u/redouanea

We're in a bit of a situation right now where we have a fairly large corporation that has been using our SaaS platform for over a year, and they keep dodging meetings to pursue a commercial deal, essentially using the product for free.

Context: Over a year ago, we built an AI chat for industrial companies and were desperate to get LOIs (letters of intent) to raise money.

The deal was mutually beneficial: we got users to test the product so we could improve it, and they got an AI they could use for free. The platform has evolved A LOT since then, but they are still just using the chatbot, and they have a MASSIVE amount of documents we have processed for said chatbot.

The users from this company are using the product daily, and we have internal champions speaking highly about it to the CEO/GM, but this guy keeps dodging meetings "I don't have time", "it's too many fires to put out right now," etc.

Now we have more downside to keeping the users on the platform due to high COGS than leaving them to use it for free, and it has been a year now of free pilot.

I know that a free pilot is never a good idea, but we needed that for LOI + benefited from active users to build the platform.

Should I just put a paywall now so that the next day, when someone logs in they see "you ran out of credits"? Or should we just be patient and nag the CEO to sign the deal?

First time founder here, your help is much appreciated, thanks!

We're in a bit of a situation right now where we have a fairly large corporation that has been using our SaaS platform for over a year, and they keep dodging meetings to pursue a commercial deal, essentially using the product for free.

Context: Over a year ago, we built an AI chat for industrial companies and were desperate to get LOIs (letters of intent) to raise money.

The deal was mutually beneficial: we got users to test the product so we could improve it, and they got an AI they could use for free. The platform has evolved A LOT since then, but they are still just using the chatbot, and they have a MASSIVE amount of documents we have processed for said chatbot.

The users from this company are using the product daily, and we have internal champions speaking highly about it to the CEO/GM, but this guy keeps dodging meetings "I don't have time", "it's too many fires to put out right now," etc.

Now we have more downside to keeping the users on the platform due to high COGS than leaving them to use it for free, and it has been a year now of free pilot.

I know that a free pilot is never a good idea, but we needed that for LOI + benefited from active users to build the platform.

Should I just put a paywall now so that the next day, when someone logs in they see "you ran out of credits"? Or should we just be patient and nag the CEO to sign the deal?

First time founder here, your help is much appreciated, thanks!

In a world where shipping code is easy, finding a good name and doing good distribution might help your project fly.

I built an MCP server and named it after an already extinct species so that hopefully your project does not go the way of the dodo 🦤🍗🪦

It's free: https://dodomains.dev/

Mnemic started in 1998 and has toured since then almost without interruption.

Before social media were a thing.

But nowadays it's almost impossible to stay relevant without constant social media presence.

We started going through dropbox on autopilot and came up with really good post ideas:

• Mix and match old vs new band photos
• Trim concert videos and make shorts
• Repurpose older posts

The result? We generated over 40k views on 4 platforms within 24 hours (mostly FB), beat our previous engagement metrics, gained new followers and re-engaged our fans.

I recommend everyone to do this, you already have the content but it's just buried somewhere on your hardrive!

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Hello community,

I'm building Hail.so MCP because I got tired of wiring together Twilio, email providers, SMS compliance, retries, webhooks and model providers every time I wanted an AI agent to communicate with users.

The latest release includes:

1. Agents can now send emails/SMS during phone calls. This helps send a summary of the call, or additional confirmation/information.
2. BYO provider for STT/LLM/TTS models: This helps set up a custom voice, LLM model, or support niche languages.
3. Agent self-signup skill file
4. SMS supports 64 new countries, inbound and outbound. Compliance logic now handles STOP/HELP/START automatically.
5. Email now supports custom domains, deliverability tracking, and reusable attachments.
6. Pricing database expanded to 145 LLM/STT/TTS models

Context: I started Hail.so out of a struggle building AI agents for industrial and logistics companies, where agents needed to send or receive emails, SMS, and make phone calls, but the barrier to making all of the integration and compliance work was really high.

I ended up spending weeks and tons of tokens to get to a working setup, and several iterations to get it to actually work.

Although I built for AI agents, it's also an API, so you can use it from any backend or Python application.

The project is open-source so you can self-host it or sign up for free.

I'd love feedback from people building production AI agents. What's still painful when your agent needs to call, text or email real users? https://github.com/hail-hq/hail/

Keep building!

Hello community,

I'm building Hail.so because I got tired of wiring together Twilio, email providers, SMS compliance, retries, webhooks and model providers every time I wanted an AI agent to communicate with users.

