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We're moving beyond being an AI content tool. Content was always just the medium. What we sell is the warm connections and trust between a company and its future buyers, because B2B growth comes down to people trusting people. We see the hidden structure underneath that growth, and we're building the infrastructure to map, measure, and engineer those relationships at scale (network graphs, homophily, and attribution).\nWe serve over 30 high growth B2B companies from Series A to IPO’d, including MongoDB, Rippling, and Corgi Insurance. We started in June 2025 and launched out of Y Combinator’s F25 cohort. Our co-founders are Sky and Neo.\nTech stack\nNextjs, Typescript, Supabase (Postgres), Neo4j, Stripe, trigger.dev, Apify, Mastra, Vercel, Git\nWhat your day will look like\nYou will be one of our first few hires at Imagine AI, which means you will have a huge responsibility and impact in our business.\nYou will own the surfaces that turn a signup into an activated, expanding account. 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