Week 35: Testing Agent.ai

Agents are the future and more than 2MM people are using Agent AI. In this week's newsletter I went to go and see what the fuss was all about

The Experiment

I'm always intrigued by Dharmesh Shah. He's the founder of HubSpot, and he has a curious mind. The way he writes about entrepreneurship and the future, how he built a Wordle clone as a side hustle and made some cash out of it. Plus he's gone all in on AI.

So I was looking at his platform called Agent.ai. His straightforward, helpful emails kept highlighting tools like the "prospect researcher agent"—which gives you quick insights about people you want to reach out to.

I wanted to see what's out there as agents become the future, focusing mainly on writing and outreach tools that could help with sales backgrounding and content creation without the usual hassle.

Process

Here's what I discovered:

The Setup Agent.ai has nearly 2,000 agents available, all free to use at the moment. It's really easy to get involved with—no complex onboarding, just jump in and start testing.

Unfortunately, the prospect researcher only works for US people at the moment, but I thought I'd test the platform anyway and see what else was useful.

The Agent Testing I focused on Dharmesh's top seven agents and chose a few that seemed worthwhile:

1. LinkedIn Profile Analyzer: Pretty cool. It analyzed my profile and gave me 53 out of 65 (which, as an aside, is a pretty dumb scoring system). No major revelations, but it works.

2. Recent LinkedIn Posts Analyzer: This was genuinely useful. It looked at all my recent posts and told me where I get the most interaction. Turns out posts about speaking engagements and sharing jobs get the most comments and likes. If you're doing outreach, this kind of insight is pretty helpful.

3. Company Research Agent: Similarly useful for outreach. It distills all the key nuggets about an organization into one area, saving you from digging through websites and press releases.

4. Landing Post AI: This was cool from a content distribution perspective. You upload a blog post and it chunks it into LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, and other formats. Rudimentary, but decent for quick content repurposing.

5. Mindblown Generator: A blog post creator that... existed. Nothing special here.

6. Meme Maker: Broken. Moving on.

7. Unhelpful Life Goals Coach: This was the gem. You put in a life goal, and it gives you steps you absolutely shouldn't take to get there. I said I wanted to "Launch a $10k/month side hustle," and it came back with "How to Ensure Your Side Hustle Never Earns $10k/Month"—complete with advice like "Choose the Most Saturated Market Possible" and "Neglect Marketing Completely." Brilliant reverse psychology that actually highlighted what you should do.

The Outcome

The platform delivered exactly what it promised: quick, useful insights without much effort. Within an hour, I had LinkedIn optimization tips, content distribution ideas, and sales research shortcuts.

But here's the thing—these are all zero-shot processes. You get something quickly, but not as well as a considered approach would deliver. The problem with most of these agents is insufficient context. My usual approach is to overload context, add multiple documents and background information, get the AI to ask me questions, and then iterate. These tools skip all that for speed.

Key Takeaway

Agent.ai represents the future of quick AI tasks—free, fast, and functional for surface-level work. It's excellent for rapid insights and team collaboration on simple tasks, but it's not built for deep work that requires nuance and context.

Think of it as the difference between asking a stranger for directions versus having a local guide who knows your preferences and the full context of your journey.

Pro Tips for Agent Platforms:

1. Use Them for Quick Wins: Perfect for sales research, social media analysis, and content repurposing when you need fast results.

2. Don't Expect Deep Insights: These work best for straightforward, well-defined tasks rather than complex strategy or creative work.

3. Build Your Agent Toolkit: With nearly 2,000 options, bookmark the ones that actually deliver value for your specific needs.

4. Test While It's Free: Most of these platforms are free during their growth phase—take advantage while you can.

What's Next?

I'm planning to try building a couple of agents myself to see how the creation process compares to using pre-made ones.

For now, Agent.ai has earned a spot in my toolkit for quick tasks, but the heavy lifting still goes to more robust AI conversations with proper context and iteration.

Want to Try It Yourself?

• Head to Agent.ai and explore the top agents

• Focus on tools that match your workflow (sales, content, analysis)

• Remember: speed over depth, but that's not always a bad thing