No audience? Distribution is a pain? Solo founders, here's a solid way to be seen without the crazy hustle.

Solo builder, molecular biologist by day. Latest update on Bonai.

What I'm building

Bonai is launch infrastructure for indie founders who already have a site. You go through a 5-minute onboarding: answer a few questions about your product, your audience, and your problem space, and optionally paste your URL. Bonai uses all of that as ground truth to generate the files that tell AI systems who you are: llms.txt, JSON-LD schemas, FAQ markup, sitemap, robots.txt. Then it builds a launch content kit, runs a baseline audit across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, and keeps a weekly loop running to fix whatever the audit surfaces.

The positioning is SEO fundamentals at launch. AI visibility is the outcome.

The differentiator is the closed loop. Most tools flag what's broken. Bonai sends you content that fixes it.

Where things stand

The landing page is being updated. App goes live within the next few days. The scaffold is real: FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL, Google OAuth, Anthropic API. What's left is verification, not building. Running an end-to-end free tier test right now, a progress banner timing fix is in, and confirming a DB migration stuck before flipping the switch.

Three blog posts are live and cross-posted to Medium. Directory listings are queued and waiting to be posted. Trying to update daily on Twitter as well.

Built for builders, not marketers

Most founders are good at building. The part that feels unnatural is the ongoing marketing hustle: posting every day, chasing backlinks, figuring out what to write about. Bonai is built around that reality. You do the onboarding once. The audit runs. The content gets generated. You stay focused on the product.

Pricing

Free tier: AEO file bundle, a partial content kit, and a manual audit you can run from your dashboard whenever you want. No card required. Paid at $49/month for first 20 founding members (then $99/month for everyone else): full content kit, weekly audit on autopilot, weekly content generation, directory distribution. One price. No tiers to figure out.

The weekly deliverable

Each week Bonai generates one article calibrated to whatever gap the audit found that week. High quality, built for authority and organic reach. That article then gets adapted into 4-5 platform formats, ready to copy and paste wherever your audience hangs out. No rewriting needed.

For founders who work with automation or agents, there's an API in development. Plug it into your existing pipeline and the whole content loop runs without touching the dashboard.

The dashboard

Three panels: what the audit found (which engines cited you, citation rate over time), gaps in plain language, and this week's fix. One article, tagged to the biggest gap. That's it.

It's a receipt of work done. Not something to manage.

Who it's for

Early founders who launched something and want it to show up when people ask AI tools about their problem space. Not agencies. Not growth teams. Just founders.

Building in public. Happy to answer anything.