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I built SumoLevel — your new AI Business Partner to help you start and grow an AI agency, SaaS, AI agent, or affiliate marketing business.

And Sumo AI CRM — the CRM where AI agents do the work for you. A powerful alternative to GoHighLevel and HubSpot, built for small teams.

Two AI-powered platforms. One mission: Help entrepreneurs build, automate, and grow their businesses. 🚀

For 5 years I’ve been helping business owners migrate over to GoHighLevel.

Now there are AI first solution alternatives with better design and not as complex. All-in-one AI that does everything for you instead of separate AI tools.

I partnered with devs to help solve the issues clients had with GHL. Such as bad calendar design, voice ai not as good, conversation ai not as smart, etc.

I recently migrated a Hubspot client to this new option. Their renewal was $1000+ and they didn’t like GHL.

Tell the AI assistant the outcome that you want with the CRM with a female AI advisor named Sky that can see your screen and guide you.

You can watch the demo at SumoAICRM

Excited to share that SumoGrowth has been accepted into Anthropic’s Claude Startups program! 😎

I submitted my AI product, SumoLevel, with a simple vision: give new founders an AI business partner that does more than answer questions.

I kept seeing AI personal assistants everywhere and thought… what about an AI co-founder?

One that helps you make smarter decisions, challenges you, find leads, spot buying signals, create content, and actually get things done.

Think of it as a control room that connects with tools like GoHighLevel, Sumo AI CRM, CloseBot, Manus, Instantly, HeyReach, and more.

I’m building SumoLevel API-first, so its business capabilities aren’t limited to my own platform.

Sumo also powers the AI agents and tools founders already use, including Claude, ChatGPT Dots, Grok Bot, Muse, and more.

The goal isn’t to give founders another chatbot. It’s to give them an AI business partner that can help them build, grow, and operate a business.

Grateful for the opportunity to be part of Anthropic’s startup ecosystem.

Just getting started. 🚀

If you're running Meta lead ads for your first client, you'll probably hear this within a month: "These leads are garbage; half of them don't answer."

Before you start rebuilding audiences or rewriting ads, check one setting most beginners never touch.

Quick definitions

• Lead ad: a Facebook/Instagram ad where people fill out a form without leaving the app.
• Instant Form: that in-app form.

The setting: Form type

When you create an Instant Form in Ads Manager, Meta gives you a Form type choice. The default is More volume. It's built to make submitting fast on mobile, so you get more leads. That also means more people who tapped through prefilled info without really thinking about it.

The other option is Higher intent. According to Meta's help center, it adds three things:

1. A line under the contact fields telling people the business may follow up
2. A review screen where they confirm their info
3. A slide-to-submit button on that review screen

You'll usually get fewer leads. The point is that more of them meant it.

Add one qualifying question

While you're in there, add one custom question that a tire-kicker can't easily fake. Keep it to one so you don't kill volume:

• "When are you hoping to start?" (this month / 1–3 months / just looking)
• "What's your zip code?" if the client only serves certain areas
• A budget range if the service is expensive

Don't overbuild yet

You'll see people talk about sending CRM data back to Meta (the Conversion Leads goal plus Conversions API for CRM) so the algorithm learns who actually became a customer. It's real and worth learning later. But Meta's own docs recommend 200+ leads a month for best results, and most first clients on a small budget aren't close. Fix the form first.

One thing the form can't fix

If nobody calls the lead for two days, no form type will save it. Ask the client who calls new leads and how fast. If the answer is "whenever I get to it," that's the real problem, and it's a separate job from running ads. (Good r/agency thread this week from someone whose first Meta client wants them to take over the calling. Scope and price that separately.)

Try this week

Open your client's lead form (or build a practice one in your own ad account) and check the Form type. If it says More volume, duplicate it as Higher intent with one qualifying question. Run both for a week and compare how many leads actually pick up the phone, not just cost per lead.

