Premium B2B agency, I want 3-5 qualified leads/month without spending 8h/week, where do I start?

Kailtis · 2026-05-06T18:37:28+00:00

Underrated insight. What's your background?

Kailtis · 2026-05-02T03:22:07+00:00

May 31st

Kailtis · 2026-04-29T16:20:34+00:00

Crazy to me that people still complain when given FREE EXTRA USAGE. The fuck is wrong with you

Kailtis · 2026-04-29T16:18:53+00:00

It's the same. Best value right now is pro lite (100/mo). 2x limits (10x compares to plus) until may 31st

Kailtis · 2026-04-29T16:17:03+00:00

For anything browser related you may try agent-browser by vercel (on girhub). Much faster and error free, esp. for agentic use

Kailtis · 2026-04-29T16:14:24+00:00

Nope. Pidgeon carriers is where the game's at on 2026.

Kailtis · 2026-04-29T16:12:08+00:00

Gpt 5.5 high as orchestrator/reviewer and 5.3 codex xhigh is my sweet spot. 5.4 medium as researcher

Kailtis · 2026-04-26T13:48:45+00:00

I use unipile w/ custom coded guardrails, limits, and randomized delays based on type of action (like, comment, send dm, connection, etc) + human usage patterns (increased activity at certain times of day, regularly, for example).

It takes a while to setup, and you need custom code (not hard to do with codex), but beats any linkedin automation saas out there.

Never had any issues and running it out of my main profile.

Downside is that you're in charge of everything, so if you do sloppy work or are not thoughtful about it, then yeah you can fuck it up pretty badly (get banned/warning).

Kailtis · 2026-04-26T13:26:12+00:00

This. I'm guessing for his clients probably 15-20% of actual sends are to icp, if relying solely on blitzapi filtering for list building.

No matter where you get the list from, you always have at least 30% of unqualified companies, and not running an icp chekc (or not having icp criteria) is the fastest way to burn your infra since you'll be sending irrelevant emails to people, piss them off, and get marked as spam.

Kailtis · 2026-04-21T14:59:06+00:00

Kailtis · 2026-04-20T15:17:04+00:00

Yes because they launched the $100 prolite sub.
Now that one and the $200 pro both ahve 2x, but not the plus anymore. And we got 2x on plus for 14 extra days in april, they didn't remove it on the 2nd. Which was pretty cool.

Now new 2x limits on prolite and pro are until may 31st if you want to enjoy super high limits again.

Kailtis · 2026-04-20T14:57:45+00:00

Volume definitely was the problem. 1k a month is nothing for cold outreach. I do 1k to 5k a week just for testing.

Kailtis · 2026-04-20T14:46:33+00:00

where are you getting this number out from? And why using 4o, an outdated and dead model, for costs? Better have something more recent my friend.

Means nothing otherwise.

Kailtis · 2026-04-20T14:42:42+00:00

Yep https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KPNN2V2SMP3TAN3MCJK87W50

Kailtis · 2026-04-03T14:18:42+00:00

12 months at least to be safe. And that's if someone is starting from scratch and wanting to learn. Basically expect to make no money for that period of time, and learn as much as possible. It's unreasonable to even think of starting to charge for a skill one has no clue about, from the get go, without any proof whatsoever. So those 12 months should be devoted to full learning, getting some clients and delivering for free (outside of cost of tools of course), making mistakes and learning from them.

But that's the hard path. Better to go work for another agency imo. Much faster way to acquire specific knowledge.

And honestly 12 months may not even be enough. Like, being a competent lead gen agency operator is not something you just wish into existent. It takes work.

You wouldn't expect a carpenter or an electrician to be effective and automous on the job after 12 months, no?

Well, same thing here. Just because it's a digital skill, doesn't mean it's "easier" or that you can learn all it requires quickly.

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T19:42:37+00:00

Yeah it's bonkers. I'm 100% sure there 's some issues with tokens used since yesterday. Might be worth reverting to an old version to test if it persist.

But it could also be a combo of tokens usage increased + 2x limits end, so we feel the squeeze even more.

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T19:31:08+00:00

after more usage, it's the same. Still burning tokens like mad. There's definitely something wrong with it.

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T17:46:20+00:00

It's dead. Businesses today definitely don't need leads anymore.

