Building an AI agent business from scratch

What I'm building with Hyperflash, why selling AI agent setups to small businesses is harder than building them, and what I've learned so far.

The Idea

I've been building AI agents for myself for a while. The Hermes agent that runs on my machine handles reminders, research, email, file management — basically all the repetitive stuff I don't want to do manually. It works. It saves me real time every day.

At some point it clicked: most business owners would benefit from the same thing, but they're never going to build it themselves. They don't know what an API key is. They don't care about prompt engineering. They just want the boring parts of their day handled automatically.

So I'm packaging what I already do into a product: a custom AI agent, configured to your business, ready to use. One-time setup fee. You own the account, you own the data. I just build and hand it over.

The Offer

Hyperflash is selling three things right now:

  1. AI Agent Setup — the lead product. £499 launch price. Discovery call, custom build, handover, 30 days of support.
  2. Website Development — production-grade sites.
  3. Custom Software / MVP Dev — full-stack builds for early-stage products.

The agent setup is the wedge. It's the fastest path to revenue and it's the thing I can deliver most reliably because I've already built it for myself.

What I'm Figuring Out

What I've Built So Far

In the last week I've put together:

  • A proposal template that's client-safe and actually sendable
  • Outreach messages for warm contacts, cold contacts, and community posts
  • An API and infrastructure plan (direct provider for clients, OpenRouter for my own experimentation, Azure later if scale demands it)
  • A launch plan with concrete weekly actions
  • This agent (Hermes) configured as my business operator — it drafts proposals, handles intake, writes client updates, and pushes blog posts

All the heavy lifting happens through the agent. I review, tighten, send. The goal is to get the cycle time from "someone shows interest" to "proposal in their inbox" under 5 minutes.

What's Next

First priority: land the first client. Everything else is noise until that happens. I'm starting with the pharmacy connection, then 5 cold approaches to local businesses — dental practices, estate agents, accountants. All within 30 minutes of me. All time-poor. All doing repetitive tasks that an agent could handle.

If you're reading this and you run a small business, and you're curious about what an AI agent could do for you — get in touch. Happy to chat through what it would look like with zero obligation.