Find the Revenue Moments in Your AI Product🍗🍺Seamate Crazy Thursday
It’s Thursday again 👏👏
The night for fried chicken, drinks, new friends, and conversations that get surprisingly real.
Subscriptions are important, but not always enough. Inference costs are real. Free users do not always convert. And display ads rarely fit naturally inside chat, search, assistant, or agent flows.
So how do AI apps make money without breaking user trust?
Hosted by SEAMATE with Conversaic, this Crazy Thursday explores a practical answer: intent-aware sponsored recommendations shown only when users are already comparing tools, planning purchases, evaluating options, or asking for next steps.
Not ads in every message.
A monetization layer built around real user intent.
🎁 Special Benefit
Teams that integrate the Conversaic Generative Ads SDK and attend onsite will have the chance to receive 100 million tokens from Conversaic, including GPT-5.5 tokens.
👥 Who Should Attend
AI founders, product builders, developers, growth leaders, monetization teams, investors, and operators building AI chatbots, AI search products, education assistants, productivity tools, developer workflows, or agent-based products.
💡 You’ll Get
A practical look at why display ads often fail inside AI flows
Ideas for monetizing high-intent user moments without hurting trust
A framework for testing a 1%–5% traffic monetization pilot
Founder-to-founder conversations on UX, revenue, and growth
Fried chicken, drinks, and real conversations with other AI builders
Agenda
17:00 - 17:20 | Check-in & Networking
17:20 - 17:40 | Featured Talk: Generative Ads for AI Apps
17:40 - 18:20 | Small Group Discussion: Monetization, Business Models & Stuck Points
18:20 - 18:40 | Open Mic: AI Builders Share Their Monetization Questions
18:40 - 19:00 | Networking & 1:1 Conversations
Featured Talk
Generative Ads for AI Apps: Monetizing High-Intent User Moments
Zhang Jiong is the founder of Conversaic, with a background across IBM consulting, cross-border technology deals, Web3, AIGC, AI product, growth, and commercialization.
He has seen the messy middle of AI adoption up close: strong technology, real user interest, but unclear business models. That makes his perspective especially relevant for AI founders now trying to figure out where revenue fits.
In this keynote, Zhang will share a practical view from the front line of AI app monetization: where subscriptions fall short, why chat, search, assistant, and agent products need a different revenue logic, and how to identify high-intent moments without damaging UX or trust.
He’ll also walk through what teams need to think about before testing monetization, including when recommendations feel useful, when they should stay out of the way, and how to approach disclosure, category control, frequency control, no-placement logic, and pilot design.
Small Group Discussion
Instead of a traditional roundtable, we’ll host a more interactive small group discussion.
Participants will be invited to share:
What are you building?
What is your current business model?
What is your biggest monetization or growth stuck point?
What suggestions did your group give you?
What problem did you walk away with more clarity on?
This is designed to be practical, direct, and founder-friendly. Bring your real questions.
🙋 Open Mic & 1:1 Monetization Clinic
Bring your own monetization question or current dilemma. After the roundtable, we’ll leave time for 1:1 conversations where you can share your product context and get practical suggestions on revenue models, user intent, sponsored recommendations, and pilot design.
Whether you are still exploring monetization or already testing different approaches, this is a chance to get direct feedback instead of just listening to a talk.
About Conversaic
Conversaic.io helps conversational AI publishers monetize AI chatbot apps, AI search products, education assistants, productivity tools, and developer workflows through clearly labeled sponsored and affiliate recommendations.
The platform is built for answer flows where generic display ads do not fit. Publishers can test recommendation cards, control categories and frequency, keep no-placement behavior when intent is weak, and measure attributed clicks, conversions, and earnings.
About SEAMATE
SEAMATE is a community for founders, builders, and investors exploring AI, startups, and global markets, bringing together people who are building, scaling, and connecting across ecosystems.
About Crazy Thursday：
Crazy Thursday is SEAMATE’s casual Thursday evening series for founders, builders, operators, and people building in AI. It brings together sharp conversations, practical takeaways, and the kind of people who are actively building, scaling, and experimenting in the AI market.