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Totally worth it. Dan is so communicative, timely and helpful. I felt confident in the process and their delivery.

They were very clear about expectations, pricing and timing, and delivered on all those aspects. I would highly recommend them!

There was a backend guy one of my recruiters sent over on a Tuesday who I didn't get to until the Monday. He'd taken something else by then. I only found that out because I emailed him to set something up.

Everything that came in went to whoever owned that vertical, but somebody had to open the PDF first and read down it for the role, and she'd worked out that was 11 hours a week between us. Radu still prints them out before he'll read them, which Ana keeps telling him he doesn't need to do.

A friend of mine had used Dan for something else and said they were easy to deal with, which is mostly why we reached out. Getting to a scope was quick, one call and then a short doc back, no drawn-out discovery thing, which suited me because I don't have the patience for it. It was invoice approvals we got them in for, sounds boring and was, but it was costing us real money. What used to happen is an invoice lands in the general inbox and sits there, because whoever opens it isn't the one who signs it off, so it gets forwarded on, usually to the wrong person first, and by then you're weeks past. Cristina got a lot of stuff that had nothing to do with her.

Now it goes straight to whoever has to approve it and they get it in Slack with two buttons on it. That's more or less it. Was averaging 6.2 days before, I've got that written down somewhere.

We had a ratio problem I could see in the numbers and couldn't do much about. Half the names on the demo list every week were companies we were never going to sell to, and the other half were a genuine fit that we lost while our SDR was still grinding through the first pile.

They put a step in front of the form so everything gets checked against our ICP rules before it reaches a person, and the ones that clear go straight to our AE while he can still do something useful with them. It was $4k. I look at first touch every Monday out of habit and it's sitting around four hours, against 19 before we did this.

I nearly killed the project early on, which I don't love admitting. We were paying $49 a month for Copy.ai Pro and still losing four hours a brief to research, so I took that as proof the whole category was oversold. Or I'd already decided it was and went looking for evidence, more likely.

Then I was standing behind Nadia while she had one of the outlines up, and it was better than the thing I'd been about to cancel. You feed it an angle, it comes back with an outline and the source links underneath, and it tells you which hook it thinks is strongest. Reddit, HN and Perplexity, going by what Dan said when they set it up.

The biggest change was speed. We were able to ship things in parallel much faster, while keeping our internal team focused on other priorities.

The best part was being able to trust them with the work and not having to manage every small detail. Communication was easy, feedback was handled quickly, and they were always open to changing the approach when needed.