The AI business development agent for founders with no network

Sage finds the partnerships, drafts the outreach, and preps the conversations. Fred Twum-Acheampong and Manny Bamfo review before anything sends.

Every deliverable is reviewed by a named human expert before it reaches you. You set the autonomy level per function: Red for draft-only, Yellow for human-approved, Green for autonomous with a full audit trail. Legal cannot be set to Green.

Partnerships are the channel every founder knows they should be working and almost none are, since the payoff is slow and the first email is hard to write when you have no logos and no traction to point at.

Sage is the business development agent on your Marskel team. It identifies partners whose customers are your customers rather than partners who merely sound adjacent. It maps the warm path to each one through your existing network. It drafts outreach that leads with what they get rather than what you need. It preps you for the conversation with what the partner has said publicly about their own priorities.

A human operator reviews every partnership target and every outbound message. Partnership outreach is unusually unforgiving: one badly-aimed email to a company you will want to work with in two years is expensive, and it is the kind of mistake that only reads as a mistake to someone who has made it.

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Fred Twum-Acheampong & Emmanuel "Manny" Bamfo
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions founders ask

Lead with distribution you can offer rather than the logo you want. At pre-seed the honest pitch is usually a specific integration or a shared content play, not a formal partnership.
Their customers are already your ICP, and the integration is small enough that a single engineer can ship it. Both conditions, not one.
Two to four quarters for anything meaningful. Treat them as a compounding channel, not a way to hit this quarter's number.
See a reviewed partner target list.
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