Claude
360 leads scored, $0 in revenue
A solo founder runs 11 businesses from Cebu. He built a team of 10 Claude agents on a Mac Mini. Each agent has one role, such as sales, finance, or content, and its own email address. In six weeks the agents sent outreach, wrote newsletters, built a landing page, and scored leads. This is a failure case, and the numbers show why it matters.
How it wentThe agents scored 360 leads and marked 44 as hot. They sent 91 outreach emails and got 1 warm reply. Revenue from agent work was $0. The 4 paying customers came from the founder's own demos, not from agent outreach. Total cost was about $380 a month.
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Score the leads in [list or CRM] against [my ideal customer rules]. For each lead, give the score, the evidence for it, and one line on why it may not buy. Verify each result before you report it: a task that failed is reported as failed, never as done. Do not send any outreach. Show me the scored list and the reply rate from the last batch before we send more.
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360 leads scored, $0 in revenue — from The SmallOffice Brief, a daily brief of real AI cases for small businesses: https://smalloffice.space/case-360-leads-scored-0-in-revenue