I've been building CDAI solo since early 2024. No co-founder. No funding. No team.
The engine requires a HubSpot install before anyone sees value. Nobody installs something they've never seen work. That's the distribution wall I've been hitting.
So I built a free calculator as the entry point.
You enter your ad spend, leads, revenue, and whatever costs apply to your business — vendor fees, compliance costs, chargebacks, refunds. It shows you what your dashboard reports versus what your campaign actually cost per lead. Takes two minutes. No install. No pitch.
Every signup also joins The Margin Gap — a newsletter I'm building around the gap between what ad platforms report and what campaigns actually cost. Zero real subscribers today.
If you're in insurance, mortgage, solar, legal, home services, Medicare, or clinical trials and you're running paid ads — this is for you.
If you've cracked cold distribution for a product that requires an integration before it shows any value I'd genuinely love to know how.
https://alloceraintelligence.com/
The interesting shift isn't replacing SaaS with AI agents—it's replacing software navigation with business intent. I'd keep validating whether SMBs are buying autonomous agents or confidence that their operations keep moving forward without them becoming the integration layer between dozens of tools.