Launch Startup School: SylphAI – Your On-Demand AI Delivery

Hi! I’m Li Yin, and I’m super excited to launch SylphAI to the community. SylphAI is your go-to place to either hire an AI team to deliver a pressing AI project on-hand or hire a top expert to advise on your AI project setup.

The Problem — For big companies, such as Google, Amazon, Meta, roughly 50% are contractors. But the quality of AI contractors is low. For small companies, they either lack money or that the brand is unable to attract top AI talent yet. There is a need for on-demand and high-quality AI workforce. The existing solution such as freelancers or consulting firms is both low-quality and high-cost in the AI space. * Neither the existing generic freelancer platform nor consulting firms are known for attaining top AI talent * Most AI projects are too complicated or the scope is too big for a single freelancer to complete. Managing a few freelancers/contractors could potentially waste a lot of full-time employees' time. * Consulting firms have too much operational cost and profit margin, thus the pay that finally got into the hands of AI talent is small. * Additionally, there is a shortage of AI talent, especially those with hands-on productionalization experience.

Our Solution — We allow AI freelancers to form teams similar to what you see at any company in the hiring, managing, and operation process. To address challenging projects we would staff a tech lead who is immersed on that topic to lead and plan with less work hours, and more engineers who might be slightly less experienced to be on the implementation side with more work hours. In all, we deliver effective outcomes in both quality and cost.

Since the launching of our landing page (sylphai.com), we have received high enthusiasm from both AI talent and clients. We have more than 60 AI engineers/researchers signed up and many have a background in top companies and universities. We have started to work with a bay area startup using this on-demand AI team structure, and the quality of the work is high.

We envision a future where a company's AI workforce consists of half full-time AI teams and half on-demand AI teams, working in harmony and effectively together to deliver the best outcome.

  Our asks —

* If your business or any of your acquaintance needs an on-demand AI team or top expert consulting, shoot us a message with your requirements or give us an intro. We offer 30 min free generic AI consulting and a discounted rate. * Also, we would love your feedback on our landing page and value proposition. * If you are an AI engineer, we would love to hear your thoughts. Half of the core of SylphAI is to provide all AI talent an equal alternative to full-time corporate life. * We are also preparing fundraising, if you know any angels or VCs who can potentially have interest with us, would appreciate it a lot if you give us a warm intro. * If you are just in general interested with us, shoot us a message too. Would love to connect and get some feedback.

Thank you! Li Yin