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Seed Round | Pre-Product Vision

VIYO – The AI Email Team Every Shopify Brand Wishes They Had

VIYO is the AI email system that learns your brand, understands your customers, and turns one simple prompt into complete, high-performing emails, flows, and segments — ready to send in Klaviyo.

Collective ecommerce email intelligence, built as VIYO

ShopifyKlaviyoOpenAIMJMLEcommerce

Pattern interrupt48-Hour Glow Drop

Automated segmentBack-in-Stock Flow

Lifecycle offerVIP Bundle Unlock

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The Problem

Email Agencies Are Too Slow, Too Expensive, and Too Generic

Brands don’t need another dashboard. They need the entire agency workflow — strategy, copy, design, flows, segments, QA, and deployment — handled fast, beautifully, and automatically.

Agencies are slow

Strategy, copy, design, revisions, QA, and Klaviyo implementation move through too many handoffs before revenue work goes live.

Creative gets generic

Most brands recycle safe templates because new visual systems, offer angles, product blocks, and pattern interrupts require paid creative cycles.

DIY burns teams out

Founders and lean marketers are forced to act as strategist, copywriter, designer, developer, analyst, and Klaviyo operator at once.

Flows and segments lag

Welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, VIP, win-back, churn, and product-interest automations stay underbuilt because planning and execution take time.

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The Solution

VIYO Turns One Simple Prompt Into a Complete Email System

You give VIYO one clear goal. VIYO plans the campaign or flow, writes the copy, creates the images, designs the email, builds the segment, and prepares everything ready for Klaviyo.

VIYO combines the category

Retention intelligence, one-prompt generation, and operational AI agents become one execution system for email marketing.

PromptStrategyCopyDesignSegmentFlowDeploy

One prompt becomes revenue work

Campaigns, flows, offers, segments, and creative direction start from a marketer’s plain-language goal.

AI agents replace the agency queue

Specialist brains handle strategy, audience, offer, copy, critique, image direction, layout, and deployment prep.

Design is a product surface

VIYO treats email as a visual conversion page: product modules, branded sections, motion-inspired hierarchy, and pattern-breaking hooks.

Segments and flows are generated

Shopify and Klaviyo context informs trigger logic, timing, subject angles, conditional splits, VIP audiences, and lifecycle paths.

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How It Works

One Simple Prompt → VIYO Builds the Entire Email, Flow, and Segment

VIYO learns your brand once. Then it writes the copy, creates the images, designs the email, builds the flow, creates the segment, and turns your audience intent into emails that actually sell.

One prompt

Brand + product context

Audience and offer logic

Email design system

Flow + segment assembly

Klaviyo-ready output

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Image Studio

VIYO’s Image Studio Creates Studio-Quality Images and Emails — No Agency Needed

VIYO’s Image Studio takes your product photos, your brand style, and your campaign goal and creates beautiful, professional images and email layouts that look like a top agency made them.

Composed visualStudio-Grade Drop

Product contextBrand directionCampaign compositionEmail-safe output

Premium visual direction

Generates ecommerce-specific visual concepts instead of generic hero images.

Edit-aware composition

Supports creative routes such as Safe, Pattern Interrupt, and Wildcard.

Email-ready layouts

Designed to move from visual concept into Klaviyo-ready campaign structure.

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Market Size

A Huge Email Opportunity Waiting for AI-Native Execution

VIYO starts with Shopify brands doing $500K–$10M in annual sales that already use email heavily but cannot afford slow, expensive agencies.

TAM$8B AI personalization layer

SAMShopify email spend

SOM$500K–$10M GMV brands

$2.5BGlobal email marketing software market, 2024

$8BAI personalization-layer TAM by 2027

$500K–$10MInitial Shopify brand ICP by annual sales

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Competitive Landscape

Direct AI Competitors Prove the Category. VIYO Owns the Advantage.

migma.ai, Grid & Pixel, and Instant validate demand for AI-native email creation. VIYO’s advantage is combining brand learning, strategy, copy, design, Image Studio, segments, flows, and platform-ready execution into one ecommerce email system.

MImigma.aiOne-prompt AI email creation

VIYO adds brand-specific memory, Image Studio assets, strategy, copy, design, segments, flows, and platform-ready execution.

GRGrid & PixelAI email agents

VIYO goes beyond agent support by unifying creative direction, email copy, image generation, segmentation, and flow assembly for ecommerce teams.

INInstantAI retention revenue

VIYO pairs speed with brand learning, turning campaign goals into ready-to-send ecommerce email work across creative, segments, and flows.

Category intelligenceCold GPT promptsGeneric outputBrand-specific learning

MImigma.ai

GPGrid & Pixel

INInstant

VIYO

Over migma.ai

migma.ai proves demand for one-prompt AI email creation. VIYO adds durable brand memory, Image Studio assets, segments, flows, and platform-ready execution.

