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Drop an AI chat agent onto local businesses' websites so customers can order and ask questions instantly (plenty of people won't pick up the phone — they just want to chat), billed as a monthly retainer.
Dan ranks it below the voice agent: “The interface is dead — people want to chat instantly, not call.” But the barrier is low, Intercom and friends already dominate, and frontier models or existing SaaS could swallow it. The best play: chat qualifies, then hands off to a voice agent to close.
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[Video] Dan: local businesses will pick up the phone, but a lot of their customers would rather email or chat on the website. He lived it himself — he wanted to book dinner that night, couldn't be bothered to go through OpenTable, and wished he could just book by chatting on the site. “The interface is dead; people want an instant reply, they want to chat.” Deploy AI chat for local businesses and charge a monthly retainer.
Prospecting for this is mechanical. Open the local listings for one category in one city — restaurants, dental clinics, salons, repair shops — and visit each website.
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Data credibility: ⚠️ An opportunity direction, not a specific company; Dan rates the economics “good” and stresses the compounding of monthly fees, but gave no pricing. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator — unaudited.
The first dollar here should be a monthly one, and that is the entire design of the offer. The agent gets deployed into a business and billed as a retainer, because recurring revenue is where the money stacks — the rule attached to this model is blunt: if your business has no recurring component, add one.
The compounding is vertical in two senses.
The quiet period here carries a specific danger, because what makes this easy to start also makes it easy to be squeezed out.
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