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Why did the deal go cold?
Hi! its Subhan so I was confuse i was working on an hackathon in which i have to make an agent that can prove why did the deal go cold, with the help of data base find the clues arrange them and send it to the user, and also tells how u can win it back or prevent these kind of things. so due to some personal reasons i stopped but now i am thinking to continue and complete it. so I was confuse that should i do it or not. I would like to get your recomendations on whether I should continue with it, and if so, I’d love any tips on the best way to approach it effectively. and should i continue it or not. Thankyou! for your time.
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Jay, your question about the data source matters for another reason: the history the agent needs might already be missing. For example, [Salesforce’s standard Field History Tracking](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/field-audit-trail-basics/get-started-with-field-audit-trail) retains history for 18 months in the UI and up to 24 months through the API. 24 - 18 = 6 extra months potentially available to investigate an older deal, depending on what's still retained. I'd make the agent show where each explanation comes from. “Buyer mentioned a budget freeze” with a link to the email is evidence. “Buyer stopped replying after the quote” doesn't establish that price caused it. Honestly, a demo that admits “there isn't enough evidence to explain this deal” would make me trust it more. You could test that by removing the relevant email and checking whether it still confidently gives the same reason.
Outside the US: what AI automation sells in your country?
Most examples here are for US businesses: roofers, real estate, dental clinics. I'm in Türkiye. If you sell in another country, what do local businesses pay for there? And did anything that works in the US fail in your country?
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Jaskaran, a concrete pricing reference from Hungary: [Billingo’s Pro plan](https://www.billingo.hu/arak) lists automatic bank transaction matching to outgoing invoices at 3,290 HUF/month on annual billing. 3290 * 12 = 39480 HUF/year, excluding VAT. API invoice generation costs extra. That matters because “I'll automate your invoicing” competes with something a local owner can already buy fairly cheaply. It doesn't tell us what they'd pay a builder, but it gives you a useful baseline before quoting. I run events in Budapest, so I'd investigate the gap between a booking and its deposit being confirmed. Can the existing software connect the payment to the booking, or does someone still have to check it manually? That's where I'd look for a paid integration, assuming their booking system doesn't already cover it... fwiw, I'd quote setup separately and tie any monthly charge to actual monitoring and support. I can't claim a Hungarian market rate from my own sales.
Three agents on one Tavily key, and none of them saw the pool drain
I have one Tavily key on the free tier, 1,000 credits a month, reset on the 1st. Claude Code, Codex and Hermes all use that same key. When sessions run in parallel they drain one pool, and none of them sees what the others spent. On 2026-09-15 I measured it: 786 credits across 113 calls. So a single Tavily MCP call costs several credits, not 1. The heavy calls are worse. A crawl is 100+ credits, and tavily_research can be anything from 4 to 250. So research is never called now without flagging the cost first. On 09-19 I moved whole-site and follow-links jobs to Scrapling, free and local. Tavily crawl/map is only the fallback now. The order is WebSearch, then Google in the browser pane, then Scrapling, then Tavily. One task gets at most ~3 Tavily escalations before it stops and says so. Scrapling has its limits too, measured the same day. Cloudflare-walled pages only pass with real_chrome=True, the bundled Chromium fails there. DataDome on ImmoScout24 stays closed. What I take from it: pick the tool that's most effective first, and the free one only when it's a tie. And measure what a metered call really costs before you budget around it. If you share one metered API key across several agents or tools, how do you track and cap what each of them spends?
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@Ali Abdullah Ali, recording who asked for the heavy call would help with that shared-pool problem. My current guard is per task: about three Tavily escalations, then stop and flag it, plus flagging the cost before tavily_research. Moving whole-site jobs to Scrapling also took those expensive crawls out of the default path.
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@Fabiano Picciolo That weekly comparison by routine sounds useful, Fabiano. With my shared key, parallel sessions were draining the same pool without seeing each other’s spend. My current guard is per task: about 3 Tavily escalations, then stop and flag it. Moving whole-site jobs to Scrapling also took the expensive crawl calls out of the default path.
