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bryantchou@bryantchou

AI is making marketers lazy. So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee. And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and @firstround. I spent 12 years at Webflow as the founding CTO where I built the product, but also started our marketing and sales teams that drove our fastest periods of growth. That experience made one thing obvious: the website is the center of your business. And it's only more important in the age of AI. Foundation model apps can generate assets. Point solutions can optimize pieces of the funnel. But nothing runs the whole growth system: your site, brand, CMS, CRM, campaigns, analytics, SEO, AEO, and customer data all working together. Until now. Teams at @hex_tech and @clay_run, and growth agencies like Tonik and TNT Growth, are already powering sites on Ploy. Hex is generating on-brand ABM pages at scale, Clay is using its data to power a programmatic SEO engine, and TNT Growth is spinning up a landing page for each of their clients’ ads. Wake up every morning with a report from Ploy - with what it did, and what it wants to do next. Approve it. Ship it. Or be lazy and just watch it cook.

AI is making marketers lazy.
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AI is making marketers lazy.

A whimsical story introduces Ploy AI, a marketing platform that keeps working after the marketer goes home. It presents Ploy as an all-in-one system for websites, campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and growth tasks, alongside its $27M seed funding announcement.

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A whimsical story introduces Ploy AI, a marketing platform that keeps working after the marketer goes home. It presents Ploy as an all-in-one system for websites, campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and growth tasks, alongside its $27M seed funding announcement.

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Narrative product adStartup announcement
Topics
AI Marketing AutomationWebsite Growth PlatformStartup Product LaunchMarketing Workflow Automation
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MarketingArtificial IntelligenceStartups

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How the visuals workThe visuals directly illustrate the short narrative: a marketer leaves work, a surreal robot-like Ploy character continues working, and the website appears as the result. Colorful balloon-like forms and cinematic scenes add playful brand personality rather than presenting detailed product features visually.
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AI is making marketers lazy.
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    The Hot Take

    Open with a sharp claim about a tool, behavior, or trend.

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    The Launch

    Introduce the product as the answer, then add the launch and funding news.

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    The Founder Insight

    Use relevant experience to explain the core belief behind the product.

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    The Gap And Proof

    Contrast partial solutions with the complete system, show early users, and end with a memorable product action.