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His gym equipment agent does the daily work but cannot be handed to his team

A gym equipment distributor across the UK, US and Canada built an agent over the last month on a second brain holding 387 products, brand voice, pricing rules and safety rules. It does morning inbox triage, freight quotes, reporting and a live CRM. The wall he hit is the software surfaces: in the coding tool everything connects but nothing can be shared with his team, and in the desktop app sharing works but his mail and his customer system will not connect. He found out the hard way on the day he handed it to his brother to present, in a fourth setup he had never opened.

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How it works

  1. Build a second brain with products, voice and rules
  2. Agent runs inbox, freight quotes and reporting
  3. Try to hand it to the team
  4. Connections fail on one surface, sharing fails on the other
  5. Demo day exposes the gap

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent was not the problem. Every surface he can run it on is missing exactly one different thing his business needs.

Where it’s from

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

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