How Aevon started.

Aevon is Gleb Labzov and Julius Ivsan. Gleb was born in Magnitogorsk, Russia, Julius in Kaunas, Lithuania. We both grew up in Weston, Florida, and we have been building businesses together since 2023.

Julius Ivsan and Gleb Labzov standing with arms crossed at the open rear doors of the Panther Power Clean van, pressure washer and surface cleaner loaded behind them
Julius (left) and Gleb with the Panther Power Clean van. Weston, May 16, 2024.

Built in Weston.

  1. 2021

    Where we met.

    We met in a film class in 2021. Julius was already writing software, and by then he had published open-source game tools and shipped online games with real backends. In the fall of 2023 we started talking seriously about building a business together.

  2. November 2023

    The decision to start something.

    By November 2023 the talk was serious. We wanted a business we could run with our hands, in our own town. The first idea was roof cleaning, under the name Weston Bleach Bros. We moved to driveways instead, and by early January 2024 we had equipment from a hardware store and a name: Panther Power Clean.

Panther Power Clean.

  1. January 2024 to October 2025

    Panther Power Clean.

    Our first paying job was a neighbor’s driveway in January 2024, a hundred dollars, won after about four hours of knocking on doors in the heat. We underpriced it and it took far longer than it should have. We learned pricing from that one job.

    That spring we took on a backer, who funded a gas pressure washer, a twenty-inch surface cleaner, a Nissan van to carry it all, tanks, storage, and marketing supplies. With the equipment came real overhead to cover every month.

    Gleb knocked the doors, handed out the cards, booked the jobs, and ran the social accounts. Julius took the incoming calls and kept the books. We both drove, and we both did the cleaning. Over the next twenty-two months we cleaned driveways, pavers, patios, and pool decks across Broward: Weston, Davie, Southwest Ranches, Sunrise, Coral Springs, Cooper City, Hollywood, Miramar, Fort Lauderdale, and sometimes as far as Hialeah. More than fifty jobs. Every review a customer left us was five stars.

    Not every day was good. We once broke a glass fixture with the pressure washer and paid to replace it out of pocket. On one large job we were paid half of what we were owed and never saw the rest.

    In 2025 we added window cleaning as a side line, with under a hundred dollars of equipment. It surprised us. Customers paid more for clean windows than for a clean driveway. We had assumed people paid for a hard day’s work. They pay for a result they care about.

    “Nobody really cares how clean their driveway looks.”

    Gleb, on what Panther Power Clean taught us
    A concrete driveway with a sharp diagonal line between the grey, mildewed half and the freshly cleaned half
    The line between before and after, one pass in. January 22, 2024, our third week.
    The open rear of the van showing a Simpson pressure washer with a Honda engine, a surface cleaner, hose reels, a water tank, and a first-aid kit
    The kit, the week it arrived. May 16, 2024.
    Two surface cleaners side by side on pavers: the new twenty-inch stainless one and the small black electric one from the hardware store
    The twenty-inch surface cleaner beside the hardware-store one it replaced. May 16, 2024.
    A founder in a cap and Panther Power Clean shirt running a surface cleaner across a foam-covered driveway in front of dark garage doors
    Mid-job, Weston. October 5, 2024.
    Gleb in ear protection, safety glasses and gloves, pressure-washing a driveway with a wand from a paver walkway, townhomes behind
    Gleb on the wand. April 11, 2025.
    A gloved hand running a blue microfiber duster along the inside of a window frame above a marble sill, a garden outside
    Interior windows, the side line that paid better. June 12, 2025.

  2. October 2025 to April 2026

    Winding it down.

    We closed Panther Power Clean in October 2025. The LLC was dissolved and the pressure-washing equipment and the van were sold. We kept a small window-cleaning line going until April 2026.

    The reasons were plain. We were the labor, and there was no version of the business where that changed without hiring. The market was crowded, so every job had to be won by hand at whatever price the next name on the list would take. And the phone: you cannot answer a call while running a pressure washer or standing on a ladder, and we lost jobs that way. We had done good work. We had never solved being found, or being reached.

    A founder silhouetted against the sunset while pressure-washing a travertine patio, the mist lit from behind
    A patio at sunset. December 30, 2024.

On May 15, 2026, we formed Aevon LLC.

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The calls we couldn’t take.

  1. Spring 2026

    The idea.

    By March 2026 Gleb was pushing for something new. We talked through other businesses for a couple of months. By May the idea had settled: a phone receptionist. It came straight out of the cleaning work. The calls we could not take were jobs we did not get, and hiring someone to answer was not worth it at our size.

    Julius was skeptical. Most products described as AI overpromise, and he did not want to sell one of them. What changed his mind was the shape of the problem. We had lived it. The call that goes unanswered goes to a competitor. That is not a software problem; it is a front-desk problem, and a front desk was something we understood.

  2. June 2026

    The first version.

    The first version answered inbound calls, answered questions, and booked callers into a calendar. It took its first call, a test from Gleb’s phone, on the evening of June 4, 2026.

    The next day, June 5, it went live on a real line for our first client, Vaulnox International, which still uses the service. We built the website and the client portal around that first version.

  3. Summer 2026

    Learning what a receptionist is.

    Within weeks it was clear we were scraping the surface. A receptionist does more than answer: books, reschedules, takes a message a person can act on, hands a caller to someone when it matters, and calls people back. So we rebuilt it as a full receptionist and changed how we described it, from an “AI call answering service” to a receptionist that happens to be AI.

    We had planned to build for medical and dental offices first. The version those offices need is a larger build, so we chose to launch for general businesses first: offices, salons, trades, legal, and veterinary.

  4. August 31, 2026

    Launch.

    On Monday, August 31, 2026, the general-business receptionist was ready for its first client. We started the way we know: on foot, in local businesses, talking to the owner or the receptionist and leaving a free missed-calls audit behind. Some of the owners we met already had an AI receptionist, which told us the idea works and people pay for it. Far more had nothing, and were losing calls the way we used to.

  5. September 2026

    Leading with the numbers.

    The owners we met asked the same two questions first: what is my phone costing me, and what does this cost? So those became the first things we answer, with sourced numbers and a plain price, and we say directly what an AI receptionist is for: taking the phone off the payroll.

The dates.

  1. Nov 2023

    We decide to start a business together.

  2. Jan 2024

    Panther Power Clean’s first paying job: a neighbor’s driveway.

  3. May 2024

    The van and the gas washer arrive. Real overhead begins.

  4. Oct 2025

    Panther Power Clean closes; the van is sold.

  5. May 15, 2026

    Aevon LLC is formed.

  6. Jun 4, 2026

    The first receptionist takes its first call.

  7. Aug 31, 2026

    Launch. We start knocking on doors again.

  8. Sep 2026

    We lead with the numbers: what the phone costs, and what we cost.

Run by the founders.

Aevon is run by its two founders, and every client works with us directly. Gleb (Florida State) leads sales from Tallahassee; Julius (University of Florida) builds and runs every receptionist from Weston.

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Gleb Labzov, Co-founder · CEO

Gleb Labzov

Co-founder · CEO

Talks to every business himself, from Tallahassee. The person on your first call is a founder, and so is every call after.

Julius Ivsan, Co-founder · COO

Julius Ivsan

Co-founder · COO

Builds and runs every receptionist we put on a client’s line, from Weston. Every change a client asks for, he makes himself.