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Why we built EverBird

“Did they ever get back to you?”

In short

EverBird.ai was built by founders who ran client work themselves. For people who run client work, every deal lives on one persistent link, and an AI agent watches that link, spots when a deal goes quiet, and drafts the follow-up for the right person to send.

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Chapter One

The deals didn’t die. They went quiet.

A proposal went out on a Friday afternoon, and then nothing happened. Four attachments named some variation of final, a signature link from a third tool, an invoice still sitting in a draft folder, and a client who had stopped replying. Nobody could say, at a glance, where the deal stood or who was holding it up. Following up meant reconstructing a paper trail from five apps that had never spoken to each other, then guessing at a polite nudge. The work was never the hard part. Chasing it was. And chasing is the work nobody schedules, even though it is what moves revenue forward when deals go quiet.

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Chapter Two

Everyone was chasing blind.

Forty-plus interviews over two months, with studios, agencies, consultants and solo freelancers. We expected a hundred different problems. We heard one, over and over, in different words: nobody knew who to chase, or when, so revenue sat waiting. A proposal viewed twice and never signed. A contract signed but the invoice forgotten. A deal stuck on their own designer, not the client at all. The tools they paid for sent reminders on fixed timers: the same email on day three whether the client had read the thing or not. Everyone had built the same fragile follow-up system out of calendar nudges, sticky notes, and hope, and everyone assumed they were the only one doing it badly.

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Chapter Three

One thread the agent could read

We found the shape of it in a thread on X. Nobody has ever needed instructions to read one: you tap the link, scroll from the first post to the last, and the whole story is there in order, 1, 2, 3, with no context missing, nothing to log into. Client work already behaves exactly like that; we’d just been forcing it into five separate filing cabinets. So a deal became a thread: one persistent link where the proposal, the signature, the invoice, and the payment sit in the order they happened. But the thread was never the point. It was the substrate. Once every send, open, view, signature, and silence lands in one place, software can finally detect a stalling deal, know which part needs attention, and help move revenue again. That was the unlock.

Acme: Website redesign
one link · every signal in one place
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Proposal: Website redesign, $12,400
Mon 9:04 · viewed by client
2
Contract signed ✓
Tue 14:22 · D. Kerr
3
Invoice #0142: $12,400
Tue 14:25 · unpaid 9 days, follow-up drafted
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Chapter Four

The eleven words that settled it

Eleven words came back from the first person we showed a rough prototype to: “Wait, so it follows up for me, in my words?” That was it. Not a feature request, not a pricing objection. Relief. The chasing they dreaded wasn’t a nice-to-have to automate; it was the whole job. So EverBird drafts the message in your voice with the real context of the thread, and sends it on your approval, or automatically if that’s how you prefer to work, so revenue doesn’t stay stuck. Every decision since has been measured against one question: would this have saved the deal that went quiet and the revenue with it?

What this means for you today

That conversation became the product: one persistent link per deal, carrying the proposal, signature, invoice, and payment, with an agent reading it that knows when a deal has stalled, who is actually holding it up, and drafts what to say to unstick it so that revenue can move again.

Who’s behind it

Built by people who’ve felt it.

Between us, we’ve closed millions in client deals and shipped software people actually pay for. Every time, the same deals went quiet while we were too busy to chase them. EverBird exists because we needed it first, to stop revenue from getting stuck in follow-up and keep deals moving.

Portrait of Jose, Co-Founder & CEO at EverBird.ai
Jose
Co-Founder & CEO

An engineering and consultancy background in oil & gas, where he delivered over $2B in projects with teams that lived and died by contracts, sign-off, and paperwork moving fast. He saw firsthand how much revenue stalls waiting on a signature nobody chased. Good work sitting unpaid because a document went quiet in the middle and no one noticed for a fortnight.

Portrait of Ramees, Co-Founder & Head of Product at EverBird.ai
Ramees
Co-Founder & Head of Product

Previously CTO of Astro Games, which he helped sell for a seven-figure exit, after years of building product and managing the deals and contracts behind it. He’s shipped and sold software through every stage of a company’s life, from first customer to acquisition, and spent most of it following up on deals a tool should have followed up on so revenue would keep moving.

2026
Founded
Remote
Distributed, remote-first team
40+
Discovery interviews before a line of code, one problem in all of them

A few honest questions

Who’s behind EverBird?

EverBird is built by co-founders Jose (CEO, with an oil & gas engineering and consultancy background) and Ramees (Head of Product, former CTO of Astro Games). Both ran client work themselves and built EverBird to fix the follow-up they kept dropping off, so revenue would not sit idle.

Where is EverBird based?

We’re a small, distributed team that works remote-first. The product is being built in the open with the Founders’ Circle ahead of its September 5, 2026 launch, so revenue can start moving sooner.

Is EverBird bootstrapped or funded?

Founder-funded. EverBird.ai is built by Kinsei Lab, an independent product studio that solves work itself. Staying founder-funded is deliberate. It lets us answer to the people paying for the product rather than to a growth curve, which is why the rate you reserve at is locked for the life of your account.

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