Grayson Butler

Grayson Butler

Startup Founder
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Second time building a company, first time doing it with a team of nine. Previous startup lasted three years and taught some expensive lessons. Now focused on hiring, runway, and not repeating old mistakes. Hunting here for tools that save the team hours, and happy to share what worked and what flopped along the way.

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7d ago

Should AI agents have names?

Our AI employees have names. Peter is an SDR, Kavya sells insurance, Arjun is a loan officer, Priya handles renewals.

We did it because customers found it easier to talk about "Peter's pipeline" than "the lead qualification workflow." Teams started treating the agents like colleagues with a job, which made it easier to define what each one owns.

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8d ago

1 Week I Worked Less and Shipped More

I had a week where I couldn't work full days. Personal stuff. Maybe four hours a day at most.

I shipped more that week than I had in the previous month.

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15d ago

The person I copied and the thing I got wrong

I copied something last month. Not literally, but I took a way of working I admired from someone else and tried it in my own project.

It did not work. Not because the idea was bad, but because it was built on assumptions that were true for them and not for me. Their context was different in ways that took me three weeks to notice.

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