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What real tasks are founders delegating to agents today?
The short answer
Founders are already handing agents inbound sales and lead qualification, customer support, competitor and market research, meeting prep and follow-ups, content drafts, ops reporting, and a growing share of coding. SaaStr's AI inbound agent closed over $1M in 90 days, and 15-person Every runs multiple products with agents doing most of the execution. The pattern: repetitive, text-heavy work with a clear goal goes first, and the founder stays on as reviewer.
A quick orientation. The real value is below: resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it.
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper
A 15-person company running on agents across writing, code, support and consulting.
Open lennysnewsletter.com →After Automation
What actually happens to the work after you automate everything: more judgment, not less.
Open every.to →We automated everything with AI and tripled our headcount
The counterintuitive follow-up: full agent adoption grew the team instead of shrinking it.
Open every.to →I run a $180M+ company, here's how I use AI daily | Andrew Wilkinson
A holding-company CEO's unfiltered list of what he actually delegates to AI.
Open podcastnotes.org →What AI Agents Can Teach Busy Leaders About Delegation
A bootstrapped founder's framework for deciding which tasks to hand an agent first.
Open forbes.com →Introducing Operator
The launch of browser-driving agents that click and type like a human assistant.
Open openai.com →Introducing deep research
Analyst-grade research reports on demand, the delegation most founders start with.
Open openai.com →Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.
An independent stress test of a general agent doing real multi-step work.
Open technologyreview.com →How I AI: How to write AI agent loops in Claude Code and Codex
Screen-share demos of founders running always-on agent loops you can copy.
Open lennysnewsletter.com →How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents
Turns delegation into a system: heartbeat, cron, hook and goal loops explained.
Open lennysnewsletter.com →Solo founders are using AI to do the work of entire teams
Reported stories of one-person companies plus an honest look at the limits.
Open fortune.com →How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon's Jesse Zhang
What support agents can genuinely resolve today, from the founder building them.
Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com →Jesse Zhang: Building Decagon
Deep operational detail on deploying agents inside large customer operations.
Listen on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com →The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin with Intercom
How Intercom got an agent to a 65% resolution rate, told by its builders.
Open cognitiverevolution.ai →21 Real-World AI Agent Examples
A broad scan of production agent deployments to steal ideas from.
Open v7labs.com →AI Voice Agents: 2025 Update
Where voice agents already handle calls: support, collections, screening, scheduling.
Open a16z.com →Why Are Indian Founders Embracing AI Agents?
The India-specific view of which agent use cases are winning locally.
Open analyticsindiamag.com →What Makes Kruti India's First Agentic AI Assistant?
An India-first agent that books rides and pays bills in 13 languages.
Open analyticsindiamag.com →AI Agents for Product Managers: The Ultimate Guide
The top five agents to build and use for product work, step by step.
Open news.aakashg.com →More in AI Agents
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- What is MCP, and why does it matter for my agents? 18 →
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- Can coding agents like Claude Code actually build my product? 18 →
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