Over Grid & Pixel

Grid & Pixel proves AI agents can help email teams. VIYO goes broader by combining strategy, copy, design, images, audience logic, and flow assembly in one brand-learning system.

Over Instant

Instant proves speed and revenue framing matter. VIYO pairs speed with brand-specific learning so each goal becomes polished, ready-to-send ecommerce email work.

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Why VIYO Wins

Most AI email tools are just fancy copy generators. VIYO starts with deep fashion and ecommerce knowledge, learns each brand over time, coordinates a 7-Brain Creative Council, creates studio-quality images with NanoBanana, and becomes more valuable the longer a brand uses it.

Category knowledge

Deep fashion and ecommerce context means VIYO does not begin from a blank slate.

Personal Brain

Each brand gets a learning layer that adapts to its voice, products, audience, and behavior.

7-Brain Creative Council

Brand, CMO, Audience, Offer, Copy, Critic, and Designer brains coordinate like an agency team.

NanoBanana image engine

Studio-quality image creation supports premium email creative, not generic AI photos.

Compounding moat

The longer a brand uses VIYO, the smarter and more valuable the system becomes for that brand.

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Business Model

Simple Pricing That Grows With Your Success

Monthly plans plus AI-token usage so you only pay more when you send more successful emails.

Starter

$99Entry point for early ecommerce brandsplanned pricing; subject to pilot learning

Growth

$299Main self-serve growth tierplanned pricing; subject to pilot learning

Scale

$499Higher-volume operator tierplanned pricing; subject to pilot learning

Enterprise

$1,499Agency-replacement tierplanned pricing; subject to pilot learning

Token billing is modeled around successful output; real pricing and margin assumptions remain to be validated as the product is built.

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Pre-Product Status

Real Progress, Not Fake Numbers

We are still in pre-product stage. This slide shows our real validation, build plan, and early demand signals instead of made-up revenue numbers.

StatusPre-product

No fabricated revenue, customer, or growth metrics.

50-brand signalDemand discovery

Mixed ecommerce discovery signal; not presented as revenue traction.

Founder-market fitEmail-design operator

Agency-side email design insight plus hands-on product execution.

Builder proof10 internal apps

Early execution evidence to support the MVP build path.

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Technology

The Longer You Use VIYO, the Smarter It Becomes for Your Brand

VIYO is not just one AI call. It is a smart system that keeps learning from your brand’s data, patterns, and results — so every email gets better over time.

BrandCMOAudienceOfferCopyCriticDesigner

Bold conceptWildcard Sale

Copywriter Brain drafts subject lines, body copy, hooks, and campaign angles from brand context.

Image and Email Design brains create full-email visuals, not only generic hero images.

The system keeps learning from brand data, category patterns, audience behavior, and results so outputs become more useful over time.

SafePattern InterruptWildcard

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Go-to-Market

Replace Expensive Email Agencies with VIYO — The AI That Does the Whole Job

We sell one clear promise: Get agency-quality email work in minutes — without changing your Shopify or Klaviyo setup.

Agency-Replacement Wedge

Lead with slow agencies, expensive designers, generic creative, and neglected lifecycle flows.

Shopify + Klaviyo Stack

Meet brands where they already work: product catalog, customer audiences, and Klaviyo deployment paths.

Demo-Led Outbound

Show a brand-specific email redesign, segment, and flow path so the value is visual before the product is mature.

Agency-quality email work in minutes, without changing Shopify or Klaviyo

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Founder

Founder-Market Fit for AI Email Execution

Nir Appelton combines agency-side email-design operating insight, hands-on product execution, and builder proof across 10 internal apps — the exact founder profile needed to turn VIYO from pre-product vision into a focused MVP.

Founder / operator

Nir Appelton

Agency-side email-design operator insight, hands-on product execution, and a builder track record across 10 internal apps.

Founder-market fit

Agency-side email design insight

Investor-safe source-backed note

Builder proof

10 internal apps built to date

Investor-safe source-backed note

Next hires

AI systems and lifecycle-email leadership

Investor-safe source-backed note

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The Ask

$500K Pre-Seed to Build the MVP and Prove the Design-Partner Loop

This $500K will fund product and AI engineering, Image Studio infrastructure, early go-to-market, and operations — giving us 3–6 months of runway to ship the MVP and prove the design-partner loop with real Shopify brands.

$500K pre-seed3–6 months to ship MVP + prove design-partner loop

Product / AI engineering

30%MVP workflow, orchestration, product intelligence, generation, export

Marketing

15%Brand, launch content, market education, proof assets

GTM and design partners

15%Founder-led outreach, paid pilot readiness, feedback loops

Creative / data infrastructure

15%Image Studio assets, generation QA, product-data preparation

Security / reliability

10%Privacy, email rendering safety, observability, QA

Legal / operations

5%Fundraise support, accounting, company infrastructure

Development Cost

10%Additional build expense, implementation capacity, engineering support

VIYO is not another ESP. VIYO is the AI email execution layer for the stack Shopify brands already trust.

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