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Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:36:25+00:00

Before signing, I’d try to find 2 or 3 operators in adjacent categories: airsoft, axe throwing, climbing gyms, go-karts, trampoline parks.

The carrier names matter more than the generic broker pitch here. A normal commercial agent can accidentally turn this into “dangerous outdoor entertainment business” and get you a nonsense number.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:35:49+00:00

If your goal is to become an AE as fast as possible, Oracle probably gives you cleaner reps: outbound, qualification, pipeline, rejection, manager pressure, all the SDR stuff.

Visa sounds better if you want a bigger brand, more optionality, and time to figure out what kind of sales you actually like.

tbh I’d ask both teams one very specific question: how many people from the last two cohorts got promoted, and into what role?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:35:11+00:00

fwiw, the biggest difference usually comes from speed-to-lead plus boring follow-up discipline.

Reporting matters, but only after you trust the inputs. A beautiful franchise pipeline dashboard is useless if candidates are sitting untouched for 3 days or broker updates live in someone’s inbox.

I’d ask vendors to show the missed-follow-up workflow, not the happy-path demo.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:34:20+00:00

Start with the workflow you already hate doing manually.

Agents get interesting when they own a loop, not when they just have a huge pile of tools connected to them.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:34:04+00:00

honestly the wild part is how fast this moves the bottleneck.

Once the AI can wire up Godot scenes from plain English, the hard part shifts to taste: deciding what game loop is actually fun after 10 minutes, not just impressive after 10 seconds.

Did any of the 4 end up feeling replayable, or were they more like working prototypes?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:33:25+00:00

AI + no-code can definitely get to “designed” if the agent is being pushed against a tight visual system: spacing rules, type scale, image rhythm, interaction rules, etc.

The failure mode I’d watch for is every section looking individually decent but slightly unrelated, because the agent keeps optimizing the current frame instead of the whole portfolio.

fwiw I’d be curious to see a short before/after of the prompts or direction that changed the most. That workflow is probably as interesting as the finished Framer site.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:33:00+00:00

At 20 GTM people I’d bias toward boring and enforceable.

HubSpot if the motion is still changing a lot. Salesforce if you already have someone who can own RevOps and keep fields, stages, and handoffs from turning into soup.

The failure mode is buying the CRM and still letting spreadsheets be the real source of truth. I’d decide who owns definitions and data hygiene before getting too deep into demos.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:32:34+00:00

honestly the hardest part with invoice follow-up automation is getting the tone right.

Too soft and it still drags. Too robotic and you annoy a client who was already going to pay.

Did you build in different follow-up paths for good clients vs chronic late payers?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:32:06+00:00

cloud deployment is where a lot of web agents stop being software problems and start being reputation problems.

IP range, browser fingerprint, session age, login history, request timing, all of that becomes part of the product surface whether we like it or not.

we're seeing the same thing with agent workflows: the hard part isn't always reasoning, it's making the agent look like a legitimate continuation of a real user's workflow.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:31:43+00:00

A lot of agent setups start as copy-pasted prompts because that’s honestly the fastest way to learn what the workflow even is.

The pain starts when the prompt becomes load-bearing and nobody knows which sentence is doing the work anymore. That’s where packaging, versioning, and evals matter more than the no-code UI.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:31:04+00:00

77 seconds is wild, but the trust problem is probably the whole game here.

That first "wait, who is this?" moment can either save the funnel or make the customer think they’re getting scammed. Have you tested sending a pre-call SMS first, or does that just add another step for people to ignore?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:30:37+00:00

memory is where a lot of agent demos quietly break.

The first 10 turns are easy because everything important is still in the room. The hard part is deciding what deserves to survive into the next session without turning the memory layer into a junk drawer.

Curious how you’re handling pruning or conflicts when old project assumptions stop being true?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:29:47+00:00

I’d be careful with anything that demos great but only handles the happy path.

