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Answers the spike
A post lands and two hundred DMs arrive over six hours. All of them get a real answer in minutes, not the eleven you got to before your flight.
Your agent, on X
AI agents for X
The post went well. Now answer the DMs.
A post that works produces more DMs than you can read, mixed in with pitches and bots. Your agent answers all of them in minutes, asks the questions that separate the serious from the curious, books the call when it is worth one, and leaves you the five conversations that matter.
What it handles
Ten things it handles in your DMs, without being asked twice.
02
Separates serious from curious
It asks what you would ask — what are you building, what have you tried, what is the timeline — and the answers sort the inbox for you.
03
Pushes back with real questions
Not "great question!" — actual forcing questions, and one thing to go do before the next message. The people who do it are the people worth your hour.
04
Books the call when it is warranted
When it is worth a call, it proposes a time and confirms it in the DM. No calendar link dropped into a conversation that had not earned it.
05
Ignores the pitch and the bot
Growth spam, "quick question about your marketing", and copy-paste openers get nothing. Your attention goes to the humans.
06
Answers what your posts already said
The question answered in the thread three weeks ago is answered again, in the same words, without you finding the link.
07
Remembers who this is
The handle is the record. Someone who DMed in April does not restate their situation in September, and the agent picks up where it stopped.
08
Keeps your voice
Short, direct, no exclamation marks you would not use. It sounds like your posts because it is written from them.
09
Follows up once
One nudge on a conversation that stalled mid-qualification. Then it stops — nobody wants a DM three times from someone they follow.
10
Hands over the good ones
You get the thread, what was asked, what was answered, and why it thinks this one is real. Your first message is the second message, not the first.
A real DM
It talks like you post.
The DM does not get a form, a link, or an auto-reply telling them to email support. It gets the conversation you would have had if you had the time to have two hundred of them.
X · @you — Direct MessagesAn X agent vs a DM autoresponder
An auto-reply is a way of saying you are not there.
The standard answer to DM volume is an autoresponder pointing at an email address or a booking link. Both read as a closed door, and both fill your calendar with the people who click, not the people who qualify.
| Capability | Your X agent | DM autoresponder / link drop |
|---|---|---|
| What the DM gets | An answer, and a question back. | A link and a "we will get back to you". |
| Who ends up on your calendar | The ones who did the thing it asked for. | Whoever clicked first. |
| Spam and pitches | Ignored, silently. | Auto-replied to, politely, forever. |
| Your voice | Written from your posts. | One paragraph you wrote in 2023. |
| Memory | Knows this handle DMed you in April. | Sends the same auto-reply again. |
| Handover | You get the thread and the reason it matters. | You get an inbox. |
Start from a complete template
Office Hours
YC office hours in a DM thread: the six forcing questions, real pushback, and one assignment they have to go do before the call.
What comes with it
- Every DM answered in minutes, in your register
- The six forcing questions, asked in conversation
- One assignment per thread, and a check on whether it was done
- Calls proposed and confirmed only for qualified threads
- Spam, pitches and copy-paste openers ignored
- Handover with the thread, the answers, and why it is worth your time
- Does it post publicly?
- No. It works in direct messages only. Nothing it writes appears on your timeline or in replies under your posts.
- How does it sound like me?
- You give it your own material — posts, threads, the way you answer this question in person — and it writes from that. Short if you are short. No exclamation marks you would not use.
- What stops it from booking calls with everyone?
- Qualification comes before the calendar. It asks the questions you would ask and only proposes a time when the answers justify one; everything else stays a conversation.
- What does it do with pitches and bots?
- Nothing, deliberately. Copy-paste openers and growth spam get no reply, so your attention goes to the humans who wrote something real.
- Will it invent things about my company?
- It answers from what you gave it. Outside that it says it will check and hands the thread to you rather than making a claim you have to walk back publicly.
- How long does setup take?
- Start from the Office Hours template, connect your X account, paste in a few of your own threads, and it is answering DMs the same day.
Answer all of them this time.
Start from a complete template, connect your X account, and let every DM get a real answer while the post is still moving.