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I raised $13M pitching a proactive agent.

Name: I raised $13M pitching a proactive agent.
Uploaded: 2026-09-16T17:24:43.000Z
Channel: Monica Cheng
Description: I raised $13M pitching a proactive agent. The demos impressed rooms. But the product wasn’t becoming part of anyone’s day. that was painful to admit. I had to let go of (my ego) and needing the idea to sound fancy. i stopped asking, “What can’t Codex or @bot do?” and started paying attention to…

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I raised $13M pitching a proactive agent. The demos impressed rooms. But the product wasn’t becoming part of anyone’s day. that was painful to admit. I had to let go of (my ego) and needing the idea to sound fancy. i stopped asking, “What can’t Codex or @bot do?” and started paying attention to what people were struggling with in their everyday work. Messages kept piling up across WhatsApp, iMessage, and email. Keeping up meant digging through old threads, switching apps, and worrying about tones. Something so small was taking up so much time,energy, and headspace(for me, messages and

Posted by Monica Cheng (1.2k followers) 3 days ago · 442 likes · 1.1M views · view the original post on X. Kept by the AI Radar as AI productivity.

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