Proofs
Description: Building AI for Software PoCs
Investors: EarlyBird Digital East
Reference Link to Deck: https://www.businessinsider.com/proofs-ai-apis-startup-raises-2-6m-pre-seed-funding-vcs-2024-6
Stage: Pre-Seed
Slide-by-Slide Content
Slide 1 — Intro
“Proofs is an AI agent that enables sales and solution engineering teams to build full-stack proof-of-concept apps in minutes.”
Slide 2 — User Problem
*“Learning, evaluation, and integration with API-first solutions is often expensive and time-consuming.
Proofs solves this issue by allowing potential customers to learn about the stack, generate code snippets and full proof-of-concept apps relevant to customer’s case.”*
Slide 3 — Team
Slide 4 — Value Proposition
Slide 5 — Contact
“founders@proofs.io”
Slide 6 — Demo
Slide 7 — Value
Slide 8 — Dive Deeper
“Memo and more data:”
Slide 9 — Tagline
“Proofs — AI agents for APIs”
Slide 10 — Traction
Slide 11 — Problem (Expanded)
Article-Style Walkthrough
The Proofs deck positions the company as an AI agent built to transform how API-first companies run their sales and presales motions.
It starts with the core problem: API-first companies face lengthy, expensive presales cycles. Learning, evaluating, and integrating with API products often requires building costly proof-of-concepts (POCs) — a step that deters many prospects. This is a critical friction point: 50–80% of potential customers churn before buying, despite research showing that companies completing POCs are far more likely to convert.
The solution is Proofs, an AI-powered agent that helps sales and solution engineering teams spin up personalized, full-stack POCs in minutes. Instead of months of presales work and six-figure costs, Proofs delivers demos and code snippets at a fraction of the time and price. The pitch emphasizes three key benefits:
The team brings credibility: CEO Bartek Pucek, an entrepreneur and active angel investor (ElevenLabs, Ramp), and CTO Zbigniew Sobiecki, a repeat founder with deep product/engineering experience.
The deck outlines Proofs’ value clearly: accelerating POC development, improving quality, lowering costs, and scaling presales teams without adding headcount. Early traction includes an MVP in use, design partners helping refine the product, and initial go-to-market motion underway.
Finally, the deck quantifies the scale of the problem: with POCs critical to closing deals, wasted presales cycles represent millions in lost revenue opportunities. Proofs positions itself as the solution to reclaim that value by reducing churn and shortening sales cycles.
The closing tagline sums it up neatly:
“Proofs — AI agents for APIs.”