For an e-commerce manager, the promise of AI agents is often a question of plumbing. The vision of a single, intelligent assistant handling sales, support, and marketing across every channel is compelling. The reality, however, is a tangle of disconnected platforms: a chatbot here, a CRM there, a separate tool for email and SMS. MyChatBot, a Kyiv-based startup, is making a pragmatic bet that the wedge into this market isn't a better model, but better pipes. Its CommerceOS platform pitches a no-code environment to build AI agents that can, in theory, touch every customer interaction point, from Instagram DMs to voice calls, by connecting to a claimed library of over 3,000 existing business tools [UATechJournal, November 2025].
The Integration-First Wedge
MyChatBot's differentiation rests on its declared integration count, a number that speaks directly to a buyer's operational headache. The platform lists connectors for major CRM/ERP/CMS systems like HubSpot, Zoho, and Shopify, alongside marketplaces, payment processors, and logistics providers [UATechJournal, November 2025]. The core product claim is that a merchant can use these pre-built links to deploy AI agents that perform specific commerce functions,product recommendations, cart assembly, payment processing, upselling,without writing code. The go-to-market motion appears to be volume-driven, targeting the long tail of online retailers with a solution that promises higher conversion rates through what the company calls "agentic commerce" protocols [UATechJournal, November 2025]. Early traction supports this angle, with the company reporting over 1,000 companies using the platform, translating to an estimated $220,000 in revenue for 2025 [GetLatka, 2025] [UATechJournal, November 2025].
A Seed Round and a Two-Person Team
The company's recent $500,000 seed round, led by the Ukrainian SMRK VC Fund founded by MacPaw's Oleksandr Kosovan, provides runway to scale [UATechJournal, November 2025]. The investment from a locally respected fund with deep operator roots is a notable signal in Ukraine's tech ecosystem. The operational scale, however, remains intensely lean. Public reports indicate the entire team consists of the two co-founders: CEO Denis Kuprash, a former business consultant, and CTO Yaroslav Bratashchuk, a development engineer based in Switzerland [UATechJournal, November 2025] [LinkedIn, 2026]. This structure presents both a remarkable efficiency story and a significant execution risk. The company's ability to support a growing user base, develop complex integrations, and manage sales and marketing with such a small core team will be a critical factor to watch.
| Role | Name | Background |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Founder & CEO | Denis Kuprash | Previously a business consultant [UATechJournal, November 2025] |
| Co-Founder & CTO | Yaroslav Bratashchuk | Development engineer; based in Switzerland [UATechJournal, November 2025] [LinkedIn, 2026] |
The Realistic Competitive Set
For the budget owner at a small-to-midsize e-commerce shop, MyChatBot enters a crowded field. The competitive evaluation is less about competing with foundational AI models and more about displacing incumbent point solutions and simpler automation tools. The realistic consideration set includes:
- Established chat platforms. Tools like ManyChat and Tidio own significant market share in conversational marketing for social channels. They are the incumbent, known-quantity alternatives, though they may not offer the same breadth of omnichannel or deep back-end integration.
- CRM-native automation. Platforms like HubSpot or Zoho have their own built-in marketing automation and chatbot capabilities. For shops already embedded in those ecosystems, the decision becomes whether MyChatBot's cross-platform agent layer provides enough incremental value to justify adding another SaaS subscription.
- In-house development. For merchants with technical resources, building custom integrations using APIs and off-the-shelf LLMs remains an option, though one that trades higher upfront cost and maintenance for ultimate flexibility.
MyChatBot's ideal customer profile is clear: it's the online retailer or DTC brand manager who is overwhelmed by managing a dozen different customer communication tools and is looking for a consolidated, AI-driven layer to automate interactions. The platform's appeal hinges on the no-code promise and the perceived depth of its integration library. The path to scaling beyond its current 1,000 users will depend on proving that its agents can reliably handle complex, revenue-critical tasks across all those connected systems,and that a two-person team can build and support that reliability at scale. The next twelve months will be about converting seed funding into tangible product robustness and beginning to showcase named customer deployments to move beyond user-count metrics.
Sources
- [UATechJournal, November 2025] Ukrainian AI startup MyChatBot raises $500K seed round from Ukrainian VC fund SMRK | https://www.uatechjournal.com/ai-startup-mychatbot-raises-500-000-seed-round-from-ukrainian-vc-fund-smrk/
- [GetLatka, 2025] MyChatBot | https://getlatka.com/companies/mychatbot.app
- [LinkedIn, 2026] Yarik Bratashchuk - MyChatBot | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybratashchuk/