We've been analyzing demo funnels across B2B SaaS companies, and the pattern is consistent: the "Book a demo" button creates a 5 9 day gap between peak buyer intent and first product contact.
By the time the call happens, half the excitement is gone. No-show rates climb. Reps spend the first 15 minutes on basics the prospect would've preferred to explore alone.
The fix isn't a better calendar tool. It's removing the wait entirely.
We built Naoma to replace that gap with an instant AI demo live, conversational, running in the browser 24/7. The prospect gets a real product walkthrough the moment they click. We route qualified leads straight to sales.
In early pilots, we're seeing 6 20% visitor-to-demo conversion, which for most inbound funnels is a meaningful jump from the default.
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We applied for the YC S26 batch a while back — and seeing @aaronoleary thread made us even more excited about the opportunity.
Naoma is an AI video agent that replaces the "Book a Demo" wait with an instant, live product demo on your website. Buyer hits peak intent, gets a real walkthrough on the spot, gets qualified and routed — no scheduling, no rep required.
Pre-seed backed by Ultra VC, Sparkle Ventures and angels. Early pilots with UXPressia, Yesim, Mellow and others. Seeing 10–20% visitor-to-demo conversion, with up to 30% moving to next steps.
Would be an incredible opportunity for us at this stage. Fingers crossed.
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@aaronoleary could you add us also please?
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@dmitry_zakharov_ai congrats on a new great launch!
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@nastassia_k thank you for your support!
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@dmitry_zakharov_ai @nastassia_k thank you!
@dmitry_zakharov_ai @nastassia_k congrats!
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@dmitry_zakharov_ai LFG
@dmitry_zakharov_ai good luck guys!
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@eugene_lipski thank you!
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@eugene_lipski Thank you!
@dmitry_zakharov_aigreat launch! glad to see that you actually listen to customers. demo bottleneck is real, especially for PLG teams trying to scale without adding AEs. how the qualification accuracy compares to human reps after a few hundred sessions.
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@andrew_white_13 thank you!
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@andrew_white_13 thanks for supporting us!
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The scheduling step kills momentum at exactly the wrong moment, when a prospect is most curious and most ready to engage.
The 10-20% visitor-to-demo conversion stat is quite impressive - what was your sample? Most SaaS websites convert visitors to signups at 1-5%, so getting someone into an actual product walkthrough at that rate would be a meaningful shift in how the top of funnel works.
The trust question you're asking is the right one. For me it comes down to two things: how well the agent handles the moment it doesn't know the answer, and whether it can detect when a prospect is genuinely evaluating vs. just poking around. A graceful "let me connect you with someone who can answer that" beats a hallucinated response every time.
Curious whether Naoma is designed for established SaaS with complex flows or also works for early stage products where the demo itself is still evolving, and how would it work when new features are added into the workflow. Congrats on the launch!
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@joao_seabra Thank you, and great questions, these go straight to the core of what we've been working through.
On the sample: the 10-20% is from early pilots across a handful of B2B SaaS companies - small sample, so we're careful not to overgeneralize. But the directional signal is consistent: when you remove the scheduling friction and replace it with an instant conversation, a meaningful share of visitors who would have bounced actually engage.
On handling unknowns I fully agree. A confident hallucination is worse than an honest handoff. Naoma is designed to recognize the boundary and route gracefully to a human when it hits it. That moment, done well, actually builds trust rather than breaking it.
On early-stage products: Naoma works best when there's enough product to show, but it doesn't require a polished, static flow. When features change, you update the agent. It's closer to briefing a new rep than rebuilding a product tour.
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@joao_seabra Thank you!
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@joao_seabra Joao, thank you for your support!
Selzy
Looks interesting. Just a small question here -- when a cost per demo can be $250-600 do you think it's reasonable to delegate it to an AI bot? I just try to understand the use cases of this tool. Upvoted 👍
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@evgeny_kotelevskiy Great question, and the math is actually why Naoma makes sense here.
That $250-600 cost per demo includes SDR time, AE time, no-shows, and leads that weren't qualified to begin with. A significant chunk of that cost goes to demos that should never have happened.
Naoma doesn't replace the high-value human demo. It runs the first discovery layer: qualifying the lead, answering basic product questions, showing the product value relevant to that specific visitor, and capturing intent - so when a human rep does step in, they're talking to someone who already understands the product and is ready to move forward.
The result: fewer wasted demos, higher close rates on the ones that happen, and the leads who would have bounced on a 5-day Calendly wait actually convert instead.
So the question isn't "should AI run the $500 demo?" It's "how many of those $500 demos are currently happening with the wrong people or not happening at all?
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@evgeny_kotelevskiy @dzmitry_ivanouski
Dima, thank you for your answer!
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@evgeny_kotelevskiy thank you for your support!
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@evgeny_kotelevskiy Thank you for your support!
I think you have found a sweet spot when for a company employing humans it may be prohibitively expensive to do a live demo to every qualified lead; you are practically dropping the threshold to mere dollars, not hundreds of dollars per demo.
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@max_kraynov yes, exactly!
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@max_kraynov exactly! Thank you!
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@max_kraynov , yes, thanks for the comment
I am following Naoma's journey since their first launch, and implemented their demo-agent on one of my projects. I think that they made a wise pivot from yet another analytics to solution that covers extremely important and time sensitive part of the sales funnel. Congrats on the new launch!
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@michael_vavilov Many thanks!
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@michael_vavilov Thank you!
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@michael_vavilov thank you for your trust and support!
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@michael_vavilov thanks for the feedback!
The "book a demo" wait is where so many deals seem to die, and this is an awesome product that removes that friction completely. Can the agent handle tough questions on the spot or does it hand off to a real person at some point?
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@simonk123 Naoma can handle tough questions probably even better than a real person.
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@simonk123 It can do both. It can use the company knowledge base to answer questions and he can redirect to the human if needed
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@simonk123 thanks for the comment!
Yes, it can handle questions on the fly, navigate pages, click buttons, etc. You can interrupt it and ask questions any time.
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@ponikarovskii hi Anton!
And thank you for the great question.
So the answer is probably yes - depends on the product. We can discuss it and share our experience
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@ponikarovskii Thank you!
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@ponikarovskii it might be, but we are focusing more on b2b products right now
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@ponikarovskii thanks! We are more focused on B2B SaaS use cases now, but I believe it can be extended to other verticals in the future.