AI for the shops on every street in Korea.
Golmok AI builds practical AI services and AI transformation (AX) for Korean small business owners and first-time founders, so the work they can't afford to outsource gets done in minutes instead of being skipped.
Golmok (골목) means the side street. It's where most of Korea's millions of small businesses live, and where we want AI to show up first.
One customer, many jobs to be done.
Small business owners do research, marketing, customer service and paperwork alone. We are building an AI service for each of those jobs, starting with the one that happens before launch.
Persona Research
Consumer research in minutes, not weeks. Describe your product, price and target customer, and get a research report built from simulated surveys of hundreds of synthetic personas that mirror Korea's real population statistics.
Listing & Ad Studio
Product detail pages, ad copy and creative drafts generated from a short brief.
Review & Inquiry Assistant
Turns customer reviews and questions into themes, fixes and ready-to-send replies.
Support Program Navigator
Matches businesses to government support programs and helps draft applications.
AX Training & Consulting
Hands-on programs that help owners adopt AI in their daily operations.
How Persona Research works
A 100-person online panel costs around KRW 200,000 and a professional report over KRW 1,000,000. Most founders skip research entirely. We make the first step nearly free.
Four inputs
Product description, planned price, target customer or store address. No survey design needed.
Korean personas
300 to 500 synthetic personas sampled from Nemotron-Personas-Korea, built on Korean national statistics.
Simulated survey
A questionnaire auto-designed from a proven research template, answered in character by Claude for each persona.
Research report
Segment cross-tabs, ranked purchase drivers and open-ended themes, plus public commercial-district and population data.
Honest about what is simulated.
Synthetic answers must never be mistaken for real survey data. Every section of every report carries a source label.
Official statistics
Population mix, competitor density, closure rates and catchment population come straight from public data, reported as numbers.
Simulation
Purchase intent, price sensitivity and open-ended feedback are reported as rankings and directions, never as fake percentages.
Every report ends with five questions to verify with a real panel. We are the low-cost first step before real research, not a replacement for it.
Roadmap
Built with Claude and Claude Code from day one.
Pipeline & validation
Persona Research pipeline and first accuracy check against real panel results.
Web MVP
Self-serve report flow with 30 beta businesses.
Second service
Offline store module with commercial-district data, then the next AI service.
B2G pilots
Pilots with startup and small-business support agencies.
Let's talk.
Partners, support agencies and small business owners who want early access: we'd love to hear from you.