Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business 1214: These AI agents will FIND YOUR NEXT CLIENT exactly when they're ready to buy w/ Anish Chopra
What if AI could find your next customer before you even know they exist? That’s exactly what Anish Chopra is doing with Intently—an AI-powered platform that deploys personalized agents to crawl Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, and more to detect real-time buying signals. In this episode, you’ll hear how Anish went from coder to founder and built a tool that’s changing the game for B2B sales, SMBs, and even local service providers.
We explore the future of agentic AI, the death of cold outreach, and how smart businesses are already using tools like Intently to convert at rates 20x higher than traditional outreach.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
- 🤖 How to use AI agents to find customers before they even hit your funnel
- 🔥 Why cold outbound is dying—and what to do instead
- 💬 The types of “buying signals” your business should be tracking online
- 🚀 How a 1% cold email conversion turned into 20%+ using real-time context
- 💡 The secret to authentic outreach that actually gets responses
- 📈 Why Facebook groups, Reddit, and niche communities are untapped goldmines
- 🛠 How to use AI as your behind-the-scenes business partner (not just for copy)
📝 About the Guest
Anish Chopra is the founder of Intently, a platform that uses AI agents to detect real-time buying signals across the internet so businesses can reach customers at exactly the right moment. A lifelong tech enthusiast and former AI engineer, Anish built Intently after experiencing firsthand how hard it is to get in front of the right people at the right time. Now based in the Bay Area, he’s on a mission to redefine how companies do sales and marketing in the age of AI.
🎯 Guest’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
“Talk to your users. It’s the most important thing you can do—before, during, and after building anything.” – Anish Chopra
Key Takeaways from Anish’s Advice:
✔ The best products come from solving urgent problems for real people
✔ Talking to your users saves time, money, and guesswork
✔ Feedback should guide every phase of product development—from idea to launch and beyond
📢 Memorable Quotes
- “AI is becoming your always-on assistant—and that changes everything.” – Anish Chopra
- “We’re not about spamming. We’re about finding people who are already asking for what you do.” – Anish Chopra
- “I can’t imagine building a business today without AI. It’s like having an extra brain on your team.” – Anish Chopra
💡 Actionable Takeaways
- ✅ Use AI agents to monitor Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook groups & more for buying signals
- ✅ Customize outreach messages to be contextual, helpful, and authentic—not salesy
- ✅ Look at your current customers’ pain points to build better outbound signals
- ✅ Don’t rely only on inbound—combine smart outbound with community participation
- ✅ Build with your users, not in a vacuum—feedback is your competitive edge
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