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Apr 14, 2025 · 36m · startup-ideas

I built 5 AI Agents in 36 Minutes to save me 20+ hours of work a week

Flo Crivello · 23m spoken Greg Isenberg · 6m spoken
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Greg Isenberg and Lindy.ai founder Flo demonstrate how entrepreneurs and lean teams can build no-code AI agents and parallelized agent swarms to automate over twenty hours of weekly operational work. Through live builds and real-world examples, they cover meeting intelligence, autonomous voice calls, automated recruitment, sales prospecting, and competitive monitoring.

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Greg as informed peer 3.2 Guest teaching 5.0 Guest disagreement 0.2 Greg pushing back 0.1
05100:0010:0020:0030:000:55–4:41 · Greg as informed peer 2/10 Welcoming Flo and Lindy.ai's Rapid Automation Vision Flo introduces Lindy.ai as a no-code AI agent platform and demonstrates automated meeting note-taking directly into Google Docs. Greg primarily acts as an open, welcoming host allowing Flo to frame the product.4:41–6:49 · Greg as informed peer 2/10 Live Scraping YouTube Comments and Conversational Agents Flo demonstrates a live YouTube comment scraper, leading into lighthearted banter about pronunciation of Claude and previous pod comments. The tone is entirely friendly with minimal friction.6:49–10:25 · Greg as informed peer 3/10 Interacting with AI Meeting Notes as an Exocortex Flo demos using Lindy as an exocortex to query past notes and showcases an autonomous phone reservation at Flour + Water. Greg adds context regarding the restaurant's reputation among tech figures.10:26–13:31 · Greg as informed peer 3/10 Understanding Agent Swarms and Morning Meeting Prep Greg asks for an explanation of agent swarms, and Flo provides a detailed breakdown of parallelized tasks versus long-horizon agent degradation using an Agent Smith analogy. Greg notes Lindy successfully prepped Flo with his microphone recommendation.13:31–15:51 · Greg as informed peer 3/10 Automated Email Scheduling and Personal Assistant Templates Flo shows automated calendar scheduling by CCing an agent email address. Greg compares it to his human EA workflow and asks tactical advice on starting with recurring tasks.15:53–20:44 · Greg as informed peer 3/10 Live Build: AI Recruiter Agent with Swarms and Human-in-the-Loop Flo live-builds an AI recruiter agent combining Perplexity research, swarms, and human-in-the-loop approval. Greg asks when human confirmation is necessary and jokes about HubSpot recruitment.20:46–26:00 · Greg as informed peer 5/10 Scaled Sales Prospecting and Large Language Model Selection Flo demonstrates unicorn founder sales outreach and model selection between Claude, Gemini Flash, and o1. Greg demonstrates strong domain knowledge by articulating the lean team leverage arbitrage and sharing a real-world creator outreach anecdote.26:01–29:55 · Greg as informed peer 4/10 Simulated Focus Groups, App Prototyping, and the Elon Lindy Flo explains simulated focus groups and the automated 'Elon Lindy' weekly standup caller. Greg builds on the concept by linking simulated users to rapid prototyping for virtual communities.29:57–32:56 · Greg as informed peer 4/10 Automated Competitive Tracking and Industry Monitoring Flo demos a competitor tracker spreadsheet. Greg points out the psychological relief of objective tracking over daily browsing, and Flo agrees by noting 90% of hyped competitors vanish within a year.32:58–36:10 · Greg as informed peer 3/10 Dynamic Personal CRM and Travel Trigger Automations Flo presents travel-triggered CRM prompts for city visits. Greg and Flo discuss network management across Twitter and LinkedIn before wrapping up with a listener discount offer.0:55–4:41 · Guest teaching 5/10 Welcoming Flo and Lindy.ai's Rapid Automation Vision Flo introduces Lindy.ai as a no-code AI agent platform and demonstrates automated meeting note-taking directly into Google Docs. Greg primarily acts as an open, welcoming host allowing Flo to frame the product.4:41–6:49 · Guest teaching 4/10 Live Scraping YouTube Comments and Conversational Agents Flo demonstrates a live YouTube comment scraper, leading into lighthearted banter about pronunciation of Claude and previous pod comments. The tone is entirely friendly