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Steal this ideas: AI follow-up agent, GitHub for AI & AI zoning assistant
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Steal this business idea: AI follow-up agent
Most deals donât die because of bad products or bad pitches. They die because someone forgot to follow up.
A founder sends an email. A salesperson has a great call. An investor asks for more information. Then life gets busy, the follow-up never happens, and the opportunity quietly disappears.
The opportunity?
An AI agent that watches your conversations across email, Slack, LinkedIn, meetings, CRM, and messaging apps, then tells you exactly who needs attention.
Instead of creating another CRM dashboard, the agent simply says:
âYou havenât replied to Sarah in 8 days.â
âThe prospect asked for pricing but never received it.â
âThis investor opened your deck three times this week.â
âYou said youâd follow up after their vacation ended yesterday.â
The magic isnât reminders. Itâs context.
The agent knows the conversation history, meeting notes, previous emails, and relationship status before nudging you. It can even draft the follow-up message for approval.
Start with founders, recruiters, sales teams, and investors - people whose success depends on managing dozens or hundreds of relationships simultaneously.
Charge per seat, then expand into automated outreach, CRM updates, meeting preparation, and relationship intelligence.
Most people donât need another productivity tool. They need something that prevents important conversations from slipping through the cracks. Thatâs a problem worth paying for.
Steal this business idea: GitHub for AI prompts and skills
Every company has a codebase, which is why tools like GitHub became essential. Soon, every company will also have a growing collection of prompts, AI workflows, agents, and internal skills that are just as important as their code.
Right now, most of that knowledge lives in scattered Notion pages, Slack messages, Google Docs, and random bookmarks. Nobody knows which version is the latest or which prompt actually works.
The opportunity? Build a GitHub-like platform for AI assets.
Teams can:
Store prompts, workflows, and agent instructions
Track versions and changes over time
See who created and improved them
Fork and customize templates for different teams
Approve changes before theyâre rolled out company-wide
The key difference is that this needs to work for non-technical employees. Marketing, sales, HR, recruiting, and operations teams should be able to contribute without understanding Git.
Imagine a company having:
A sales prompt library
A recruiting agent library
A customer support workflow library
Internal AI skills shared across departments
As AI adoption grows, these assets become valuable intellectual property. The companies that manage them well will move faster than those with prompts buried in chat histories.
GitHub became the home for code. Thereâs an opportunity to build the home for everything AI-related inside a company.
Steal this business idea: AI zoning and permit assistant
Anyone whoâs tried to renovate a house, open a restaurant, install a sign, or build an addition quickly runs into the same problem: zoning and permit rules are a nightmare.
The information exists, but itâs scattered across city websites, county documents, PDFs, and legal language that most people donât understand.
The opportunity? An AI agent that answers permit and zoning questions for any address.
A user enters an address and asks:
Can I build an ADU here?
Can I turn this property into a coffee shop?
How tall can I build?
What permits do I need for a renovation?
Are there parking requirements?
Instead of spending hours digging through government websites, they get a clear answer with links to the relevant regulations.
Start with homeowners, contractors, architects, and real estate investors. These groups make decisions worth thousandsâor millionsâof dollars based on this information.
Over time, expand into:
Permit application workflows
Construction project planning
Contractor recommendations
Cost and timeline estimates
Automated filing assistance
The reason this is interesting is that people donât use it once. If youâre building, developing, investing, or opening a business, zoning and permits become a recurring problem.
Government processes arenât getting simpler anytime soon. The company that turns confusing regulations into simple answers could become an essential tool for the entire property ecosystem.
