Rafi
@halim__rafi
co-founder & cto @octolane_ai (YC W24) – Self-Driving AI CRM that writes, updates, and moves deals for you | [email protected]
We didn’t start @octolane_ai to make another CRM. We started it because we were tired of seeing brilliant people stuck in admin work. Grateful to our team, early customers, friends, family & investors ❤️ Still obsessed. Still shipping. Join us. #Octolane #AI #CRM
@octolane_ai is the world’s first Self-Driving AI CRM. Not a System of Record. A System of Action. ✅ Your follow-up is already written ✅ Your pipeline updates itself ✅ Your day prioritized before it starts ✅ Replaces 7 tools. Feels like one This isn’t software. This is…
Thanks to @ycombinator, we went from: → a scrappy prototype → to 7,000+ companies waiting → building in the dark → to shipping with real signal → lone builders → to learning from the sharpest minds in the game → quiet doubt → to “you’re exactly where you need to be” All…
Of all the gifts @ycombinator gave us, the greatest was crossing paths with Kulveer Taggar. A human being who redefined what it means to truly show up for someone. @kul has helped my co-founder @halim__rafi and me navigate through some of the hardest moments building…
I wrote about how @ZeusLiving (YC S11) survived the pandemic in a thread that went viral with over 2M views. Here's the update and what I'm up to next. 2021: Zeus survived COVID 2022: Chewed glass & made the portfolio profitable 2023: Sold Zeus to @theblueground (40,000+ homes)…
Day 562 of building @octolane_ai - Self Driving AI CRM As builders, we need to pour our time into tons of things like product, people, decisions, problems, family. Delegating even a few small tasks through this kind of setup feels invaluable 💪 That's why I’ve genuinely started…
How it looks like 🙌🏻
As a bonus, we're also releasing a set of 24 wallpapers for you to use on your desktop. resend.com/wallpapers
TIL that the government of Scotland 🏴 is using Resend SaaS is beautiful 🩵
Funny how “System of Action” is suddenly the hot new framework. April 4th, 2024 - YC Demo Day. We stood up and said: “Instead of a system of record, we’re building a system of action.” Not as a thesis. A product. We bet our entire company on it. Today, I read @BessemerVP's…
Day 528 of @octolane_ai - Self Driving AI CRM In the next 30 days, I’m doing 200 customer interviews. Just to ask one question: How much time did we save you? Because that's all that matters. We're building Octolane to replace the hours lost to updating fields, writing…
Back in October 2023. We were damn sure we wouldn't make it to YC. It was midnight when we had our @ycombinator interview. Exhausted, we finished the call with hope and uncertainty. 6 AM the next morning. I woke up to an email from Harj, sent just 10 minutes earlier. Thought I…
Day 484 building @octolane_ai 🚀 Cannot thank enough to @ycombinator and especially to our fantastic group partner, @harjtaggar for believing in us from day negative ❤️ Deep gratitude to everyone who believed in us—our incredible team, early customers, friends, family, and…
Congrats to the @octolane_ai team on their $2.6M seed! Octolane's self-driving CRM updates itself and takes action, so sales reps can spend less time on admin and more time closing deals. 100s of teams have made the switch from HubSpot and Salesforce. forbes.com/sites/dariashu…
Congrats to the @octolane_ai team on their $2.6M seed! Octolane's self-driving CRM updates itself and takes action, so sales reps can spend less time on admin and more time closing deals. 100s of teams have made the switch from HubSpot and Salesforce. forbes.com/sites/dariashu…
Built for variety, made to scale ⚒️ ✨ Countless cell design use cases for @octolane_ai With the great @coffeewithone @halim__rafi
my account is being targeted with a coordinated flood of fake bot attack, damaging my visibility since the algorithm flags profiles with high bot percentages as suspicious and low-quality. With 4,000 real followers, these fake accounts are having a substantial impact on my…
A selection of incredible UIs shared by @vitorviesi lately — featuring our UI icons 😎
How to Handle Any Sales Objection - Regardless of What You’re Selling (with examples). Objections aren’t blockers. They’re buying signals in disguise. - Most sales reps react. - Great reps reframe. - Elite reps set the tone before the objection even happens. We made this…
Yesterday: → 3 in-person customer interviews → 80+ bugs & improvements Today: → 2 more → Already 10 more issues logged (thank you @BurdinRuben 🙏) Tomorrow: → 5 lined up Past 4 weeks at Octolane: ✅ 131 PRs merged ✅ 340 PRs reviewed 🚀 93,577 lines of code modified ⏱ ~5…
Functions on demand, friction decreased ⚒️ ✨ Quick interactions at @octolane_ai With the amazing @coffeewithone & @halim__rafi