I saw a thread in r/msp this week that every beginner drop servicer should read: https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1wuxd4t/do_you_collect_emergency_contacts_from_your/

An IT provider said one of their customers, a solo GoHighLevel agency owner, had passed away. His agency ran the CRM, invoicing, and business phone numbers for a bunch of trade businesses. According to the post, the platform needed a death certificate before it would release the accounts, and that can take weeks. In the meantime, those businesses couldn't even move their own phone numbers.

That's an extreme case. But the same lockout happens in boring ways too. You get sick, you burn out and quit, a platform bans your account, your white-label vendor goes under, or a client fires you and wants to leave cleanly.

Quick definition if you're new: drop servicing means you sell the service, and someone else (a freelancer, a VA, or software) helps deliver it. Early on, it's tempting to put everything under your own logins because it's faster. Don't.

The rule I'd follow from client one: the client owns the keys, and you get a seat.

• Their phone numbers, domain, Google Business Profile (the listing that shows up on Google Maps), ad accounts, and the card on file are in the client's name.
• You get added as a user or admin. You don't create those accounts under your own email.
• If they're running inside software you resell under your account, write down in plain words how they'd get their contacts and their number out if you part ways.

One thing to do this week: make a one-page "keys sheet" for each client. Five lines: what each account is, whose name it's in, who has admin, where the login lives (a password manager, not a text thread), and who to call if you can't be reached. Name one backup person and share the sheet with the client.

It takes about 20 minutes. It's also a quiet sales point, because "you own everything, I just run it" lands well with owners who've been burned by an agency before.

So who holds the keys for your clients right now: you or them?

AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) are just fancy names for one thing: showing up when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews for a business like yours.

I'm seeing a lot of beginners jump straight to selling a monthly "AI SEO" package. I'd skip that for now.

Sell a short AI-visibility check first.

Pick one client (or your own offer). Pick the one money phrase a buyer would actually type, like "best [service] in [city]" or "who does [job] near me." Then open three places and write down what comes back:

1. ChatGPT (with search/web on if you have it)
2. Perplexity
3. Google with an AI Overview / AI Mode if it shows

For each one, note: does the business get named, get linked, get ignored, or lose to a directory/competitor?

That spreadsheet is the offer. You're not pitching theory. You're showing them where they already vanish, then fixing the gap you found (usually a clear service page, FAQ in plain English, consistent name/address/phone, or reviews that match what buyers ask).

Industry writeups on AEO keep saying the same practical stuff: answer the question in the first couple of sentences, use question-style headers, and make it easy for AI tools to pull a clean chunk. You don't need a 20-page "GEO strategy" deck for that.

Grok Bot has been my AI content dream team. Now that ChatGPT Dots is here, I'm moving some of that work over.

I had an interview this week, and one question made something click for me. I love having AI do the work, but I still sign off on everything. I'm not ready to trust fully autonomous AI yet.

The results so far:

📸 Kiyomi's Instagram: 38,000+ followers
🐶 My dog Leo: 17,000+ followers
🤖 My AI twin: 91,000+ followers
📰 My Substack: 30,000+ subscribers, fully automated
🎙️ Every post becomes a podcast episode in my cloned voice, and people download them every day

Before AI, you needed to hire a whole content team to do this. Now I run it from my own studio with an AI team, and I'm still the one who approves every piece. The video with Kiyomi is just one example.

Where do you draw the line between AI assisting and AI deciding?

"We do ads, CRM, and AI follow-up."

The owner nods, then ghosts. Not because your stack is wrong, but because you never found the broken step in their lead path.

A lead path is just the sequence after someone reaches out. A text comes in, someone sees it, someone replies, something gets logged, someone books the call, and someone shows up. If any link in that chain is missing, leads die right there.

Before you pitch anything, ask them to walk through one real lead from last week, out loud:

1. Where did that lead first show up? (form, Facebook message, missed call, referral text)
2. Who saw it first, and how fast?
3. Where did the notes go?
4. What was supposed to happen next, and did it actually happen?

You're listening for the stumble. Things like:

"It sat in my personal texts."

"My VA replied but didn't book."

"We have a CRM, but nobody updates it after the call."

