AI for Beautiful Business Vol.01｜AI Native Service
YC named AI-native services a priority this year. Instead of selling tools to lawyers and accountants, build the firm yourself — with AI doing most of the work. After backing barely a dozen service companies in 15 years, YC put 9 full-stack AI service startups in a single recent batch. Sequoia calls it the same thing: Services are the new Software.
AI for Beautiful Business is a series of conversations around AI companies going global. In Vol.01, two founders building AI-native services share what they're learning on the ground:
Yichen Guo (YG) ｜ Founder & CEO, Capgo AI
UC Berkeley + Harvard MBA. From Wall Street to AI marketing.
Building AI-powered marketing (SEO + GEO) for AI companies going global. He'll break down the GEO landscape — who's doing real work, and who's repackaging old SEO under a new label.
Hua Mao ｜ Founder & CEO, ccMonet AI
Founder of Tencent App Store. Serial entrepreneur across three tech eras: internet, mobile, and AI.
Chose one of the hardest domains for AI — finance, where precision is non-negotiable — and now serves 300+ small restaurants in Singapore. He'll talk about turning the clients traditional firms don't want into his core market, and how humans and AI actually divide the work today.
Some other burning questions to discuss:
Has pricing logic changed for AI-native services?
Does adding a client still mean adding a person?
In five years, will these companies look more like McKinsey, like SaaS, or like something that doesn't have a name yet?
Online, small group. Open to founders and growth leads interested in AI going global.
YC 今年把 AI Native Service 列为优先方向——不卖软件给律师和会计，直接用 AI 把活干完，卖成品。过去 15 年只投了十几家服务公司的 YC，最近一个 batch 一口气投了 9 家。红杉也跟进了同样的判断：Services are the new Software。
AI for Beautiful Business 是一个围绕"AI 出海"展开的系列对话。第一期，我们请了两位正在做 AI Native Service 的创始人，聊他们的一线实践：
郭一辰｜Capgo AI 创始人&CEO，UC Berkeley + Harvard MBA，从华尔街转型 AI 营销
从卖产品转向卖服务，用 AI 做营销（SEO+GEO），服务了大量 AI 出海公司。这次会拆 GEO 产业链——市面上 GEO 公司满天飞，哪些是真方法，哪些是换了名字的旧东西。
毛华｜ccMonet 创始人&CEO，前腾讯应用宝创始人，经历互联网/移动/AI 三个时代的连续创业者
选了一个最不该用 AI 的场景——对精确度要求极高的财务，在新加坡服务了 300+ 中小餐厅。会聊怎么把传统事务所不想要的客户做成主战场，以及人和 AI 现在到底怎么分工。
我们还会一起讨论：
AI 时代服务的定价逻辑变了吗？
多接一个客户还需要加人吗？
五年后，这些公司更像麦肯锡，还是 SaaS，还是一个还没有名字的新物种？
线上，小规模，欢迎对 AI 出海和 AI Native Service 感兴趣的创始人和增长负责人。