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ABOUT

Built for the average Joe. By someone who used to be one.

Koppd is a small UK product that exists for one reason: to make AI genuinely useful for business owners — not impressive to investors. No hype, no jargon, no "don't get left behind" framing.

THE STORY

Why Koppd exists.

I'm Michael — a non-technical founder who spent years running businesses before I got obsessed with AI. When I started looking for "AI for business owners" products, everything was either hype reels or enterprise software pitched at CFOs at Goldman Sachs. Nothing in the middle for the actual operator who just needs the thing built.

So I built it. Koppd is what I wish someone had handed me three years ago — a small, vetted bench of AI specialists in RAG and agents, matched to the brief you actually have. No bidding pit, no 24-bids-in-2-hours, no portfolios no one has read.

One job, done properly. Tell us what you need built. We bring you five builders we'd personally hire — within 48 hours. You pick, they build, we stay in the loop until it's shipped.

Parent company
White Ace AI
Founded
2024
Based in
United Kingdom
Team size
Small. Growing properly.
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WHAT WE BELIEVE

Our principles.

Useful, not impressive.

The hype sells products. We'd rather sell understanding. If you leave an interaction with us feeling smarter — not more overwhelmed — we've done our job.

Plain English, every time.

No jargon, no "AI-powered paradigm shifts". If we can't explain it to a business owner in a single sentence, we probably don't understand it yet either.

Vetting, not bidding.

When you hire a builder through Koppd, you hire someone we'd personally hire. No portfolios we haven't read. No bidding wars. No race to the bottom.

Small on purpose.

We keep the builder bench small. Growth for its own sake turns every part of an experience into a worse version of itself. Not our thing.

Honest about what we are.

We're not an agency, not a SaaS company, not a YouTube channel. We're a small UK product that helps owners hire the right AI builder. When we launch things, we launch them properly — no pretending the marketplace is bigger than it is.

Our people first.

Builders and clients both talk to a human at Koppd. No chatbots pretending to be us. No support tickets lost in a queue. Reply times in hours, not days.

WHERE WE STAND

Principles are cheap. Refusals are expensive.

Anyone can write a values page. These are three things we've turned down — and will keep turning down — even when it costs us money. This is the bit to hold us to.

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We will never run an affiliate for a tool we don't personally use every week.
Our stack list is the one we actually use — not the one that pays us the most commission. If a tool stops being good, we drop it from the list, even if it's a revenue hit. We've already said no to three affiliate deals for "leading AI platforms" that neither of us has touched since their demo.
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We will never fan out a brief to a bidding pit.
No "24 bids in 2 hours". No race to the bottom. Every brief gets a curated shortlist of at most five builders we'd personally hire for the problem — or we tell you we don't have the right match and refer you elsewhere. Bidding wars are how marketplaces train everyone to game the system. We're not building that.
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We will never match you with a builder we haven't personally hired.
Every builder on the Koppd bench has shipped real work we stood behind — either for us directly, or for someone we trust who'd vouch for them in writing. No "promising portfolios", no bench fillers, no "they're probably fine". If we don't have the right match for your brief, we'll tell you and refer you elsewhere.
Koppd is the result of a lot of time spent asking "why is this so hard?" — and then building the easier version.
— Michael · Founder, Koppd
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