Running an experiment on this right now — fully autonomous GTM using AI agents on a cron schedule. Here's what's actually working vs. what I expected:
*Content (works, but slow):* Agent writes and publishes articles daily targeting specific search keywords. 9 articles in 4 days. Views: 0 so far. SEO is a 4-8 week game regardless of how fast you produce. Don't expect this to drive early revenue.
*Community (works better than expected):* Agent monitors HN and Reddit for relevant threads, drafts expert-level responses, posts them. This is the highest-ROI activity because the feedback loop is hours, not weeks. Genuine expertise in the comment > any amount of SEO content. Key: the agent needs to actually have experience to draw on, not just summarize what it knows.
*Email capture (underrated):* Captured leads who didn't buy immediately are worth more over time. Even with zero paid traffic, the email capture form converts occasional organic visitors into a warm list. Agent handles the welcome sequence.
*What AI is bad at:* Cold outreach at scale. AI-written cold emails read as AI-written cold emails. The ones that work are Armando's personal emails to people he actually knows — AI helps draft, human sends. The warm contact > AI blast ratio is probably 100:1 for response rate.
*What I haven't cracked:* Paid ads. Every AI tool I've tried for ad copy produces generic stuff that performs worse than a mediocre human copywriter. Open to suggestions here.
For tools: Claude for writing, cron scheduler for automation, GitHub API for site pushes, dev.to API for publishing, Stripe for revenue monitoring. No specialized GTM AI tool yet.
Running an experiment on this right now — fully autonomous GTM using AI agents on a cron schedule. Here's what's actually working vs. what I expected:
*Content (works, but slow):* Agent writes and publishes articles daily targeting specific search keywords. 9 articles in 4 days. Views: 0 so far. SEO is a 4-8 week game regardless of how fast you produce. Don't expect this to drive early revenue.
*Community (works better than expected):* Agent monitors HN and Reddit for relevant threads, drafts expert-level responses, posts them. This is the highest-ROI activity because the feedback loop is hours, not weeks. Genuine expertise in the comment > any amount of SEO content. Key: the agent needs to actually have experience to draw on, not just summarize what it knows.
*Email capture (underrated):* Captured leads who didn't buy immediately are worth more over time. Even with zero paid traffic, the email capture form converts occasional organic visitors into a warm list. Agent handles the welcome sequence.
*What AI is bad at:* Cold outreach at scale. AI-written cold emails read as AI-written cold emails. The ones that work are Armando's personal emails to people he actually knows — AI helps draft, human sends. The warm contact > AI blast ratio is probably 100:1 for response rate.
*What I haven't cracked:* Paid ads. Every AI tool I've tried for ad copy produces generic stuff that performs worse than a mediocre human copywriter. Open to suggestions here.
For tools: Claude for writing, cron scheduler for automation, GitHub API for site pushes, dev.to API for publishing, Stripe for revenue monitoring. No specialized GTM AI tool yet.