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15 contributions to Brendan's AI Community
how to cold call plumbing businesses
how do i cold call them without getting hang up in the first 10 seconds lol cause they are uk hard working and tried by all the physical work so ya if anyone can help that would be great thanks
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Plumbers are physically drained by late morning. If your opener doesn't acknowledge that they've been grafting all day, they'll assume you're just another sales call. Try leading with something like 'I know you're on site, so I'll be direct' and then deliver the one reason they should listen in under 15 seconds.
"Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do" --Steve Jobs
Hello everyone! After having fallen into a very unique business niche and knowing precisely what needed to be done I was watching AI going through such rapid growth I started to pay attention to see how this might help me in my business. My lack of knowledge about coding and computers actually worked to my benefit because I thought that most of what I needed was simpler than I was being led to believe. Mainly by developers who, for obvious reasons, were likely seeing the writing on the wall with regards to their ability to charge the fees they were getting for most projects. After being quoted $25k for what I thought was a simple tool to take data from an excel file and map it onto an editable PDF, save each one and create a zip file with completed forms with the data, I thought I’d give Claude a shot. I figured all I would be out was some time and a few bucks. ($40 to be precise) So I took the head knowledge I had (which took years of trial and error to learn) and wrote my first ever AI prompt to create this automation tool for my consulting business. Having never coded before, I had an aptitude for understanding what was going on behind the scenes when Claude was walking me through this process. In a little over 2 hours, I was able to create an automation tool that will allow me to work on 7 figure accounts that was not possible without this tool. I have since been busy building the systems I will need to scale my business and using AI only makes that easier. The learning curve is getting much shorter for just about anything you need to learn. Watching YouTube videos where I learn how to do something that would have taken me months before now takes 15 minutes. While I’m not a coder, nor am I a genius I know that the AI revolution will be changing everything within the next few years. And I agree with Elon Musk who was asked about AI when he took a few minutes of somber thought to say when asked: β€œwhat do you think about AI?” His somber answer after careful contemplation was: β€œit can go incredibly good, or it can go horribly bad. It’s up to us (the humans) to make sure it doesn’t go horribly bad.” (or words to that effect)
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The $25k quote for a data mapping and PDF automation tool is high enough that the developer probably didn't want the project. Those simple data flow tasks are exactly what AI handles best right now, especially when you already know the exact output format. Domain knowledge made the prompt shorter.
Is the biggest challenge in building AI Automation artificial intelligence or connecting all services together in a stable way?
Today I finished the first working version of an AI workflow I've been building in n8n. The goal sounds simple: Fill in a form β†’ generate a LinkedIn post β†’ generate a matching image β†’ publish it β†’ send a copy by email. In reality, most of my time wasn't spent on prompting. It was spent debugging API connections and making sure each service finished before the next one started. After about an hour of troubleshooting, everything finally worked end to end. That reminded me of something: Building AI systems is often less about AI itself and more about making multiple independent systems work together reliably. Now that the first version works, the next step is improving it and adding support for more social platforms. For those building production automations: What's been your biggest bottleneck lately?
Is the biggest challenge in building AI Automation artificial intelligence or connecting all services together in a stable way?
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The email send step is usually where people forget to check SPF and DKIM records. If n8n is sending through your own SMTP, a missing or misconfigured record can land those copies in spam instead of the inbox. Worth double checking before you rely on it.
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If you're using the Gmail node, you're likely hitting daily send limits and relying on Gmail's own SPF/DKIM. Setting up a dedicated SMTP service like Amazon SES or SendGrid gives you more control over deliverability and avoids those limits.
Built a sub-500ms AI Voice Closer. Want to test it? πŸ€–
​Hey guys, glad to be here. I know a huge bottleneck for outbound agencies is hiring and managing appointment setters. ​To solve this, my team built a plug-and-play AI voice assistant that talks in real-time without that awkward "AI pause." ​I’ve set up a free 1-minute live browser demo for anyone who wants to test the raw conversational speed from their phone. Drop a comment below if you want me to send you the link to try it out!
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How does the voice assistant integrate with existing CRM or dialer setups? Most agencies have their own stack already, so that's usually the first question.
Want help getting Hermes Agent running? (free, just curious what you'll build)
I've been wondering about something lately. How's everyone actually using Hermes Agent? There are so many ways to run it, coding, automation, research, whatever, and I think the best way to really get the use cases is just to help people get it going and see what they build. So if you've been wanting to try it but haven't set it up yet, or you hit a wall partway through, hit me up. Happy to help you get it running, no charge, whether that's installing Hermes itself or getting a tool working that you've been trying to connect but couldn't. Mostly just curious to see what you end up doing with it, happy 4th of July!
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The timeout handling with SMTP connections is something to plan for early. If the agent is running a long task and the connection drops, you'll get failed sends. Adding retry logic at the integration level saves a lot of debugging later.
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