Hey everyone, Steven here 👋 Founder & CEO of AIAssist.bg. Exactly one year ago, I wrote a recap post here in this group, sharing how we built the first AI automation and development company in Bulgaria, scaled it from 0 to 250K, and worked with over 40 clients across multiple industries. 👉🏻You can check it out here: https://www.skool.com/learn-ai/successful-ai-agency-for-over-a-year?p=cfcc5740 That post sparked some of the most meaningful business conversations of my life. This year, I felt a much deeper pull to share our progress again — not just what we accomplished, but what we learned while taking the leap from a small regional player to a globally recognized AI transformation partner. Because let me tell you — 2025 wasn’t just growth. It was war. And we emerged stronger, sharper, and more committed than ever to the mission of helping companies transform from Legacy businesses into AI-first organizations. 🔥The Hardest and Best Decision We Made We started the year by making one of the toughest decisions in our journey so far: We shut down our Bulgarian market offering completely. After working with dozens of local businesses, it became painfully clear that they didn’t want transformation — they wanted shortcuts. We had built high-performing AI systems for them: support agents, voice agents, content systems… all worked exactly as designed. But they didn’t work inside broken business structures. No clear ops, no data pipelines, no leadership vision. We spent so much time fighting friction from clients who refused to evolve — and in the process, we almost compromised our own standards. So we made the tough call: No more bandaids. No more local market. And it was really challenging as we were essentially giving up on short-term revenue for a better and stronger long-term alignment. We shifted our full focus toward international mid-market and enterprise clients across the US, UK, and Middle East — companies with the infrastructure, resources, and mindset to truly adopt AI at scale.

Hello everyone! 🙋‍♂️My name is Steven Petrov and I am the founder and CEO of Bulgaria's first AI Automation & Development company, AIAssist.bg. I've managed to build and scale AIAssist.bg from 0-250K this year, focusing exclusively on helping SMB owers in the Bulgarian market. We've established ourselves as the leaders in the AI Automation space in Bulgaria with a client portfolio of over 40 projects and new ones that keep coming in every day. We've worked with some of the largest real estate agencies, travel agencies, e-commerce stores, retailers, education service providers, online coaches & consultants, gyms, yoga studios (and a lot more) locally, so we've built a very versatile range of skills and experience as a result of that. We are now working actively on expanding our reach with clients in the UK, US and hopefully soon in the UAE as well.✅ 📣I'm also proud to share with you that earlier this year we were approached by large tech companies interested in collaborating with us and as a result we've managed to strike a notable partnership with a HUGE multi-billion dollar player in the cybersecurity space, Acronis (https://www.acronis.com/) 🏆2024 has been nothing short of spectacular for me and the team at AIAssist.bg as we were also selected by the Ministry of Innovation as the leading AI-based startup to represent Bulgaria at the large international tech forum - Beyond Innovation Summit (2024) - that took place in Greece earlier this year (May). I've attached a few photos from the event, as I believe they're pretty cool. 🎙To top it all, we were also contacted by one of the most respectable and popular business media channels, Bloomberg TV, inviting us for an interview to talk about the AI solutions & systems that we build as well as to discuss what the future of business and work looks like with AI. 🤯It's been a crazy ride over the last 12 months in building the business, finding the right product market fit, building our credibility (and skills), building the team, the systems, the processes and so much more, putting in 12-16 hour work days EVERY day... but I'm really proud of what we've accomplished so far and I am thrilled to see what 2025 has in store for us.

I am a fullstack and AI developer, and as my career grows, I am looking to increase revenue through business collaboration. I am seeking a US citizen to help manage business operations, with a revenue-sharing model. 👉 No technical skills required—just someone who is good at managing finances and communicating in a professional. If you are interested or know someone who might be, feel free to reach out! Let's build something great together.

The company I work for recently raised over $10M in equity financing from world-class VCs. We’re scaling quickly and see a ton of value in bringing on dedicated AI resources to build high-impact internal tools. We’re based between San Francisco and London, and we’re actively looking for a freelance AI engineer to partner with on a retainer basis. 💡 I’ll be your internal champion — facilitating introductions, scoping projects, and ensuring you're always focused on the highest-leverage opportunities. What We’re Looking For: An agency or operator that: - Thrives in a fast-paced environment - Consistently delivers high-quality results - Can work across functions and adapt as priorities shift You’d be helping us build AI-powered workflows and automations across: - Customer support - Product analytics & insight generation - Automated QA - Competitor research agents - Release notes & internal documentation - GitHub & project management automation - In-app assistant (executing tasks via GraphQL APIs) - Commercial workflows (as we ramp go-to-market efforts) This is a great opportunity to become a trusted, embedded partner — helping us build real operational leverage through AI. What’s on the Table: - Long-term retainer - Strategic role in fast growth business - Work that directly impacts core business operations If this sounds like a fit, drop a comment with: - Your website - Relevant case studies or previous builds And I'll reach out! Let's build something great