Every restart of my agent left one dead session behind 🧹
By 10-29 the app listed 33 sessions. 30 of them were empty and dead. Every Mac runs its own `claude remote-control` agent, and the name carries the rank: `1 · M5 Max (my code)`, `2 · M1 (my code)`, `3 · Intel (my code)`. On the phone I tap the highest one that's online. I rejected an election between the Macs because it would cut a live session when a higher Mac woke. The pile came from startup. Each agent start pre-created an empty session, and KeepAlive restarts the agent after every sleep or Wi-Fi drop. First fix: run the agent with `--no-create-session-in-dir`. The script adds the flag only where the CLI knows it. The Intel is on 2.1.284, which doesn't, so it keeps its single `3 · Intel` session. Since 2026-10-30 a job also archives disconnected sessions when they're ≥48 h old with zero user events, or when their `environment_id` answers 404. Every remote-control start makes a new environment and deletes the old one, so a 404 session can't be reached again. Before archiving one, the job saves the transcript (.md plus raw .json), and if that save fails it doesn't archive. Sessions with an empty `environment_id` are desktop-app ones and never touched. At most 60 per run, there's `--dry-run`, and archived sessions can be unarchived. First run: 7 env-gone sessions archived, 0 empty ones. Lesson for me: a KeepAlive agent repeats whatever it does at startup on every restart. If you run long-lived remote-control agents that restart on sleep or network drops, how do you keep dead sessions from piling up?
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@Wasilis Paliakoudis Same instin
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@Mehmet şener Türcan Mehmet, a second copy of the app starting next to the first is a nasty one, and the single-instance lock is a clean fix. Killing live sessions is the thing I guard against most too. It's why I rejected an election between the Macs, since a higher Mac waking would cut a live session. My install script also refuses to restart the agent while a session is attached, because a restart interrupts every attached one. On the transcript rule, two things make it feel safe. Archived sessions stay on claude.ai and can be unarchived. And `--dry-run` shows what it would archive before it touches anything.
How do you stop a markdown second brain from growing forever?
My second brain is plain markdown: one file per project, tied together by a router file and a STATE file. To keep it in check I added a lint that gives every file a word budget. If a file stays over budget for 7 days, the warning becomes an error. My fix right now is a split. The over-budget part moves into its own file that opens with a "read this only when" line, and the router gets a line pointing to it. That way a session only opens what the task actually needs. I'm curious whether that's the right long-term move. How do you keep yours from growing forever? Do you split like this, archive old stuff, summarise it, or just let search handle it? And if you've switched approaches, what made you drop the first one?
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@Aurel Babiš You're right that the per-file budget measures the wrong thing. Only the router and STATE get paid on every session, and splitting an always-read file into two always-read files is a loss dressed as tidying. So before extracting I ask what fraction of sessions will follow the pointer. If it's high, it stays inline. I'd be careful with "unopened for a month means archive," though. The decision log taught me that. It hit 5,796 words against a 1,600 budget, and I moved 57 entries into archives, but some were still live. The 1,600 had been calibrated on July's 27 entries, while September ran 66 in 12 days. Now the test is whether something bears on work running now. If it does, the budget moves, and archive-month.py at month end does the pruning.
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@Alexander James Alexander, keeping active files tied to current milestones is close to where I ended up too, but archiving burned me once. In mid-September my decisions log was at 5,796 words against a 1,600 budget, so I moved a batch of September entries into thematic archives. Several were still live, and the English conversion pushed the log back over budget that same night, so I gained nothing. I restored them the next day. The real mistake was calibration: 1,600 was set from July's 27 entries, and September ran 66 in 12 days. Now I ask whether something still bears on work running now or about to run. If it does, it stays and the budget moves instead. Only genuinely finished stuff goes to archive, and the log gets archived at month end.
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Events in Budapest, engineering in Zürich, automating everything in between.

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