Phlip
The agency on retainer to its founder. AI-native marketplace arbitrage, shipping now.
What we built for Phlip
- AI-native broker platform architecture
- Marketing site (phlip.app)
- Investor data room
- Cloudflare-native infrastructure
- Claude Agent SDK integration
- Series Seed raise materials
The agents are the multiplier. Three decades of operator instinct is the steering.
Currently
Phlip is INNOV8’s current engagement — the studio is fully focused here while Mike runs Phlip as its founder and CEO. The execution shape is one engineer plus the Anthropic Claude agent stack running the work that historically required a full team. Twelve weeks of focused build in March, April, and May of 2026 produced the marketing site at phlip.app, the complete investor data room, and a substantial portion of the broker product itself — scope that historically required at least twelve specialists across design, frontend, backend, DevOps, and QA, over a six-to-nine-month build cycle.
The pain point is structural. A serious reseller scans hundreds of listings across multiple marketplaces every day — Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Mercari, OfferUp, and the rest — hours of pure scanning before a single item is purchased. Phlip eats that scanning subtask whole and surfaces the arbitrage opportunities the operator would have found manually, with the margin math already done.
What makes Phlip structurally different from single-vendor AI-wrapper competitors: per-task LLM routing across five providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek), multi-pass critic-refine pipelines on the highest-ROI surfaces (negotiation reply, risk-evidence, high-dollar scoring), and prompt-cache discipline that earns the maximum input-cache discount each provider offers. The result is a cost structure that isn’t load-bearing on any one provider’s pricing — and that compounds as more of each tenant’s corpus gets schema-fitted into the cacheable prefix.
Currently raising the Series Seed round (Q2 2026). See the Phlip case study for the deeper engagement narrative.
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