FAQ

Every question, answered plainly.

What Melbora is, what it does, and where it stops. If your question isn't here, the waitlist form is the fastest way to reach us.

What Melbora is

What is Melbora?

Melbora is an assistant that runs the digital side of a small ecommerce store. It drafts the ads, the listings, the prices, the images, and the plans for getting found, then waits for your approval before anything goes live. You make the product. Melbora runs the store.

What does AI cofounder mean?

Software that holds your whole business in view, does the recurring digital work without being asked, and brings the finished work to you for a decision. That is a higher bar than an assistant, which answers when spoken to, or an agent, which carries out one kind of task. There is a longer answer in the articles.

Is Melbora an agency?

No. There are no account managers and no monthly retainer. Melbora does the work itself, and you set the direction.

Is Melbora a course?

No. Melbora doesn't teach you to run the store. Melbora runs the store.

Is Melbora another dashboard I have to learn?

No. You talk to Melbora in plain language, and its finished work arrives in one approval queue. There is nothing to configure daily and no analytics maze to interpret. A tool waits for you to drive it. An assistant carries the work to you.

Is Melbora AI or a team of people?

Melbora is AI software. The drafts in your queue are produced by the assistant itself, not by account managers or an outsourced team working behind a curtain. People build and supervise the product. The work is machine-made and owner-approved, and every draft states what it would change and why.

How is Melbora different from the AI helpers built into store platforms?

Built-in helpers answer questions and assist while you do the work. Melbora carries whole areas of the store end to end, works unprompted, and brings you finished drafts to approve instead of suggestions to act on.

Platforms

Does Melbora work with Shopify?

Yes. Melbora connects to your existing Shopify store. Your store stays exactly where it is. Melbora plugs into it rather than replacing anything, with no replatforming and no manual exports.

What about WooCommerce, Amazon, or other platforms?

The goal is the whole spread a small store actually uses. Storefronts like Shopify and WooCommerce, marketplaces like Amazon and Etsy, and the ad and social channels around them. The beta rolls out area by area, and your waitlist position holds throughout.

What Melbora does

What work does Melbora handle?

Melbora carries the store's digital day-to-day. Ads and marketing videos. Pricing, promotions, and trend suggestions. Listings and storefront upkeep. Product images. Getting found on Google and in AI search. Analytics, order coordination, and site health. It rolls out area by area as each one is ready.

Does Melbora run my ads?

Melbora drafts the ads, proposes the budgets, and watches the results daily, moving spend toward what converts. Every ad and every dollar waits for your approval first.

Can Melbora help my store get found on Google and in AI search?

Yes. Melbora keeps listings and pages written the way people actually search, current as your catalog changes, and legible to both search engines and the AI assistants that now answer buying questions.

Does Melbora watch trends?

Yes. Melbora watches what's breaking across platforms and tells you what fits your shelf, with draft listings, prices, and posts ready to approve while the window is still open.

Does Melbora talk to my customers?

Melbora drafts the replies and you send them. Your customers always hear from you.

Control and boundaries

Will Melbora publish or spend money without me?

Never. Every ad, price change, page edit, and dollar of spend sits in a queue until you approve it. This is how the whole system works, not a setting you have to find.

What does Melbora never touch?

Two things. The physical side of your business, meaning your product, your packing, and your shipping. And your money, which it can never move on its own.

What if I don't like what Melbora drafts?

You decline it, and nothing happens to your store. Declines also teach Melbora what you won't ship, which is half of learning your taste.

Isn't AI output slop?

A lot of it is, which is why nothing Melbora makes reaches your store without your review. Judge us on the drafts during the free beta. If the work isn't good, it costs you a tap to say no.

Beta and pricing

What does Melbora cost?

Nothing during the beta. Early waitlist members hear pricing first, before anyone else.

When does the beta open?

Seat by seat, in waitlist order. Joining early genuinely matters, because your position is your place in line.

What will the beta include on day one?

Areas arrive in batches, and everything on this page is what Melbora does. Storefront and listings reach you first, campaigns and email in the batches after. Early members have the most say in which order the rest arrives.

Which platform connects first?

Shopify. WooCommerce and Etsy follow in the next batch, then the ad channels and email. If you are on something else, joining now still holds your position, and waitlist order decides access within every batch.

Who is Melbora for?

Small ecommerce store owners. First-time founders and established stores both fit. Agencies and freelancers looking to resell the output are the one audience it isn't for.

How do I join the waitlist?

One email address in the form on this page. No card, no call, no pitch. Your spot in line is set the moment you join.

Who we are

Was Melbora called Vantage Connections?

Yes. The company was Vantage Connections until September 2026, when it became Melbora. Same team, same product, same beta. The name changed because too many unrelated companies use the word Vantage, and a store owner searching for us kept finding someone else.

Who is behind Melbora?

Melbora was founded by Radin Ahmadi. It is a small independent team building the product now, in the open, and you can reach the founders directly at [email protected] rather than through a support desk.

How is this different from Shopify Magic or Sidekick?

Shopify's built-in tools help you write a thing when you are already sitting in the admin looking at that thing. Melbora does the day-to-day whether or not you open the admin, across the channels outside Shopify too, and hands you a queue of finished work to approve. If your whole store lives inside Shopify and you enjoy doing the daily work yourself, Shopify's own tools may be all you need.

Your data

What happens to my email address?

It goes into our email service so we can confirm your spot and send occasional updates. Every message has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete your address entirely. The details live on our privacy page.