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Motif · Angel round

Invest in Aviv.

Raising $500,000. The bet is the founder, not the idea.
The choice

Help me choose.

AS
Aviv Sheriff
Founder, Motif
  • Led Apex Legends ($3B) and Yahtzee With Buddies ($500M)
  • 8 years in Product
  • 2x founder
  • Professional gamer
  • Valedictorian
Option A ↑
A cushy job
GoogleMetaMicrosoft
Comfortable. Capped.
Option B ↓
A generational one-person AI company
Uncapped. The reason this deck exists.
Garry Tan (YC): the founder in their 40s with taste and discernment is the new gentleman unicorn founder, with 100x to 1000x agents at their beck and call.
I already chose B.
Why now

One person plus AI now does what took a team.

a16z / Stripe chart: Solopreneurs Making It Bigger Than Before. The share of solopreneurs crossing $1M, $5M and $10M in revenue rises steeply from 2019 to 2025.
Share of solopreneurs by income threshold, 2019–2025. Source: a16z / Stripe Economics.
What I'm building now

AI broke hiring.

91%
of hiring teams have spotted or suspected candidate deception (Greenhouse, 2026)
56%
of college students have used AI on assignments or exams (BestColleges, 2025)
Résumés, interviews, and grades no longer prove ability.
Alex Rivera
GTM Engineer
Scaled pipeline 300% with AI outboundSays who?
Expert in Clay, n8n, and Claude CodeSo is everyone.
Built a "fully automated" revenue engineOr the AI did?
The fix

Every hire made with a real work sample.

Now: Motif scores what a person actually did, versus what the AI did, on their real work.

Vision: become the definitive assessment paradigm of the post-AI era, and connect every learner and job candidate to the perfect job.

1A candidate gets a quiet alert.
2It's a job that fits them on every dimension.
3They skip the line, straight to the hiring manager.
4The manager gets a candidate who matches their best employee.
The wedge

Starting with the fastest-growing job in tech.

GTM engineers build the go-to-market machine in code and AI tools.

+340%
GTM-engineer job postings, year over year (Clay, 2026)
54%
of the fastest-growing SaaS companies already have one (thesignal.club)
Priya N.
GTM Engineer · scored on real work
Problem decomposition8.4
Tool fluency (Clay, n8n)9.1
Judgment vs. the AI7.8
evidence
Chose Clay over a custom n8n build for the 100-lead run, then wrote the enrichment logic herself. Sound call under time pressure.
The math

We only need about 300 customers to break even.

About 300 customers a year, roughly 3,000 candidates, covers a $200K salary and costs. Everything past that is profit, before we expand a single ring.

$100 per candidate · ~10 candidates per customer · ~75% margin.
$0.5M $1.5M $4.0M 2026 2027 2028
GTME applicants (est.)On MotifRevenue
The expansion

Every role will become AI-hybrid.

  • First, other GTM roles: sales engineering, customer success, and forward-deployed engineers.
  • Next, non-GTM AI-hybrid roles: AI product managers, designers, and beyond.

Land profitable on the GTM-engineer wedge, then every ring out is upside the model doesn't yet count.

Every role
AI-hybrid roles
GTM roles
GTM eng
Traction

It's live, with real users.

Frontal
Design partner · Alex Vacca
Pipebuilders
Design partner · Florian Kaspar
Motif CLI
Open source, live on PyPI
Cornell Tech
Pilot in progress
Live today at platform.motif.report — real candidates, scored on real work.
The bet

You're not betting on one project.

  • You invest in me, not just this project.
  • With AI, I can solo-launch multiple projects, and the learnings and distribution compound.
  • Profitable within a year, with the same $1B+ upside as a VC-backed company.

"There's a betting pool for the first year there's a one-person, billion-dollar company. Unimaginable without AI — and now it will happen."

— Sam Altman, OpenAI
Wix acquired Base44 for a reported ~$80M — built by a solo founder, Maor Shlomo.
The ask

A new vehicle for solo founders in the AI era.

Not a plain SAFE. A profit share that pays you back from real revenue, and still holds the equity upside.

  • 1I pay myself $200K a year, plus approved costs, first.
  • 2Then profit splits: investors take 50% until they hit 1x, then 10%.
  • 3On an exit, investors still convert to ~10% equity.
You get upside on profit and equity.
$500K
Checks $25K–$250K
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