Agency owner who made $523K from AI agents: human setters still crush AI at converting leads
OkPositive9373 · reddit · 2026-10-04
A B2B cold outreach agency owner on Reddit ($58.5K MRR, $523K total) argues the popular fully-autonomous AI appointment setter is a mistake. His stack is deliberately boring: one agent reads prospect websites to write openers, one classifies replies as genuinely interested vs. polite deflection, and one sends personalized responses only when a human can't call first. His take: AI is great at finding the right person, but humans convert far better on the phone — AI setters flush paid leads and aren't cost-effective even factoring in human salaries.
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