Hey Automation community! 👋 This took me 2 hours to put together. If you're looking for a proven way to get clients AT SCALE and actually make money for your AI automation agency, then this is for you. I run an AI agency that basically made no money because I had a hard time finding new clients. I tried cold email starting in November and it quickly become one of our most profitable acquisition channels. I knew NOTHING about cold outreach when I started. I learned A LOT along the way (including plenty of expensive mistakes), so here’s everything I wish I had known from day one. If you don't know what cold email marketing is, it's when you send out thousands of emails to potential leads you haven't spoken to before. The goal is for them to book a consult with you where you'll then close on a deal. If you do it badly, it will look like spam and nobody will respond. Do it where you target relevant people ready to buy and offer a lot of VALUE, and you will generate sales. Part 1: Technical Setup Domain Strategy - Buy dedicated domains just for email campaigns — never ever use your main company domain. - Set up DNS records immediately: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. - Use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for better deliverability (roughly $4–6 per account per month). Email Account Setup - Create 1–4 email accounts per domain. - Start slow: 10 emails per account per day, then increase volume by ~10% each day. - Max once warmed up: ~25 emails per account per day. - Example: 4 domains × 3 accounts × 25 emails = 300 emails/day to begin with. IMPORTANT: Always warm up accounts for at least 14 days before ramping up. Extra tips that help a lot: - Add real profile photos and complete the accounts. - Older domains tend to perform better when you can get them. - Set up a custom tracking domain for accurate open/click data. Choosing Your Sending Platform You can do it manually with the technical setup above but it's way easier to buy an email account that's already configured and ready to go. I ran high-volume campaigns using Instantly.ai because it has good deliverability, analytics, and tons of guides on it since it's used by many agencies to get clients. It’s not perfect but probably one of the best for cold email right now. But honestly, your lead list and outreach message matter more.

Hi guys, has anyone implemented the LLM Wiki by Karpathy in their AI system? I would be super interested in understanding how you're using it. I mean, you don't necessarily have to share the steps as I think that is outlined in the Wiki itself, but I'm more interested in understanding the different use cases for how you're using it. Or it would also be really useful if you're using different systems that you think are better. I'm really interested in having more context around certain topics and longer-term memory for my conversations and my work.

I work in restaurants and the CPG industry. I own two companies and manage 11 restaurants. I’ve been messing around with AI and setting up things like claw and Hermes for about six months. I’ve created a ton of agents. Some of them do some little things for me here and there, but overall, I haven’t seen a whole lot of real value so I decided to just pinpoint a few big pain points in my day today. The first one is I have my EA agent go through a Asana every morning at 6 AM and find all of the past due tasks or tasks due within three days both for me and every single one of my direct reports of which they are 22. It then updates a specified a on a project by adding all those tasks section off by direct reports and their due dates which gives me a really quick follow ups in the morning next step will be to connect it to an email address that will produce drafted follow up emails and or Slack messages for any of those specific tasks so I’ll be almostcompletely hands-off. The second automation is more in beta right now, but it’s working pretty well so far so for my CPG brand we’ve just expanded into a national grocery chain in Canada that we have to manage the listing ourselves which means I have 300 stores that I need to try and sell the product to follow up on inventory make sure that I’m providing constant communication etc., so the grocery chain itself provided me with a master supplier list in a master contact list so I’ve got an agent that at the beginning of each week Sunday night to be exact. It goes through that entire list update status statuses for who I’ve contacted last and I have a cadence to contact every store every certain amount of weeks depending on their sales volume so what I wake up to on Monday morning is drafted emails in my own voice outreach to all of them to make sure I’m in constant follow up.

Hi All, What are the best tools and outcomes you're having? I'm keen to see what's trending in real use.

Hey guys, if any of you can tell me how I can increase my points or how you increased your points and leveled up it would be much appreciated and beneficial for me and everyone else in the community