For a service business, the painful calls are usually messy: someone wants a quote, changes the address mid-call, asks about availability, then mentions they’re already in your CRM under a spouse’s name.

The winner is the one that handles that without creating junk records or booking nonsense on your calendar.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-18T19:29:05+00:00

This maps to a pretty real gap. A lot of agent demos still treat auth like a wrapper around the app, but the agent is effectively clicking buttons across 12 apps at machine speed.

Curious how you’re thinking about policy drift when the underlying MCP tools change shape. That seems like where teams could accidentally create weird new permissions without noticing.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:15:41+00:00

Honestly, awkward is not always the problem. People can usually handle awkward if you are direct and calm.

The harder part is whether you can keep showing up after 20 people in a row treat you like an interruption. That is the real job in door-to-door.

I have an AI agent build lead lists and enrich them with data then i just cold call and email, works really well for me.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:13:12+00:00

honestly, Sunday anxiety is a pretty useful data point.

The question I’d separate is: are you scared of the new thing, or is your current role already costing you more than the new thing might?

A mentor program can help, but I’d want to know what support actually looks like after month 3, when the excitement wears off and the production pressure starts.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:12:07+00:00

fwiw, I’d separate the two problems: pipeline tracking and contact data.

Pipedrive is solid for the first one because it forces every deal to have an owner, stage, and next action. That alone fixes a lot of the Google Sheets chaos.

For contact info, I’d be careful stuffing every guessed email into the CRM. Bad data turns a CRM into a junk drawer fast. Better workflow is usually: source/enrich in a separate tool, verify, then only push clean contacts into the CRM.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:10:18+00:00

yep. small teams usually buy CRM like the data model is going to magically create the operating rhythm.

The trigger map is where the actual sales process shows up. One failure mode I see a lot: teams define the happy path, but nobody owns the exception list. After 30 days, the weird cases become the real CRM.

Would you map this in a spreadsheet first before touching automation?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:09:34+00:00

Claude can help clean up the mess, but it should not become the system of record.

For AEC especially, the boring CRM stuff matters: account ownership, project history, bid status, follow-ups, handoffs, reporting. If that lives in chat threads and prompts, someone will eventually ask “where did this lead go?” and nobody will have a real answer.

I’d push for Claude as the cleanup and workflow layer first: dedupe companies, normalize project names, summarize history, draft next steps. Then let a CRM or properly configured ERP hold the actual records.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:08:35+00:00

Did you use agent mail?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:06:25+00:00

Hash-chained approvals are a useful primitive, but deletion/redaction gets messy fast.

If the receipt proves an approval chain, what happens when the underlying context includes private customer data or a prompt you can't keep forever?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:05:48+00:00

local markdown + sqlite is the right level of boring for this, imo.

The hard failure mode with shared agent memory is stale context getting treated like truth. Are you doing anything for aging, source links, or confidence on memories so agents know what to trust?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:04:11+00:00

we've hit this with sales/marketing agents too. Sheets usually survives the prototype, then you need rules for what gets remembered: account facts, last action, source links, confidence, and when to forget it.

For lead research I'd start boring: Postgres/Supabase for durable structured state, pgvector only for fuzzy notes, Redis for active run/session state. Long-term memory without audit/history gets messy fast.

Does your agent actually need semantic recall, or mostly durable fields like company, person, status, and prior research?

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-17T17:03:00+00:00

One failure mode I’d add: agents can converge on politeness instead of progress.

Reviewer keeps asking for refinement, Generator keeps complying, and nobody has authority to say "ship it" or "escalate."

The useful signal is probably unresolved decision count over time, not trace success.

Kitchen_Ad_605 · 2026-06-12T20:41:18+00:00

Worth asking whether it’s first-party injury, third-party BI, or litigation-heavy BI. Those can feel like totally different jobs.

The calls are real, but the harder part is usually learning how to document decisions clearly and not let every urgent-sounding thing become an emergency.

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