with minimal friction.6:49–10:25 · Guest teaching 5/10 Interacting with AI Meeting Notes as an Exocortex Flo demos using Lindy as an exocortex to query past notes and showcases an autonomous phone reservation at Flour + Water. Greg adds context regarding the restaurant's reputation among tech figures.10:26–13:31 · Guest teaching 6/10 Understanding Agent Swarms and Morning Meeting Prep Greg asks for an explanation of agent swarms, and Flo provides a detailed breakdown of parallelized tasks versus long-horizon agent degradation using an Agent Smith analogy. Greg notes Lindy successfully prepped Flo with his microphone recommendation.13:31–15:51 · Guest teaching 5/10 Automated Email Scheduling and Personal Assistant Templates Flo shows automated calendar scheduling by CCing an agent email address. Greg compares it to his human EA workflow and asks tactical advice on starting with recurring tasks.15:53–20:44 · Guest teaching 6/10 Live Build: AI Recruiter Agent with Swarms and Human-in-the-Loop Flo live-builds an AI recruiter agent combining Perplexity research, swarms, and human-in-the-loop approval. Greg asks when human confirmation is necessary and jokes about HubSpot recruitment.20:46–26:00 · Guest teaching 5/10 Scaled Sales Prospecting and Large Language Model Selection Flo demonstrates unicorn founder sales outreach and model selection between Claude, Gemini Flash, and o1. Greg demonstrates strong domain knowledge by articulating the lean team leverage arbitrage and sharing a real-world creator outreach anecdote.26:01–29:55 · Guest teaching 6/10 Simulated Focus Groups, App Prototyping, and the Elon Lindy Flo explains simulated focus groups and the automated 'Elon Lindy' weekly standup caller. Greg builds on the concept by linking simulated users to rapid prototyping for virtual communities.29:57–32:56 · Guest teaching 4/10 Automated Competitive Tracking and Industry Monitoring Flo demos a competitor tracker spreadsheet. Greg points out the psychological relief of objective tracking over daily browsing, and Flo agrees by noting 90% of hyped competitors vanish within a year.32:58–36:10 · Guest teaching 4/10 Dynamic Personal CRM and Travel Trigger Automations Flo presents travel-triggered CRM prompts for city visits. Greg and Flo discuss network management across Twitter and LinkedIn before wrapping up with a listener discount offer.0:55–4:41 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Welcoming Flo and Lindy.ai's Rapid Automation Vision Flo introduces Lindy.ai as a no-code AI agent platform and demonstrates automated meeting note-taking directly into Google Docs. Greg primarily acts as an open, welcoming host allowing Flo to frame the product.4:41–6:49 · Guest disagreement 1/10 Live Scraping YouTube Comments and Conversational Agents Flo demonstrates a live YouTube comment scraper, leading into lighthearted banter about pronunciation of Claude and previous pod comments. The tone is entirely friendly with minimal friction.6:49–10:25 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Interacting with AI Meeting Notes as an Exocortex Flo demos using Lindy as an exocortex to query past notes and showcases an autonomous phone reservation at Flour + Water. Greg adds context regarding the restaurant's reputation among tech figures.10:26–13:31 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Understanding Agent Swarms and Morning Meeting Prep Greg asks for an explanation of agent swarms, and Flo provides a detailed breakdown of parallelized tasks versus long-horizon agent degradation using an Agent Smith analogy. Greg notes Lindy successfully prepped Flo with his microphone recommendation.13:31–15:51 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Automated Email Scheduling and Personal Assistant Templates Flo shows automated calendar scheduling by CCing an agent email address. Greg compares it to his human EA workflow and asks tactical advice on starting with recurring tasks.15:53–20:44 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Live Build: AI Recruiter Agent with Swarms and Human-in-the-Loop Flo live-builds an AI recruiter agent combining Perplexity research, swarms, and human-in-the-loop approval. Greg asks when human confirmation is necessary and jokes about HubSpot recruitment.20:46–26:00 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Scaled