Agentify
AI employees for small businesses
Hey IH,
I just shipped Agentify (aiagentify.dev) — a B2B tool where small businesses
can spin up an AI "employee" (assistant, support, etc.) instead of wiring
together a bunch of separate tools.
Built it solo over a few weeks. Stack: Next.js 14, Supabase, Vercel, Resend,
with a multi-provider LLM fallback layer so it doesn't break when one API
rate-limits.
A few things I learned the hard way:
- Confirmation emails via the hosted auth SMTP were a nightmare — ended up
sending them through the email API directly instead, which finally worked.
- Building a cold-outreach pipeline is easy; getting it to actually find valid
recipient emails is the real problem.
There's a free trial (20 messages, no card) so you can poke at it.
What I'm genuinely stuck on: I'm a solo founder with basically no audience yet.
For those of you who launched B2B solo — what actually moved the needle for your
first 10 users? Cold outreach, communities, content, something else?
Would love any honest feedback on the product too. Thanks!
6 Comments
The biggest risk here is that “AI employee for small businesses” is too broad for the first 10 users.
Small businesses do not usually wake up wanting an AI employee. They wake up wanting one painful task handled: missed leads, slow support replies, quote follow-ups, appointment reminders, invoice chasing, FAQ replies, etc.
So I’d probably avoid selling Agentify as a general assistant first.
Pick one narrow use case and one buyer.
For example: service businesses that miss leads because they reply too slowly. Then the pitch becomes much easier:
“An AI assistant that replies to new leads instantly, qualifies them, and pushes serious ones to you.”
That is much easier to test than “spin up an AI employee.”
For first 10 users, I’d skip audience-building for now and do direct outreach to one narrow segment with one painful workflow.
Happy to put a small written first-user plan together if useful. I’d keep it focused on the best first segment, outreach angle, and a simple 7-day path to get real conversations.
This is genuinely helpful, thank you — you actually pointed at the exact thing
I've been circling around.
You're right that "AI employee" is too broad. The honest origin of this project
was narrower: helping small B2B businesses find and reach new customers without
hiring a sales person. I drifted into the broad "marketplace" framing and it
diluted everything.
So I'm planning to narrow it down to one painful workflow — automated lead
discovery + first outreach for small B2B firms / agencies who don't have time to
prospect.
I'd genuinely take you up on that first-user plan if the offer's open — even just
your take on the best narrow segment to start with would be gold.
Yes, that narrower origin is much stronger than the “AI employee” frame.
The useful part now is choosing the first buyer segment carefully, because “small B2B firms” can still get too wide fast. The right segment should already feel the pain of inconsistent prospecting and slow follow-up.
Drop your email and I’ll send over the tighter version. I’ll keep it focused on the first segment, the offer angle, and the shortest path to real conversations without turning this thread into a full teardown.
Appreciate it, that'd be genuinely useful. Best way to reach me is team [at]
aiagentify [dot] dev — would love your take on the first segment especially.
For what it's worth, my instinct is to start with B2B service firms where one
client is worth a lot (agencies, consultants, bookkeepers like me) — they feel
the slow-prospecting pain hardest. But curious if you'd narrow it differently.
Just sent you a note.
Kept it focused on the first narrow B2B service segment, the offer angle, and how to avoid testing Agentify across too many buyer types at once.
Congrats on the launch. AI agents are the future but getting people to understand and try them is the hard part.
I help indie hackers like you solve the "nobody knows my product exists" problem by distributing launches to active tech communities where early adopters actually hang out.
For a product like Agentify, I'd target communities where people are already discussing AI tools, automation, and no-code platforms — the exact people who would try an AI agent builder.
My process:
- I distribute your launch to 20-50 active WhatsApp/Telegram/Facebook tech communities
- You get screenshot proof of every post
- You pay ONLY after you see the proof
$30 for 20 communities, $60 for 50.
Happy to do a 5-community free sample first so you see exactly how it works. DM me if interested.