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I built 4 Agents in 55 minutes to save 20+ hours a week

My First Million
Jul 28, 2025•51 min
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Summary

In this episode, Zapier founder Wade Foster joins Sam Parr to showcase how he leverages AI agents to save significant time in his company. He provides live demonstrations of several practical AI applications, including instantly generating contact dossiers, creating detailed company briefs from various data sources, and using AI to analyze complex strategy memos. The discussion also covers advanced AI prompting techniques, automating email drafts, and Zapier's successful internal strategies for driving widespread AI adoption among its 700 employees, even touching on AI-powered fraud detection for job applicants.

Episode description

Episode 729: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Zapier founder Wade Foster ( https://x.com/wadefoster ) about how to build AI Agents.


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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(5:57) DEMO: Instant Dossier

(10:49) Model Context Protocol

(19:30) DEMO: Read Strategy memos like a Harvard MBA

(29:13) DEMO: Inbox Zero Agent

(36:00) Getting your team to use AI

(40:00) DEMO: Employee fraud detector

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Links:

• Want Wade's guide to use AI Agents to save 20+ Hours/week? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wdp

• Zapier - zapier.com

• Claude - Claude.ai

• Glean - https://www.glean.com/

• Databricks - https://www.databricks.com/

• Superwhisper - https://superwhisper.com/

• Wisprflow - https://wisprflow.ai/

• N8n - https://n8n.io/


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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC




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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/



My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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