We're pre-revenue team building Al voice agents for service businesses starting with plumbers. I need help related to: 1. Plumbing is mostly emergencies (burst pipes, floods, no heat/water at 3am). Customers want immediate service, not "schedule for Tuesday." The real concern is are we at the wrong track with scheduling jobs? If so then how emergency triage is handled ? 2. We're really struggling with getting our first client please provide any suggestions of how can we get our first clients for voice agents. This first stroke of hammer would help us a lot reaching the clients and actually get started A little help from the experts here who are in the market would help us a lot and I'd highly appreciate this.

I’m trying to call US leads from India, but you already know the struggle… Most calling tools are either banned / restricted, or they get you flagged instantly. I tried Rebtel recently and to my surprise, all 20 calls I made went straight to voicemail after just 3 rings. Now I’m thinking maybe my number is getting flagged on the other end (spam detection / carrier filtering). The problem is… I’m bootstrapped right now, so I can’t afford expensive calling software yet. So I wanted to ask the community: ✅ What tools are you using to call US clients from India that actually connects properly and doesn’t get flagged? Looking for something reliable + budget-friendly (even if it’s a simple setup). Drop your recommendation and your experience. If you’ve cracked this, I’d seriously appreciate your help, Thankyou friend.

Hey guys. I’m about to onboard my first AI Calling Agent client and I want to price it correctly without making any fake ROI promises. Here’s the situation: This business owner estimates missed calls are costing him ~$113k/year in lost bookings. I’m building an AI agent that answers calls and handles book/reschedule/cancel/check availability using n8n, with voice on ElevenLabs. I’m thinking of charging something like $500/month (so $6k/year), it's a guess honestly. Even if we recover only a portion of the missed revenue (say 50%–75%), the ROI is still massive on paper. But I don’t want to pitch “you’ll get $113k back” and then reality hits: partial retention, no-shows, seasonality, plus monthly tool costs. Neither the retention percentage nor the monthly cost are confident. So I need your help Guys: 1. How do you track ROI properly for calling agents? What numbers do you use as proof: booked appointments, show-up rate, conversion rate, revenue per booking? (PS: I've done market research and know the lost revenue and closing percentage but I'm not sure if the agent will take all the calls of some of them due to any issues, please suggest) 2. How do you structure pricing? Flat monthly retainer, base + usage (minutes/calls), performance-based (per booked appointment), or hybrid? 3. How do you present running costs transparently? ElevenLabs usage, telephony minutes/numbers, n8n hosting, integrations, maintenance. Do you pass-through at cost, bundle it, or add markup? 4. What’s the cleanest way to express “% saved” without sounding like a gimmick? If you’ve sold or delivered AI agents, I’d love to see your exact approach (even a simple template). Your expert suggestions are valued. Thankyou.

The first month I could cover my bills with online money came after a moment of total defeat. I’d been spinning my tires for months, landing a few piecemeal clients on upwork - my outreach efforts were totally wasted. I'd signed exactly ZERO people through cold email, and couldn't close anyone in "my niche" to save my life. Money still going out, nothing coming in ... completely stalled, feeling defeated. I needed to change or quit — so I came up with a plan. I stopped trying to convince strangers. I took a step back, a deep breath, and I came up with a solution to a problem that I PERSONALLY would pay to have solved, and selling it to people who already trusted that I get it. Context! I was deep in the remote music producer world and T H E problem we all had was consistent clients, not just word-of-mouth. So I solved that problem! I took my new AI skills and scraped Bandcamp / IG / X and built lead lists of bands giving ready-to-work signals: - posting about writing - teasing a new song - “headed to the studio” - hiring / looking for help / asking for recs Then I sold those lists to producers I already knew in Discord communities… because it was literally the only thing we all talked about. That month I sold 11 lists at $500 USD each. It saved people a full day (or more) of deep research, and it fit the budget/value. TL;DR (at the end haha) - start with a problem you actually understand - sell to people who already live in that problem - package one pain into one deliverable - build the snowball, and don’t compare your level 1 to someone’s level 9 If you’re stuck, don’t start with “an offer.” Start with a pain you understand. 🤔What’s ONE problem you’d pay someone else to solve for you right now? In my case, it was: “Find bands that are ready to work.” What’s your version of that? Drop it below. I’ll reply with 2–3 ways you could package that!

Hey friends. I want to start and AI Automation Agency. So far I've decided a niche and a target business for the work to target just one common problem for sometime in theie business untill we gain traction. Now I was thinking to make a website for my company so that our client can find us but the suggestions I want is that: Should I make a full fledged website having couple of different pages like "our services", "about us" , "contact", "home with CTA", "case study of Target niche", etc. Or I just make a landing page where I just set up the problems, pain points and our solution to stop bleeding with the CTA included ? We're just 4 young person with no investment, no job, at maximum we can spend roughly around $200 on expenditures untill we gain some clients. Everyone here is a hustler so everybody's suggestions will be important.