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AI Founder Story
Transforming Silent Churn Into Predictable Revenue Growth
Quick Background
Tzachi Davidovich is the Co-founder & CEO of FlyCode, a YC-backed fintech startup from Tel Aviv solving one of SaaS’s most underestimated challenges: failed payments. With over a decade in fintech and subscription billing, and product leadership experience at Pioneer and Behaf, Tzachi set out to fix a problem quietly costing the global economy $443 billion every year.
The Silent Killer of SaaS Growth
You work hard to acquire a customer. They love your product. They pay every month. And then—suddenly—their card declines. They didn’t churn intentionally. They didn’t even know it happened. Yet in that single failed transaction, you lose their entire lifetime value.
This is the hidden churn that eats away at Netflix, Notion, Shopify, and every subscription business on the planet.
FlyCode’s Breakthrough
Most companies rely on basic retry settings in Stripe or Shopify. Others send “update your card” emails, pushing the problem back on customers. Both approaches miss the point.
FlyCode built AI models that analyze payment data, decode failure patterns, and predict the right time to retry—so payments succeed without spamming retries or annoying customers. While you sleep, FlyCode quietly recovers revenue you didn’t know you were losing.
Key Achievements & Insights:
The Problem Today →
Subscription businesses bleed revenue when payments fail, often losing the full LTV of customers they already worked hard to acquire.
The Breakthrough →
FlyCode’s AI predicts the optimal retry timing, reducing penalties from issuers while recovering more payments with fewer attempts.
The Proof Story →
Finance teams once tracked failures in Excel, sending manual “please update card” emails. FlyCode automates recovery, with customers never noticing a decline even happened.
The Big Example →
At scale-ups and Shopify stores alike, FlyCode integrates via Stripe marketplace or API, boosting recovery rates beyond anything existing tools achieve.
Why It Matters
For CFOs, an extra 5–8% ARR from invisible recovery isn’t just nice—it’s game-changing.
Watch the full interview below! 👇
The Ultimate Lesson
YC Mindset: Solve Hair-on-Fire Problems
YC taught Tzachi to only chase urgent pain points. Failed payments turned out to be just that—every finance team knew the problem, but no one had a deep solution.
AI-Native Efficiency
With fewer than 10 people, FlyCode operates like a much larger company by going AI-native from day one—using AI not just in the product, but in engineering, ops, and marketing.
👉 Want to see how AI recovered revenue while founders slept? — Read the full interview and deep dive into FlyCode’s payment recovery playbook →
HEADLINE ROUNDUP
Headline recap
Musk’s xAI Lays Off 500 In Grok Chatbot Pivot
Elon Musk’s xAI trims 500 roles to double down on developing its Grok chatbot tool.
Google Pours $7B Into UK AI & Talent
Google pledges nearly $7 billion to transform AI, training, and development in the UK’s tech sector.
Microsoft Drops $30B to Turbocharge UK AI
Microsoft announces a huge $30 billion commitment to supercharge the UK's AI innovation and tech growth.
Fiverr Slashes 30% Staff for AI Overhaul
Fiverr cuts nearly a third of its workforce in a bold move to upgrade its marketplace with new AI technologies.
Doctronic Raises $20M for Faster AI Health
Doctronic secures $20 million to deliver AI-powered guidance for quicker, smarter healthcare decisions.
TRENDS
What's trending in AI
Tavily
Key Player: Tavily is a fast-growing web data platform delivering APIs for live search, structured extraction, and crawling, optimized to power AI agents and RAG systems with high-fidelity web data.
Market Value: In August 2025, Tavily raised $25 million in funding, with partners including Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global, signaling strong validation from leading investors and major enterprise clients.
Adoption: Tavily boasts over a million monthly downloads and is already deeply integrated with Fortune 500 companies, top startups, and open-source AI builders for enterprise AI automation, fraud detection, and research workflows.
Recent Developments: Tavily recently announced a strategic partnership with IBM to bring live web data into IBM watsonx.ai Granite models, accelerating enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions.
Growth: Over the past year, Tavily’s search volume skyrocketed to 49.5K with +99X growth, and its APIs have rapidly become an industry standard for RAG and LLM integration.
Why It Matters: Tavily tackles one of the hardest AI challenges: hallucinations, context gaps, and outdated answers by grounding AI outputs in real-time, credible knowledge, empowering developers and organizations to sustainably deploy production-ready agents.
The Big Picture: As AI adoption accelerates, Tavily’s platform offers the “web access layer” for millions of future AI agents—making the web fully accessible, actionable, and trustworthy for autonomous systems across industries.
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