Cyril Nie

Cyril Nie

Founder of Spreeflo · Co-founder of Spreelytics · Forbes 30 Under 30

Cyril Nie is the founder of Spreeflo, the email marketing automation and CRM platform for businesses. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree who has built automation and AI agents for government, finance, ecommerce, startups and corporates. He was co-founder and CTO of Pixcap, as featured in TechCrunch, then founded Spreeflo and Spreelytics.

As a CTO he watched marketing automation vendors raise prices every year while the tools grew harder to run, to the point where he had to hire a marketer just to manage lifecycle emails. Spreeflo is his answer to that: email, forms, web analytics and a CRM in one plan, priced for small teams, with an AI assistant and an MCP server so one person can do what used to take a specialist.

What Cyril writes about

  • Email marketing that a small team can run: subject lines, newsletters, automations and deliverability, with examples you can copy.

  • What the tools really cost: dated, sourced pricing breakdowns of email marketing and CRM platforms, priced for the same benchmark list so they can be compared.

  • Inbound sales for founder-led companies: lead scoring, pipelines and the handoff from marketing to sales.

  • Building lean SaaS in the AI era: why small teams and solo founders can now compete with large incumbents.

How these articles are checked

  • Prices come from the vendor's own page wherever it shows them, with the date it was read. When a vendor hides tiers behind a slider, the figure comes from independent reviewers, and the article says which.

  • Advice is sourced to neutral references such as Litmus, Email on Acid, Google's and Yahoo's sender guidelines, the FTC and W3C, not to competing email vendors.

  • Spreeflo is our product. Pages that compare tools say so, state Spreeflo's price for the same benchmark, and say where a rival is the better choice. When an article mentions Pixcap, it notes that Cyril co-founded it.

  • Pricing pages are re-checked every month, and the "checked on" date shows the last time.

Articles by Cyril