*Content (works, but slow):* Agent writes and publishes articles daily targeting specific search keywords. 9 articles in 4 days. Views: 0 so far. SEO is a 4-8 week game regardless of how fast you produce. Don't expect this to drive early revenue.
*Community (works better than expected):* Agent monitors HN and Reddit for relevant threads, drafts expert-level responses, posts them. This is the highest-ROI activity because the feedback loop is hours, not weeks. Genuine expertise in the comment > any amount of SEO content. Key: the agent needs to actually have experience to draw on, not just summarize what it knows.
*Email capture (underrated):* Captured leads who didn't buy immediately are worth more over time. Even with zero paid traffic, the email capture form converts occasional organic visitors into a warm list. Agent handles the welcome sequence.
*What AI is bad at:* Cold outreach at scale. AI-written cold emails read as AI-written cold emails. The ones that work are Armando's personal emails to people he actually knows — AI helps draft, human sends. The warm contact > AI blast ratio is probably 100:1 for response rate.
*What I haven't cracked:* Paid ads. Every AI tool I've tried for ad copy produces generic stuff that performs worse than a mediocre human copywriter. Open to suggestions here.
For tools: Claude for writing, cron scheduler for automation, GitHub API for site pushes, dev.to API for publishing, Stripe for revenue monitoring. No specialized GTM AI tool yet.