Experiment One: Jane (heyjane.ai)

Over the past few months, we’ve been busy testing lots of business ideas through our validation pipeline. We’ve fine-tuned our process to learn quickly, moving fast from one experiment to the next and building on what we discover.

Some of these experiments are done quietly using different test methods, but the ones that show real promise and potential to become a portfolio company are launched publicly for real users to try out.

We’re stoked to introduce our latest public experiment: Jane (heyjane.ai), the first AI assistant for sole traders. Jane is set to change how sole traders handle their job leads, marking the start of our journey to integrate AI into everyday business tasks and take the hassle out of admin work through agentic behavior.

 

Getting to Jane (heyjane.ai)

While diving into the sole trader space, we found a big challenge: managing inbound calls while staying focused on work. One of our early Jane customers put it perfectly:

“The main issue for me is that all the digital parts of the business are important, but I have no time or capacity to handle them. Day to day, I need to focus on the work right in front of me. This means I miss out on jobs because I can’t follow up on missed calls for job inquiries, and administrative tasks fall behind. Finding new work and getting paid gets delayed. It’s crazy.”

This problem fit perfectly with our in-house capabilities built on our Large Action Model (LAM) designed to drive agentic behavior across our products experiments and soon, our startups.

Jane (heyjane.ai) uses this tech to handle calls, qualify leads, and provide actionable insights, becoming a virtual assistant tailored for sole traders. This autonomy not only saves time on returning calls one by one to qualify leads, but also ensures no lead is missed, helping sole traders getting more jobs.

And this experiment is just the start. As we get more feedback and iterate, we’re adding features like scheduling, quoting, invoicing, and more. Our vision is for Jane to become the ultimate administrative assistant, streamlining operations and helping sole traders grow their businesses efficiently.

 

Agentic Behavior Capabilities

Agentic behavior is all about AI systems acting on their own, making decisions, and getting tasks done with little human input. Our Large Action Model (LAM) backend is built to make this happen across different apps. Its modular design lets us:

• Integrate various SaaS products and apps to work together seamlessly using ‘function calling,’ with an LLM that schedules and coordinates tasks based on user needs.
• Tap into an entire and growing ecosystem of LLMs, ensuring our products improve as companies compete to enhance LLM capabilities.
• Focus our time on user experience and UI for differentiation. Users won’t prompt for themselves; our agents need to be able to show, not tell, anticipate the prompt, suggest, or initiate an action given the context.

With these capabilities our goal is to keep spinning off product experiments solving problems across multiple verticals, starting with Jane.

 

We Are Just Warming Up

Building Jane (heyjane.ai) has been all about solving real problems fast. By launching this, we’re tackling a huge pain point for sole traders and showcasing the power of AI. We’re stoked to onboard Jane’s first users this week and can’t wait to keep pushing its capabilities to make life easier for sole traders.

To join the waiting list, visit heyjane.ai