LettsGroup, the pioneering AI-native venture builder enjoyed a breakout year in 2025. This was the year we proved that startup founders and investors no longer need to accept the costly, chaotic grind of traditional venture building. Instead, with our AI VentureFactory platform and a suite of new core apps, LettsGroup delivered a smarter, faster path from idea to market. The result? A future-forward venture ecosystem where companies build faster, run leaner, and make it BIG – all while having more fun along the way.
2025 saw the full launch of LettsGroup’s AI VentureFactory, a milestone that revolutionised how startups are built. After an extensive internal beta, the platform opened to external founders in June, and its impact was immediate. This AI-native venture-building system slashes startup build costs by up to 90% through Seed stage and dramatically accelerates time-to-market. Early adopters confirmed what we knew from our own ventures: the VentureFactory’s integrated AI “startup team in a box” confers a huge advantage.
Startups on the platform are reaching milestones in record time, and the first six private beta ventures all hit Seed stage with 80–90% lower costs than industry norms. In fact, founders have gone “from idea to market launch in under 12 months for under £200k”, a cycle that used to take years and millions. Key processes that once took weeks or months – writing business plans, building websites, developing prototypes and forecasting – are now done in minutes or days. It’s as if the traditional full-time team has been augmented (or dare we say, partially replaced) by full-time bots, heralding a new startup operating model.
Central to this is Innov@te™, our intelligent startup agent that guides founders through 7 stages, 49 steps and hundreds of sub-steps from idea to exit, generating AI outputs at every step. Instead of juggling 15–20 disjointed tools, founders get one AI-powered venture system covering product development, marketing, operations, financial modelling, and investor readiness. It’s like having an on-demand CTO, CMO, and CFO, all powered by AI, building your startup alongside you. As our CEO Philip Letts quipped, “the AI VentureFactory is the first venture platform that feels truly modern – powerful, flexible, and fast”, moving companies from “zero to IPO” with unprecedented speed.
Crucially, we made this power accessible. Pricing plans start at just £19/month for a solopreneur-friendly Lite plan, ensuring every founder can leverage the same platform that built our own ventures. For growing startups and scale-ups, we rolled out Startup Ultra and Enterprise plans with features like multi-user support, advanced AI tools, and expert “Co-Pilot” coaching. We even introduced a new Investor/Advisor plan so VCs, accelerators, and mentors can plug into the system for due diligence and portfolio support. By democratising and unifying venture building tools that were once the privilege of well-funded teams, LettsGroup’s VentureFactory is leveling the playing field between a couple of folks in a garage and the best-funded Silicon Valley startups. No hype, just real, measurable outcomes: 90% lower build costs and substantially higher success rates for VentureFactory-powered startups.
Another critical part of 2025’s success story was the roll-out of core applications built to turbocharge ventures. These AI-enabled apps, all integrated with the VentureFactory, saw major launches and adoption this year, showcasing LettsGroup’s dynamic, multi-app approach.
Meet Jot, the AI-native diary and personal organiser that became one of 2025’s breakout stars. Jot set out to reimagine one of the oldest consumer products (the diary) for the AI era, and it’s succeeding with flair. After adopting the VentureFactory early on, Jot aimed to be one of the first startups built 100% with AI – and they delivered. The lean Jot team leveraged AI for everything from product development to marketing, collapsing their time-to-market. Jot went from idea to private beta in mere months, and all the way to public launch in just 5 months – a lightning pace that made it the fastest VentureFactory-built startup to date. Upon launching this November, Jot immediately started signing up free and paying customers from day one (helped by a creative “Lola and JotBot” viral marketing campaign).
