How To Solve Any Problem With AI Agents
Seven examples online entrepreneurs are already running. Plus the tool to build your own.
You run an online business.
Newsletter, course, agency, info product, coaching, SaaS, whatever the wrapper is.
You do everything inside the business. You’re the salesperson. You’re the bookkeeper. You’re customer support at 11 PM because nobody else will do it.
You’ve likely found that one ZOMBIE task that eats away at your energy every single day. You know the one, it’s the one you dread, the one you put off and it’s the choke point every time you sit down.
You’ve tried tools. You bought the Notion template. You wired up the Zapier. You watched the YouTube walkthrough. Two weeks later you stopped using any of it and went back to doing the thing manually.
These are the tasks that “agents” can take care of. And I’ll be honest they are NOT scary to set up.
By the end of this article you’ll have 7 agents other online entrepreneurs are running right now. You’ll see the pattern that tells you which of your problems is solvable, and the tool that makes building one possible without code.
One note before the list. The Hyperagent link I’ll drop a few times is my referral. Use it and you start with $1,000 in free credits. Plenty of runway to build, break, and rebuild a few agents before you spend a dollar.
Agents aren’t scary.
To be honest, they are actually easier to setup than you may think.
An agent is an employee with infinite shifts. You give it the goal. It figures out the steps. It picks which tools to use and connects itself to the tools you already use. It does the actual work. When you wake up the work is done.
Tell it what you want. It handles the how.
For an online entrepreneur, this is the unlock. You’ve never been able to afford the junior employee who would do the boring weekly job for you. The agent IS that junior employee.
It costs cents per task, never quits and never forgets.
The version of agents you saw six months ago was clunky. n8n. Zapier. Hand-wiring webhooks. JSON schemas you didn’t want to look at. Most non-technical people gave up around step three.
This wave is different. You describe what you want in plain English. The agent figures out the rest.
Which Of Your Problems Is Actually Solvable
You can’t agent your way out of everything YET. Agents work on a specific kind of problem.
Pull out a piece of paper. List the five recurring tasks that eat your week. Then check each one against this:
It repeats. Daily, weekly, monthly. Same shape every time.
It has a clear input and a clear output. You can describe both in one sentence.
It crosses multiple tools. The work touches your inbox, your calendar, your CRM, your spreadsheet, your bank, all in the same job.
The result is reviewable. You can tell in 30 seconds whether the agent did it right.
The tasks on your list that hit all four are the ones an agent takes. The others wait.
Seven Agents Running In Real Businesses Right Now
Below are seven agents online entrepreneurs are running..
Each one with the same micro structure: the problem, what the agent does, who’s already running it.
Pick the one closest to your worst week.
1. The Single DM Inbox Agent
You have five inboxes. Email, Slack, LinkedIn DMs, Instagram, X. They check in every twenty minutes. Most of the messages are some 18 year old in India trying to conivnce you he’s the best cold outreach guy.
BUT… the ones that matter get buried under newsletter signups, podcast pitches, and people cold pitching you their garbage service.
The agent pulls every DM across every channel into one feed. Reads each one. Scores it by intent (lead, customer support, fan mail, junk, partner). Drafts replies for the urgent stuff. Sorts the rest into folders. You sit down once a day and clear the whole thing in fifteen minutes.
Who’s running this: creators, coaches, and consultants whose business runs on relationships. Newsletter operators with engaged readers. Anyone whose phone buzzes more than 50 times a day.
2. The Bookkeeping Agent
You hate bookkeeping. You put off your bookkeeping. Last March you spent eleven hours in one weekend panicking through receipts because tax season showed up and you hadn’t logged a single expense since November.
The agent lives in Slack. You type “$60 lunch with prospect Sarah at Earls.” It logs the expense, files the receipt photo, categorizes it, updates the books. Drafts invoices from a one-line prompt. Generates a monthly P&L on the first of every month and drops it in your inbox.
Who’s running this: agency owners, consultants, course creators with multiple revenue streams, anyone running their own books because they can’t justify a bookkeeper yet.
3. The Customer Feedback Synthesis Agent
Your customers are talking. They’re leaving reviews on G2 and Trustpilot. They’re sending support tickets. They’re posting screenshots on X. They’re filling out the survey you sent last quarter. You read maybe 20% of it. The rest disappears.
