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Seed Round | Pre-Product Vision

The AI Brain Behind Every Email Your Shopify Brand Sends

VIYO sits above the email stack Shopify brands already trust, learning buyer behavior and turning that intelligence into sharper campaigns, flows, segments, and creative.

Shopify + Klaviyo wedgeAI email creative OSPre-product, thesis-led round

The Problem

Shopify Brands Are Leaving Retention Revenue on the Table

Email platforms can send campaigns, but lean ecommerce teams still need the intelligence to know which customer is hot, which offer fits, and which message should ship next.

Agencies are slowDesigners are expensiveDIY is inconsistent

The Solution

VIYO Is the Intelligence Layer on Top of the Stack

VIYO does not replace Klaviyo or Mailchimp. It enriches the existing email stack and turns brand context into personalized email execution.

Brand briefStrategyCopyImageLayoutHTMLKlaviyo prep

Creative Proof

The Output Should Feel Like a Creative Team, Not a Template Library

Real campaign artifacts show the kind of pattern-breaking email surfaces VIYO is designed to produce: editorial, angled, layered, and built to stand apart inside the inbox.

Real uploaded campaign assetsMobile email proportionsPattern-interrupt layouts

Automation Layer

One Brief Becomes a Lifecycle System

A marketer starts with a goal. VIYO is designed to map the audience, shape the offer, create the email system, and prepare deployment-ready flow logic.

BriefBrand memoryOffer logicSegmentEmail systemFlow map

Market Timing

A Large Email Market Is Ready for an AI Layer

The wedge begins with Shopify brands already spending time and money on lifecycle email, while still operating with fragmented tools, slow creative cycles, and underused automation.

Shopify wedgeESP rails already adoptedLifecycle revenue pressure

Positioning

The Market Has Tools. VIYO Has Intelligence.

Klaviyo and Mailchimp provide sending rails. Agencies provide capacity. VIYO is positioned as the intelligence layer that adds learning, personalization, creative, flows, and segments on top.

Above ESPsBeyond agenciesCreative + retention intelligence

Current State

Pre-Product Today. Built for Verified Proof Next.

The deck keeps traction honest: no fabricated revenue, customers, pilots, or usage. The next proof is a working demo, pilot feedback, and measured output quality.

No fake tractionBuild target: working demoPilot feedback next

The Ask

We’re Raising $[X]M to Own the AI Email Layer for Shopify

Funding turns the thesis into a working platform for brand learning, personalized creative, flow assembly, segmentation, critique, and deployment-ready email output.

Build the 7-brain systemShip pilotsMeasure output quality