So what does Jot do? In short, it’s the personal organiser you always dreamed of. Users simply jot down a diary entry, and JotBot, the app’s AI assistant, springs into action. JotBot automatically creates calendar events, tasks, and reminders from your entry, populating them into an integrated calendar and task manager – no more switching between separate journal, calendar, to-do, and contacts apps. By unifying journals and productivity tools, Jot saves time and keeps life organised in one place. Jot launched with an attractive freemium model and affordable subscription plans, so whether you journal a few times a week or keep a rigorous daily log, there’s a plan for you. (Pro tip: Jot’s Max plan runs under £5 a month for power diarists, and all plans were 20% off for the launch promo – an absolute steal for an AI life-assistant!). The momentum is real – Jot’s early success shows how a small startup with a big idea can use AI to punch above its weight, delight consumers, and monetise quickly.
Jot’s “Lola and JotBot” campaign added a fun, human touch to its AI-powered diary app. Jot is more than a cool product – it’s a proof-of-concept for our AI venture model. By doing “EVERYTHING with AI” (as the Jot team proudly says) and focusing on a massive market ripe for innovation, Jot exemplifies the founder-driven, AI-augmented approach LettsGroup champions. Founders and investors alike have taken notice that Jot’s user adoption is entirely organic – achieved with near-zero marketing spend, thanks to viral content and built-in network effects. Keep an eye on Jot as it scales in 2026; it’s not every day you see a centuries-old product (the diary) reborn as an AI app with both mass-market appeal and subscription revenue from the get-go.
Another 2025 highlight was the public beta launch of LettsCore, our groundbreaking AI and blockchain-powered Content Management System. After three years in R&D, LettsCore went live at the end of Q3 and is already performing nicely with thousands of users on board in just a few months. LettsCore addresses a pressing need for digital creators, media companies, and agencies: giving them total control over content ownership, monetisation, and distribution in a way legacy CMS platforms can’t. Every piece of content becomes an autonomous asset in LettsCore – stored with blockchain-backed security, enriched with AI for search and auto-tagging, and tokenized for micro-payments and NFT minting. In other words, LettsCore isn’t just another CMS; it’s a full-blown content operating system for the Web3 era.
This year, the LettsCore team hit key technical milestones: off-chain content storage integrated with Solana blockchain for transparency, AI tools for automated social media content generation, and robust subscription/micropayment infrastructure. By Q4, we saw enterprise interest solidify – our first enterprise client fully rolled out LettsCore, validating the product’s market fit. The story is building as LettsCore positions to capture an emerging market: content-rich businesses seeking decentralised, intelligent alternatives to old-school content management. With new enterprise features in development (advanced analytics, bulk content uploads with AI-generated descriptions and tags, and more.) and a clear first-mover advantage, LettsCore is poised to become a vital new cog in the media-tech landscape. It’s not often you see “blockchain” and “CMS” in the same sentence without an eyebrow raise, but LettsCore made believers out of skeptics in 2025, and we’re excited to scale it further in 2026.
Also in 2025, LettsGroup launched LettsNews, our AI-powered newsroom platform that boldly proclaims: “Newsroom tech for everyone.” In an era when the media is fragmented and independent journalists struggle for resources, LettsNews arrived as a game-changer. Public beta kicked off in late July, and by Q4 we had dozens of news creators and marketers onboard – with a strong percentage converting into paid subscribers for premium features. The appeal is clear: LettsNews gives freelance journalists, content marketers, and small media teams the kind of sophisticated publishing and distribution tools previously reserved for big newsrooms, but at a fraction of the cost. It’s a full-stack digital newsroom: users can capture stories in text, image, audio, or video (even on the go via mobile apps), leverage built-in AI for research and content generation, assemble complete stories in minutes, and auto-distribute them across sites and social channels. Tedious tasks like formatting articles, sourcing images, and scheduling social media posts are handled by smart automation. The result? Up to 10× faster content production and dramatically lower operating costs for independent news organisations and content marketers alike.
And we didn’t stop at launch. Throughout 2025, LettsNews kept innovating. The team introduced an intelligent social promotion system (even integrating Mastodon for decentralised reach), and began building the pièce de résistance: the NewsAgent. Slated for release in January 2026, LettsNews’s AI NewsAgent will function like an entire virtual newsroom team at your disposal – helping writers with everything from story ideation and research to assembling all the content assets (text, images, videos, audio) needed for a story, editing with inline AI assistance, and fact-checking before publishing. It’s an end-to-end generative news AI that could redefine content creation.
