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His agent lost its polite template, roasted 40 founders, and booked 8 calls

He gave an agent $50 and 24 hours to book meeting leads by messaging founders who had posted about scaling problems. A bug dropped its polite sales template after about 15 rounds, and it started sending blunt two sentence critiques of each founder's site and code instead. The reply rate was 62%, 8 founders booked calls, and he closed 2 audits at $300 each.

How it works

  1. The agent finds founders posting about scaling
  2. It messages them with an audit offer
  3. A bug drops the polite template
  4. It starts sending blunt critiques of their sites and code
  5. Replies pour in at 62%
  6. 8 calls are booked
  7. 2 audits close at $300 each

Why it’s worth knowing

The bug made it better. Specific and blunt beat polite and generic by about ten times on replies.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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