Agency founder: the most profitable AI agents serve boring businesses that never heard of 'agentic'
Warm-Reaction-456 · reddit · 2026-10-05
An agency founder with 8 years of experience argues the AI agents making real money are boring, not fancy multi-agent setups. A research agent he built for a startup earned almost nothing, while a text + voice agent for a Canadian realtor — sifting 60k written-off CRM leads — became his best-performing client project. His theory: small service businesses start from near zero (missed calls, unchased quotes), so an agent that reliably does the boring stuff shows up in the calendar within a week, whereas tech companies only gain a few percent. Owners care about appointment counts, not models. His selection heuristic: ask what happens right before they get paid — if it's frequent phone/text conversations, there's an agent opportunity. Failure usually comes from ambition; profitable agents do one boring job and hand the rest to humans.
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