Also in the pipeline is the LettsNews Content Store, a marketplace for users to buy and sell news content (think Getty Images meets news), opening new revenue streams for our community. And for larger organisations, LettsNews is rolling out an “Organisation Plan” to let entire news teams run a fully functional, AI-optimised newsroom in-house. In short, LettsNews spent 2025 quietly gearing up to become a universal online news agency for the masses. As independent media continues to rise, we’re proud to be providing the tech backbone to support it.
Looking ahead, one of the most exciting developments is VOICES, a new social platform set to launch in Q1 2026. While not live in 2025, VOICES was brewing behind the scenes all year – and it represents LettsGroup’s forward-looking ethos at its best. VOICES is conceived as a “new town square” for creators, writers, entrepreneurs and innovators. Think of it as a filtered, Web3-friendly social network that values meaningful conversations over noise – a safe space for solopreneurs and thought leaders to share ideas and connect. What makes VOICES especially powerful is that it will be fully integrated with the VentureFactory ecosystem. Core app users and startup founders can seamlessly plug into VOICES to network, collaborate, and amplify their reach. In an online world plagued by toxicity and algorithmic chaos, VOICES will offer curation, community, and control. We’re incredibly excited about its potential to expand the LettsGroup platform into the social realm, creating a virtuous loop between our venture-building tools and a vibrant community of innovators. Stay tuned as VOICES goes live – early adopters of our 2025 products will feel right at home in this new social universe.
Beyond product launches and tech milestones, 2025 was the year LettsGroup cemented its influence in the startup space. Our VentureFactory platform didn’t just attract users – it attracted partners and a community. In the new year, we will start to forge cornerstone relationships with accelerators, VC firms, and other startup hubs to integrate the VentureFactory into their programs. We also launched the “LettsTalk Tech” event series in collaboration with industry partners, bringing together founders and investors to discuss the future of venture building. The overwhelmingly positive response to November's debut event showed that LettsGroup is not just participating in the conversation – we’re leading it.
Our customer base swelled throughout 2025, reflecting genuine product-market fit. We saw multiple new customers signing up daily for the VentureFactory and/or its core apps, creating early network effects that continue to accelerate growth. The expanding advisory board (with seasoned investors and tech leaders joining) is another testament to LettsGroup’s rising profile. These advisors are helping guide strategic moves as we scale, and their involvement signals strong confidence in our mission to re-imagine venture building and its relationship with venture capital (from “artisanal” to AI-driven, as we like to say).
Crucially, we’re also seeing success stories from our ventures and users that validate the LettsGroup approach. Jot’s rapid growth and paying customers are one example, but many other VentureFactory-powered startups are quietly building in stealth, set to make waves soon. The new startup metrics emerging from our platform are eye-opening: tiny teams (often no more than 5 people) achieving what traditionally took armies of developers and MBAs, and early-stage companies securing investor interest faster as our process collapses funding stages by delivering traction sooner. Founders are telling us that using the platform not only saved them money, but also made their startups fundable – by the time they approach VCs, they have solid products, market validation, and even due-diligence data auto-prepared by AI. That’s a win-win: founders retain more control (less dilution early on) and investors get startups that are de-risked and primed for growth.
From a business standpoint, LettsGroup’s own performance soared. Our software revenues doubled in 2025 (driven by surging subscriptions across our AI SaaS offerings) and our venture pipeline grew rapidly. From our beta launch in June 2025 we added roughly one new startup per month; by year’s end we’ve set in motion plans to scale that up to one new startup per week by end of 2026. It’s an ambitious goal – but if there’s one thing 2025 proved, it’s that the combination of passionate founders + AI automation is a formula for unprecedented scaling. The customer adoption momentum and the results our ventures achieved have given us the confidence to push the envelope even further.
