For startups

Be the answer. Book the meeting.

Refo makes your startup the answer when buyers ask AI, then answers, qualifies and books every lead, and keeps customers coming back. Your inbound team, paid on pipeline.

Inbound lead · Series A software company

From AI answer to signed customer

  1. Named by ChatGPT. A buyer asks for the best tool in your category. You're one of three names.
  2. Demo request received. From the form on your pricing page.
  3. Answered and qualified. Team size, use case and timeline checked against your criteria.
  4. Meeting booked. On your account executive's calendar for Tuesday, with notes.
  5. Demo held. Reminder sent the morning of. No no-show.
  6. Trial activated, deal signed. Follow-ups through the trial until the annual plan was signed.

Illustrative example.

The problem

Where startup growth leaks.

Buyers ask AI first.

If ChatGPT doesn't name you, you're not on the list.

Demo requests wait.

Leads answered hours later go cold. We answer in minutes.

Trials go quiet.

Sign-ups that never activate get followed up until they do.

Founders still run sales.

Your team takes qualified meetings only.

Hiring takes a quarter.

A growth lead and sales reps take months to hire and ramp. Refo starts with a free check.

Nobody owns the whole funnel.

An agency, reps and tools leave gaps. One team owns it end to end.

What Refo runs

Your inbound team, end to end.

Four stages, one team, measured in pipeline. Run by AI agents with people checking the work, so it doesn't wait on a hiring plan.

  • Be the answerAnswer pages and comparisons AI tools cite, consistent facts about you across the web, and docs and llms.txt that AI agents can read.Measured by: How often you're named in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity answers for your category
  • Answer every leadEvery demo request, form, chat, email and agent inquiry answered in minutes, qualified by your criteria, and booked on your team's calendar.Measured by: Speed to lead, qualified meetings booked, show rate
  • ConvertTrial and onboarding follow-up, no-show recovery and deal follow-up, by your rules.Measured by: Trial-to-paid rate, pipeline created
  • Keep and expandRenewal reminders, usage check-ins, and expansion and referral asks.Measured by: Retention, expansion revenue
Why Refo

Not an agency. Not another hire.

Hire a growth lead and repsGrowth agencyRefo
What you getPeople to hire and manageContent and campaignsAnswer pages, every lead answered, meetings booked
Paid forSalaries and toolsRetainer and deliverablesA monthly base plus pipeline created
Accountable forTheir own pieceTraffic and leadsQualified meetings, trials and revenue
AI answers and agentsRarelySometimesBuilt in
Paid on pipeline

Pay for outcomes.

A monthly base covers the team and the playbook. A performance fee applies to pipeline Refo creates: qualified meetings booked and trials activated. You see every one in the weekly report.

Proof

We run it on ourselves.

Refo is an AI-native startup running this playbook on its own inbound. Results will be published here as they come in.

Questions

What founders ask first.

How is this different from a growth agency?

Agencies are paid for deliverables and stop at the lead. Refo is paid on pipeline and owns the chain through the booked meeting, the trial and the renewal. Being named in AI answers and readable by AI agents is built in.

Do you replace our sales team?

No. We answer, qualify and book. Your team runs demos and closes. We can also run follow-up through the trial and at renewal.

How do you get us named in AI answers?

Answer pages and comparisons with facts AI tools can cite, consistent information about you across the web, mentions in the sources those tools draw on, and machine-readable docs such as llms.txt. We track how often you're named every week.

Can AI agents evaluate and buy from us?

We make your pricing, docs and trial sign-up readable by AI agents, and answer agent inquiries like any other lead.

Which tools do you work with?

Your CRM and calendar (for example HubSpot, Salesforce or Attio) and your forms and chat, where they give us access.

Who is this for?

Seed to Series B startups with an inbound motion: B2B software, vertical SaaS, marketplaces and online brands. It's not built for large enterprise deals sold through outbound sales.

Start with a free AI visibility check.

We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI about your category and show who gets named, where you're missing, and why.

Email hello@getrefo.com