Co-founder & CTO
Rayan Saade is the Co-founder and CTO of Start Me Up AI, a software engineer and AI developer with a background in building robust backend systems, data pipelines, and smart integrations for fast-moving teams. He leads the technical architecture and ensures all solutions are battle-tested, cleanly built, and ready to scale.
Before joining Start Me Up AI, Rayan spent years designing scalable architectures and diving deep into everything from master data management systems to blockchain solutions. His experience spans building high-performance systems that handle complex data flows and integrations.
In 2024, Rayan joined Nicolas to bring the vision of SMUAI to life: a platform that doesn't just offer AI tools but reshapes how startups approach product development. From automating dev workflows to embedding AI in the core of every build, he turns ideas intoproduction-ready, scalable solutions.
Rayan's goal is to help startups move faster without cutting corners, combiningpragmatic engineering with the power of generative AI. At Start Me Up AI, he makes sure the tools are not just smart—they're battle-tested, cleanly built, and ready to scale from day one.
Campaign Manager brings social content generation, platform variants, approvals, scheduling, publishing, media, and analytics into one project-scoped workflow.
Brand Manager turns approved voice, color, typography, logos, assets, and templates into structured tokens that downstream ByblosAI workflows can consume.
Co-CTO, in private beta and included in Byblos AI Pro, turns your roadmap into technical decisions and GitHub issues and reviews pull requests, with evidence-aware technical decision support for startup teams.
Our opinionated six-level model measures whether agent workflows are documented, discoverable, tested, governed, and portable—not how many Markdown files a repository contains.
Twenty months after our launch, StartMeUp AI supports startups across medical and well-being, insurance, entertainment, administration, and more. Here is what bootstrapping alongside our clients taught us, and how those lessons became Byblos AI.
Ten real Agent Skills failure modes—from invalid metadata and false portability claims to unsafe scripts and invented evidence—with standards-based fixes.
Our September 4, 2026 private-beta announcement introduced Product Manager, Brand Manager and Campaign Manager. Read the October update for current access and plans.
Product Manager, the AI product manager inside Byblos AI, has Free and paid plan access. It turns founder context into connected, reviewable product artifacts while tracking evidence, confidence, dependencies, approvals, and a build-ready Co-CTO handoff.
Separate standards compliance, vendor compatibility, workflow quality, and runtime evidence with a ten-point Agent Skills audit designed for real engineering repositories.
Skill selection begins with metadata, not the hidden body. Learn the documented progressive-disclosure model and the observable evaluation method we use to improve routing.
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