Reading up on Apollo

Running list of AI agent ideas to make you more productive and more money: 1. The onboarding rescue agent. Watch PostHog for any new signup who stalls on the same step for more than 10 minutes, then have an agent send them a Loom style personal message or a CustomerIO email that answers the exact thing they're stuck on before they give up. 2. The pricing page bounce agent. Fire a PostHog webhook when someone hits your pricing page twice and leaves, have the agent enrich them with Apollo, and send a short email with the objection handler for their specific company size when it matters. 3. The second product in support agent. Point an agent at your Intercom/Plain inbox etc and have it tag every request that isn't actually about your product, the adjacent thing people assume you also do. It ranks them by frequency. 3. The you already answered this agent. Have an agent read your sent folder, your Intercom replies, and your sales emails, and pull the clearest explanations you've ever written about your product. It drops them into a swipe file your landing page and cold emails pull from. 4. The internal tool to product agent. Point an agent at your team's GitHub scripts, Retool apps, and Google Sheets, and have it flag the ones 10 other companies in your niche would pay for. 5. The review mining agent. Apify scrape every review of your top 3 competitors on G2 and Capterra, cluster the 1-star complaints with Claude, and get a ranked list of the features to build and the exact words to use in ads to poach those unhappy customers. 6. The sell what you give away agent. Once a week, feed your Granola/Gmeet call notes and Intercom threads into an agent that hunts for every task your team did for free that took more than 30 minutes. It clusters them, counts how often each came up, and ranks by demand. The top 3 become paid add ons. 7. The win pattern cloner. Pull your last 50 closed-won deals from HubSpot or whatever CRM you use, have an agent find the firmographic traits and the trigger event those buyers shared before they bought, build a lookalike list in Clay, and feed it straight into Instantly. 8. The self improving ad agent. Wire an agent to your Meta ads account that pulls the winners daily, uses Perplexity to scrape fresh Reddit pain points, generates new static creative with Nano Banana, checks it against your brand guide with a vision model, publishes, kills the losers, and scales the winners on a loop. An entire performance marketer running 24/7. 9. The first hour agent. Pull your last 500 signups from PostHog, split them into power users and churned users, and have the agent diff the first session event streams to find the one action power users took that churners skipped. Then force that action into onboarding with a PostHog feature flag. 10. The lost deal rescue agent. Have an agent pull your closed lost deals from your CRM, then monitor those competitors' status pages and pricing pages with a daily Firecrawl. The morning a competitor has an outage or raises prices, it drafts a personal reach out to the buyers you lost to them. 11. The Gemini video scout. Point Gemini at your competitors' YouTube demos, webinars, and conference talks, and have it watch the actual footage, not the transcript, to pull the features they're teasing and the UI they're showing. It reads what they demo on screen, not just what they write down. 12. The wrong answer agent. Run your product's top buyer questions through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity every week on a cron, and have the agent log the moment any of them start saying something false about your pricing, features, or positioning, then Slack you the exact wrong claim and the source it likely pulled from. Honestly the fun part is that once you build one of these, you can't stop seeing them everywhere, every manual task starts looking like an agent you haven't set up yet. That's kind of where my head is at lately, so I'll keep dropping agent ideas here and on @startupideaspod as I go, and if you build one that rips, tell me, I want to see it. Grab whatever idea is useful. I'm rooting for you.

@gregisenberg

met a guy making $51,000/month by scraping reddit for the phrase "anyone got recommendations for" and emailing the posters within 2 hours not joking he opens reddit every morning runs a search on 8 subreddits in his niche finds people who just publicly asked for exactly what he sells and emails them while the post is still on the front page reply rate: 23% average cold email: 0.3% his is 76x higher because these people literally just raised their hand in public saying "please take my money" heres the exact phrases he searches every morning: "anyone got recommendations for [service]" "alternative to [competitor]" "looking for a good [service]" "got burned by [company], where do i go now" "has anyone used [company] — are they worth it" every one of these is a public declaration of buying intent with a timestamp on it someone posted this 4 hours ago in r/[niche]: "I need [service] urgently. Budget is $15K. Prefer someone who actually knows what theyre doing and isnt sketchy" he saw the post at 9am pulled the username cross referenced linkedin found the email sent this at 10am: "hey [name], saw your post in r/[sub] about needing [service] urgently. we do exactly that — last client we booked 34 qualified calls in a month. free 15 min call?" reply at 10:11am call at 2pm signed $15K contract by 4pm 7 hours from public reddit post to signed deal from reading reddit in the morning this is the process: step 1: find the 5-10 subreddits where your buyers hang out step 2: run searches for "recommendation" "alternative to" "looking for" "anyone use" in those subreddits every morning step 3: filter for posts under 4 hours old with clear buying intent step 4: pull the username → cross reference linkedin → find their email step 5: send a 2 line email referencing their EXACT post step 6: warm call every positive reply within 30 minutes thats it last month: - 187 reddit posts scraped - 164 emails found (90% find rate) - 38 positive replies - 24 booked calls - 11 closes - $4,600 average deal - $50,600 in revenue from reading reddit while eating breakfast heres why this layers perfectly on top of a normal cold email system: your main campaigns are emailing 4,500 cold leads a day building pipeline at scale reddit is a surgical strike on top of that the guy on reddit literally JUST declared their problem hours ago the declaration is the qualifier theres no discovering pain points they posted the problem you showed up with the solution the sales conversation is already 90% done before the call starts its the highest intent cold email you can send because it might not even feel cold they had the problem at 9am you showed up at 10am thats not a cold email thats a well timed introduction and heres the part that should make every cold emailer sick: every single person on this app is scraping apollo fighting over the same 50 million contacts meanwhile reddit has 500 million monthly users posting their exact buying requests in public timestamped organised by niche completely uncontested free nobody in cold email is scraping reddit because nobody thinks of reddit as a lead source they think of it as a place to post memes while angry buyers are literally typing their credit card out loud every single day one of the most profitable lead source on the internet has been sitting there for 15 years organising itself timestamping itself qualifying itself telling you their budget telling you their pain telling you what they just got burned by and agency owners are still writing "hey firstname hope this finds you well" to marketing directors on apollo go open reddit search one of those phrases in a subreddit in your niche youll find 10 hand raisers before your coffee gets cold simples p.s. if youre an agency owner with a proven offer and want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "EMAIL" (you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)

@scaling_shields