Why We Choose SMBs (Without Rejecting Enterprises)
⚡We are SMB-first because we are platform-first. If we stay true to this, we will win with SMBs at scale and earn the right to work with enterprises without becoming a services company.
1. Platform-First, Not Vendor-First
- MyOperator is building a Business AI Operator – a product-first platform, not a service company.
- With large enterprises, companies usually slide into vendor mode: heavy servicing, custom projects, long approvals, and bureaucracy.
- In vendor mode, we spend more time managing stakeholders than improving the product.
- Our core belief: build a strong platform once, let thousands (eventually millions) of businesses use it with minimal friction.
2. Why This Naturally Aligns With SMBs
- SMBs value ready-made, outcome-focused products more than long custom projects.
- They are more open to using standardised journeys, best practices, and guided setups.
- This allows us to:
- Focus on core journeys (acquire → engage → automate → retain customers).
- Ship improvements faster to everyone.
- Invest in product and AI, not in one-off implementations.
- Our “bias” to SMBs is a by-product of our platform philosophy, not a rejection of enterprises.
3. AI, Data and Margins: Why Platform Beats Services
- With AI agents, the real leverage sits with the platform that owns the communication layer and context (calls, WhatsApp, chats, transcripts).
- On a platform model with SMBs, we can:
- See end-to-end customer conversations.
- Continuously improve AI agents using aggregated, contextual data.
- Expand revenue and margins via automation, upsell, and eventually commerce.
- In a classic enterprise-vendor model:
- Core models and data are often controlled by the enterprise.
- The “AI agent layer” can become a commoditised vendor component.
- Margins get squeezed, and long-term leverage weakens.
4. Market Expansion: AI Unlocks More SMBs
- As AI agents reduce onboarding and support effort, the cost of service per customer will drop sharply.
- This makes it viable to serve a much larger base of currently non-digitised SMBs.
- Enterprise markets will always have space for service-heavy players; we want to solve the bigger, systemic problem via a scalable platform for SMBs.
5. So What About Enterprises?
- We are not anti-enterprise. We already serve many larger customers on the same platform.
- Our approach:
- No deep, one-off custom builds.
- No turning into an outsourced service team.
- Focus on clear, repeatable use cases where enterprises adopt us as a platform, not as a custom project vendor.
- Over time, a strong, battle-tested platform for SMBs will also win inside enterprises – on our terms.
6. How This Should Guide Your Decisions
When in doubt, ask:
- Platform vs Project: Does this improve the core platform for hundreds/thousands of businesses, or is it mostly for one account?
- Product vs Services: Are we strengthening MyOperator as a product, or signing up for more manual services work?
- Leverage vs Commoditisation: Does this increase our AI + data leverage, or push us toward being a replaceable vendor?
Updated on: 26/11/2025