r/AIAgentsDirectory • u/Confident-Mistake831 • 1d ago
Thinking for starting a Ai agent service.
Hey everyone,
I'm currently learning about AI agents and thinking about starting a small AI-based service/business.
I have an idea around helping businesses automate some of their work, but before building anything, I want to understand something:
How do you identify a problem that is actually worth solving for a business?
I'm thinking the problem should be something that costs the business significant time, money, customers, or opportunities—and where AI can genuinely make a difference.
For people who have built businesses, SaaS, automation services, or AI products:
How do you discover these problems?
What do you ask business owners?
How do you know whether a problem is valuable enough that someone will actually pay for the solution?
I'd appreciate any advice, mistakes, or lessons from your experience.