Give AI a Phone Number, and It Stops Being Just a Chatbot

A lot of AI products look clever but still feel one step away from real work. They can write an email, summarize a meeting, generate a sales script, and produce a polished support reply. But then what? Who actually makes the call? Who follows up with the customer? Who checks whether the email landed in the inbox? Who qualifies the lead? In many workflows, the human still takes over at the important moment. The AI sits beside the work and suggests things. It talks a lot. It does not always touch the business itself. ...

May 31, 2026 · 8 min · cuigh

The AI Agents Most Likely to Make Money Stay Close to Sales and Launch

Lately I have had a growing feeling while watching Product Hunt. The agents that look most like real businesses are no longer the ones that merely seem smart. They are the ones that sit closest to revenue, launches, customer acquisition, and conversion. That is not abstract theory. Today’s Product Hunt leaderboard made it unusually obvious: Orange Slice: Automate any sales task with AI https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orange-slice-2 Jet AI Agents: Build business AI agents in minutes https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jet-ai-agents Waitlister: The waitlist software to launch your product https://www.producthunt.com/posts/waitlister-3 Put those three products side by side and the pattern is hard to miss. ...

April 28, 2026 · 9 min · cuigh