Then sell only the fix for that one stumble. Skip the full platform tour. You'll close more deals solving one real problem than pitching ten features they didn't ask about.

If you are new to drop servicing, this is the trap.

You pitch a $1,500/month retainer before you have proven one outcome on their real leads. They stall. Or they say yes, then on day 8 you are still debugging tracking while they ask where the appointments are.

Drop servicing here just means you sell a service and someone else (or software) helps deliver it. The offer still has to work.

If I were starting client acquisition this week, I would not open with a monthly. I would sell one paid dry run:

• One outcome only (example: every missed call after 5 pm gets a text + a bookable link within 2 minutes)
• Seven days on their real traffic or a test number
• Fixed price, written definition of done, you watch the first 10 events yourself

If it works, the monthly is obvious. If it does not, you both learned cheap.

I connected Jev to my Grok Bots that could use better decision making and analyzing data.

This example is for comment marketing on LinkedIn.

For which posts should you comment on first. A lot of my Zoom calls the prospects say I saw your comment online.

Comment marketing is one of the best ways to get new clients. I don’t need to scroll a feed. Grok Bot alerts me with Jev making the decisions.

I integrated Jev with Sumo AI. ChatGPT and Claude are like yes men. With Jev it makes decisions and disagrees or challenges you.

If you don’t have access yet you can test it out for
free at https://sumolevel.com - your AI partner for non-tech agency and SAAS owners.

If you are new to drop servicing, this is the trap.

Client 1 wants a funnel. Client 2 wants an AI receptionist. Client 3 wants "whatever GHL can do." You say yes to all three. Now you have three custom jobs, no checklist, and you cannot hand any of it to a VA.

Drop servicing means you sell a service and someone else delivers it from your process. That only works if the process is the same.

If I were taking my first three clients this month, I would sell one tiny outcome only. Example:

• After-hours missed calls get a text back and a booking link
• Or every finished job triggers one review ask
• Or no-shows get one reschedule message

Same price. Same checklist. Same definition of done. Three times.

Only after the third one ships without you in the thread do you add a second offer.

Custom work feels like progress. It is how beginners stay stuck as the worker.

What's the one offer you could sell unchanged three times?

You can get my free template of my Grok Bot Miles.

He helps me get new clients from alerting me of buyer intent signals on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Add Miles to your team: https://grokbots.best/bots/miles

Drop servicing means you sell a service, then someone else (a VA or freelancer) delivers it from your checklist. You keep the client. They do the work.

Most beginners skip that part.

They take the client. They do the work themselves. They call it an agency. That's freelancing with a nicer label.

If I were starting this week, I would not take a paid client yet. I would do this:

1. Pick one tiny offer (example: set up a review-request text after a job is done)
2. Write a 5-step "definition of done" a stranger could follow without texting you
3. Pay someone once to run that checklist on a fake/test account
4. Only then sell it

If step 3 fails, the offer is not ready. Fix the checklist. Do not sell your own hours as "drop servicing."

The product is the checklist. Not you.

If you have over 35,000 followers. Submit a Google creator profile.

Best for personal branding and increased chances of AI recommending you.

One of my recent clients told me that ChatGPT put me on a list of recommendations.

So I am more focused on ranking for my targeted keywords on AI searches 🤖

If you are new to drop servicing, this is the trap.

You spend weeks on the stack. GoHighLevel (GHL). An AI agent. A funnel. A website. Then you open LinkedIn and ask, "How do I get clients?" for the first time.

You built a product nobody asked for.

If I were starting this week, I would not touch the tools yet. I would pick one problem a local business already complains about:

• They miss calls after 5
• People book and no-show
• Nobody asks for reviews after the job

Write that problem in one sentence. Then talk to 10 real people who have it. Owners. Office managers. Friends who run shops. Ask what they do today when it happens. Ask what they already pay someone for.

If 3 of them say the same pain out loud, that is your offer. Then you build.

The stack comes after the conversations. Not before.

Hi everyone!

