In this interview, Andrew Gazdecki talks with Obi Sheikh, a Bangladeshi student and founder of the micro‑SaaS Wisdom Make AI. Obi explains how a professor’s request for AI‑based validator review sparked the idea, leading him to build a web‑based tool that quickly gained traction among university students and institutions, reaching about 1,900 users and securing licensing deals with a city university. He describes the hardest challenges: keeping downtime low and the risk of rapid changes from large AI models like ChatGPT that could render the product obsolete. Marketing was driven primarily by cold‑email outreach to academic contacts. Obi decided to sell because he wanted to focus on his studies, a new startup (IClav AI), and an upcoming move to Australia. The acquisition was facilitated through Acquire.com, where he interacted with over 50 potential buyers, received extensive support from the Acquire team (especially Luther), and navigated a 28‑day due‑diligence process. He chose the final buyer not solely on price but because the buyer shared his vision for scaling Wisdom Make AI. Obi offers advice to other founders: demonstrate strong product‑market fit and scalability, as buyers look for opportunities to grow a product 10‑100×. Looking ahead, he plans to finish his studies, possibly acquire other micro‑SaaS businesses via Acquire.com, scale them, and eventually raise venture funding with an eye toward a NASDAQ listing. He shares his social handles (OBHK) across YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter for followers to keep up with his journey.
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I'm here with Obi, the founder of Wisdom make AI. Obi, how you doing today?
Great Andrew, thanks for having me.
Yeah, thanks for, thanks for coming on. I'm excited to hear your story. You recently got acquired on acquire.com. before we dive into the acquisition, do you want to just share a brief introduction of yourself?
Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Obi Sheikh. I'm currently studying in CSC at Raffle International University. I'm from Bangladesh and I'm studying some micro SaaS and one of them is Wisdom Make AI and we just sold that thing using aqua.com right on.
Tell me what Wisdom Make AI did. What problem did it solve?
Okay, basically one of my professor Marjo Mahm told me like he wanted to do validator review because it's an AI era and we have to do can do things like very easily using AI. So can you like automate this, automate this stuff? So I trying to build an inattent automation based on that but that was not scalable. So I started making some programming and making to our website micro SaaS. Then my mom shared it with our all of our students and it got like 1900 users from there. So we get that and another university or city university acquire us buy the license. We got few other tractions from there. From that we can gather some experience and try to build new features like literature, new other features like latex eders, Cubescope. Those features are included later on based on users interactions and feedback.
Nice. So who was like the most common user of Wisdom make AI? Was it a student, was it a business? What did, what did that look like?
Basically like a university or institutions that they want to do research based on discovery or many other things.
Nice. What would you say the hardest part of building was? Make AI?
Was hardest part was getting used as because like getting and keeping them the down rate as low as possible is like very tough. Yes. A new, a new like update from ChatGPT can kill my startup in like a minute. So that's the reason that's the hardest part. So we have new features.
Nice. What do you do for marketing?
So we basically do cold mail because we had from my perspective is it's like have varsity mails. So you gather their mails and just keep sending them all emails from them. We're going to get some users.
Nice. So it sounds like things were going good. You have product market fit, you built a great application. What made you decide to ultimately sell was to make AI?
Yeah, actually I was part of another startup called IClav. AI and I was trying to like focus on that. I also my studies. I'm currently also a student and I'm gonna move to Australia for another my post graduation. So that's the reason, like let's just leave it with another owner. They can like scale it to a much, much bigger. Maybe they can create something like Jenny AI which is like competitive acquisition AI they have built like a 200, $300 million company based in Silicon Valley.
Tell me about the acquisition process. What were your expectations and how did it go?
Well, I think big, big help to acquire from because whenever I get a problem I get them a mail and they respond very fast. Especially Luther from your like your founder. I don't know what his position is and he really helped me out on everything from like acquisitions from loi to like due diligence, everything. Whenever like I had a problem, I just make a consultation with them and be ok. Nice.
Yeah, Luther's great. He's part of our May advisory team. Yeah. How many buyers did you speak to?
It was more than 50. Like 52, 50 fees, something like that. And we're like listed there for two months.
Nice. And then how did you decide on the final buyer? Did they offer the best price? Did you have good discussions with them
and actually we had few other buyers but our the owner of right now, the owner of Zombie, he wanted to like make it a way we wanted to grow as a wisdom, our vision. He accepted our vision. Like he wanted to grow it as, as the way we wanted it. So that's why we like. I think he could be the best owner for Wizdomy.
Nice. What would you say the most confusing part of an acquisition was?
It's definitely due diligence. Like we have to give all the bank statements, all the contracts and like due diligence part is very lending. It took us like maybe 30 to 28 days. Just the due diligence.
So how did you get through that? Did you email the choir team with questions? Did you research online? What. What helped you get yourself clear team
definitely helped but in this case my bank helped. Like I gave them all give them. Hey, I'm selling this part of this my company and can I give the statements all the things and they helped me out and I just send them details to my owner. Nice.
And then when you closed, did you do anything to celebrate? It's a big moment. Did you go out to dinner? Did you do anything cool?
Yeah. The reason I missed your first invitation is you guys traveling. I visited one of my. It's a Very beautiful place. If you come to Bangladesh, come to see Sage. It's called Sa Gali. It's a very beautiful place and I just visited that place with my friends.
Right on. If you were talking to another founder and they were looking to get acquired, what's a piece of advice you'd give them?
I do find a product market fit. Most of the buyers want something like they can scale it to maybe 100x 10x so they, the buyers only wants one thing, that is scalability. So if you can provide a product market fit, I think they'll have it.
I would definitely agree with that. So what's next for you? What's next after this?
So I, right now I really wanted to complete my study then move to. I think maybe I will acquire some startup from acquire.com because like I think that's the best part. So if I can acquire some, I don't know, micro SaaS and scale them into a bigger opportunities and maybe I can raise more funds from the VCs then go to NASDAQ, something like this, I have similar idea in my mind. Let's see what's happening in the future. Right on.
Well, Obi, thanks so much for coming on the podcast and congrats again on the acquisition. For people that want to follow your journey online, where can they find you?
Yeah, basically I have a YouTube channel, Instagram and Twitter all under OBHK, that's my handle and you can find them. Thank you Andrew for having me.
Of course. I'll put that in the show notes. Ob, congrats again.
Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Goodbye.
