The Uni-Unicorn: The First 1-Person $1B Business Will Be Built on Contextual

Unicorns—businesses that reach a $1B valuation—are, by definition, rare. It takes a pretty amazing combination of timing, product fit, and a good dose of luck to create that much value for a large number of people. Add in the stiff competition for investor dollars historically required to produce that much value, and it’s no wonder only 34 new unicorns have been minted in 2024 despite hundreds of thousands of new and existing businesses giving it their best.

There is only so much oxygen in the room for unicorn-level companies, so perhaps the number and pace of unicorn creation isn’t going to shift, but what will shift is the level of investment and the size of the team required to create that much value.

Back in January, Sam Altman of OpenAI made headlines by predicting the first single person unicorn. 

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Altman envisioned OpenAI and other artificial intelligence technologies being at the center of this phenomenon where small numbers or people—or even a single person—will create enormous value, and he was right. This revolution won’t happen with just one AI or LLM, but rather though the orchestrated application of several of these using Contextual. 

With the power of Contextual at the disposal of every developer, innovator, entrepreneur, and weekend founder, we are going to see the first 1-person unicorn company created soon. Call it a uni-unicorn. If not already trademarked we claim the trademark now and present you with its mascot.

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Why? Why would we be so bold? Why will it be on the Contextual platform where we see the first uni-unicorn arise? You don’t have to look much further than projects like this—built in a weekend—to see the future. Contextual delivers everything that passionate creators need to build a complete products that is deeply powerful and ready to scale.

Here’s how:

A Complete Platform
Contextual’s low code workflow, automation and services platform delivers a fully integrated data stack, visual business logic engine, 1-click compute deployment, and advanced devops tools that let anyone create complete business solutions. You don’t need a broad group of architects, engineers, and operations team members to go from idea to production. Contextual makes it possible.

AI-Integrated
Contextual assumes AI will be at the core of all new business workflows and services so AI has been integrated throughout the platform. You can use Solution AI Assistants to define your data schema, create your workflows, define complex business logic, and integrate with third-party systems. Further, Contextual’s Connections system encourages you to integrate multiple AI models and call AI throughout your solution—AI orchestrationis at the heart of Contextual. We make it dead simple to connect, query, and process the responses received from the most popular AI solutions available today and are continually adding others as they arrive on the scene.

Services Catalog
Want a jump start on your billion dollar idea? The Contextual Services Catalog includes pre-built capabilities ranging from simple templates and patterns you can reuse to fully functional AI-enriched solutions that demonstrate just how fast and powerful AI the things you build with Contextual can be.

Scale Ready
Launch your solution for pennies an hour. Grow it to unicorn levels with simple configuration settings for compute and message-based scaling. Contextual’s approach is designed with fairness in mind. Pay only for what you use. Avoid lock-in or ‘sudden’ price jumps. And if you decide to eschew your uni-unicorn future, add to your team you can, without worrying about additional seat licensing. Build on Contextual from prototype to industry-changing scale, whether you’re building the next B2B SaaS market disruptor or a consumer application for the masses.

Contextual has pulled all of these critical elements into a single, fully managed, ready to use platform. With an industry-leading tech stack behind you, your ideas won’t be limited. Go ahead, create the world’s first uni-unicorn. Contextual is ready to help make it happen.

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