Stop Being a Digital Secretary to AI 🤖
Just hunted a new product that turns thinking machines into working machines
Hey everyone 👋
I have an exciting launch to share with you today!
The Context:
Watch any knowledge worker today: They'll ask Claude/ChatGPT to analyze their sales/marketing data and get brilliant insights in seconds.
Then they'll spend 20 minutes copying those insights into their CRM like Hubspot, updating their dashboard, creating a Google Slides deck and forwarding summaries to their team.
The AI solved the problem. But the human became the data mule.
Sound familiar?
The $1 Trillion Problem We All Live With
The AI industry has built the most sophisticated reasoning engines in human history. We've invested over $1 trillion in making machines think. Yet most of us use them like glorified writing assistants, trapped in an endless cycle of copy-paste between ChatGPT and the systems where real work happens. There has to be a better way.
Enter Retool Agents
Today, I'm excited to hunt Retool Agents on Product Hunt — and this isn't just another AI tool launch. (Retool is a $3b unicorn with customers like NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stripe so they understand “scale”)
Retool Agents don't just think about your business processes. They execute them.
Imagine an AI that doesn't just write refund policies but actually processes refunds — pulling customer data from Postgres, checking return windows from your docs, calculating amounts via NetSuite, updating inventory through your ERP, issuing credits via Stripe, and notifying customers through Twilio. All autonomously. No human clipboard required.
That's the difference between an AI advisor and an AI worker.
Why This Matters (The Numbers Don't Lie)
$3/hour vs $25/hour: That's AI labor vs human labor. The ROI math is brutal and beautiful.
100+ million hours: Already automated by companies using Retool's platform
$5 billion: In labor value created by letting AI actually connect to business systems
But here's what really gets me excited: Retool's audacious goal to automate 10% of U.S. labor by 2030. That's 15 million full-time jobs worth of work.
Revolutionary? Yes. Achievable? Based on their trajectory, absolutely.
The "God View" That Changes Management Forever
Here's something that blew my mind: Retool gives you complete visibility into how agents work. They call it "god view" internally because you can watch every decision, every data pull, every action in real-time.
For the first time in history, complex judgment work becomes debuggable. You're not just seeing outputs — you're watching the entire reasoning process unfold. Management transforms from oversight to optimization.
When something goes wrong, you don't investigate what happened. You watch it happen. Then you fix it and deploy the improvement to your entire AI workforce instantly.
Why I'm Hunting This Today
As someone who's spent years watching the gap between AI's promise and its practical application, Retool Agents feels like the bridge we've all been waiting for.
This isn't about replacing humans. It's about freeing us from being human APIs so we can focus on what actually matters — strategy, creativity, and those moments that define who we are (both in work and life).
Your Turn
Here's what I would love from you:
Support the launch: Head to Product Hunt & show Retool Agents some love ❤️
Share your story: What's your biggest copy-paste pain point? Reply and tell me about the manual work that's stealing your time
Spread the word: If this resonates, share it with someone who's tired of being a human API
The companies that adopt AI workers first won't just have an advantage. They'll redefine their industries.
The question isn't whether AI will transform how we work.
The question is whether you'll lead that transformation or watch it happen from the sidelines.
Support Retool Agents on Product Hunt →
Until next week,
KP