Sales Prospecting and Large Language Model Selection Flo demonstrates unicorn founder sales outreach and model selection between Claude, Gemini Flash, and o1. Greg demonstrates strong domain knowledge by articulating the lean team leverage arbitrage and sharing a real-world creator outreach anecdote.26:01–29:55 · Guest disagreement 1/10 Simulated Focus Groups, App Prototyping, and the Elon Lindy Flo explains simulated focus groups and the automated 'Elon Lindy' weekly standup caller. Greg builds on the concept by linking simulated users to rapid prototyping for virtual communities.29:57–32:56 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Automated Competitive Tracking and Industry Monitoring Flo demos a competitor tracker spreadsheet. Greg points out the psychological relief of objective tracking over daily browsing, and Flo agrees by noting 90% of hyped competitors vanish within a year.32:58–36:10 · Guest disagreement 0/10 Dynamic Personal CRM and Travel Trigger Automations Flo presents travel-triggered CRM prompts for city visits. Greg and Flo discuss network management across Twitter and LinkedIn before wrapping up with a listener discount offer.0:55–4:41 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Welcoming Flo and Lindy.ai's Rapid Automation Vision Flo introduces Lindy.ai as a no-code AI agent platform and demonstrates automated meeting note-taking directly into Google Docs. Greg primarily acts as an open, welcoming host allowing Flo to frame the product.4:41–6:49 · Greg pushing back 1/10 Live Scraping YouTube Comments and Conversational Agents Flo demonstrates a live YouTube comment scraper, leading into lighthearted banter about pronunciation of Claude and previous pod comments. The tone is entirely friendly with minimal friction.6:49–10:25 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Interacting with AI Meeting Notes as an Exocortex Flo demos using Lindy as an exocortex to query past notes and showcases an autonomous phone reservation at Flour + Water. Greg adds context regarding the restaurant's reputation among tech figures.10:26–13:31 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Understanding Agent Swarms and Morning Meeting Prep Greg asks for an explanation of agent swarms, and Flo provides a detailed breakdown of parallelized tasks versus long-horizon agent degradation using an Agent Smith analogy. Greg notes Lindy successfully prepped Flo with his microphone recommendation.13:31–15:51 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Automated Email Scheduling and Personal Assistant Templates Flo shows automated calendar scheduling by CCing an agent email address. Greg compares it to his human EA workflow and asks tactical advice on starting with recurring tasks.15:53–20:44 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Live Build: AI Recruiter Agent with Swarms and Human-in-the-Loop Flo live-builds an AI recruiter agent combining Perplexity research, swarms, and human-in-the-loop approval. Greg asks when human confirmation is necessary and jokes about HubSpot recruitment.20:46–26:00 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Scaled Sales Prospecting and Large Language Model Selection Flo demonstrates unicorn founder sales outreach and model selection between Claude, Gemini Flash, and o1. Greg demonstrates strong domain knowledge by articulating the lean team leverage arbitrage and sharing a real-world creator outreach anecdote.26:01–29:55 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Simulated Focus Groups, App Prototyping, and the Elon Lindy Flo explains simulated focus groups and the automated 'Elon Lindy' weekly standup caller. Greg builds on the concept by linking simulated users to rapid prototyping for virtual communities.29:57–32:56 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Automated Competitive Tracking and Industry Monitoring Flo demos a competitor tracker spreadsheet. Greg points out the psychological relief of objective tracking over daily browsing, and Flo agrees by noting 90% of hyped competitors vanish within a year.32:58–36:10 · Greg pushing back 0/10 Dynamic Personal CRM and Travel Trigger Automations Flo presents travel-triggered CRM prompts for city visits. Greg and Flo discuss network management across Twitter and LinkedIn before wrapping up with a listener discount offer.

