Two numbers I keep thinking about
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Hey Reader, Quick intro in case you found me from a Claude video and never actually heard me talk. I'm Ritesh. 7 years in business. Agency, SaaS tools, brand deals, evergreen content, all of it feeding one ecosystem. About a year and a half ago I started Agent Rise because people kept asking how the agency side actually works. Over 200 business owners have come through it since. So I get to see something most people don't. I get to watch what separates the person who builds an AI business from the person who just... watches. And here's what I notice about the second group. They know Opus 5 inside out. They've seen every benchmark video. They can tell you exactly what it does better than Sonnet. But... They have never once sent a proposal. That's the whole difference. Not skill. Not the model. Not the stack. Meanwhile two founders inside Agent Rise, Darien and Yannick, both closed deals in the last stretch that would make you put your coffee down. I'm not going to give you the numbers today, because the numbers alone are useless without the part that came before them. What I'll tell you is this: neither of them built anything you couldn't technically build this weekend with Opus 5. The build was never the hard part. Tomorrow I'll show you both numbers, and I'll show you the wall I hit years ago that they walked straight past. It's the same wall you're probably standing in front of right now. Best, Ritesh |
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