Sales · Do this yourself

Sell daily leads of companies that are hiring.

How it makes money: Charge staffing agencies $199/mo for daily lists of companies that just started hiring.

Agent setup: Easy · One Grok Bot agent on a schedule, a no-code page and a checkout link. How we rate this

Found on Reddit in r/n8n (1 thread).

🔥 114 posts this week · 17 likes

Based on u/sirlifehacker on Reddit (opens in new tab)

Where this came from (Reddit)

Staffing and service firms spend evenings scrolling job boards to find who’s hiring.

The threads (in our words)

  • An automation builder says several clients, like a construction staffing agency, paid for a flow that finds new job posts and decision makers daily. Read the thread on r/n8n ↗ (opens in new tab) Oct 21, 2025 · u/sirlifehacker · upvotes not available

Reddit blocks automated reads, so we couldn’t record upvote or comment counts. The business below is our own design inspired by these threads.

Who it’s for

Staffing agencies, recruiters and B2B service firms.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Start with one niche or customer type, then expand.
  • Ask your first 10 customers what they would pay before you build more.
  • Keep a human check on anything sent in a customer’s name.

Step by step

  1. Use job data from sources whose terms allow it (job APIs, company career pages).
  2. Have an agent filter posts by industry and location.
  3. Find the public business contact with Apollo, then verify the email.
  4. Send a daily lead sheet to each client.
  5. Charge monthly by Stripe.
  6. Sell with compliant cold email to staffing firms.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Here is a job post: [paste]. Summarize the role, company size, likely pain, and write a 3-line intro email from a staffing agency offering help.

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Time
1–3 hoursOur estimate

Your autonomous stack

Autonomy: Agents find leads, send compliant emails and book meetings. Your part: Weekly: review lists and reply rates, pause anything off-target (about 1 hour).

Every layer an agent-run business needs, in order. Prices are public list prices, checked Oct 16, 2026.

  1. Agent (the brain): Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot runs the business day to day: writes, answers, decides small things and reports to you. Claude Code or Codex are alternatives.
  2. Build and hosting: Vercel hosting (opens in new tab) (Hobby free · Pro $20/mo). The product or service your customers use.
  3. Payments: Stripe payments (opens in new tab) (No monthly fee · 2.9% + 30¢ per card payment). Automatic checkout and receipts. Other options: PayPal Checkout (3.49% + 49¢) or Lemon Squeezy (5% + 50¢, handles sales tax).
  4. Customer acquisition: Buffer (scheduled X posts) (opens in new tab) (Free plan (3 channels, 10 queued posts each) · Essentials $5/mo per channel, billed yearly), beehiiv newsletter (opens in new tab) (Free up to 2,500 subscribers), Instantly (cold email) (opens in new tab) (Growth $47/mo). Agent-written SEO pages, scheduled X posts and a weekly newsletter, plus cold email to businesses that follow CAN-SPAM/GDPR (real sender, opt-out link, no bought consumer lists).
  5. Delivery: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). A Grok Bot routine delivers the product or result as soon as someone pays.
  6. Support: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot answers the support inbox; anything unclear is flagged for you.
  7. Monitoring and schedule: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot scheduled routines run each day: send, check for failures, alert you if something breaks.
  8. Analytics: Google Analytics (opens in new tab) (Free). Tracks visits, signups and sales so the agent can report what works.
  9. Human checkpoint: Weekly: review lists and reply rates, pause anything off-target (about 1 hour).
  10. Price: charge $199 per client (monthly lead feed). Offer the first 3 customers a founding price for honest feedback.
Monthly cost$77–$167/monthFree tiers → paid plans of the tools above. Card fees come out of each sale.
What you could earn · EstimateEstimate: 8 clients × $199 = $1,592/moOur estimate, not a fact or a promise. It’s simple math if you land these customers at this price.
Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

Agents spot new job posts in a niche and send the hiring contact to staffing firms and agencies. We designed this business from real Reddit threads; it is an idea for you to build, not a description of the posters’ businesses.

How it went

Found on Reddit in r/n8n (1 thread). Upvote and comment counts weren’t retrievable, so none are shown. On X, 114 posts matched our search for this idea in the 7 days to 2026-10-16.

Worth knowing

Respect job sites’ terms; LinkedIn forbids scraping. Follow cold-email laws.

Difficulty
BeginnerOur rating
Time to build
Not reportedOur estimate
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
Engagement
No public countThe source shows no number
X buzz
25.1 · 114 posts in 7 days17 likes, 3 reposts, 13 replies, 0 quotes on 20 top posts · fetched Oct 16, 2026 · query: ("hiring signals" OR "companies hiring" OR "job postings") (leads OR outreach OR staffing OR sales) -is:retweet lang:en

Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  1. Use job data from sources whose terms allow it (job APIs, company career pages).
  2. Have an agent filter posts by industry and location.
  3. Find the public business contact with Apollo, then verify the email.
  4. Send a daily lead sheet to each client.
  5. Charge monthly by Stripe.
  6. Sell with compliant cold email to staffing firms.

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