A good friend works in the energy sector.
It's a highly subsidized industry, which means there are tons of boxes to check and edge cases to account for in order to actually qualify for any of that funding.
There are 2 main challenges with this:
• The time spent per prospect is massive just to verify that the file is solid before submission
• The time spent training salespeople is massive too, since they need to know all the edge cases, requirements, etc.
In just a few weeks, he built an internal web app that he sends to prospects, fully AI-powered, which guides them through building their file and checking all the edge cases.
He also built an internal AI chatbot that he makes available to all new sales hires.
He can now convert 2x more prospects, and the average onboarding time for his salespeople dropped from 3 weeks to 1.
He has zero technical background and dropped out of school very young. He discovered Claude Code and just kept iterating until he got something that worked.
It's fascinating.