我们将首个人工智能代理出售给了一个传统行业——现在我们遇到了瓶颈。请给我们一些建议?
我和我的联合创始人最近创办了一家人工智能初创公司,专注于为传统行业(如工业供应商、工厂运营、地区分销商等)打造定制化的智能代理。
好消息是:我们推出了一个真正的解决方案,获得了第一个付费客户,甚至还发出了第一张发票!
坏消息是:获得第二个和第三个客户比我们预期的要困难得多。
我们遇到了类似于产品市场契合的问题——我们的产品有效,能够解决实际痛点,但我们瞄准的目标客户几乎不查邮件,几乎不接电话,甚至很多人都不在LinkedIn上。就像是在1997年试图销售软件一样。
我们正在努力拼搏——进行冷拨电话、参加贸易展、追寻介绍——但进展缓慢且充满不确定性。
如果你在传统行业中成功获得早期客户的经验,请问你是如何在首次成功后突破瓶颈的?非常希望听到你的建议、策略或类似的经历。
提前感谢!
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My co-founder and I recently launched an AI startup building custom agents for manufacturers in old-school industries (think: industrial suppliers, factory ops, regional distributors, etc.).<p>The good news: we shipped a real solution, got our first paying customer, and even sent out our first invoice!
The bad news: getting our second and third customers has been way harder than we expected.<p>We're running into what feels like a canal-product fit issue — our product works, and solves real pain, but the people we’re targeting don't check emails, barely pick up their phones, and often aren’t even on LinkedIn. It’s like trying to sell software to 1997.<p>We’re hustling hard — cold calling, showing up at trade shows, chasing introductions — but it's slow and uncertain.<p>If you've navigated early traction in a legacy industry, how did you break through the wall after the first win?
Would love to hear any advice, strategies, or similar war stories.<p>Thanks in advance