u/Thunderbird435

I build AI automations for small businesses, things like chatbots, follow up systems, scraping data, cleaning up workflows, whatever is eating up their time or costing them money. I'm solid on the technical side but honestly not great at finding clients or pitching them.

Looking for someone who's good at talking to small business owners and can spot where they're bleeding time or money. If you bring me the client and close the deal, I'll handle everything on the build side and we split it.

Doesn't matter if you've done this exact thing before, if you're good with people and can sell, that's really the main thing I need.

If this sounds like something you'd want to do,and we can figure out the split and get moving.

I do AI automation work for small businesses, chatbots, workflow stuff, cleaning up manual processes, that kind of thing. I'm decent at the technical side but I'm not a salesperson and finding clients has been the hardest part by far, way harder than actually building the stuff.

I've been thinking about finding someone who's good at sales/talking to business owners and doing some kind of split where they bring in the clients and I handle the build. Curious if anyone here has actually tried this setup.

Couple questions if you have experience with it:

• How did you structure the split, percentage of the project, ongoing percentage, flat referral fee?
• How do you handle it if the sales person brings in a client but then the relationship goes south, do they still get paid on future work with that client?
• Did you find the person through Reddit, local network, somewhere else?
• Any red flags you'd watch out for before agreeing to something like this?

Trying to figure out if this is a normal setup people use or if there's a reason it doesn't usually work out.

I build AI automations for small businesses, things like chatbots, follow up systems, scraping data, cleaning up workflows, whatever is eating up their time or costing them money. I'm solid on the technical side but honestly not great at finding clients or pitching them.

Looking for someone who's good at talking to small business owners and can spot where they're bleeding time or money. If you bring me the client and close the deal, I'll handle everything on the build side and we split it.

Doesn't matter if you've done this exact thing before, if you're good with people and can sell, that's really the main thing I need.

If this sounds like something you'd want to do, and we can figure out the split and get moving.

Just did an onsite loop for an L5 Supply Chain Manager role at Amazon Seattle. Felt like it went pretty well, but got the “no” anyway. Amazon doesn’t give real feedback, so I’m stuck guessing.

Random note: they had a pretty basic Excel test as part of it — VLOOKUP, pivot tables, that level. Not really the point of this post, just surprised at how basic it was for an L5.

This was my first onsite in about 4 years, and it seems like more companies (Amazon included) are pushing onsite loops again after a few years of mostly virtual. Curious if others are seeing the same shift.

If anyone’s prepping for a similar loop, or has been through one recently, I’d love to compare notes what they focused on, how the leadership principles questions went, anything that seemed to matter. Might help both of us figure out what’s actually being evaluated.