I've been building Tyle solo for a while now and I've reached the point where I need a co-founder, not a contractor.
What Tyle is:
Tyle connects to a Shopify store and the shop's email inbox (Gmail or Outlook) and builds a live knowledge pool from all of that data. Orders, returns, refunds, fulfillments, email threads — everything synced automatically, always up to date.
On top of that pool sit autonomous AI agents. Each agent has a specific job: handling incoming customer emails, managing return requests, tracking order status questions. They read from the same pool, act in the brand's voice, and handle the whole thing without a human in the loop.
The part that actually makes Tyle different:
Automations are created through chat. The shop owner just tells their agent what to do in plain language "always offer a discount when a customer complains about shipping" or "reply in German to German customers" and the agent updates its own behavior accordingly. No workflow builder. No config screens. No developer needed. You talk to it like a team member and it adjusts.
That's the core idea: an agent that runs your operations and gets smarter every time you talk to it.
Where I am right now:
Pre-revenue, deep in MVP. The backend runs on Fly.io with Supabase, the Shopify and Gmail connectors are built, and the multi-agent architecture is in place. The foundation is solid. What I need now is someone to build the next chapters with me.
Who I'm looking for:
A technical co-founder first. Someone who has shipped real SaaS products, is comfortable with AI pipelines and async systems, and wants to own the technical direction rather than just take tickets from me. This is an equity conversation, not a paid role.
Beyond that I'm keeping the door open for people who are genuinely excited about the DTC and Shopify space, whether that's on the growth, sales or design side.
What I'm not looking for:
Someone treating this as a side project. Tyle needs people who are actually in it.
If this sounds interesting, drop a comment or send me a message. Happy to share the full architecture, the roadmap, and talk through what the co-founder setup would look like.