Oleg Bilozor

CEO & Founder @ReplyAppTeam | Coding for 20+ years | Sharing AI, SaaS, B2B insights

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

A quick intro - so you know who’s behind the screen.

🚀 Founder & CEO of https://t.co/GbhWWLlixW - an AI-powered platform that automates sales.

💻 Self-taught coder. Landed my first job at 19.

🌎 Moved to Canada at 22, started my first successful business at 24.

🥂 Later launched Reply and grew it into a global brand with thousands of clients across 60+ countries.

🌍 Lived in Canada, the US, Turkey, Egypt, and Poland.

🏋️‍♂️ Train every day - mostly CrossFit, running, and swimming.

I write about philosophy, business, and AI.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

We got there...AI pen with a 30$ subscription

Flowtica has launched a pen with a built-in voice recorder. It records your meetings and conversations, then generates a summary with key takeaways and action items. There’s even a button to flag what matters.

You pay $150 for the pen + $30/month

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

AI tools in 2026 = ChatGPT/Claude + UI + Subscription.

Most AI tools are just wrappers dressed up as something new. Being a wrapper isn’t the crime. Calling it revolutionary when I’d get the same result prompting ChatGPT directly - that’s the crime.

The tools worth paying for are the ones a prompt can’t replace. Jason AI is one of them. Behind it is a complex system we’ve spent 10 years building. You don’t reproduce that in a chat window.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

Everyone uses ChatGPT. 

Smart founders use these 7 AI tools instead 👇

 1. OpenClaw
Your personal AI agent. Self-hosted, fully private, nothing leaves your laptop. The open-source agent already running my company internally.

 2. DeepSeek
The model that shook Silicon Valley. Trained for a fraction of the cost, matches GPT-class reasoning, open-source, and getting better every month. 

 3. Kimi
Insane memory. Drop entire codebases, full reports or 100 PDFs into one chat and it holds all of it. 256K tokens in one window.

 4. Manus AI
The agent that actually does the work. It browses, researches and finishes multi-step tasks while you do something else. The agent ChatGPT is still trying to be.

 5. Lovable
Build full apps with nothing but prompts. Describe what you want and it builds the whole thing - landing pages, internal tools, even full SaaS products.

 6. NotebookLM
Turn any document into a podcast you can interrupt. Drop in PDFs, articles or YouTube links and it makes a 10-minute show with two AI hosts.

 7. Higgsfield AI
Cinematic AI video from one prompt. Drone shots, slow-mo, zooms - Hollywood camera moves from a single line of text.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

How much do AI companies pay?💰

2026 total comp for a mid-level engineer:

1. OpenAI ~$800K

2. xAI - ~$640K

3. Anthropic - ~$500K

4. Perplexity - ~$500K

5. Databricks - ~$460K

6. Nvidia - ~$367K

7. Google - ~$300K

8. Cursor - ~$300K

9. Lovable - ~$150K

10. Mistral AI - ~$100K

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

The company that builds the model now writes 65% of its product code by tagging an agent in Slack.

Their product team, every day. Whoever doesn’t move from manual to agent-run loses. The gap grows exponentially.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude.

In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

@ReplyAppTeam just dropped Agentic Chat, and outbound setup suddenly looks very different.

Every day, reps burn hours on mindless admin work: toggling campaigns, chasing down stats, updating leads, and jumping between tabs just to research prospects.

Now you just describe the outcome.

→ “Build a 4-step sequence for fintech founders.” 

→ “Make step 2 shorter and warmer.”

Agentic Chat does it, right in the chat.

Same outbound work, but a lot less clicking to get there👇
https://t.co/MyfoqDG76G

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

AI tools that help every founder to run a business in 2026

56 tools across 14 jobs, from lead research to meeting assistants. 

Save this for the future ↓

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

What is the most important skill in the age of AI?

Learn. Adapt. Stay flexible.

These skills are why younger generations often outpace older ones. Many adults simply stop adapting.

You need to stay open to what’s new.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

Open source just hit 44% on hard coding tasks. The best closed models are at 70%.

Both numbers say the same thing:

The model itself is becoming cheap and easy to copy.

What you build around it is where the real value is now.

[Datacurve @datacurve]

GLM 5.2 is now on DeepSWE as the top open-source model on our leaderboard.

With a pass@1 score of 44% at max effort, GLM 5.2 is indisputable #1 open-source model besting Kimi K2.7 Code by 17%.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

In SaaS, sales and marketing make up 95% of a startup’s success - product is only 5%. 

Start from learning how to sell, not how to build. 

This was my turning point. Before writing a line of code, I forced myself to develop the value proposition. 

Who needs this? Why would they pay? 

If you can't answer that, don't build anything.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

No matter how much AI turns businesses into millions or billions, there won’t be a better day than today.

Don’t let the tech rush make you forget to live. 

AI, tech, business, team, fame, power, money, wealth…. None of it can replace the joy of being alive.

In the photo me my team are having a retreat in Egypt in 2017

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

27 Claude MCP connectors for founders and solopreneurs

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

3 books that stuck with me while building a $7M ARR company

1️⃣ Laws of Winners, Bodo Schäfer - stop fearing risk, own your decisions, focus on what matters.

2️⃣Losing My Virginity, Richard Branson - business is an adventure. Don’t split life and work.

3️⃣Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman - stay curious. Focus wins wars, curiosity wins decades.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

I can’t believe…Midjourney just became a medtech startup 

Midjourney is building a full-body scanner you step into like a bath for 60 seconds without radiation. And it is from the AI image company 🤯

This is what “AI growing hands” actually looks like. The screen era is ending. Right now regulation is the only wall.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

You’re paying for 5 tools that Claude now does better 💰

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 / 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
ChatGPT → Claude

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 / 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬
Cursor → Claude Code

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐈 / 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬
Figma → Claude Design

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Zapier → Claude Cowork

𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬
Manual Excel → Claude in Excel

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

@snyksec https://t.co/jYKFVunZty

The point isn’t replacing your judgment. It’s clearing the boring work so you spend time on what actually needs you.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

📍Founders & Solopreneurs

Stop spending time on $0 work AI could finish in 5 minutes.

@snyksec broke down 8 Claude Skills built for founders. 

Download these skills ↓

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

While building my business, despite all the challenges, I enjoyed the process more than the moment I finally achieved the result.

We often think that things will be better somewhere in the future. But there are no guarantees. So I chose to enjoy the journey, without knowing what the outcome would be.

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

If you’re not finding joy on the way to your goal, what guarantees you’ll find it once you reach it?

[Oleg Bilozor @olegtalk]

10 Alex Hormozi's principles every founder should adopt

1. Speed over perfection. The real edge today is speed - full speed now, it settles later.

2. Stop looking for hacks. Shortcuts always cost more later.

3. Get better, not bigger. People don’t scale - systems do.

4. Always hire someone better than you. The standout you pass on is money you never get to earn.

5. Let fires burn. Saying no is leverage. Focus wins wars.

6. The wealthy do boring things consistently. Discipline is what buys you freedom.

7. Assume you’re the dumbest one in the room. Admitting a person - or a tool - is smarter creates space to grow.

8. The pain is the pitch. Start from the customer’s problem, never the tech.

9. Make offers so good people feel stupid saying no. And stop sending bare links - give people 2-3 clear options.

10. If you can’t sell, you can’t build a business. Distribution is everything.