Master Your Back Office with Every

Lokesh on dropping out of college to build Tandem — bringing AI agents, requirement validation, and software-style workflows to mechanical engineering.

Kunal Jain on growing up around SOLIDWORKS, engineering on the Boeing 787, and the problem Tandem couldn't ignore: automating hardware engineering with agents.

Arjun, co-founder of Tandem, on building an AI-native platform for hardware engineering — from reconstructing design decisions at Rolls-Royce to a $5M seed round.

Facing their first-ever termination at 9:30 PM, Tandem messaged Every — and CEO Rajeev personally helped them through it. By the end of the night, they'd dubbed him GOAT Rajeev.

The all-in-one platform made the difference: incorporation, accounting, QuickBooks integration, taxes, HR, and benefits in one place.

Startup life isn't the highlight reel on social media — it's a roller coaster, and staying grounded through the highs and lows is the real skill.

Founders context-switch across domains constantly. Setting goals by day, week, and month keeps you on the right task at the right time.

Tandem's advice for founders: treat networking as seriously as possible — genuine relationships are what build a strong business.

A friend who'd incorporated four months earlier pointed Tandem to Every — proof of how strongly founders recommend Every to other founders.

As Tandem scales, Every handles taxes, multi-state hiring, benefits, and compliance — so founder worry stays at little to none.

Startups are full of ups and downs. Tandem's founders on why a support system — cofounders, family, friends — matters more than being smart.

As a brand-new company with no processes, Tandem leaned on Every's team to set up payroll and compliance the right way.

What focus really means as a founder: sacrifice, late nights, and the mindset to do whatever it takes to move the company forward.

Plenty of platforms do incorporation or banking or payroll. Tandem chose Every because it's the one solution that spans everything.

Operations are a distraction from customers and product. Tandem's advice: find partners like Every who automate that side of the business.

From cofounder payroll to onboarding interns — including a J-1 visa for a Canadian hire — Tandem runs hiring through Every without having to think about it.

Filing 83(b) elections is a step every founder has to get right. Every made it clear and simple with step-by-step instructions.

Tandem's founders on the nagging fear of getting incorporation paperwork wrong — and how Every handled it so they didn't have to worry about filings or taxes.

Curee AI's founder on why getting started is the hardest part — begin, follow the path dependence, and the next steps reveal themselves.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: time is your scarcest resource, so spend marketing money on the channels with the highest return on it.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: your LinkedIn profile is a second product page — update it from job-seeker mode before reaching out to customers.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: spend your first weeks talking to thirty people and testing demand with a fake demo before writing code.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: once founders stop taking sales calls, their ICP drifts toward who they wish for, not who actually pays.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: every channel has a different job, so define success metrics per channel instead of measuring them all alike.

From Every's Founder's Guide to GTM: treat go-to-market as a day-one priority and ship fast, because perfecting a brief only helps competitors.

From Every's startup benefits webinar: group health insurance has tougher eligibility and longer timelines, so leave real runway before your target date.

From Every's startup benefits webinar: start weighing benefits before your first non-owner hire, and learn their coverage before deciding.

From Every's startup benefits webinar: founders who pick health plans for themselves drive up burn and make it harder to attract talent.

Choosing Every means gaining a true partner invested in your growth, not just another vendor.

A tour of Every's HR suite: hire any employment type from one platform, with offer letters, I-9 verification, onboarding, and flexible payroll.

From Every's MVP to Funded webinar: cold outreach feels like rejection, but treat it as research and validate demand before building.

After wrestling with payroll setup at his own startup, Every's founder built an all-in-one back office for tech companies.

From Every's MVP to Funded webinar: an incubator gives first-time founders equity, a peer group, and structure in the nebulous early days.

From Every's MVP to Funded webinar: never tell investors you're fundraising until you're close to a term sheet, so a slow process never signals failure.

From Every's MVP to Funded webinar: angels and VCs want different things, so take every meeting, practice your pitch, and accept the money you can get.

From Every's MVP to Funded webinar: sit beside customers and watch them work, because you can't build the right product without their real problem.

Every pairs a clean interface with built-in compliance, payroll, and AI that flags the insurance you need to hire legally.

Every handles the back-office work you get no credit for, so you can focus on building and finding product-market fit.

A tour of Every's product stack — from a free launch stack to HR, compliance, and taxes as you scale.

From Every's panel: the old-school grind of hunting answers in books built a founder resilience native-AI builders may never develop.

From Every's panel: documentation is a disaster at most companies, and letting LLMs keep you organized is a massive improvement on its own.

From Every's panel: mention that analytics should be stored, and the AI quietly builds a whole dashboard nobody asked for.

From Every's panel: structured outputs matter in product, but over-optimizing personal workflows hits diminishing returns that cost more time than they save.

From Every's panel: spend a couple days building a small local app, because automating your own digital life is genuinely empowering.

