Syntic for Startups
Your first 10 hires don't have to be human.
Most startups burn runway hiring people to cover functions before the business can support them. A receptionist to answer calls. An SDR to work leads. A support person to handle tickets. An ops person to keep things running. Each one costs $50,000–$80,000 a year, works 40 hours a week, and takes three months to hire.
Syntic gives you AI Employees that cover those functions from day one — available 24/7, in 16 languages, at a fraction of the cost. No application. No approval. Sign up, hire your first AI Employee, and have something working before the end of the week.
Your AI workforce
What your AI workforce covers from day one
The functions a startup needs covered before it can afford to hire for them — handled by AI Employees from the moment you sign up.
Sales — before you hire a sales team
An AI SDR calls every inbound lead within 60 seconds of form submission. Qualifies them against your ICP. Books the demo into your calendar. Updates your CRM. Sends the follow-up. You close. The AI handles the volume — 24 hours a day, in any language, without a commission structure.
Support — before you hire a support team
An AI Support Specialist handles tier-1 inquiries across chat, email, WhatsApp, Slack, and voice — around the clock. Answers from your knowledge base. Escalates what needs a human. Your customers get a response in seconds. You stop watching the inbox at midnight.
Operations — before you hire an ops person
An AI Operations Manager handles scheduling, vendor communications, internal reporting, meeting prep, and the administrative work that currently lives in a co-founder's head. Pulls from your calendar, your inbox, your dashboards. Files daily briefings. Tracks what's slipping.
Reception — before you can afford a front desk
An AI Front Desk answers every inbound call in under one ring. Books appointments. Handles intake. Routes urgent calls to the right person. Works in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and 13 more languages. Never misses a call after hours, on weekends, or during lunch.
Research — on demand
An AI Researcher surfaces competitive intelligence, grant opportunities, market data, and literature reviews on request. Synthesizes across sources, cites everything, delivers to Slack or email. The analyst you can't afford to hire yet, available immediately.
Engineering — faster shipping
Syntic Code CLI integrated into your development workflow. Describe what you want built or fixed. The agent reads your codebase, plans the work, edits files, runs tests, and opens a reviewable diff. A two-person engineering team ships at the pace of one four times its size.
The math
The math every founder does eventually.
A human SDR costs $60,000–$80,000 a year, works 40 hours a week, and calls leads when they get to them — which is usually hours after submission, when the lead has already moved on.
An AI SDR costs a fraction of that, calls every lead within 60 seconds, works every hour of every day, and never has a bad week.
A human receptionist costs $35,000–$50,000 a year and misses every call after 5pm and on weekends.
An AI Front Desk costs less than $200 a month and answers every call, every time, in any language.
You don't have to choose between covering the function and staying alive on your runway. With Syntic, you do both.
How it works
How it actually works
Hire from the directory
Browse 1,000+ pre-built AI professionals across every department — Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Engineering, Operations, Customer Service, Legal, and more. Three tiers: C-Level for strategy, Operational for day-to-day execution, Advisory for specialist expertise. Pick the role, name your Employee, and they go to work.
Configure them in minutes
Set their personality, voice, language, and knowledge sources. Point them at your documentation, your FAQs, your product catalog. They self-onboard. You watch the index build live. Most founders have their first AI Employee handling live conversations within an hour of signing up.
Reach them the way your team works
Chat with your AI Employees via text in Cowork, Slack, WhatsApp, or email. Or call them on the phone — every AI Employee has a real phone number. Pick it up, dial, and talk. Real-time voice with natural barge-in. Resume-by-phone picks up where the last conversation left off.
Scale when you're ready
Start with one Employee. Add more as the business grows. Deploy AI Cloud Agents for repeatable automated tasks. Stand up the AI Call Center when you're ready to run inbound and outbound at scale. Build custom Employees in Forge for the roles unique to your business. Everything runs on the same platform, the same subscription, the same account.
Built for startups
Built for where startups actually are.
Syntic is self-funded. We built our own model from scratch. We run a 26-person team across six continents and operate a frontier AI platform with the discipline that comes from never having had the option to spend carelessly. We know what it means to do more with less — and we built the platform for companies in exactly that position.
No enterprise minimum commitment to get started. No per-seat fees that punish you for adding team members. Billing that scales with the number of AI Employees you put into production — not with your headcount, your funding round, or your company size. Start with one Employee and one conversation. Scale from there.
FAQ
What founders ask before signing up
Do my customers know they're talking to AI?
You control disclosure. AI Employees can identify themselves as AI, operate under a human-sounding name, or disclose at a specific point in the conversation — configurable per Employee and per channel. One thing they will never do: deny being AI when a customer sincerely asks. That line is hard-coded.
What happens when the AI can't handle something?
It escalates gracefully — routes to a human, takes a message, or flags for review depending on how you've configured it. It never leaves a customer hanging. Escalation logic is yours to set.
Can I actually call my AI Employees?
Yes. Every AI Employee has a real phone number. Dial it from any phone. Real-time voice, barge-in, and resume-by-phone. Your customers can call them directly too — that's what the AI Call Center is for.
What languages do they work in?
16 languages with live voice. English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and more. The same Employee works across all of them.
How long does setup take?
Most founders have their first AI Employee handling live conversations within an hour. Vertical Employees — Front Desk, Realtor, Collections, Insurance Claims — have guided setup that takes about 15 minutes including phone number provisioning and voice selection.
What does it cost?
Billing scales with the number of AI Employees in production. Voice calls are metered per minute. No per-seat fees. No minimum headcount. See full pricing at syntic.ai/pricing.
Your AI workforce is ready. Your runway will thank you.
Sign up, browse the directory, and hire your first AI Employee today. No application. No approval. No implementation project. Just Syntic — working in your business before the end of the week.