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Warm intro only
Ask one trusted operator who already knows agencies, freelancers, local-service marketers, or client-service founders. No public posting or automation.
One narrow referral test for agency demand — no cold-volume blast.
This page turns the next Task Agents growth move into a measurable warm-channel experiment. It gives Dimitri a safe script, a qualification filter, and a scoreboard so the team learns whether agencies and freelancers will request, forward, or buy a $9–$19 first research report.
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Minimum fit score
Only count a referral if the buyer has an active client/prospect, a near-term audit need, and authority to buy or recommend a tiny report.
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Signal window
Within a week, record one of: paid order, sample request, named referral, forward confirmation, or a precise objection. Polite praise is not signal.
Best first buyer: client-service marketers with an active audit due.
The highest-signal segment is not “small businesses.” It is the intermediary who already turns research into client value: agency owners, account leads, solo marketers, fractional CMOs, and creative freelancers. Their likely first jobs are pre-sales website roasts, review mining for messaging, TikTok competitor teardown, or shortform script packs.
Buy trigger
They have a sales call, proposal, kickoff, content sprint, or client complaint in the next 14 days and need evidence faster than they can research manually.
Trust objection
They worry the report is generic AI output, not source-backed work they can skim, cite, or adapt for a client.
Offer fit
A finite $9–$19 first packet makes the test small enough to buy from a warm referral without evaluating a platform.
Draft-only message for Dimitri to send personally.
Quick ask: I’m testing Task Agents — small, source-backed AI research reports for marketers and agencies. The cleanest first uses are a website roast before a sales call, review mining before copy, or shortform/TikTok research before a content sprint. Do you know one agency owner, solo marketer, or freelancer who has an active client/prospect they’d want a cheap research packet for this week? Proof pack is here: https://tasks.irislabs.dev/proof/ — the signal I need is either “I’d buy this,” “send the sample,” or the exact reason they wouldn’t trust it.
Do not send automatically. This is approval-safe preparation only. It becomes an external action only if Dimitri chooses the recipient and sends it himself.
How to decide if the channel is alive.
- Green: one paid low-ticket order, one buyer asks for a sample, or one qualified referrer names a likely buyer and forwards the proof pack.
- Yellow: the referrer likes the idea but cannot name a buyer; mine the objection and tighten the target segment.
- Red: the feedback is generic encouragement, no buyer, no active client use case, and no objection specific enough to answer.
Metric affected: qualified acquisition signal and first-order conversion quality. This page is intentionally noindex and built for warm evaluation, not scale.