Meanwhile, our wider core apps continued to thrive, adding to our influence. LettsArt, the AI no-code platform for artists and galleries, crossed a major milestone with over 1,300 online galleries and 5,000 collectors using the platform. It rolled out version 2.5 with new AI features and multi-user plans, and is now gearing up to launch LettsArt Market – an online art marketplace that will instantly become one of the largest of its kind, connecting emerging artists with collectors worldwide. And LettsSafari, our nature rewilding venture, quietly expanded its community and is preparing to open its first commercial rewilding safari parks in the UK, blending ecological impact with sustainable business. By year-end, LettsSafari even announced the upcoming AI-powered “Safari Guide” assistant to help people rewild their gardens and land, bringing conservation tech to anyone with a patch of green. These success stories from our branded ventures underscore the versatility of the VentureFactory model – from media and fintech to climate and art, our approach works across domains.
As we look to 2026, LettsGroup is poised for even greater things. The foundation laid in 2025, with product innovation, proven traction, and a growing community, positions us to scale venture building like never before. Our roadmap for next year is brimming with exciting developments: the VentureFactory will continue evolving with even smarter AI agents and features (we’re already on Dashboard version 0.3 and climbing, and as more startups and investors join, the platform’s capabilities and network effects will only grow. We plan to significantly ramp up our venture customer numbers: where we added a number of new startups in 2025, by the end of 2026 we aim to be adding one every single week. This step-change in scale isn’t wishful thinking – it’s the logical progression of our method. With automation handling the heavy lifting and a scalable “startup assembly line” in place, multiplying our throughput is just a matter of onboarding more founders and letting the AI fly.
On the product front, early 2026 will see the launch of major new tools that have their genesis in 2025’s work. We’ve talked about LettsNews' upcoming AI NewsAgent and content marketplace – these will come to fruition and further empower independent media. VOICES will go live, weaving a social layer through our ecosystem. LettsArt Market will open as a bustling hub for creative commerce and entrepreneurs, likely boosting LettsArt’s user growth even more. And across all our apps, expect continuous improvement: more AI magic, more user-friendly polish, and more integrations, driven by user feedback and our relentless drive to innovate.
Strategically, we’re also entering a growth and market expansion phase. Until now, a lot of our multi-product build phase was about proving the model; having done that, 2026 is about capturing market share. You’ll see LettsGroup starting to expand beyond the UK market, engaging new regions where startups are eager for an edge. We’ll be rolling out new marketing initiatives and perhaps yet more mini-apps and automation to cater to a broader audience of entrepreneurs (because every visionary with a great idea should be able to afford their own AI venture team!). Our expanding advisory board and partner network will be integral in this push, helping tailor our approach to different startup ecosystems globally.
All of this momentum also fuels our corporate trajectory. We haven’t been shy about our goal to take startups from zero to IPO, and that applies to LettsGroup itself as well. With our platform seeing strong revenue growth and a robust pipeline, we have our sights set on an IPO in the not-too-distant future. We envision LettsGroup becoming one of the defining tech companies that champion a new model of venture building – operational venture building + capital powered by AI, at scale. LettsGroup's trajectory is clear. As one investor put it, LettsGroup might just be building the “5-person unicorn” factory – and public markets love a good unicorn story.
In summary, 2025 was a transformative year for LettsGroup. We launched industry-shifting products, doubled down on our mission to make venture building smarter and faster, and saw our vision validated by the market. From key metrics (like 90% cost reductions and 10× speed-ups) to human stories (founders regaining focus, investors finding gems with our data), the impact has been tremendous. And through it all, we maintained the LettsGroup spirit: authoritative in our strategy, insightful in our thought leadership, dynamic in execution, future-forward in technology – and always enjoying the ride. To all our users, startup founders and investors who joined us this year: thank you. You’re part of something special – a new era where innovation thrives on intelligence and efficiency. Here’s to an even bigger 2026, as LettsGroup continues to accelerate venture building and help you, the visionaries, build the future faster than ever before. Onwards and upwards!
This article first appeared at the LettsGroup blog.
