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After 5 months, my business hit $4000/month revenue and $8000 total revenue!

Hey everyone my name is Kamran and I’m the founder of Soratech an AI & Workflow automation as a Service consulting firm.

In other words I help other startups implement a few tools and set them up to align with their objectives and processes so that they can scale more efficiently by either saving their team time from busywork to fully replacing an full time employee.

I come from a tech sales background so I always understood the issues both startups and big tech companies faced when in growth and scaling stages of their businesses.

Now on to how I got here,
My specialty is sales and I know a lot of you here will hate this term but no matter how good your product is…if no one is running to you with money you need to go to them and get it.

I’ve honed in on my ICP and identified I can help startups or marketing agencies with 50+ employees and with that I’ve been reading and listening to every article and podcast focused on those niches like ones from GetLatka to the ones on Hampton and these interviews typically ask the guests (who are usually founders or C level) what their pain points are with running the business and if I see them mention anything close to what I do, I use that information to craft an email And a LinkedIn DM to reach out to them.

One specific founder I read about who runs a sustainability tech company mentioned his biggest issue as he’s scaling is seeing how different departments are finding it harder to cross collaborate since their all in their own respective tools and app everyday making it harder to communicate across multiple business units.

With that information I had an entry point and Cold DMed him right after about his pain point along the lines of “Hey mr. Founder, saw you mention struggling with cross collaboration with your Dev team & Sales teams in your recent interview on the Hampton blog! Did you try having them use a universal platform to do their respective tasks but also collaborate together more seamlessly from? Let me know if worth a chat!”

Now my pricing is obviously much higher then typical saas startups since it involves professional services but that’s also a good thing because I don’t waste time on clients who can’t afford me and a higher pricing gives the notion of a more quality product subconsciously.

And that’s how I got to my current revenue with this one client!

P.S for smaller teams I decided to experiment with a discount so feel free to checkout my site or comment for more details or questions, happy to help!

, Founder of Icon for Soratech
Soratech
on July 22, 2023
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    do you think Design To Code as a Service also works? I launched uiworks.io but looks like not reaching to correct market

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    I'm trying to get started doing this same thing. I'm curious how you get 4k monthly users to keep paying after you've maxed out their allowed features? or do they start over, I was thinking that was total build out then support and maintenance.

    I was thinking of pricing my services like 4k setup and have a retainer of 500 for just support and minor fixes to bots and automations. you're actually the first ai automation firm I've seen going the productized service method, which is what I initially wanted to do as well.

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