doola: AI Co-Founder

What is doola: AI Co-Founder?

Doola: AI Co-Founder is an advanced AI assistant designed to help global e-commerce founders manage their businesses more efficiently. Integrated into the doola Dashboard, this AI assistant provides accurate, context-aware support tailored to your unique business needs. Whether you're dealing with e-commerce, company management, bookkeeping, or taxes, AI Co-Founder is there to guide you every step of the way.

Benefits

AI Co-Founder offers several key advantages:

• Expert Knowledge: Combines doola’s trusted resources with context from your business to provide accurate and relevant advice.
• Context-Aware Support: Understands your specific business needs and delivers personalized guidance.
• Quick and Reliable Answers: Most replies arrive in 2-3 seconds, ensuring you get the information you need without delay.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Covers a wide range of topics including company formation, EIN/ITIN, compliance, taxes, bookkeeping, analytics, and payments.
• Data Security: Your data is encrypted in transit and never sold to third parties, ensuring your information is safe.

Use Cases

AI Co-Founder can assist with various aspects of your business, including:

• E-Commerce: Helping you choose between dropshipping and holding inventory, setting up your U.S. business bank account and Shopify Payments, and handling returns and refunds legally.
• Company Management: Advising on whether you need a registered agent, converting your LLC to a C-Corp, and understanding annual report fees for Delaware and Wyoming LLCs.
• Bookkeeping: Guiding you on reconciling your bank account, keeping receipts and records for taxes, and choosing between cash or accrual accounting.
• Taxes: Providing information on tax deductions, the difference between S-Corp and LLC for taxes, and your annual U.S. tax filing requirements as a foreign LLC owner.

Pricing

AI Co-Founder is included with paid doola subscriptions, which come in three plans:

• Starter Plan: For first-time founders who need the basics to launch with confidence. Includes 25 credits.
• Total Compliance Plan: For staying 100% compliant with tax, legal, and regulatory rules. Includes 150 credits.
• Business-in-a-Box Plan: For founders who want full legal and compliance support, plus a dedicated bookkeeper. Includes 250 credits.

Each credit gives you 30 exchanges, and your credits renew at the start of each billing cycle—either monthly or annually, depending on your subscription.

Vibes

AI Co-Founder has received positive feedback for its quick and accurate responses. Users appreciate the personalized guidance and the ability to escalate to a human agent if needed. The AI assistant is designed to handle routine questions, freeing up the support team for more complex cases. This ensures that you get the help you need, when you need it.

Additional Information

AI Co-Founder is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o via LangChain4j, with a fallback to GPT-3.5-turbo if capacity is limited. Future updates will include personal insights from your bookkeeping and e-commerce data, automated tasks like tax filings, and plug-and-play integrations such as Shopify store setup.

For more information or to get started, visit thedoola website.