Alright 👋, just had a "lesson learned" moment I want to share with the group. I'm building a voice agent on Vapi for a client. To make sure it was solid, I ran the built-in test suite: - 12 test cases - 3 attempts each - 36 actual phone calls Cost: ~$0.40 per call = roughly $14-15 for one test run Result? 7 passed, 5 failed. 🤑 So now I need to tweak the prompt, re-run, probably iterate 5-10 times before everything passes cleanly. 🤑 That's potentially $70-150 in testing costs alone. And the client wasn't quoted for any of this. That's on me. Here's what failed (for those curious): 1. Silent caller handling: The agent was supposed to use a silence recovery prompt, then politely end the call. Instead it just immediately said "goodbye." Across all 3 attempts, it never handled it correctly. 2. Quote request flow: The agent detected the caller wanted a quote but never actually presented the session offer or a matched package. It skipped critical steps in the sales flow. The testing genuinely caught real problems. AI testing AI actually works. It just costs money every time you run it because each test is a real phone call. My takeaways: 1. Always budget testing into your client pricing. This is QA. it's part of delivery. 2. Don't re-run the full suite every time. Only re-test the failures. 3. Read the transcripts first. Understand what went wrong before burning another $15. 4. Set a testing budget cap so you don't spiral. Has anyone else run into this? Would love to hear how others are handling testing costs on voice agent builds. Infographic courtesy of @Hamad Waqar - Thank you Hamad. Thank you for the updates too.

One of the calls was with someone based near an active war zone. Mid-conversation, bomb sirens went off in the background. He didn't flinch. Just carried on talking about his business. 💪🏿 That hit me. 💪🏿 Here I am some days questioning whether I'm up for this. Meanwhile people are building through literal sirens and threat of being bombed. Every conversation yesterday reminded me of why I love this space. One AI builder shared ideas on how to better reach my ICP. Not vaguely, specifically and generously. No "let's jump on a paid call." Just genuine help. Another has offered to teach me about sales on Friday - AMAZING. That's the culture I keep finding in this community. People sharing tools, ideas, concepts. Not because they have to. Because they recognise something that a lot of industries haven't figured out yet: There's enough for all of us. We can all succeed. Helping someone else doesn't take anything off your plate. It usually adds to it. If you're in this space and you're hoarding, you're doing it wrong.

Turns out having an AI that actually knows your business means having an AI that will look you dead in the eye and tell you you're behind. It pulled in my project delivery status, website analytics, pipeline, task board even flagged a bug that could block a delivery this week. Then it calmly listed 8 things I need to do today like some kind of passive-aggressive personal trainer. The best part? One of my biggest projects is about to land. Should be a great moment. But the brief essentially said "cool, that's 3% of your annual financial target. Now what?" Cheers mate. Me: Do you know I have a full time job? AI: I DONT GIVE A ... (like Samuel L. Jackson) 🤣 There's something weirdly motivating about not wanting to disappoint software though. You can let down gym partners, accountability buddies, even your own spreadsheets. But somehow I feel like if Monday's brief says I didn't launch that outreach campaign, I'll genuinely feel guilty. About an automated Telegram message. At 7am. The humbling bit is seeing it all in one place. No hiding. No "I'll get to that next week." Just a clear, emotionless breakdown of where you actually are versus where you said you'd be. If you're building one of these, be prepared. It doesn't care about your feelings. Anyone else getting roasted by their own systems?

Hey guys , I am very happy and excited to share that i have finally closed my first ever client....he needed a help for setting up a RAG Agent which he is in Consulting. I told him to give me a testimonial but he said no we will pay you and also said that he has a lot of projects coming up which he needs help in.........Man never thought i will be able to do it. when i was starting out i used to think when i will post my win and the day has Finally came....Let's gooooooo

Hey guys, pushing back the webinar by 60 minutes. Still the same zoom link. We're having wifi issues here in Cape Town. Thanks for your patience, see you soon!