Founders and tech teams saying in public what they are looking for or unhappy about.
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Alex Porter
CTO, Rotaly, scheduling software, Leeds
Shared a new AI model
A public request for a recommendation
“A start-up founder asks which agency to recommend for a website redesign before the funding round.”
For: Web agencies
A complaint aimed at a supplier
“The CTO of a scale-up calls out their hosting provider after a second outage in a month.”
For: Hosting and managed IT providers
A funding round or hiring announced
“A founder announces a funding round and says they are hiring three salespeople.”
For: Recruitment, sales tools
Replies in an industry thread
“A marketing director replies in a thread about Google traffic falling since AI answers arrived.”
For: SEO and GEO agencies
The signal
X · Repost
“We're moving our support to the new open-source model.”
The opener
It starts from the topic, never from the signal: no “I saw that you…”.
The conversation
Hi Alex, When you move a whole support stack to an open-source model, hosting usually becomes the real question. Are you running it in-house or with a provider?
With a provider for now, but the bill is climbing fast. Is that your area?
It is. We host models for product teams in the UK, at a fixed monthly cost. Roughly how many requests a day are you handling?
Around 200,000, and rising fast. Let's talk.
How about Thursday at 10 am, or the same time the following week? 20 minutes on a video call. Invite to alex.porter@rotaly.co.uk, is that right?
OK for Thursday at 10 am. Yes, that's right.
MeetingAlex PorterMeeting booked
Kiosk Studio, landing pages in Manchester
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