Hello. I am Aaron. I lead a five-person team based in the Philippines. We have over the years made our money by landing projects from clients and agencies in the US, Latin America and Europe. We used platforms like Upwork, Freelancer and Toptal to find this work. As you may have noticed, the rise of AI agents and the spread of corporate automation have changed things. Many developers have lost their jobs. These developers are now competing in the freelance market, which has made it harder for us to find work. The space for us has gotten smaller. Because of this our revenue has not dropped over the past few years but has also become very unpredictable. Income levels for developers in Asia are still much lower than what developers earn in the US, Latin America and Europe. At the time the number of companies and clients who were once actively looking for developers from Asia has gone down. The talent pool from the US, Latin America and Europe has grown. Now more competition is coming from those regions. We used to handle these challenges when the work was steady.. Now things are very different. After thinking it through we’ve realized our way of working can no longer support stable long-term income. So we are now looking at two paths: First shifting our focus to AI specialization. Second, expanding our operations into high-revenue markets like the US, Latin America and Europe. But here’s the problem: we don’t have the skills to carry out these plans. Even though we want to move into the AI field we haven’t found the right people to make this shift happen. Our team has technical skills in AI automation. We’ve worked with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We believe there is a lot of profit to be made by using AI training platforms like Mercor, AfterQuery, DataAnnotation, Outlier, Turing and Snorkel. Projects in this space often require expertise, in natural sciences not just software engineering. That means we are missing the kind of talent. We also face limitations because of where we're located. We can’t easily bring in people with the background.

Hey everyone, I work with AI automation agencies on cold email outreach. Over the last 2 months, we sent 46.2K emails, generated 43 opportunities, and got a 4.1% reply rate. I’d love to help more AI automation agencies build a consistent outbound system. Having some social proof + a clear offer definitely makes it easier to build a strong value proposition. Feel free to DM me if you’re interested.