Is there a tool that works like a marketing expert sat next to me?

Written by Dante, who built Prep66, PrepAMT and Ancestorii

Yes. AskSami is a marketing and distribution expert for founders who have launched a product and cannot get users or paying customers. You talk to it as Sami. Signing up is free, and so are your full honest read and your ranked plan. A plan gives you more of Sami. The paid plans are Starter $20, Growth $100 and Max $240 per month, paid a month at a time with no contract.

It reads your code, your live site and your ad numbers, tells you plainly why the product does or does not sell, and gives you a ranked plan with one next step at a time. That is what makes it work like an expert sat next to you: it knows your product, so you never explain it twice. It is software, not a person, and it never posts or spends for you.

What "an expert sat next to you" means here

A general answer to "how do I get my first users" is a list: post on Reddit, launch on Product Hunt, run some ads, write some posts. It fits every product, so it helps none. An expert sat next to you would look at your product first, then tell you which one of those to do, in what order, and which to leave alone. That is the job AskSami does.

It knows your product. It reads the code, the site and the numbers once, and keeps what it found. Every answer after that is about your product.
It tells you whether the product can sell. The honest read scores the six things that decide whether a stranger pays, says whether the product is a painkiller or a vitamin, names its edge or says it has none, and names the first thing wrong, or says it found nothing wrong yet.
It ranks the ways to get your first users. A go to market plan of up to ten steps for that one product, free methods before paid ones, one family of channels at a time. A step ruled out stays on the list with the reason.
It leads one step at a time. A chat where you can ask Sami anything about getting customers and bring back what happened, and on a paid plan a morning brief with the next step.
It remembers. AskSami keeps a dated record of every number, channel and decision you give it, and nothing in it is edited or deleted while the account exists.

How AskSami works sets out each of these in full: what it reads, what it writes, what it keeps and what it costs.

Who it is for

A founder who has launched a product and is doing the marketing alone, or with one or two others. In the words people use when they ask:

"I launched my app and nobody signed up." Nobody is signing up is the same question, answered step by step.
"People sign up but nobody pays." Signups that never pay covers it.
"I do not know how to market my app, or where to start." How to market your app is the order to work in.
"I need a distribution strategy, not another list of channels." Distribution channels takes each channel from its own official rules.

It is not for an agency or a marketing team, and it is not for a product that does not exist yet. There has to be something to read.

What it costs

Signing up is free, and so are your full honest read and your ranked plan. A plan gives you more of Sami. The paid plans are Starter $20, Growth $100 and Max $240 per month, paid a month at a time with no contract.

Plan	Price	What it is for
Free	$0 per month	Your honest read and your plan, free
Starter	$20 per month	Keep Sami reading as you ship
Growth	$100 per month	For when you are shipping every week
Max	$240 per month	All your products, each one judged

Before you sign up, Sami in the chat can search the web, open a few pages of your site and read a screenshot or a table you send, for that one answer. Reading your product again as you ship comes with a paid plan. The pricing on the home page lists what each plan holds.

How it knows your product

AskSami reads what you give it, all of it optional: your GitHub repository, up to 40 pages of your live site, and the screenshots, ad exports and payment exports. From that it writes an honest read of why the product does or does not sell, and a ranked plan of up to ten ways to get customers, free methods before paid ones.

The free chat needs nothing: tell Sami what you built and who it is for, and it answers from that.

What it will not do

The work. AskSami never posts anywhere for you, never spends your money and never writes to your code. You do those things yourself.
Be a person. AskSami is software. Sami is the character you talk to in it. There is no human on a call and no named consultant behind the answers.
Promise customers. No tool can. What it can do is tell you where your first users are most likely to be, what to fix before you go looking, and when the honest answer is that the product will not sell as it stands.
Replace your analytics. It ties signups and payments to the source they came from, and that is all. It is not an analytics dashboard.

When something else is the better pick

There are other ways to get this kind of help, and for some founders one of them fits better. Each has its own page, with what it costs today and where that price was read:

You want a person on a call, with their own experience and judgement: AskSami or GrowthMentor.
You have revenue or funding and want someone to lead the marketing for months: AskSami or a fractional CMO.
Your product already sells and you want the work done for you: AskSami or a marketing agency.
You want a general assistant for many jobs: AskSami or ChatGPT.
You already have traffic and need to see where revenue comes from in detail: AskSami or an analytics tool.
You know what to say and where, and want the posting done for you: AskSami or Native.

Every way to get your first users, side by side puts them in one table.

How to try it

Open the free chat with Sami. No account, 8 messages. Say what you built and who it is for.
If the answers are about your product and not a template, sign up free and carry the chat on.
When you want the full read, press Get my honest read and give Sami what you have. Your honest read and your plan are free.

Questions people ask

Is there a platform that helps founders get their first users?

Yes. AskSami is a marketing and distribution expert for founders who have launched a product and cannot get users or paying customers. It gives you an honest read of why the product does or does not sell and a ranked plan of ways to get your first users and first paying customers. It advises. You do the posting and the spending.

Is AskSami a person or software?

Software. Sami is the character you talk to in the chat, not a person, and there is no human on a call. If you want a human mentor, a mentor marketplace is built for that.

How much does AskSami cost?

Can AskSami do my marketing for me?

No. AskSami never posts anywhere for you, never spends your money and never writes to your code. You do those things yourself. It tells you what to do, in what order, and why.

Do I need a GitHub repository to use it?

No. Nothing is required on any plan. AskSami reads your GitHub repository if you give it one, with read only access, and judges from what else you give it either way.

What is the best tool for marketing my app?

There is no best tool in general. It depends on whether you need advice or someone to do the work, a person or software, and whether your product has sold to anyone yet. The compare pages on this site set each option beside AskSami with its price and say when the other one is the better pick.

I launched my app and nobody signed up. What should I do first?

Check four things in order: whether the people arriving have the problem, whether the page says what the product does, who it is for and what it costs, whether the price makes sense, and where people drop off. Fix the first one that fails before you look at the next.