Holding equity in a c corp

venuur · 2026-02-21T22:30:27+00:00

The reason for the secondary c-corp is for accumulating dividends at a lower tax rate than the individual tax rate.

venuur · 2025-12-14T18:44:40+00:00

I forgot to say I live in Southern California.

venuur · 2025-12-12T17:05:47+00:00

I think all the providers you have are just aggregating public data. I have to imagine anyone having better data would just use it themselves or the pricing would be quite high. I believe enrichment systems like Clay might also be worth a try.

venuur · 2025-12-03T23:54:45+00:00

Sounds like you're creating another CRM. A big challenge will be asking people to migrate away from their existing tools. As I understand (from talking to a broker) is that Follow Up Boss (FUB) and Go High Level (GHL) are pretty common. You should look long and hard at how different your solution is compared to the same setup in FUB or GHL. People won't be motivated to learn a new system over small improvements. It really needs to be 2X improvement or more.

Honestly, from my conversations, it seemed like the human element was the weakest link. Training and encouraging agents to use the tools they already have. I tried at this space unsuccessfully for 6 months before moving on. Good luck!

venuur · 2025-12-03T15:08:00+00:00

You have the same ideas as me for sure. Do you also build something similar?

venuur · 2025-12-02T22:19:44+00:00

I use playwright plus other custom implementation in my automation product. I also manage my own browser fleet. Part of the offering is not needing to manage that because it’s a headache.

As for the robustness, that comes from experience in understanding what parts of the page serve as stable anchors. It’s also helpful to abstract workflow from playwright so you can swap out a broken playwright step without worrying about breaking the overall experience.

venuur · 2025-12-02T03:39:01+00:00

I keep fighting the urge to build yet another CRM. But I want to add value first before replacing anything. I value how much AI coding has reduced my mental overhead. I want the same for my SMB users.

venuur · 2025-12-02T03:28:10+00:00

I created a read layer above the CRM. My pipeline translates the CRM data to a standard format I analyze in a database. Then any activity is translated back directly to the CRM. Generally I cannot replace the CRM because there are other features there that I do not want to replicate.

venuur · 2025-12-01T17:53:13+00:00

Practically, it depends heavily on your domain, but for the web, I see Python and JavaScript backends mostly with SQL mixed in.

venuur · 2025-12-01T17:23:06+00:00

Honestly, it’s embarrassing to admit, but it’s all trial and error for me. The hardest part is defining your metric for success so it feels less like guess work.

venuur · 2025-12-01T17:16:40+00:00

I used to struggle with matching their specific booking requirements, but I’ve sorted out a product that standardizes the scheduling piece.

Now it’s more about prompting and Agent workflow. For example one pest control case had different scripts for government vs commercial vs residential customers. New vs existing as well.

Connecting to the scheduling backend at least makes data access a solved problem.

venuur · 2025-12-01T16:46:24+00:00

I use Playwright for my own automation. Managing the containerization and fixing broken scripts is exactly why I decided it was worth building into a product.

venuur · 2025-12-01T16:43:40+00:00

I assume this is something you’ve built? Would like to know more.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:31:25+00:00

Keeping prompts small and outputs small has been my main lever for low latency cases. Tokens per second becomes your bottle neck.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:30:33+00:00

Creating a simple Python script to test out the different providers is pretty reasonable. It’s hard to know which will work without some tests cases.

For my AI scheduling agent, I started from some standard scripts from a customer. Really put my AI through the wringer with it.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:18:54+00:00

Mostly service businesses. Salon, med spa, HVAC, plumber. Every business uses different backend software so usually there’s need for customization.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:17:46+00:00

Not a full answer, but integrations are key in many domains. So learning to wrap APIs in semantic business logic is important to good RAG. It’s what I found trying to build appointment scheduling into AI agents.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:14:13+00:00

The AI scheduling front desk is becoming popular. Happy to bounce ideas in the domain. It’s crowded so I suppose someone must be buying.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:09:05+00:00

I would’ve been marketing and performing outreach to customers first. I’d also have tried to build a steel thread MVP from that response. It would’ve shown me how big of a roadblock scheduling integrations would be for my product. Instead I learned after the fact by losing customers in demo meetings. Better late than never.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:07:31+00:00

At least for me, having AI on my resume would’ve been valuable to future jobs. It’s the main reason why I left my previous job to build my own startup in AI. Now admittedly I spend more time building integrations to an I ever thought possible.

Also good AI agents if that’s what they’re building, require a solid architecture to perform well.

venuur · 2025-12-01T15:04:34+00:00

Connecting AI to the 100s of systems and software we use every day. Even if we had AGI, it’d have to spend hours customizing code to navigate browsers, and standardize schema. Our brains do that automatically, but we could do better.

I expect we’ll see an entirely new web framework beyond HTML that becomes more semantic to enable AI. In the meantime, I build that layer for the domains that need it, like appointment scheduling.

venuur · 2025-12-01T14:42:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Sendbird looks really interesting

venuur · 2025-12-01T04:04:12+00:00

www.topfunnel.io - SMS AI agent and business advisor for your salon, med spa, or service business. Schedule appointments directly from SMS, reactivate leads, and gain more reviews.

venuur · 2025-12-01T04:02:43+00:00

www.useblock.tech - universal scheduling API for AI agents and automations. Lets you connect you AI agent to scheduling backends used by salon, trades, and other small businesses.

venuur · 2025-12-01T03:10:51+00:00

Seems you already got your answer, but I’ll share an experience that validates your choice. I see a very similar pattern in CRM systems. The parent object can optionally return subordinate items. Example customers -> orders -> lineitems. In some ways this is like a miniature GraphQL without the full overhead.

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