Marketing Funnel Basics for AI Founders
How solo AI founders build a first marketing funnel that shows revenue, with a week-1 stack and what to skip.
From a social post to a Stripe subscription, in one timeline. Stripe-native, agent-operable, designed for modern product-led SaaS.
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12.4k
Eyeballs
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Unique Visitors
840
Active Users
312
Customers
The first marketing platform built around AI agents, not a CRM with a chatbot bolted on. Agents operate the funnel; you stay in the strategy seat.
Connect Claude or Cursor to mcp.funnelfizz.com in one click. ~50 tools to read insights, draft emails, recommend splits, and propose automations.
Every mutation an agent makes is a reviewable draft. One-click revert from your dashboard. Full audit log per workspace. Defensible in a security review.
Mutations gated per-minute, per-day, and per-month so a runaway agent loop cannot hurt you. Substance over hype, with the audit trail to prove it.
▸ Calling get_funnel_metrics(period: 30d)
✓ Trial → Customer rate is down 6.2% MoM. Mobile cohort lagging desktop.
▸ Calling create_split(stage: TRIAL, condition: device_type, variants: [Mobile])
✓ Draft created. Awaiting your review.
▸ Calling draft_email_for_audience(stage: TRIAL, conditions: [device_type=Mobile])
✓ Email drafted using Welcome template. Subject A/B test enabled.
▸ Calling generate_funnel_report
✓ Report queued. Reverted if you change your mind.
From first impression to paid subscription, in one timeline you can defend in your Monday meeting.
Social post → site visit → trial → paid → upsell. One timeline. Stripe-native. Built for the freemium and PLG funnels HubSpot was never designed for.
Geography, device, channel, UTM, custom event, A/B variant, Stripe product, Stripe price. Nest them. Stack them. Cohort permutations in the thousands.
Append Consideration → Trial → Customer past your first sale to model upsells, re-trials, and churn-saves. The lifecycle that actually drives NRR.
Not a list. Not a segment. A specific stage card on a specific cohort. Drafted by your agent. Sent by you, or by an automation step bound to the same card.
Subject (A)
Quick tip for your trial on mobile
Subject (B)
Two minutes to your first win
Hey {firstName},
Saw you're on the trial. Mobile users hit their first conversion 30% faster when they...
Every automation is bound to one specific stage card: main funnel, split track, extension, or nested-extension. No orphan workflows. Every flow lives DRAFT-first; you decide when it goes live.
30-day diagnostic
Win to keep doing
Awareness up 41% vs prior period; LinkedIn drove 38% of identified visitors.
Critical finding
Trial→Customer on mobile: 14.2% vs 31.8% on desktop. Likely checkout friction.
Quick win, minutes
Add a mobile-cohort split at TRIAL and ship a checkout-help email.
Senior-advisor diagnostics across your full funnel. Score 0-100, capped if Stripe or tracking aren't connected. No grade inflation. Wins to double down on, the highest-leverage gaps with evidence and datapoints, quick-wins shippable in minutes, and experiments to run next.
Pro tip: hand the report to your agent. It can read findings, propose splits, draft the emails, and queue the experiments as drafts you ship.
Self-serve. No demo required. No procurement war.
Default template + cohort splits in under two minutes. The visual canvas is the source of truth. Every email, automation, and report binds to a stage card.
Paste the snippet on your site. Link your Stripe account. Wire in Google Search Console and Resend if you want them. An afternoon, not a quarter.
Install the FunnelFizz MCP at mcp.funnelfizz.com. Claude or Cursor can now read insights, draft emails, recommend splits, and propose automations as drafts you review.
You don't have to migrate to evaluate. Plug in alongside, prove value in 14 days, then consolidate when ready. Honest comparison, no contempt for the time you spent learning the legacy stack.
AI agent operation
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Stripe-native conversion
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Cross-channel funnel canvas
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Cohort-targeted email
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
AI funnel diagnostics
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
PLG / freemium fit
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Setup time
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Self-serve pricing
FunnelFizz
HubSpot
Built on what HubSpot, Marketo, and Customer.io taught the category, and shaped for the modern PLG SaaS funnel they were never designed for.
The capability surface, by the numbers.
Thousands
4 stages × 8 split conditions × 3 extension positions = thousands of cohort permutations
<2 min
From signup to first cohort split, on the default template
50+
MCP tools across setup, insights, splits, emails, automations, reports. Drafts-only.
Yes. The hosted MCP at mcp.funnelfizz.com exposes ~50 tools across setup, insights, email drafts, automation drafts, splits, and reports. Connect Claude or Cursor in one click. Every mutation lands as a DRAFT that you review and ship. Never auto-applied.
Visitors get tracked from first touch. When they identify (form, signup) and later convert in Stripe, every step lands on the same profile timeline: channel, UTM, stage, plan, price, all linked. AI Reports surface the wins so you can put a defensible number in your Monday meeting.
No. Plug in alongside. Connect Stripe + your site + email senders, prove value in 14 days, then decide what stays and what consolidates. We respect the time you spent learning HubSpot. We want to show you what is possible next, not guilt-trip you for what you have.
Three layers of guardrail. (1) MCP mutations are DRAFT-only: your agent proposes, you ship. (2) Per-plan rate limits per minute / day / month so a runaway loop cannot hurt you. (3) Every mutation is logged and one-click revertable from your dashboard. Defensible in a security review.
FREE for getting started (3 funnels, basic tracking). HOBBY at $19/mo unlocks splits, email, and AI Reports (3/mo). PRO at $99/mo adds team workspaces, A/B subject testing, custom domains, and 20 reports/mo. Annual billing saves 20% on both paid tiers. No contracts. No procurement war.
Encrypted in transit and at rest. OAuth tokens encrypted with AES-256. We never sell your data. Audit log on every MCP mutation. Workspace-scoped permissions on every API key.
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