The agent reads everything. Pulls reviews from every site you sell on. Reads every support ticket. Watches mentions on social. Synthesizes themes into a weekly digest in your inbox. Flags the urgent stuff (churn risk, product bug spike, angry customer about to post on LinkedIn) the moment it shows up.
Who’s running this: SaaS founders, info product sellers, agency owners with retainer clients, anyone with more than 50 customers making noise across more than three channels.
4. The Competitor Research Agent
There are five competitors you should be watching. You’re watching zero of them. The last time you checked their site was March. You don’t know they raised prices in April, launched a new product in May, hired a head of sales last month, or started running ads to the same keywords you’re going after.
The agent watches everything. Tracks pricing changes. Catches new product launches. Reads their content and clips the good stuff. Monitors their hiring pages. Sends a Friday afternoon digest with the moves of the week and what they signal.
Who’s running this: founders in competitive markets, consultants pricing against alternatives, agencies pitching against agencies, anyone whose deal volume gets killed by a competitor’s move they didn’t see coming.
5. The Sales Prospecting Agent
You know who your ideal customer is. You don’t know where to find 200 of them. And if you found them, you don’t have the hours to write 200 personalized emails.
The agent does both. Feed it your ideal customer profile. It hunts on LinkedIn, scrapes the company sites, pulls the right decision maker. Finds the email. Drafts a personalized first-touch in your voice. Sends it. Tracks the open. Drafts a follow-up if there’s no reply in four days. Books the call when they bite.
Who’s running this: B2B founders, consultants, agency owners, anyone whose business needs five new clients next quarter and currently has zero pipeline.
6. The Sponsorship and Partnership Pipeline Agent
You should have sponsors on your newsletter. You should have partners running cross-promos with you. You should have brands paying you to mention them. You have none of it because outreach feels gross and you never get around to it.
The agent does the gross part. Finds brands whose audience overlaps yours. Pulls their contact, their recent campaigns, their budget signals. Drafts a personalized pitch in your voice. Tracks every response. Logs the no’s so you stop pitching them. Flags the maybes for a follow-up in 90 days.
Who’s running this: newsletter operators, podcasters, course creators with engaged audiences, anyone whose business should be running on partnership revenue but isn’t because the outreach work never gets done.
7. The Info Product Development Agent
You have a product you should be selling. You’ve thought about it for months. You know the topic. You know your audience wants it. You don’t have a free month to sit down and build it.
The agent mines your existing material. Reads your newsletter archive, your DMs, your support emails, the comments under your posts. Pulls the questions your audience asks most. Outlines a product that answers them. Drafts the sales page. Builds the launch email sequence. Generates the thank you page. Hands you a near-complete launch you can ship in a week instead of a quarter.
Who’s running this: creators sitting on an engaged audience, coaches with a proven methodology, consultants with a process that’s begging to be productized.
How To Actually Build One
Hyperagent is the platform I’m running all of this on. Built by the Airtable team. Aimed at people who are not engineers.
Four things make it work for online entrepreneurs:
Triggers and scheduling are built in. You don’t just build a thread. You deploy an agent that runs while you sleep, posts in your Slack, sits in your inbox waiting for the next trigger.
Apps connect through OAuth. You log in like you would with any other tool. No API keys floating in plain text on your desktop. The security situation that scared you off the earlier agent builders is handled.
Skills are reusable. Build a “write in my voice” skill once. Every agent you deploy after that uses it. The work compounds the longer you use the platform.
Performance scoring on every run. Every job gets graded against criteria you set. You see the agent drifting before it starts costing you. This is the difference between a toy and a system you can run a business on.
The $1,000 free credits through the link are enough to build MANY agents and run them for weeks.
What To Do Today
Don’t try to build all seven. You’ll burn out by Tuesday.
Look at your list of recurring tasks. Pick the one that’s costing you the most this week. The one you’re avoiding. The one you’ll be doing at 9 PM tonight if you don’t fix it.
Open Hyperagent. Use the closest agent template. Connect one tool. Run the agent once. See what comes back.
The first version will be rough but keep refining it. Build it anyway. By the second agent you’ll know EXACTLY what you’re doing. By the fourth, you’ll be charging clients to build them.
If you're an overwhelmed online entrepreneur, the paid side is where the receipts live.
The prompts. The agent configs. The templates I'm copying across builds.
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Ryan
Another AI tip to add to the list!