Team stops hiring for cold calls, AI agent dials 2,000+ a week
akumar · x · 2026-10-21
The author says cold calling is the job nobody wants but every company needs, so they stopped hiring and built an AI agent to handle Dragonfruit AI's outbound calls—over 2,000 dials in a typical week. The agent has since been productized as Pitaya.
Related event: Pitaya launches AI cold-calling agent at $0.15 per minute(3 posts)→
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