284 – Here’s an Example of AI Agents in Action

Here’s an Example of AI Agents in Action That I’m Sure Will Inspire You

A guy who sells pools in Florida took OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, and programmed it to find homes without a pool and convince homeowners to build one. He wrote the instructions, hit enter and went to sleep.

The agent starts from satellite imagery. It scans lots one by one in the Tampa area, measures the land, checks zoning constraints and decides if there’s room for a pool. If the lot qualifies, it keeps going on its own. It generates a rendering: the homeowner’s backyard seen from above, with a pool already in it. It calculates the construction cost and how much the home value goes up.

Then it searches public records for the homeowner. Finds the listing agent tied to the property. Prepares a postcard with the aerial rendering and a QR code. Ships it through Lob, an automated print and mail service. Three days later it’s in the mailbox. On top of that the AI agent automatically creates a personalized website just for that homeowner, with all the details, reachable from the QR code.

What used to take months of work gets done in one night while the seller sleeps. The agent runs, scans new homes, produces new postcards, mails them out. Every homeowner gets a different message, built on their actual house, with numbers calculated on their lot. One single AI agent doing the job of an entire team: real estate analyst, graphic designer, copywriter, mailing service and salesperson. For a few dozen dollars in API costs.

And it doesn’t just work for pools. Same logic applies to solar panels, roofing, fencing, landscaping. Anything visible from above and sellable door to door, without knocking. As I always say, the first to be replaced by AI are those who don’t use AI. What do you think?

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