Inside a 24/7 AI lead-gen tool: how 25-180 yuan per lead pricing actually works
huangyun_122 · x · 2026-10-14
- A founder shares a real negotiation with a guesthouse owner interested in his fully automated 24/7 multi-platform lead-gen AI, concluding the price is too steep for ordinary guesthouses.
- Chat logs reveal the business model: the system runs 24/7 with LLM token costs as the main expense — "like hiring someone to pull customers across platforms"; leads are priced 25-180 yuan each rather than a flat 399; accounts get banned if DMs go too fast, so leads must be slowly funneled into private domains.
- His takeaway: struggling businesses rarely have a traffic problem — it's the product. He pointed to a 70k-like Xiaohongshu post about a pet-friendly guesthouse, advising the owner to build a premium brand first; without margin, just list on OTA platforms or run content accounts in-house.
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