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I like the focus on adapting to each business instead of forcing a one-size-fits-all workflow. This could make AI much more accessible for startups and SMBs. Congrats on the launch! One question: how long does it typically take for a new customer to get their first useful automation up and running?
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@aren_barseghyan Hey Aren!
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. The effect of accessibility in AI (or lack thereof) is accelerating in magnitude. The disparity between those using AI and those without it is going to widen and widen, and the way it's happening right now, I believe we're seeing a lot of massive enterprise companies walking over the small businesses under them, and part of our mission is to bridge that gap. To give small businesses the same metaphorical firepower to succeed and scale with AI that their enterprise counterparts are blowing billions on.
After a new user signs up and connects their tools, it starts an automatic learning period, where we send out a LOT of concurrent agents across all the resources we can to gather as much company specific knowledge as possible. That knowledge then informs the quality and success of the first few automations you set up. Setting up your first automation can vary depending on where the data lives, in what formats, etc, though our knowledge retrieval makes it significantly faster than alternatives (shoutout @dani__munoz).
But, the answer you're looking for: Roughly ~5-10 minutes, or <3 minutes if you let me walk you through it and optimize your LemonLime to get the most out of it for your specifics use cases. And I'm VERY happy to give walk throughs, shoot me an email and we can set one up! jordan@lemonlime.ai
Congrats on the launch!
Most of the AI initiatives I've seen die because nobody owns them after week two. How does your team handle that?
Also, is there an onboarding period before LemonLime is useful, or is it delivering from day one?
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@grace_knowhow Hey Grace! Totally, you've got a great point. There's a research study that found 95% of internal AI initiatives fall flat of tangible ROI (it's a 2025 survey, but hey, still a good reference point for what you're talking about).
One of the key points of LemonLime is that it's not designed to be a new tool you have to learn how to use, that's often why we saw things fall flat – if somebody has to own it, that's work, and people don't want additional work, they want less of it. LemonLime connects to tools and self-creates the automations and agents that help you, so you don't have to build a single thing and you can STILL get value out of the product (or at least that's the idea!).
Yep, there's absolutely an onboarding period (during which we deploy a LOT of concurrent agents to do deep research and reasoning on your business, product, industry, competitors, etc), though it's pretty quick, right now it's usually around 15-30 minutes after all tools are connected. So yes to both of those, there's onboarding, but it's still able to deliver from day one.
Congrats on the launch. The self-creating part is the impressive bit, but here's the question I'd want answered as a small-business owner: when an auto-generated agent takes a real action (emails customers, edits records, anything outward-facing), does a human see and approve it first, or does it just run? For teams with no engineer watching, one confidently-wrong action is worse than no automation. Where do you draw that approval line by default?
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@syed_noor4 Right now, there's a series of gated requests before outwardly facing or critical actions are taken. Email going to someone else? Needs approval. Drafting a proposal for you? No approval needed. Exactly why we draw the line here – there can't be any confidently-wrong action, but in the event it does happen, that's why LemonLime can source directly to the material the answer is derived from, so it actually requires proof of relevance from a given body to cite directly and then is compared back against it for almost "verification". Something we definitely are still thinking about as we scale and go forward.
@jordanlemon Sound approach, and citing back to the source is the part most teams skip. One thing worth pressure-testing as you scale: "outward-facing" isn't always where the real damage is — a silent record edit or a price/inventory change doesn't look outward-facing, so it can slip the gate, but it's often harder to undo than an email you can just follow up on. Drawing the approval line by how reversible an action is, not just inward vs outward, held up better for us. Congrats on the launch.
Congrats on the launch! Regarding the suggested-automations feed... Auto-surfacing is a trust game IMO: a few strange suggestions in week 1 and an SMB owner might stop reading the feed. What would be the bar before something gets surfaced? A repetition count, a human pass on your side?
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@artstavenka1 Honestly, neither. A human pass on our side is a big trust violation, especially for businesses that have proprietary information, strategies, etc. We (the humans) don't see any of your LemonLime connect tool info/uploads. A repetition count is a convincing factor, but not necessarily a strict test to pass.
The bigger weight is impact, which sounds super vague, and it is, but that's because it means something different in the context of each company. If every sales proposal looks wildly different, it's going to surface suggestions that support the creation, not shoot on a whim on actually conceptualizing without having the right data to do so. Even if you've never sent a support email, it might discover that you might not have one, and suggest setting one up and automating it for you if relevant to your work.
Auto-surfacing is risk-free because at the end of the day, actions are approved before running. Even if a suggested automation isn't exactly on the nose (which is inevitable, right?), it can safely be ignored without consequence. That's where the trust is derived from.
The idea of discovering automation opportunities instead of asking users to build them manually is really interesting. I'm curious, how does LemonLime decide which workflows are worth automating first?
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@arya012 Ooh, this is such a fun question to answer because it it's still a conversation we're having internally! For the longest time, we fought back and forth as a product team on which workflows take priority, and obviously we want to continue improving outcomes and flexibility for each of them, but where do we start first?
It's going to be different for everyone because LemonLime is tailoring its responses/outcomes to the team and individual using it, meaning even for the same business, a sales-focused user will get different automated workflows off the bat than a support-focused user. Before you've had your first conversation with LemonLime, the first thing it'll suggest is whatever the most urgent or high-opportunity work you have outstanding within your expected role scope (for example, if you're on the sales team, and there's a big client being closed, taking care of that proposal/following up with them is likely going to be identified as a suggested first move).
But, again, different for everyone!
the "self-creates agents" part is what I'd want to poke at before rolling it out to a whole team. if it's writing its own automations across our connected tools, who reviews what data each new agent actually touches before it goes live? for a small business without a dedicated ops person that review step is easy to skip, and that's usually where the surprises come from
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@omri_ben_shoham1 100%, that's why we built in guardrails that require user approval before running outward-facing or permanent actions. Things like sending an email, inviting someone to a calendar event, deleting a product from a storefront, all of these wait for explicit approval before running automatically.
good, that's the piece that was missing from the demo for me. approval gate on outward actions is the difference between a useful agent and a liability. might actually give this a real try now
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@omri_ben_shoham1 Once you do, I'd love to chat and get your feedback/criticisms so we can improve the product!
will do, appreciate the offer. honestly the approval gate is the thing that'll decide it for me - if it holds up under a slightly weird edge case (like an action that's approval-gated but has a fast-expiring window) I'll have real feedback worth sharing
@jordanlemon how does the LemonLime decide when to use AI agents vs traditional automation rules?
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@dipanshu_kushwaha5 It's less complicated than that, at least how we're running it. Longer, actionable skills that aren't just retrieval-based reasoning requests are the agents. This is "I want somebody to do sales for me" into the chat, and with all the context of your pre-existing customers, industry angles, your existing strategy, etc, it will immediately deploy a set of agents to go do that for you, instantly.
TL;DR: Agents run a series of actions. Automations store either an agent or a swarm of agents so that when you might want to re-run that agent's job semi-regularly, it is literally a single click, or even less if you have it running on a set schedule.