THE AI VENTURE BUILDER:
creating cutting-edge AI tech from the ground up. validating ideas and solving real-world problems. building startups ready for rapid acquisition. scaling ventures to disrupt industries and markets. redefining industries with the latest AI innovations.

 

We build NEW AI VENTURES that move fast and transform markets.

BUILDing AI-powered TECHnology. CONQUERING REAL-WORLD challenges. Scaling fast. AND DELIVERING rEAL IMPACT.

 

Go For Vertical develops cutting-edge AI tech, builds real-world applications, and scales new startups for rapid acquisition and industry impact, using AI ourselves to create ventures that deliver innovation in completely new ways. All in-house. All faster than ever.

OUR TEN-YEAR JOURNEY TO AI: how we got here

  • 2015 - 2018

    After being based in SF and Austin, we launched in Tucson as Southern Arizona’s first startup accelerator.

  • 2019 - 2020

    We then expanded to Phoenix to help develop this rapidly growing technology hub and to take our mission state-wide.

  • 2021 - 2023

    During COVID, we saw the need for remote innovation and transformed into a 100% online program with a global reach.

  • 2024 and beyond

    After a full year of technical discovery and development, we’ve now relaunched as an AI-driven venture builder.

AND INtRODUCING OUR NEWEST VENTURES:

 

MINDBOARD.AI

TURN AI INTO YOUR INSTANT, HIGH-IQ SECOND BRAIN.

Mindboard transforms how you learn and think by putting the expansive knowledge of AI at your fingertips.

By combining simple and elegant visual organization with conversational AI, every AI chat you have becomes an intelligent node in your personal second brain—ready to recall information, make connections, and engage in natural dialogue about what you’re learning.

Through AI-powered conversations, you can explore ideas, ask questions, and receive insights drawn from AI’s extensive knowledge. By making that knowledge active and conversational rather than passive and fragmented, Mindboard helps you build a vibrant second brain that grows smarter with every interaction.

LAUNCHING JANUARY 2025

Audivity [STARTUP]

Audivity [STARTUP]

A COMPLETELY NEW WAY OF CREATING PODCASTS. AND A SUCCESSFUL EXIT.

In 2018, the Audivity team formed with a mission to build a completely new type of SaaS technology: start with any kind of written web content, and then transform it into podcasts and high-quality narratives in as little as two hours.

To do that, they needed to deliver new tech platforms that included automated scripting, voice-overs, editing, publishing, and analytics so creators and publishers could get higher engagement and revenue from their existing content.

We helped Audivity with the foundation for building this new multi-platform technology, and 18 months later, they had a successful exit.

WELGO [STARTUP]

WELGO [STARTUP]

$0 to $1.5M in annual recurring revenue in just 18 months.

A new hospitality-based venture with properties throughout the Southwest and now expanding internationally, Welgo specializes in Airbnb arbitrage — renting low and Airbnb’ing high. So no need to purchase properties to turn them into investments with high returns.

Go For Vertical helped take them from $0 to $500K in ARR in 5 months starting with the business concept, leveraging existing tech platforms to scale quickly, and requiring less than $10k to launch.

LOOK [STARTUP]

LOOK [STARTUP]

ONE STARTUP. FIVE TECHNOLOGIES.

Go For Vertical was introduced to the Look team as they were coming straight out of college at UArizona, where they had already laid out the business plan for their unique platform for social virtual reality, but like many startups, still had the challenge of delivering their technology.

We got into the trenches with their young lead engineer and used Vertical to lay out the architecture not just for their mobile app, but for the hardware for their new VR recording device, the firmware running on it, the datastore for the VR recordings, and the backend for their new platform, or five unique tech platforms altogether.

The Look platform was launched successfully in 2016.

dishlist [prototype]

dishlist [prototype]

A $1400 prototype. a more than 40% user conversion rate.

The new app concept? Tinder for food. Swipe right if you like a dish and want to try it, and swipe left if you don’t. Add in some amazing dishes from local restaurants and thousands of foodies who love to eat out, and you have the beginning of a new app.

The Dishlist prototype was developed using Vertical in a few weeks at a cost of $1400, and it quickly became a clear success: 245 users signed up to try it, and 43% converted by swiping to like at least 15 dishes and provided their contact information to get future releases.

CIC [ENTERPRISE]

CIC [ENTERPRISE]

FROM MS ACCESS TO ORACLE DB FOR LESS THAN $10K.

In 2018, Community Investment Corporation was running their Mortgage Credit Certificate program with a 15-year -old desktop application written in Microsoft Access.

G4V guided CIC through the Vertical process, creating the roadmap and blueprint to replace this legacy system that had numerous financial and regulatory features with a new Oracle-based enterprise platform. We even helped them find a seasoned engineer with a security clearance and deep Oracle experience to build it.

The new enterprise version of the system was launched in 2019 for less than $10k, a fraction of what it would cost to build by hiring a consulting firm.

Melior USA [Social Impact]

Melior USA [Social Impact]

a COVID-19 RESPONSE launched in JUST three weeks.

Protect Everyone. That’s the motto of Melior USA, a new social impact venture that Go For Vertical launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

When it became clear that there would not be enough PPE like N95 masks for frontline healthcare workers here, we began working on a plan to bring KN95 masks made overseas to the US to help alleviate the shortage.

So we launched Melior USA in just three weeks, creating a new front end for a supply chain that delivered more than 1M masks to front-line medical workers in the first months of the pandemic.

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BASECAMP/AI

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a tech startup. Or turn a passion into a social venture that changes the world. Or drive new corporate innovation with technology. We’ll show you how to begin turning that concept into a reality in this free foundational accelerator program from Go For Vertical, the accelerator for launching innovative new ventures without being dependent on traditional funding.

CLIMB/AI

In our two-part CLIMB program, you’ll take an entrepreneurial journey where you’ll learn how to develop new technology and launch your startup, all without being dependent on traditional funding. First, you’ll build tech that validates the riskiest assumptions of your startup: will your audience love your product? And then you’ll kickstart a marketing and sales strategy, enabling you to gain real traction and have a direct path for scale and growth.

SUMMIT/AI

In SUMMIT, we help startups that have already launched to face down their challenges and achieve critical business outcomes:

  • Delivering a product with high user engagement and retention and low churn.

  • Connecting with your audience with solid unit economics.

  • Reliably converting your leads and bring them on board as customers.

  • And having solid operations and back-office support for all this.

Our immersive program provides a structured process to follow and the direct support and expertise founders need to achieve these four must-have business outcomes for their startup and to take things to the next level.

 

“Vertical progress means doing new things — going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is hard to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.”

— Peter Thiel in Zero to One

Let’s BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING together.