speaking balance: gold is Greg, purple is the guest (3 minute bins)

0:00 · Greg 40.2% · guest 59.8%0:00 · Greg 40.2% · guest 59.8%3:00 · Greg 8.7% · guest 91.3%3:00 · Greg 8.7% · guest 91.3%6:00 · Greg 11.3% · guest 88.7%6:00 · Greg 11.3% · guest 88.7%9:00 · Greg 9.7% · guest 90.3%9:00 · Greg 9.7% · guest 90.3%12:00 · Greg 30.6% · guest 69.4%12:00 · Greg 30.6% · guest 69.4%15:00 · Greg 3.4% · guest 96.6%15:00 · Greg 3.4% · guest 96.6%18:00 · Greg 15.2% · guest 84.8%18:00 · Greg 15.2% · guest 84.8%21:00 · Greg 32.3% · guest 67.7%21:00 · Greg 32.3% · guest 67.7%24:00 · Greg 33% · guest 67%24:00 · Greg 33% · guest 67%27:00 · Greg 20.5% · guest 79.5%27:00 · Greg 20.5% · guest 79.5%30:00 · Greg 14.7% · guest 85.3%30:00 · Greg 14.7% · guest 85.3%33:00 · Greg 37.6% · guest 62.4%33:00 · Greg 37.6% · guest 62.4%36:00 · Greg 32.8% · guest 67.2%36:00 · Greg 32.8% · guest 67.2%
Sharpest disagreement ▶ 5:52 Playful disagreement on pronunciation

Flo and Greg lightly spar over comment roasts regarding accents and the French versus English pronunciation of Claude.

 Hardest push from Greg ▶ 17:58 Probing human-in-the-loop necessity

Greg interrupts the demo flow to directly press Flo on the exact criteria for when automated agents should require human confirmation.

 Biggest teaching moment ▶ 10:28 Explaining agent swarms versus single-agent failure

Flo educates Greg and the audience on why single agents fail over long horizons and how parallelized swarms solve context loss.

 Greg holds their own ▶ 22:45 Framing the AI team leverage arbitrage

Greg displays strong market understanding by outlining how small teams can achieve 10x headcount output using agent workflows before mainstream adoption catches up.
the scores for every segment, with the reasoning behind each
ChapterTopicGreg as informed peerGuest teachingGuest disagreementGreg pushing backWhy
Welcoming Flo and Lindy.ai's Rapid Automation Vision 2500 Flo introduces Lindy.ai as a no-code AI agent platform and demonstrates automated meeting note-taking directly into Google Docs. Greg primarily acts as an open, welcoming host allowing Flo to frame the product.
Live Scraping YouTube Comments and Conversational Agents 2411 Flo demonstrates a live YouTube comment scraper, leading into lighthearted banter about pronunciation of Claude and previous pod comments. The tone is entirely friendly with minimal friction.
Interacting with AI Meeting Notes as an Exocortex 3500 Flo demos using Lindy as an exocortex to query past notes and showcases an autonomous phone reservation at Flour + Water. Greg adds context regarding the restaurant's reputation among tech figures.
Understanding Agent Swarms and Morning Meeting Prep 3600 Greg asks for an explanation of agent swarms, and Flo provides a detailed breakdown of parallelized tasks versus long-horizon agent degradation using an Agent Smith analogy. Greg notes Lindy successfully prepped Flo with his microphone recommendation.
Automated Email Scheduling and Personal Assistant Templates 3500 Flo shows automated calendar scheduling by CCing an agent email address. Greg compares it to his human EA workflow and asks tactical advice on starting with recurring tasks.
Live Build: AI Recruiter Agent with Swarms and Human-in-the-Loop 3600 Flo live-builds an AI recruiter agent combining Perplexity research, swarms, and human-in-the-loop approval. Greg asks when human confirmation is necessary and jokes about HubSpot recruitment.
Scaled Sales Prospecting and Large Language Model Selection 5500 Flo demonstrates unicorn founder sales outreach and model selection between Claude, Gemini Flash, and o1. Greg demonstrates strong domain knowledge by articulating the lean team leverage arbitrage and sharing a real-world creator outreach anecdote.
Simulated Focus Groups, App Prototyping, and the Elon Lindy 4610 Flo explains simulated focus groups and the automated 'Elon Lindy' weekly standup caller. Greg builds on the concept by linking simulated users to rapid prototyping for virtual communities.
Automated Competitive Tracking and Industry Monitoring 4400 Flo demos a competitor tracker spreadsheet. Greg points out the psychological relief of objective tracking over daily browsing, and Flo agrees by noting 90% of hyped competitors vanish within a year.
Dynamic Personal CRM and Travel Trigger Automations 3400 Flo presents travel-triggered CRM prompts for city visits. Greg and Flo discuss network management across Twitter and LinkedIn before wrapping up with a listener discount offer.

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