The latest release includes:

1. Agents can now send emails/SMS during phone calls. This helps send a summary of the call, or additional confirmation/information.
2. BYO provider for STT/LLM/TTS models: This helps set up a custom voice, LLM model, or support niche languages.
3. Agent self-signup skill file
4. SMS supports 64 new countries, inbound and outbound. Compliance logic now handles STOP/HELP/START automatically.
5. Email now supports custom domains, deliverability tracking, and reusable attachments.
6. Pricing database expanded to 145 LLM/STT/TTS models

Context: I started Hail.so out of a struggle building AI agents for industrial and logistics companies, where agents needed to send or receive emails, SMS, and make phone calls, but the barrier to making all of the integration and compliance work was really high.

I ended up spending weeks and tons of tokens to get to a working setup, and several iterations to get it to actually work.

Although I built for AI agents, it's also an API, so you can use it from any backend or Python application.

The project is open-source so you can self-host it or sign up for free.

I'd love feedback from people building production AI agents. What's still painful when your agent needs to call, text or email real users?

Keep building!

Salam,

First of all, God bless w rabi ybarek fi riz9koum <3

I would love to know from you dear community if you managed to bring a personal car, and ask for your feedback on the whole process.

For context: we can assume a gasoline car, less than 3 years old.

Countries considered: France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, China.

Payment & paperwork

• Did you go through a dealership that handled the shipping + paperwork, or did you do it yourself?
• Did customs ask how you paid for the car / proof of funds ("propres devises")? What did they accept?
• Did you clear a car via procuration notariée for a relative? Any issues?

Port & timing

• Which port was fastest for clearance?
• How long did the mines expert (rapport de conformité) take to book? Cost?
• Realistic time from ferry arrival to registry plates on the car? Did you go through the dry port or wilaya?

The car itself

• Any car refused for conformity issues despite having a COC? Which models/specs?

Hindsight

• What surprised you? What would you do differently?

Thank you in advance w barak'Allah fikoum!

Please no unsolicited DM's or offers. Thank you.

I run a project where I have to estimate the cost for a voice agent pipeline, but I couldn't find a reliable all-in-one source that covered STT/TTS alongside LLMs, so I started one.

Right now it covers 134 models across 25 providers:

• input/output/cached $/Mtok for LLMs
• $/min for STT
• $/1M chars for TTS
• comparison page to pick the right model depending on perf/cost/availability/etc.

Prices are decimal strings (parse with Decimal/big.js, not float), and every row has a last_verified date plus a source_url so you can see how stale it is and where it came from.

Repo + README + schema: https://github.com/hail-hq/hail/tree/main/costs

Raw JSON if you want to pull it straight into your own cost math:

• LLMs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hail-hq/hail/main/costs/llm.json
• STT: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hail-hq/hail/main/costs/stt.json
• TTS: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hail-hq/hail/main/costs/tts.json

The pretty human-friendly version is here: https://hail.so/costs

License is CC-BY-4.0, so use it in whatever you're building.

Full disclosure: I keep this updated for a side project of mine, but the data stands on its own.

Corrections and additions welcome via PR. I'll merge and re-verify.

If you like it and find it useful, please give it a star on github so I know I should continue to maintain the project ⭐ https://github.com/hail-hq/hail/

Cheers ✊

user feedback is awesome!!

Hail gives an AI agent a real phone line (voice), plus SMS + email.

It's AGPLv3 — docker compose up runs everything but the phone trunk.

Before you had to use predefined voice settings or self-host it to be able to customize the voice, but now you can BYO keys directly from the console:

https://preview.redd.it/lc9sp7rlgfch1.png?width=3154&format=png&auto=webp&s=5255788dc70e27653cd65fa89c0d7415c56ebd7e

Code: github.com/hail-hq/hail
Try it live at: https://hail.so/

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During the last year I worked as CTO of a startup building an AI platform with agents and workflows for logistics and manufacturing - real messy world.

I learned that the biggest need of those AI agents was to communicate with the world:

• receive support calls
• send an email with an order summary
• text a truck driver their new route
• call suppliers and get ask for a quote
• etc

That's the biggest challenge - not reading documents, or reasoning about 2 + 2 = 4.

I've put all the learnings from building a robust communication platform on Hail: https://github.com/hail-hq/hail/

What is it?

Phone, SMS & email for AI agents.

One remote MCP server exposing call, sms, email, and event tools.

Also usable via CLI, Python SDK, and OpenAPI.

&gt; Github: https://github.com/hail-hq/hail/
&gt; Website: https://hail.so/