Kaden Cole

VC. from 🇳🇱, nw in 🇺🇸

[Kaden Cole @kadenc4_s]

@dickiebush What's the actual bottleneck right now - delivery or leads?

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@leondwolf Email is easy. The 3am part is what happens after they buy. Who's watching fulfillment?

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@AJA_Cortes Demand for calm is real. But most "AI wellness" bots are demo-ware.

What's your actual usage data?

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@leondwolf What's the cancel rate before vs after streaks?

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@serialsales B. Recruiting is the job. Sales is the byproduct.

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@aleyda Clarity tracks agents. Nobody tracks what they cost you when they fail at 3am.

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Your agency doesn't have a lead problem.

Pull your last 20 proposals. Count how many sat 3+ days before sending.

That gap is your leak.

Speed to proposal beats volume every time. Fix it before you touch ads.

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@BowTiedBull @Man_with_a_van What's the monthly spend on all this? Curious if it beats the burger budget.

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@emaildeepdive Migration cost is the real bill. How long before the new tool pays for the switch?

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@gregisenberg Ocean data centers won't fix your ops. Your delivery is still leaking margin.

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@isaiah_p_taylor @bernhardsson Price too high forever means margin stays in ops, not demos. What's your current build cost per agent?

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@rpnickson 25M views is a great top of funnel. What's the delivery bottleneck it's feeding?

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@awealthofcs No internet at home meant we actually left work. Now Slack follows me to bed. Was that progress?

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@elonmusk Cool diagram. My launch abort logic is three retries and a Slack alert.

What runs when the catch fails?

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@kimmonismus @github Cool convo. But AI code review still misses what breaks at 3am. What's the fallback when it's wrong?

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@serialsales Did y'all drink them warm when the fridge was full?

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Agency owner asked if I could build him an AI SDR.

Asked what his close rate was on inbound. "No idea."

So we tracked it for 30 days. 22% on inbound, 4% on outbound.

He didn't need an SDR. He needed to answer inbound faster.

One routing rule. Zero new tools.

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@kimmonismus Golf courses as the benchmark. That's the whole post right there.

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@serialsales Nice first month. What's your close rate after chargebacks? That's the real number.

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@ChrisGPT Revenue charts don't break at 3am. Ask their API customers.