Henrik Werdin has spent the past 15 years help entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup study Prechype. Now, with its new business based in New York AudosIt is betting that artificial intelligence can help him downsize that “dozen” startup process per year to “hanging thousands” of aspiring entrepreneurs.

The times are certainly righteous. Mass layoffs in a variety of industries have left many professional career paths, while artificial intelligence tools have significantly lowered the barrier to the construction of digital products and services. At the center of that diagram of Venn is Werdelin’s latest company, with his promise to help “daily entrepreneurs to create millions of artificial intelligence companies” without requesting technical skills.

Werdelin’s journey from Prehype to Audos reflects the largest transformation that occurs in entrepreneurship right now. In Phaype, the attention was paid to work with the founders of technology to build traditional startups, the type that could collect millions and love for exits from billions of dollars.

Now, he fears Techcrunch, “what we are trying to do is take all that knowledge, all the methodology that we have created over the years of construction of all these large companies and really try to democratize”.

The idea is that “daily entrepreneurs” can perceive a move, but may not be eager to experience the so -called artificial intelligence agents or know how to reach customers. Audos is more than happy to help them, providing these people with artificial intelligence tools to build sophisticated products using natural language and the advantage of shades of social media algorithms to find them niche customers.

“Facebook and many of these platforms, they are only incredible algorithms and are incredible in understanding [how to reach your customer] If he defines himself as a group of customers, “says Werdelin, who co-founded the audos with his partner of Predype Nicholas Thorne. In fact, Audos uses this system to test quickly when a founder’s business idea has sustainable costs.

The approach seems to work. Audos has contributed to launching “low hundreds” of companies since his beta launch, with his customers who discovered the platform through the Instagram AShen ads “Do you have every thought of starting something, but don’t you know you go?” Among these, says Werdelin, I am a car mechanic who wants to help people evaluate repair quotes, an individual who sells services “after the logistics of death”, virtual golf swing coaches and artificial intelligence nutritionists. In a winning reference to companies by billions of dollars, or so -called unicorns, he calls these teams of one and two people “DonkeyCornns”.

Everyone crossed the same trial: they clicked on the announcement of Audos, the Ai agent launched a conversation to understand the problems that these people want to face and those who want to serve and, when he was satisfied with the answers, the audos brought them in front of potential customers as possible.

As for yields, Audos operates on a different fundamental model than traditional accelerators or risk capital. Instead of hiring shares, the company takes on a 15% revenue share from companies that help to launch. In return, the founders obtain up to $ 25,000 in funding, access to those business-power development tools and help with distribution (again, primary through social media advertising).

“We are not too equity in their business,” says Werdelin. There is not much point. “We don’t think these companies could slide,” he says. “What we are really inspired are the mom and pop shops that are the backbone of our company.

The altitude of revenue continues indefinitely, similar to the platform commissions uploaded by the Apple app Store. For founders, this means giving up a significant part of their perpetual income – a 15% cut that could cost entrepreneurs hundreds of thousands of dollars over time. Some will undoubtedly see that compromise like Vorthen; Others may wonder if long -term costs justify the benefits.

The value of Audos Rasmette also other questions, given how quickly the landscape is changing. While Werdelin underlines helping founders to build customers with customers, it is not clear how much of that work the agents to can manage skillfully. There is also the question of differentiation. As Werdelin promises promptly, “the world is full of these tools” and improve quickly. What happens when entrepreneurs can access similar artificial intelligence skills without supporting a permanent income tax?

The Audos VCs have not been worried about those scenarios. True Ventures led the $ 11.5 million audos seed round, with partner Tony Conrad who explained the appeal in a zoom call this week. In addition to trusting in Werdelin and Thorne, Conrad says, “I think there are only many people” who could impatiently embrace the opportunity to work with a platform like Audos.

Conrad attracts parallelisms to the $ 1 billion Instagram exit with only 13 employees, suggesting that the IA could allow even more financial leverage, even if the Audos – which in turn use only five people – is not chasing the unicorns. As Werdelin explains, “what we are looking for here are the millions of people who can create commercial activities from one million dollars or half a million dollars who are real and who change their lives”.

He adds the separation of Werdelin on why he made the audos turn: “What we are trying to do is understand how a million companies do a million dollars [in annual revenue]. It is a turnover of trillion dollars. “

In the middle of 2025, it doesn’t seem crazy. The extension of the benefits of entrepreneurship for people who traditionally have not had access to the startup capital or technical skills is increasingly forcing when traditional employees begin to feel less and less stable.

“We believe that there should be someone who comes out and really helps these smaller entrepreneurs who are building something that is not backable,” says Werdelin. “We believe that the world is better with more entrepreneurship”.

The other Audos investors include offline ventures and bungalow capitals, together with numerous high-profile angelic investors of Zennstrom and Mario Schlosser with each other.

In the photo above, from left to right, the co-founders of Audos Nicholas Thorne and Henrik Werdelin.