We built Aisbe because small businesses keep losing to problems data can see.
We are pre-launch. Instead of fake testimonials, this page is the truth: the problem we exist to solve, what we are building, who is behind it, and how you can join the first 50 founding businesses.
Small business is most of the economy. It is also the most under-equipped.
Every number below is from a public source — SBA, BLS, or peer-reviewed industry research. Click the citation to verify it yourself.
Four problems. Four modules. One AI Agent.
We did not build an "AI for everything." We built four narrow tools for the four problems that most often kill small businesses.
Problem
Money leaks owners never see
Most owners run on instinct because there is no time to audit suppliers, line items, and category drift. SmartCost reads what you already have and surfaces the leaks in plain English.
See SmartCostProblem
Cash crunches that arrive without warning
A 30-day cash gap is usually visible 3 weeks earlier in the data. CashGuard projects your runway and flags the week things tighten — before you need to borrow.
See CashGuardProblem
Schedules built by guess, not by demand
Labor is the largest controllable cost in most service businesses. FlowOptic aligns shifts with the demand pattern that is already in your sales history.
See FlowOpticProblem
No time to learn the "business" of the business
Owners are operators first. LearnEasy delivers 5-minute lessons tied to what just happened in your dashboard — designed around adult-learning principles, not generic MBA theory.
See LearnEasyBuilt by an operator, not a generic SaaS team.
Yuge Bai
Founder & Director, Aisbe
M.A., Cognitive Science in Education (STEM), Columbia University. B.B.A., Finance & Psychology, University of Miami. Five-plus years across organizational development, financial analysis, and applied data science at ByteDance, Genesis Brand Management, Hyde Park Investment Services, and China CITIC Bank.
Researches how technology distributes cognitive load in adult learning — published work on parafoveal processing in reading and on technology integration through Distributed Cognitive Theory. Aisbe turns that research into a tool small business owners actually have time to use.
Verified prior outcomes
- +10% customer retention at ByteDance (400M+ DAU)
- +20% team productivity at Genesis via Cognitive Load Theory
- +30% engagement through 50+ hrs of leadership programs
What we promise to do — on the record.
These are not projections we hope to hit. They are commitments we will report against, every year, in public.
50 founding businesses
Hand-picked pilot across restaurants, retail, and service. Direct line to the founder. Co-design the roadmap.
500 SMBs across the U.S.
Open enrollment. Industry partnerships with chambers of commerce and trade associations. First public outcomes report.
10,000+ SMBs nationwide
Sustained free tier funded by donations, Premium subscriptions, and grants. Annual Impact & Transparency report.
Become a founding business.
We are choosing the first 50 small businesses to launch with. You get the product free for life and a real say in what we build. We get the truth — what works, what does not, what to fix next.
Free for life
Founding businesses keep the full Free tier — even after paid plans launch. No expiry, no surprise charge.
Direct line to the founder
Email or text Yuge for setup help, feature requests, and product feedback. You shape what gets built.
Co-design the roadmap
Quarterly 30-min call. Tell us what is broken in your week — we prioritize founding-business problems first.
Honest case study (only if you want)
If we deliver real outcomes, we ask permission to feature you. No fabricated testimonials. Your name, your numbers, or nothing.
Who we are looking for
- You run a U.S. small business with under 50 employees
- Restaurant, retail, service, or professional services
- You can spend ~30 minutes during onboarding and ~30 minutes/quarter on feedback
- You are willing to share anonymized outcome data so we can improve the product
Apply in two minutes
Send a one-paragraph email — what your business does, where you are, and the one cost or cash problem you would most like to solve. Yuge replies personally within 3 business days.
Honest measurement, not marketing math.
Every claim we make about impact will be tied to a public methodology. If a number is weak, we will report the weak number.
Verified savings
For each founding business, we publish % cost change vs. baseline — only after 90 days of clean data, only with the owner's sign-off.
Cash-flow incidents avoided
CashGuard tracks every short-term cash gap it forecast 14+ days early. Number is reported quarterly.
Hours returned to the owner
FlowOptic and Talk to AI replace recurring scheduling and analysis tasks. We log the time and report it.
Annual Impact report
Public, downloadable, with methodology. First report at end of Year 1. If outcomes are weak, we say so.
Stop guessing. Start saving.
Join the first 50 founding businesses, or just sign up free today and see what Aisbe finds in your numbers.