Question 1

What is siift?

Accepted Answer

A practical strategy and operations platform that is AI-native, helping serious builders such as entrepreneurs, startups and business innovators filter the noise they have to constantly navigate, by offering step-by-step guidance, streamlined validation and the ability to scale what's working with agentic automations across all your other tools. It is an truly private AI system that simplifies the journey of building a business, making business success more accessible.

Question 2

Who is siift for?

Accepted Answer

siift is for serious builders; entrepreneurs, business owners, founding teams, growing startups, product managers and enterprise innovators who want to derisk using AI to achieve business outcomes.

Question 3

What is a "New Business OS" exactly?

Accepted Answer

The New Business Operating System is an AI-native strategy and operations platform that helps anyone trying to build a business. It functions as an "executive filter" and leverages AI agents to handle tedious work while keeping the humans in control, helping you navigate the increasing amount of content and noise they must navigate to build a viable business in today's modern world.

Question 4

How does it work?

Accepted Answer

siift's AI offers structured, objective guidance grounded in your operational data to help unlock progress, and then scale what's working with efficient, coordinated automations. It serves as a more accessible alternative to business coaches, startup accelerators, entrepreneurship playbooks, yes-man chatbots and aimless agents like OpenClaw or an AI wrapper. It builds a master context that you can use to orchestrate work across your other tools with more efficiency, trust and scalability.

Question 5

How is siift different than other AI tools for founders?

Accepted Answer

siift aims to be the most professional and collaborative AI business tool out there.

We do this by building entrepreneurial best practices right into our (patent-pending) AI harness; with automatic validation loops, auditable and grounded advice, and a scalable, dynamic memory that can actually keep up with your evolving business.

This results in a few unique benefits to users:
1) reliable AI guidance and progress tracking
2) easier collaboration (both with humans and other tools)
3) more scalable leverage as your business grows
4) a truly private AI that doesn't farm your data, and prevents IP leakage of sensitive business info.

Question 6

Does siift replace teammates, advisors or accelerators?

Accepted Answer

No. Siift complements them. We believe humans are irreplaceable, especially for innovation. But many builders cannot access or justify that level of human support, so siift bridges the gap.

Question 7

How do you ensure accuracy?

Accepted Answer

We've developed several unique ways to automatically ground our AI in real-world data in a dynamic and granular way, as well as a hyper-structured context architecture that minimizes the guessing and probabilistic nature of AI models, plus multiple guardrails to reduce errors and improve reliability. We also use state-of-the-art AI models, not just the cheapest thing we can get away with. Through all this, we strive to provide accurate information, but cannot guarantee perfection, as all AI systems can make mistakes.

Question 8

What is siift's stance on security and privacy?

Accepted Answer

Siift is a leader in privacy-first AI for founders, entrepreneurs & other innovators. Beyond your standard encryption, SOC-2 of Zero-Data-Retention (ZDR) - we prevent Intellectual property leakage. We believe our users' data is their intellectual property, and have set a transparent and professional user privacy policy and terms of use from the start. We use enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure that does not share your data with AI model providers and we do not farm your data or share it with anyone without your voluntary opt-in on a case-by-case basis. Default is private. As we grow, we have several other initiatives underway to further protect users, such as compliance with PIPEDA and SOC 2.

Question 9

How much does it cost, is there a free trial?

Accepted Answer

Everyone can try siift for free, without a credit card or any commitment. After you use your free credits, you can purchase a monthly subscription with a set amount of credits.

See our pricing page for more info.

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