A co-founder for solos.
The best ideas arrive fast, spontaneous, internal.
Then there's no one to tell. No notes app, no spreadsheet, no generic chatbot actually built for it — just you, carrying every idea, every number, every high and low, alone.
Founding alone isn't just lonely, it's a specific kind of quiet, the one where your best thinking has no one to catch it before it slips away.
Designed for quick voice notes, saving the brilliance for when you're ready.
Sholo is where it goes.
Not another AI that hands you a landing page and calls it a strategy. One ongoing relationship that already knows your brand, your dreams, and your business — a private studio for the business that's all yours.
Three ways in, depending on what today needs.
The app that’s with you all the way.
Dream Mode
Big talk, moonshots, ideas with nowhere
else to go.
This is where you think big before you think practical, because every great business started as someone's sparkling idea, without hesitation.
Mentor Mode
Co-founder convos, real talk, and getting back to your True North.
Sholo remembers what you've told it: your brand, your voice, your why — across every mode, every conversation. Not generic advice. Yours.
Nerd Mode
Budgets, pricing, schedules, stats, worked through in a flash.
The unglamorous part of building something made a little less lonely,
less overwhelming… and curiously satisfying.
What makes it different?
One memory across every mode — not several disconnected tools stitched together.
Privacy built, your ideas are worth protecting.
Priced for a solo founder’s budget.
A community layer coming later — common ground to share a win and network.
The everyday tools.
Inspo Board
A mood board that lights you up
Private, personal, built up one save at a time. Not a public feed — your inspiration.
List Maker
Keep every thread in one place
Suppliers. Bookmarks. "Don't forget!"
notes scribbled at dawn.
Who’s it for?
Sholo is for solo founders. Especially women building alone and following their dreams, on tight budgets, without a team to work things through with.
We see you!
First sale. Tenth sale. The follower count that finally moved. When you're building alone, these moments can come and go with no one to tell. Sholo notices. Every win is celebrated.
Yay!
Why Sholo exists.
It was 5 am, and I'd just woken up to the biggest sale of my life.
Mind racing. Research. Merch. Budgets. Bottlenecks. Campaigns. A database I hadn't built yet.
Weeks of sixteen-hour days had led to that moment, and I had nobody to tell, or to track it with, day or night. No confetti.
I wished I had something built for exactly this.
I looked. Nothing fun. Nothing alive. Nothing that solved it.
So I decided to build it — for us.
Bel (Founder of Sholo)
Built to help.
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No. Generic AI chat starts from zero every time and treats your business the same as your homework or your horoscope. SHOLO is built to be one ongoing relationship — it holds your brand, your dreams, your numbers, and your history, and everything you build inside it makes the next conversation smarter.
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Yes, and it's not an afterthought. Your conversations and ideas are never used to train models. Everything is encrypted, and you can export or delete your data whenever you want. Your great ideas stay yours.
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Nothing gets held hostage. You can export everything — your ideas, your numbers, your history, or delete it all, any time you like. Leaving is always as easy as joining.
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Pricing is still being finalized, but the promise is simple: built for a solo founder's real budget, not a startup's. You'll hear about it here first.
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No firm date yet — I'm building this properly, not rushing it out the door. Join the waitlist and you'll be the first to know, and first through the door when it opens.
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Not at all. If you can send a voice note or type a sentence, you can use SHOLO. It's built for founders running the business, not people who want to configure software.
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Talk through big ideas with nowhere else to go (Dream Mode), work out your numbers and schedules (Nerd Mode), stay anchored to your brand and your why (Mentor Mode), keep every list and idea in one place, and get a little confetti when something worth celebrating happens.
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It's built especially with solo women founders in mind, because that's who I am and who I built it for — but if you're a solo founder on a tight budget with nobody to bounce ideas off, SHOLO's for you too.
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Mobile first — that's where the best ideas actually show up, nowhere near a desk. A desktop version is planned too, for when you want to sit down and go deeper on the numbers or the pitch decks.
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Likely, yes — a lighter way in for founders who want to get a feel for SHOLO, and a fuller tier for those living in it daily. The details are still being worked out, but the intent is simple: priced with real respect for what solo founders are often working with.
You don't need
a co-founder.
You need Sholo.
Be first through the door. First to get in, first to shape it.