How Mila Is Solving the One Problem Every Solo Founder Tries to Ignore
Helping Founders face the chaos they’ve been avoiding and making it painless
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I’m so excited to bring you this inspiring story this week from Mila who created Solvora.
Read about:
💥 From Chief of Staff to No-Code Product Builder
💡 Created Penny to solve financial overwhelm for solo founders
🛠️ Built with Bubble, OpenAI, Airtable, and Make
📈 Launched in private beta, onboarded 100+ users in 10 days via warm outreach
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Hello! What's your background?
I started my career in operations, working across early-stage teams where speed and clarity were everything.
By 27, I’d become Chief of Staff.
By 2024, a COO.
And in between all of that, I was building out of necessity. After launching two companies and feeling the weight of doing everything solo, I knew I needed systems that could scale faster than I could hire.
But I didn’t have a dev team.
What I did have was clarity on workflows, and a deep understanding of the “invisible work” founders deal with like finance admin, compliance, contracts, procurement.
I discovered Bubble while trying to build a lightweight finance tracker. What started as a personal tool turned into the foundation for Penny, and eventually the broader Solvora Co-Pilot system.
No-Code gave me the power to build structured, role-specific tools without waiting for technical resourcing.
And now, every Co-Pilot in our ecosystem is built on Bubble with OpenAI and structured prompt logic layered in.
For me, no-code wasn’t a shortcut. It was how I stopped waiting and started shipping. It’s how I moved from overwhelmed operator to product-led founder.
What did you make and how did you come up with the idea?
The idea came out of necessity. I was running a consultancy and juggling everything including client delivery, sales, operations, and finances.
I wasn’t just behind on receipts and tax returns, I was constantly on the verge of missing something important.
I couldn’t justify hiring a bookkeeper, but none of the tools I tried felt like they were built for founders like me. Everything was either too technical or too passive.
So I built something small to help myself stay on top of things. A quiet, structured system that categorized expenses, flagged deadlines, tracked cash flow, and told me what needed attention.
No dashboards, no prompts, just timely, clear support. Then I started speaking with other founders.
After hundreds of conversations, I realized I wasn’t alone. Nearly everyone was improvising their way through critical workflows, hoping nothing slipped through the cracks.
That’s when I decided to turn it into something more. What began as a personal solution grew into the foundation for a broader product.
Solvora’s AI Co-Pilots. Each one designed to support lean founders with the structure they need, before things start falling apart.
What problem does it solve?
Most solo founders aren’t struggling with ideas. They’re struggling with everything that surrounds the idea. The admin, the tax returns, the invoicing, the compliance deadlines.
The invisible workload that doesn’t feel urgent until it’s too late.
Penny solves that.
She’s an AI-powered finance co-pilot that helps solopreneurs stay on top of their finances without hiring or relying on brittle spreadsheets.
She categorises expenses, tracks cash flow, flags tax deadlines, and prompts the founder on what to do next. It’s not reactive, and it’s not a chatbot. It’s structured, proactive support.
She works quietly in the background, and shows up when needed, whether that’s reminding you that your self-assessment is due in two weeks, or highlighting that your SaaS subscriptions have crept up this quarter.
Penny doesn’t replace an accountant. But she helps founders stay organized, aware, and in control, so that when it is time to speak to a professional, they’re ready, informed, and asking the right questions.
Which No-Code tools did you use to build and run it?
Solvora is built entirely in Bubble, which handles both the product front end and the business logic behind each Co-Pilot.
I chose Bubble because it allowed me to move fast without sacrificing structure. Everything from onboarding flows to context-aware task prompts lives inside one system.
Here’s a breakdown of the tools and plugins we use:
API Connector: Integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4, pulling in structured prompt logic to power each Co-Pilot’s decision-making. Not generic chat, but role-specific guidance.
Stripe: Handles future payment and billing logic as we transition out of beta.
SendGrid: Used to send timely reminders and nudges based on business deadlines or task cycles (e.g. “self-assessment due in 14 days”).
Air Date / Time Picker: Helps users input time-sensitive tasks and syncs with automated reminders.
HTML to PDF and PDF & Screenshot Generator: Allow users to export financial snapshots, summaries, and submission-ready documents.
On the AI side, everything runs through OpenAI’s GPT-4 API, using domain-specific prompt structures.
Penny, our first Co-Pilot, parses transaction data, matches it against tax logic, and generates specific, proactive next steps. For example, it might say: “You’re over the VAT threshold this quarter, here’s what to prepare.”
We also use Airtable to manage templates and structured data (like categories, tax types, and response logic), and Make (Integromat) for light automations, syncing inputs and reminders across systems.
Every tool serves a purpose, and every automation is designed to reduce mental load, not create more work.
What was your business model and how have you grown your revenue?
Penny is currently free to use during the beta phase as we onboard and learn from early adopters.
Once we launch publicly, we’ll move to a simple subscription model.
The first 200 users will be offered legacy pricing at £25 per month, locked in for life.
After that, standard pricing will be £50 per month, reflecting the depth of structured automation Penny provides.
The model is designed to keep things lean and accessible for solo founders, while funding ongoing development across Solvora’s wider Co-Pilot ecosystem.
How have you attracted users and grown your product?
We’ve taken an intentional, low-noise approach to growth, prioritizing real conversations, early trust, and signal from the right users.
We launched Penny into private beta in April 2025.
Within the first 10 days, we had over 100 signups through direct outreach, founder groups, and newsletter features.
All early users came through warm channels. WhatsApp founder chats, community invites, email intros, and soft launches on curated platforms like Future Tools, No-Code Exits, and Founder Weekly.
We’re now onboarding in small waves, with beta testers across solo consultancies, lean SaaS startups, and early-stage operators.
Revenue is not the priority in this phase, precision is. We’re focused on learning exactly where Penny creates leverage, and where Co-Pilot logic can go deeper.
Solvora’s social presence is deliberately quiet for now. We’ll ramp when the product is shaped and proven. For now, marketing has been founder-led, insight-driven, and built around trust, not clicks.
What's your advice for No-Code Makers who are just starting out or want to sell their business?
Don’t wait for permission.
And don’t wait for perfect.
Most people will tell you to validate, test, roadmap. That has its place. But what matters more is whether the problem is real, and whether it’s real to you.
I didn’t start with a grand vision. I started with stress, late filings, and no one to help.
I built a fix.
Then I realized hundreds of others needed the same thing. If you’re solving your own problem and you know it inside out, you already have more insight than most people raising seed rounds.
Start with what’s hard.
Move through it.
And build from there.
Thanks for sharing your story Mila!
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