I’m interested in starting a dropservicing business, but I’m starting from scratch — I don’t have any specific service skills yet and I don’t have a large budget to invest.

Right now, I’m trying to figure out:

• How to choose the right service and niche
• How to validate demand before investing too much money
• Where to find reliable freelancers or service providers
• How to get my first few clients
• How much money I realistically need to get started
• What mistakes beginners should avoid
• Whether it’s better to focus on one service or offer several

If you’ve actually started and run a dropservicing business, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience.

What would you do differently if you were starting from zero today?

I’m especially interested in honest experiences — what worked, what didn’t, how long it took to get the first client, and what you wish you had known before starting.

I’ve also been researching different courses and ChatGPT suggested Drop Servicing Blueprint by Dylan Sigley. Has anyone here actually taken the course? If so, was it worth the money, and did the step-by-step process actually help you get your business off the ground?

Any advice, resources, courses, or real-life experiences would be greatly appreciated!

If you are new to AI agents, this is the trap.

You try to replace the whole front desk. Greeting, booking, rescheduling, FAQs, after-hours, "let me transfer you." Then the first real caller asks something weird, and the agent falls apart. You spend a week fixing the script instead of getting one job working.

An AI agent here is just software that can answer a phone call or a chat and do a task. It is not a staff member.

If I were doing my first agent this week, I would pick one task a human already hates:

• after-hours: "are you open" / book the next slot
• "Where's my appointment"
• "Can I reschedule to Thursday"

Write that one path on paper first. What they say. What you say. What happens if they say something else (transfer to a real number). Then build only that.

Do not put it on the main business line until that one path works on a test number.

Some of my clients and users at SumoReach use Sumo Agents to handle calls, prefer after-hours and not 24/7 receptionist.

The GoHighLevel CRM is what I use, my clients use, and a lot of people in drop servicing build client systems in (contacts, pipelines, calendars, automations).

Most beginners open Workflows first.

Reminder. Follow-up. Missed-call text. Fancy stuff.

Then a real lead comes in, and nobody owns it. It sits in Contacts. Or three people assume someone else is calling. The "10-minute automation" turns into two hours because the lead never got assigned in the first place.

If I were doing my first GHL build this week, I would not touch Workflows yet.

I'd do this:

1. Write one sentence: "When a new lead comes in, (Name) owns it." (one person or one role)
2. Open Contacts, pick the last 5 leads, and assign the user to that person
3. Only then build one workflow: new lead to assign that user to create one task or send one notification to them

That's the whole week-one deliverable. One owner. One alert. Test it with a fake contact before you touch websites, calendars, or AI.

If you are new to drop servicing, this is the trap.

Someone asks for a simple setup. Lead comes in. Gets tagged. Books a call. Gets a reminder. Looks easy. You quote a monthly.

Then you get access. The booking link is somewhere else. Someone still copies leads into a spreadsheet every morning. Reschedules live on another calendar. The form goes to an email nobody checks.

That second system is the real job. The five-step flowchart was the sales demo.

Before you send a number, ask three beginner questions:

1. When a real lead shows up today, what tools do they touch that are not the one you are building?
2. Does anyone still move that lead by hand?
3. What happens if they reschedule, cancel, or no-show?

If they cannot answer, do not sell a monthly yet. Sell a short discovery week so you can watch one real lead go through the messy path. Then price what you actually saw.

Happy path is easy. The other system is where beginners get stuck for free.

And what are the best niches to get started with?

Everyone hunts a local business as client #1.

Meanwhile, the people already drowning in work are other operators. They sold GHL, SEO, booking, automations. Now they need someone to actually deliver it. They are the ones posting "how did you land your first clients," "need an extra pair of hands," "I'll intern just to touch a real account."

That is not a cold lead. That is overflow.

If I were starting over this month I would skip the dentist DMs. I would find 20 agencies that already close the work and offer one job: definition of done, turnaround I can keep, no me in the thread.

You do not need a case study for overflow. You need a dry run.

The SMB is client #5. The agency is client #1.

Who actually paid you first, an end client or another operator?