FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.
Partnerships are relationship-driven. Doesn't AI kill the relationship?
The AI kills the work that isn't relationship — prospecting, finding contacts, scheduling, drafting recaps, following up persistently at the right cadence. What remains relationship: the intro call, the negotiation, the long-term commitment. You're more present on the actual relationship moments because you're not drowning in the mechanical work. Partners who've dealt with you before Tycoon report the relationship feels better because you're more responsive and more prepared — not worse.
How is this different from using Crossbeam, Reveal, or PartnerStack?
Those are partner management platforms — databases for tracking deals once they exist. Tycoon runs the activity that creates the partnerships in the first place. Crossbeam tells you which accounts your partner already has; Tycoon finds new partners, pitches them, and closes them. Many teams run both: Tycoon for pipeline creation and Crossbeam for managing the activated partnerships post-signing. PartnerStack is a referral program platform, orthogonal use case.
Do you handle co-marketing partnerships specifically, or just integrations?
Both. Co-marketing partnerships (joint webinars, shared content, cross-promotion) follow the same pipeline workflow — identify complementary audiences, pitch the collab, execute the content. AI Sales Rep handles the BD layer; AI Head of Content handles the actual co-marketing asset production (co-written blog post, joint launch thread, webinar promotion sequence). Most teams find co-marketing partnerships faster to close than integrations (weeks vs months) and similarly high-ROI.
What about mega-partner deals — Zapier, Stripe, etc — does this work at that scale?
For initial outreach and getting to the first real human, yes. Those platforms have BD teams that do respond to good outreach. For negotiating the actual deal (contract terms, revenue share, technical integration requirements, joint marketing commitments), you're in human-to-human territory with their legal, product, and BD teams. The AI keeps the conversation warm between meetings; you run the meetings. Think of Tycoon as the BD coordinator that supports your human partnership lead, not as a replacement for strategic dealmaking.
How do you avoid spammy partnership pitches that hurt our brand?
Several safeguards: every outgoing pitch requires your approval before send (not just templates — the full personalized email). Pitches are grounded in specific research about the target (recent product launches, customer overlap signals, relevant personnel changes). Follow-up cadence respects partner-scale timing (not 4 pings in 10 days). Any pitch the AI classifies as 'low confidence fit' gets flagged to you before sending. The quality bar is higher than most human SDR teams because the AI doesn't have the volume pressure that forces generic pitches.