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I am beginningAgent building journey
Hi, Question: I am a beginner to building AI agents. I have been researching building and offering AI Receptionists as my first entry for an offering to market to SMB's in person, face to face. I have spoken to a few decision makers who mentioned in their industry most calls are folks trying to sell them something. If they could use a AI receptionist to screen those it would be a valuable asset. With that in the background I am at a decision point: Learn Make/N8N and all that I'd have to to create custom agents. OR Use Go High Level A little background: I have trained new Pharma sales rep's on custom CRM platforms to insure compliance, I have been the go btwn Dev's and users on global custom reporting software, managed UAT's. I have trained offshore help desk managers and helped create knowledge bases for those implementations in colab with other team members. Please weigh in and give me your thoughts on which path you think is best and/or pitfalls with each.
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@Ton Will - it works for my receptionists. Sometimes simple is better. Let testing and your client tell you if it needs adjusting. You could also test it and harden it with @Brendan Jowett 's Relyable tool https://www.relyable.ai/
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@Ton Will If you are just starting out, you might consider offering to setup for free, and have the client pay all the platform (Retell, n8n, Twilio, LLMs) costs. Depending on setup and call volume their costs shouldn't be much more than $100. You offer this, and ask for a Trust Pilot or Google review/testimonial in return after the first month. Then have them pay the $500/mo starting month 2 only if they are satisfied.
Retell integration to Cal.com not working? [Resolved]
Anyone else having issues with Retell and the cal.com integration today? It's been working fine, but this afternoon every attempt by the agent to actually schedule a time fails. The check_availability seems to work properly, but the voice agent continually says it's run into an issue with the system when trying to actually book the call.
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I found a solution, for anyone having this same issue I thought I'd put the solution here. I missed the most obvious troubleshooting step, which was to just create a whole new cal.com event and test it in my Retell agent. Turns out that worked. Apparently the old event was just broken, as the new event (that has all the exact same settings) works perfectly.
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@Sammiy Autos what do you mean? we chatted via DM.
Need Some Guidance From the Community — Fiverr Isn’t Clicking Yet
Hey everyone, I’m an automation builder (n8n / Make / AI agents / workflow systems), and for the past 2 months I’ve been trying to land my first real paid project on Fiverr. I’ve: - Created multiple gigs in different niches - Optimized tags + titles - Tested different thumbnails - Watched dozens of “How to get Fiverr orders” videos - Delivered 3 client projects outside Fiverr (1 paid, 2 free) - Added real portfolio examples …yet still zero orders. Here’s my main gig if you want to check it out:https://www.fiverr.com/s/jjaxpmv At this point, I’m not looking for motivation — I’m looking for clarity: What am I missing? - Is my gig unclear? - Is my offer too generic? - Does the thumbnail/title need repositioning? - Should I niche down more? - Or is Fiverr simply not the right place for automation services? If anyone here has experience selling tech/automation/AI workflows on Fiverr, I would genuinely appreciate your feedback or suggestions. I’m willing to improve whatever’s needed — I just want to understand where the gap is so I can fix it. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes a moment to help Your guidance could really save me weeks of guessing.
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My honest opinion is that you lack social proof. I think your prices are good (even great), but you joined Fiverr last month, and don't have any reviews. Also, your portfolio images are a little too generic. Try showing the results. Even if you have to do a couple jobs for free to get reviews and show actual client results. You can also look for people hiring for jobs similar to your expertise (but not exactly AI automations), even if they are paying very low. This will let you get reviews. You only need 2-3 so that people feel more comfortable and trust you.
Pricing AI Chat for a High-Traffic E-commerce Site (1M+ Monthly Visitors)
Hey everyone, I’d love to get your input on a pricing challenge we’re facing. We’re about to deploy an AI agent on a large e-commerce website with 1M+ monthly visitors. Based on early estimates, we expect around 5% of visitors to actively engage with the chat. The AI will handle: - Classic customer support (orders, delivery, returns, FAQs) - Product recommendations - Cross-sell & bundle suggestions - Guided shopping experiences On the backend, the system is powered by Voiceflow, and the client will be on our Voiceflow subscription, meaning we carry the full cost of credits tied directly to usage volume. So the real challenge is: How do we structure pricing so that: 1. We stay safely profitable 2. We’re protected from unexpected usage spikes 3. The pricing still feels fair and predictable for the client Appreciate any insight, especially from those already running high-volume AI systems
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One billing structure I can think of: 1. Bill them for actual platform usage. Full transparency rebilling. 2. Charge them a percentage of every conversion as a result of your agent. It seems you should have full vision into their system, so you'd know if a conversion happened due to your Agent. You are protected from usage spikes because they pay all platform costs, and they get a Performance based service (only pay when successful) so they are protected if it doesn't work by driving sales/conversions. The only caveat is the Customer Support piece doesn't generally lead to conversions. However since this will be mostly hands off after a couple months of fine tuning, it shouldn't really matter. You will be making money as long as they are making money.
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@Marko N my pleasure! What are you leaning towards at the moment? Sounds like you need to make a decision pretty soon.
Help!
I started a ai agency and the service I sell is a lead outbound qualifier and appointment booker. It also stores and organizes information in a crm. The tools I use for this are n8n for connecting everything, retell ai for the caller, twillio for the phone number provider, airtable for the crm, and cal.com. Now I want to take all of this and make a custom fronted dashboard so my clients can see everything like what my business is doing for them and the data within the separate tools, is this all possible? If so would it be better to build new dashboards for each client or all have one where they login and only see their information within the dashboard. Any and help would be gratefully appreciated!
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You could achieve this with vibe coding an App on platforms like Replit, Base44 or Emergent. Build in APIs to connect it all, OAuth for logins, and display it all in a clean dashboard. If you have any experience with AI prompting, you likely won't have much trouble prompting the vibe coding platforms to do what you want.
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