From Every's panel: handing your database schema to Claude Code and asking questions in plain language sparks fresh thinking and frees founder time.

From Every's founder panel: don't be the accountant who refused Excel — make AI tools part of your day to capture real efficiency gains.

Sidecar Data on why context switching keeps data teams underwater, and how better tooling gets them back to impacting the business.

Sidecar Data brings scattered data-operations tooling into one background platform so small teams can punch like much larger ones.

Sidecar Data unifies operational, platform, and business context so data teams feed leaner, more relevant signals to their AI tools.

Sidecar Data on how founder-market fit speeds decisions but never replaces genuine customer discovery across many perspectives.

Bonne Terre Labs' advice: sort out admin, workflows, and finances before your first MVP — and never lose your sense of fun.

A Bonne Terre Labs success story: a returning citizen who built community Wi-Fi, then landed a real infrastructure job.

Even a trained attorney underestimates compliance — Bonne Terre Labs on how Every and the right partners keep an audit-ready back office intact.

Bonne Terre Labs grew from one question: how can overlooked communities actively participate in the digital economy, not just bear its costs?

Curee AI on ignoring the founder rule books, finding your own true north, and riding the daily swings between confidence and doubt.

Curee AI's founder on why writing everything down forces real thinking — unlike a polished deck, the page leaves nowhere to hide.

How Curee AI surfaces patient insights across dozens of records, saving clinicians thousands of hours and flagging at-risk patients first.

ion design's advice for new founders: stop taking yourself so seriously, act on your ideas, and let building make you better.

ion design frees marketers from scarce design resources with AI that monitors competitors and spins up optimized landing pages on request.

ion design's founder on rediscovering the hustle school beats out of you — by selling chai ice cream and learning what delights customers.

ion design bets websites will soon run dedicated agents that research, update, and ship changes around the clock.

ion design argues every company should hand its marketing pages to AI built to analyze, optimize, and scale growth at volume.

ion design on why leverage and pressure kill creativity, and why founders must keep hacking on weekend projects to stay sharp.

Vaulto's founder traces a lifelong builder's path — from teaching himself Python at fifteen to chasing real-world problems with code.

Vaulto on why it's the greatest time in history to start a company, when a cheap subscription spins up massive projects in a day.

How the Palisades fire sparked Vaulto's idea of selling future home equity through tokenization to fund rebuilding.

Vaulto becomes the regulatory-compliance layer for tokenized assets, letting anyone buy fractional real estate for a hundred dollars.

Zalos turns a screen recording into reliable agents, with LLM judges checking expected state changes every few seconds.

Zalos chose Every because a thoughtful, founder-friendly leader was willing to get on the call himself.

How frustration with hated ERPs and a belief in computer agents sparked Zalos, a tool that sits atop existing finance systems.

Zalos on how AI's relentless speed pushes founders to their best, with companies scaling from one to ten million in a year.

Bonne Terre Labs chose Every, where founder-friendly support and timely webinars fill the skills a first-time leader lacks.

Bonne Terre Labs builds AI tools that track corporate funding pledges and guide smarter data-center siting for communities and companies.

How Bonne Terre Labs reconciles sustainability reporting while steering data-center customers toward fixes before reputational or legal damage hits.

Miraei AI on why slow, costly market research leaves life-sciences decisions out of date — and how agents speed it up.

The wow moment when Miraei AI customers realize hours of manual work are now automated, fueling renewals and growth.

From employee number two at a scrappy health-tech startup to the entrepreneurial itch that led to founding Miraei AI.

Miraei AI on why investors back founders who are inevitable, gritty, and certain they can figure out whatever comes next.

Miraei AI sees the future of life sciences as agentified workflows that automate the painful manual knowledge work.

Miraei AI on sharpening your story until the clarity of what, why now, and what's next moves people to act.

Why a one-stop platform for accounting, banking, and bookkeeping became a pressure release for Miraei AI's busy founder.

Miraei AI's founder on leaping into building a company without a safety net, trusting that the unknown will be kind.

How AgentWeb replaces a patchwork of stitched-together tools with an agent that handles end-to-end go-to-market delivery.

AgentWeb's case for running a small, cheap market test instead of building a product nobody actually wants.

AgentWeb on why demand generation and demand capture bottleneck each other, and when to hire to keep growing.

The origin of AgentWeb — from a Microsoft go-to-market role to a YC startup to founding a company that fixes marketing for founders.

AgentWeb frees founders from running every growth lever themselves with a marketing system that scales as the business does.

How AgentWeb engineers a go-to-market strategy from the ground up so founders avoid the copy-paste marketing everyone else runs.

How AgentWeb builds guardrails so client data stays private and compliant in regulated industries where most AI tools leave it exposed.

In an Every founder panel, why the next generation reaches for AI instinctively — without the old urge to master a manual first.