The Future: Building The World's Largest Work Force

99% of businesses in the world are small and medium-sized businesses.

Most have less than three employees. They are the cafés where neighbors gather. The shops that keep our streets alive. The contractors who build our homes. The studios that inspire. The service providers who keep everything running.

They are the backbone of the global economy.

And right now, SMBs are at a defining moment. There will soon be more of them than at any point in history. For the first time, many are increasing their technology budgets — investing to become more productive, more efficient, more resilient.

I know this struggle firsthand.

When I bootstrapped EatCookJoy for two years, I felt how relentless it is to be a solo business owner. You're trying to grow, but you're also doing everything yourself — the scheduling, the invoicing, the follow-ups, the admin. It feels endless.

That experience shaped Stackbirds.

In our proof of concept with EatCookJoy, we deployed AI agents to take on the busy work. And something remarkable happened: it wasn't just faster workflows. It was relief. Confidence. Energy. Owners felt the weight lift off their shoulders. They had time again — to focus on their customers, to think bigger, to breathe.

That is the future we want for every small business.

Stackbirds is building a horizontal platform of pre-trained, role-specific agents — office managers, studio coordinators, assistants — that come ready to work. They take on scheduling, invoicing, follow-ups, always learning the business context and always acting with approval.

Just like before the cloud you had to buy and maintain your own servers — and now you don't touch infrastructure — we believe agents are the next layer of abstraction on the internet. Businesses won't need to log into apps, manage dashboards, or juggle tools. They'll simply work with agents who operate apps on their behalf.

Our mission is simple: to give every SMB in the world the helping hand they've always needed, but could never afford.

- Zainab Ghadiyali, Co-founder @ Stackbirds