Re:Show HN: AI agents run my one-person company on Gemini's ...
by RovaAI on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:01PM
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This is the right framing for the current moment.
The pattern I've found that works: AI handles everything that is deterministic + repeatable (data enrichment, email drafting, research, report generation), humans handle anything requiring judgment under uncertainty (pricing conversations, hiring, partnerships).
One thing worth noting on the free tier angle: the token costs are real but often smaller than expected. Summarizing a company's homepage and generating a personalized first line for an outreach email costs about $0.003 with Claude Haiku. At 1000 leads a month that is $3 in LLM costs. The expensive part is always the data layer, not the AI layer - a verified email still costs $0.05-0.15 from any major enrichment provider.
What does your outbound workflow look like? Curious how agents handle prospect qualification.
The pattern I've found that works: AI handles everything that is deterministic + repeatable (data enrichment, email drafting, research, report generation), humans handle anything requiring judgment under uncertainty (pricing conversations, hiring, partnerships).
One thing worth noting on the free tier angle: the token costs are real but often smaller than expected. Summarizing a company's homepage and generating a personalized first line for an outreach email costs about $0.003 with Claude Haiku. At 1000 leads a month that is $3 in LLM costs. The expensive part is always the data layer, not the AI layer - a verified email still costs $0.05-0.15 from any major enrichment provider.
What does your outbound workflow look like? Curious how agents handle prospect qualification.