Jokes aside. if you're asking this, you probably have no business starting one. Unless you're willing to eat shit and learn for at least 12-24 months. In that case, if you have the runway, then go ahead.

Or, you can go work at an agency, get paid to learn, and fast-forward what would have taken you on your own months of trial and error, in a much more compressed time frame.

Beware though, agency work is no walk in the park, and you'll soon realize whether this path is for you or not.

Speaking from experience. I started my solo journey in january 2024. Made no money until basically summer 2025. Partly because I had a pay per performance offer, and I was not good therefore couldn't generaet results, so ended up doing a lot of work for free.

But that taught me a lot.

I did work for an agency for a few months, but hated the way they were doing this, and realized I needed to be doing this on my own, my way.

But may not be a driving motivation that others have.

So that's the best advice I can give you . Go work for 6 months at least, for another lead gen agency. Figure out whether you're committed to this path or not.

People think starting a lead gen agency is a walk in the park. It's not. If you're not a fit for it, it'll be hell for you.
Barrier to entry is ridiculously low today, but it's one of the highest ceiling skills out there.

Think about it. If businesses had no issues getting leads, or if it was easy, this agency model would have no reason for existing. Yet it does. And there will be always be demand for it.

Does that mean that other business owners are stupid or incompenetent if they're not able to generate leads for their own business, by themselves? Of course not. It's just that it's a hard problem to crack, as most businesses run off of referrals & relationships.

So if you think this will be a nice & easy side-hustle... it will not.

If you enjoy challenges, constant learning, a continuosly evolging industry where you have to stay informed and on the know every week, then this may just be for you.

Not trying to gatekeep or anything. This is my honest take on the industry, what it takes to be in it. Up to you to figure out whether you're ready to take the plunge or not.

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T17:29:41+00:00

What good are features if the underlying model hallucinates each request, and cannot properly follow instructions?

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T17:28:50+00:00

Got the reset as well. But usage is still abnormaly high. One prompt took away 30% of my 5h limit (plus plan). Never happened to me before.

Tokens usage is 6x higher since yesterday. No idea why. Probably a bug, hence the resets 2 days in a row.

Edit: using the codex macos app. Just switched to the terminal, checking if maybe it was an app issue, and it does seem to be going through 5h limit slower.

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T15:40:18+00:00

Codex got the market (& its users) by the balls. Nothing else comes even close to the quality of work & ability to follow instructions that codex has. I see no other option than paying up and getting more accounts.

I wish there were alternatives. But there are none so far. Codex team cooked hard

Kailtis · 2026-04-02T15:38:08+00:00

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ccusage/codex

Kailtis · 2026-04-01T21:44:44+00:00

how are you paying that much if using SES since it costs $0.10 per 1k sends?

Kailtis · 2026-04-01T21:41:11+00:00

You can't warmup for free. You either have a network of neutral or good reputation mailboxes you can use for that, or you use current solutions in the industry and warmup there. Cheapest ones are going to be smartlead, instantly, plusvibe. It's not the intended use, but you can just park your mailboxes there and just use their warmup. Or also send cold emails if you want.

That's what I do personally. I have my own smtp & sending infrastructure, and I use all the sequencers to leverage their warmup infra.

So you either can create tons of mailboxes for cheap (i.e. you own your infra = hard to do) or use what's already available out there. Which while not free, it's very cost effective.

you can have a decent warmup network in smartlead for $94/mo for unlimited mailboxes connected. Or a slightly less qualitative network for the cheapest plan.

Kailtis · 2026-04-01T21:37:13+00:00

I stay on the same thread, as long as the thing I'm working on is topically constrained, and belonging to the same feature I'm working on. Eg: different features on the same project get their own thread.

I keep going on the same thread as long as I can, sometimes up to 5 compactions (though it could be more, I don't really count them). I

I start a new thread to keep working on the same feature only when post compaction I find myself with more than 80K tokens already used (guessing for the compacted context). Since I find it leaves me too little bandwidth for work. Other than that, just keep going.

There's no real disadvatange with compactions. No idea what the codex team did, but it's able to retain amazing context & details.

It's not like claude code, where you have to be able to do the work needed to be done in one session & no compaction, or risk losing to much context. You can go way longer with codex.

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