Agency owners: do your clients keep asking you for "AI stuff" you don't build? I run a small AI automation studio in Singapore. We build the AI side for service businesses: WhatsApp and website enquiry assistants, lead follow-up systems, document and admin automations, and Claude/LLM integrations into the tools clients already use. Looking to partner with a few web, marketing or IT agencies (or fractional CFOs/COOs) whose clients want AI but it's not your core offer. How it can work, your choice: • White-label: you own the client and the relationship, we build under your brand • Referral: you introduce, we scope and deliver, you earn a commission Either way, client ownership and terms are agreed in writing upfront, and we never approach your clients directly. If that's you, comment "partner" or DM me and tell me what your clients usually ask for!

For anyone selling AI services to small businesses... The best opportunities usually aren’t exciting. They’re the boring leaks owners have stopped noticing. These are the five I normally check first: 1. Slow replies. How long does a new enquiry wait for an answer? Check evenings and weekends too. 2. No follow-up. Quotes that got sent once and never chased. 3. Quoting by hand. The same questions asked every time, and every quote rebuilt from scratch. 4. Scheduling ping-pong. Five messages just to book one appointment. 5. Retyping. The same customer details typed into WhatsApp, a spreadsheet and an invoice. How to use it: ask the owner to walk you through their last 10 enquiries. Put a rough cost on each leak, in hours a week or jobs lost, then lead with the biggest one. Owners don’t buy AI. They buy the leak going away. Which of these do you see most in the businesses you work with?

Hey everyone, I’m Kavan, and I run an AI automation agency in Singapore. I’m looking to connect with: 1.Cold email and outbound agencies that book qualified sales calls with business owners (if you provide closers too, that would be a good add on as well) 2. Solo operators running outbound for agencies, with a track record you can show What we sell: - AI audits: we map where a business loses hours and what to automate first - Content automation: systems that turn raw material into ready-to-post content What I’m looking for: - Real funnel numbers from recent campaigns: emails sent, replies, meetings, closes - Two past clients I can speak to - Sending domains set up in our name - Performance-weighted pricing (lower fixed fee, more on results) preferred Mainly targeting business owners in the US, Australia and Singapore, but open to other markets if there’s a good fit. If that’s you, comment “OUTBOUND” or DM me with your numbers. If you know someone who does this well, an intro would mean a lot. Tell me in one line which niche you’ve had the best reply rates in, and why! Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

Quick one for anyone selling AI services, or looking to start an AI Automation Agency. Cold outreach gets the attention, but warm intros close faster. Trust is already there, so you skip half the convincing. How to use it: 1. List 50 people you know. Friends, family, old classmates, ex-colleagues. 2. Ask for intros, not sales. “Who’s one business owner you know that’s drowning in admin?” 3. Show, don’t tell. A short demo of something you’ve built beats any pitch. 4. Still qualify. Warm doesn’t mean free. Bring up budget early. Warm first, cold to scale. It’s what’s worked for me from day one. For those building AI agencies, what’s worked best for you so far?

Hey everyone, Kavan here. Quick heads-up for anyone who builds or looks after websites for clients. On Wednesday, PHP shipped an emergency release for two critical bugs, nicknamed PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). An attacker can take over an unpatched server without logging in. The site’s own code doesn’t need to be flawed, and WordPress is affected. Details leaked a day before the patch, and security firms are already reporting early attack attempts. Quick checklist: 1. List every client site you manage that runs PHP (WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel and so on). 2. Check with each host whether they’ve patched or mitigated. Some, like SiteGround, protected their servers before the fix even landed. 3. If you manage the server yourself, update to a patched version (8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35) and restart PHP. Anything on 8.1 or older is out of support, so it needs upgrading, not just patching. My take on the AI side, as a builder, not a security expert: the researchers used AI to help find these bugs and test the exploit across different setups. This time, AI helped "the good guys" get there first. But the same tools are open to anyone, which is what makes it double-edged: the time between a bug going public and someone trying to use it is likely to keep shrinking. For anyone running client sites, “who patches this, and how fast?” is becoming part of the job. Curious where you all land: does AI end up favouring attackers or defenders? And how are you handling patching across client sites? 👇