I wanted to ask which kind of agent generally works better. I'm building a hybrid agent right now, that has buttons or pre-set choices the user can choose for the purpose they want as well as the ability to type whatever they want freely and the agent will respond to it accordingly, of course it's not like an LLM rather it uses an LLM as the brain to generate responses but it stays on topic, working for the business. I would appreciate some advice on what kind of agents you have seen businesses use.

I am just wondering, what things/tools/services do I need to know and types of automations I need to know how to build to qualify as a developer, even a beginner but still a proper dev. Is it more important to simply know a bunch of different platforms/sites to build from and different types of integrations, API tools? Or rather knowing how to use different tools/sites in general? I assume a mix of both is important, I would like to hear some advice. I would also like to know how I can find clients or businesses, I can mainly target customer-support and lead-generation in a variety of businesses like real-estate and cleaning/renovation.

I wanted to know how many of you use multiple third-party services to build a whole agent for a business and how do you manage the cost. Do you pay for services and the business pays you for maintenance or does the business pay the services directly. I am building a Customer Support/Lead Generation Agent that is pretty customizable and can be in a decent amount of businesses like Real Estate, Cleaning, any other kind of business and I am using Voiceflow as the main platform which sends some data over to Make.com that saves it to whatever CRM the business uses as well as to Google Sheets and Google Calendars, if I am to sell this agent is it okay to tell that business I use this service and that service and the bill could be about 300$ or more per month would they accept it? Or would they see it as my maintenance costs and pay it, and I will then pay for the services and take my cut. I would like to hear what you all have to say, I have to say it's been almost a week and the biggest problem I've run into aren't simple ones like I don't know how to build this or that it's about how I will manage this and that and is it acceptable or not and other stuff 😅.

I want to ask how many people use the Free Tier on platforms like Relevance AI, n8n, Voiceflow, Make to build their agents, as I use Voiceflow and I am running into low credits alot and have resorted to moving my workflow to a new account every time and continue off of there. Can any of you give me some advice on building for free, like I mean NO COSTS, I actually can not afford anything, I'm broke 😢, so I would really like to know how other people manage this and how they can give their agents to business even as a test run.

Just built my first AI voice agent 🎙️🔥 Still just a demo, first real test, but hearing it actually answer and hold a conversation was insane. Now I want to perfect it further and get it in front of real local businesses, that's the whole point. Anyone else here building voice agents for local biz? Curious what's actually working for you 👀