How Creators Can Use AI Voice Agents To Grow Their Business In 2026 | 101
Episode
56 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Productivity, Startups, Artificial Intelligence
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Voice-First Content Creation: Speaking content is two to three times faster than typing and enables creation while driving or walking. Use WhisperFlow to transcribe thoughts, then prompt the AI within your dictation to format output by describing desired structure, tone, and audience at the end of your brain dump.
- ✓Voice Agent Research at Scale: Replace traditional surveys with voice agents that conduct ten to forty-five minute conversational interviews. When Kit's growth team deployed a voice agent to 25 people, 22 responded with detailed feedback that would have required weeks of manual scheduling and interviews to collect through traditional methods.
- ✓Judgment-Free Feedback Collection: People ask voice agents questions they would not ask the actual person, revealing deeper struggles and authentic concerns. Jason Lemkin's Delphi clone received existential questions about breaking up with cofounders and knowing when to quit, while direct questions to him focused on tactical metrics and appearing knowledgeable.
- ✓Building Voice Agents in Minutes: Create functional voice agents on ElevenLabs by defining first message, system prompt with context and style guidelines, and guardrails. The creation takes three minutes, but invest hours in testing and iteration. Connect agents to phone numbers via Twilio for walk-and-talk research sessions with your audience.
What It Covers
Jay Singh demonstrates how creators can implement AI voice agents for audience research and content creation, achieving faster workflows through speech-to-text tools like WhisperFlow and building functional voice agents on ElevenLabs in minutes.
Key Questions Answered
- •Voice-First Content Creation: Speaking content is two to three times faster than typing and enables creation while driving or walking. Use WhisperFlow to transcribe thoughts, then prompt the AI within your dictation to format output by describing desired structure, tone, and audience at the end of your brain dump.
- •Voice Agent Research at Scale: Replace traditional surveys with voice agents that conduct ten to forty-five minute conversational interviews. When Kit's growth team deployed a voice agent to 25 people, 22 responded with detailed feedback that would have required weeks of manual scheduling and interviews to collect through traditional methods.
- •Judgment-Free Feedback Collection: People ask voice agents questions they would not ask the actual person, revealing deeper struggles and authentic concerns. Jason Lemkin's Delphi clone received existential questions about breaking up with cofounders and knowing when to quit, while direct questions to him focused on tactical metrics and appearing knowledgeable.
- •Building Voice Agents in Minutes: Create functional voice agents on ElevenLabs by defining first message, system prompt with context and style guidelines, and guardrails. The creation takes three minutes, but invest hours in testing and iteration. Connect agents to phone numbers via Twilio for walk-and-talk research sessions with your audience.
Notable Moment
Singh's agency hit a two million dollar run rate within six to seven months of setting that goal, originally projected to take eighteen months to two years, by focusing on a specific ideal customer profile and riding AI implementation tailwinds.
Episode Transcript
Next, like, ten, twenty, thirty years, I don't think we'll be typing at all anymore. Hi. I am Nathan's creator, Flywheel agent. What initially drew you to the Flywheel course? There's a lot happening in AI right now, but something most people that I talk to aren't using enough is voice. We're gonna be able to actually get what we want out of the technology much more effectively. My guest today, Jay Singh, is on the cutting edge of helping companies implement AI. And in this episode, we get really practical. You'll see how we actually interact with AI, the tools we use, and how we think about crafting prompts. I think people should spend more time on prompts than they are. How do you go from this, like, brain dump with voice into the desired output that you're ready to share. When you're dictating, just also Yeah. I love that. Then we do something we've never done before on the podcast, a live demo. You could see Jay show you exactly how he's building a working voice agent from scratch, and we explain each step along the way. My workflow to create a prompt is I think that's fantastic. People should dive in, implement this right away. I love it. Jay, welcome back to the show for the third time. Three peep guest? Yes. The one and only. One and only. So we're gonna do a few different things this time. We're checking back in, but we also we have our laptops out. You're gonna do a little demo, some live AI demoing happening. But first, when you were on the show originally back in the spring, we talked about the agency, how things are going, and a big goal. What was the goal that you had set when we were up on the board diagramming the rest of the business? It's pretty crazy. It's only been six to seven months since since being back here. And, yeah, we had the two the two episodes. One was around AI, and then the other one was you coaching me on how to be able to hit some of our revenue milestones that I've been trying to work on for the agency, our AI implementation agency. And the whole the whole title of the podcast was called how to go from half 1,000,000 to a $2,000,000 agency business. We talked about all these different ways to be able to be more focused on your ICP and take a bunch of other advice that you've been being able to teach, like, a lot of other creators on how to build their own business. And since then, like, we've actually gotten up to a $2,000,000 run rate, which is which is pretty cool. We had that planned. What did we set as a talent? Yeah. Maybe, like, a year and a half, two years. Yeah. Exactly. I think it was by the 2026, like, if you could pull this off, like Yeah. That'd …
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