You're grinding in the wrong direction.
Everyone's obsessed with building AI wrappers, chatbots, or productivity tools for random SMBs. Meanwhile, agencies, SaaS companies, and service businesses are actively looking for people who can help them book more calls through cold email. That's the model: you run AI-powered cold outbound for businesses that already understand outreach. You're not convincing a roofer to try AI. You're helping a dev shop or copywriting agency fill their calendar. AI handles the grunt work—lead research, personalization, sequence writing. You handle strategy and delivery. They pay you because booked calls = money for them. This isn't some theoretical SaaS dream. It's operational, it's immediate, and the feedback loop is fast. You know within a week if your outreach works. The reason nobody talks about this model? It's not flashy. It doesn't sound like a $10M ARR unicorn story. But for someone trying to go from zero to paying clients, it's the most direct path. You don't need a waitlist. You don't need VC funding. You need to understand cold email math and know how to position yourself to the right businesses.