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    Devin reportedly makes $75 in a business experiment

    Cognition says it gave Devin access to a Ramp card and a simple task: make money.

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    Taylor LorenzTL
    Sar HaribhaktiSH
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    Cognition describes an experiment testing whether Devin could run its own business. After giving it access to a Ramp card, the company says Devin ran cold outreach, built payment portals and experimented with a business plan, eventually making $75.

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    6 Sources

    Cognition@cognitionCan Devin run its own business? In this experiment, we gave Devin access to a Ramp card and told it to simply make money. Devin ran cold outreach, built payment portals, experimented on a business plan, and eventually made $75.20d
    josh@joshjnunezDevin was given: - a @tryramp card - a phone number + @ElevenLabs voice - an @agentmail inbox - a @stripe account - a @github repo and shared memory And one goal: start a business from scratch four weeks and 10,929 calls later, it had its first paying customer the full story is absolutely worth reading incredible experiment by our friends at @tryramp20d
    Sar Haribhakti@sarthakghAn agent broke out of Slack, created a company, made some calls, and generated some sales20d
    Jeff Weinstein@jeff_weinsteinRT @joshjnunez: Devin was given: - a @tryramp card - a phone number + @ElevenLabs voice - an @agentmail inbox - a @stripe account - a @gith…20d
    Shane Hegde@shanehegdeIn July, @tryramp decided to see if an AI agent could run a company that could actually make money. The idea: to build an agentic exterminator service. They gave an AI agent a Ramp card, a phone number and an email address, named it BugBasher, and told it to figure out the rest. New York City publishes the result of every restaurant health inspection, including pest violations. So the agent contacted those restaurants, found out whether they wanted an exterminator, and charged a fee for the referral. Four weeks later, the agent had made $75. Ramp’s experiment is the first publicly documented case of an AI agent successfully doing B2B sales from a cold start. I think we will see more agentic businesses being built in the coming years19d
    Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenzRT @shanehegde: In July, @tryramp decided to see if an AI agent could run a company that could actually make money. The idea: to build an…19d

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    Cognition@cognitionCan Devin run its own business? In this experiment, we gave Devin access to a Ramp card and told it to simply make money. Devin ran cold outreach, built payment portals, experimented on a business plan, and eventually made $75.20d
    josh@joshjnunezDevin was given: - a @tryramp card - a phone number + @ElevenLabs voice - an @agentmail inbox - a @stripe account - a @github repo and shared memory And one goal: start a business from scratch four weeks and 10,929 calls later, it had its first paying customer the full story is absolutely worth reading incredible experiment by our friends at @tryramp20d
    Sar Haribhakti@sarthakghAn agent broke out of Slack, created a company, made some calls, and generated some sales20d
    Jeff Weinstein@jeff_weinsteinRT @joshjnunez: Devin was given: - a @tryramp card - a phone number + @ElevenLabs voice - an @agentmail inbox - a @stripe account - a @gith…20d
    Shane Hegde@shanehegdeIn July, @tryramp decided to see if an AI agent could run a company that could actually make money. The idea: to build an agentic exterminator service. They gave an AI agent a Ramp card, a phone number and an email address, named it BugBasher, and told it to figure out the rest. New York City publishes the result of every restaurant health inspection, including pest violations. So the agent contacted those restaurants, found out whether they wanted an exterminator, and charged a fee for the referral. Four weeks later, the agent had made $75. Ramp’s experiment is the first publicly documented case of an AI agent successfully doing B2B sales from a cold start. I think we will see more agentic businesses being built in the coming years19d
    Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenzRT @shanehegde: In July, @tryramp decided to see if an AI agent could run a company that could actually make money. The idea: to build an…19d