to see how quickly AI was fragmenting into disparate tools, sprawling out of control, and costing users an inordinate amount of money just to keep up with the resources they needed. Determined to find a better way, he created SearchQ.AI.

Launching the Unified AI That Devs Actually Need

Every solo founder knows the pain of tool sprawl, as writing, research, coding, and automation all require separate specialized platforms and end up adding nothing but friction. So Juady built a new approach that focuses on a smoother experience.

At the core of SearchQ.AI is an orchestration engine that sends user prompts to an ecosystem of up to 100 AI models at once. The system compares the responses and returns a merged, consensus output, choosing the most accurate and relevant models based on the task at hand. The entire process happens in parallel, with no extra user work required.

To simplify things further, developers using SearchQ.AI can integrate the entire system through a single API. Meanwhile, non-technical users can leverage a visual workflow builder that helps them create chained tasks with one command.

Currently, one of the platform's most notable tools is an AI-powered shopping assistant that calls back to Juady's early days as an entrepreneur with DyNotify. It automatically scans current prices, product reviews, and competitors across dozens of sources, acting as a research assistant for busy shoppers who don't have time to do the work.

This is just one of SearchQ.AI's many features that remove complexity and provide users with what they really need. And when it's up to 20 times cheaper than having multiple subscriptions, SearchQ.AI is an affordable tool that effectively eliminates clutter and tool sprawl.

Why Muath Juady Is Reassimilating vs. Rewriting AI

For many developers, managing multiple AI tools can feel like a second job, a job that often costs more than $100 per month. That's why, instead of trying to revolutionize AI, Juady's goal is to remove the friction of using what should be a helper, not a hindrance. He wants AI to feel like a single superpower, rather than a dozen disconnected tools.

It's not a flashy goal, but usability trumps flashiness. As Juady puts it, he's creating a platform where "complexity is hidden, so anyone can get the right AI support without extra effort." In doing so, he's working to make AI accessible and practical for anyone, from founders to developers, empowering them to leverage its power without the backing of a major budget or large team.