The AI Agents Powering John Rush’s 26 Startups

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June 06, 2025

The AI Agents Powering John Rush’s 26 Startups

Over the last 3 years, John Rush has launched 26 startups, most of them AI-powered, and serves nearly a million users without relying on VC funding or a traditional team.

His secret is a system of highly specific, no-interface AI agents that handle everything from SEO content to outbound sales.

These agents are not general-purpose tools or assistants. Each one replaces an entire workflow, sometimes even a full-time role, without requiring complex configuration or human oversight. The result is a stack of single-purpose, autonomous systems that let him move fast, validate ideas, and stay lean.

Listing Bot

Purpose: Automated product distribution across all relevant platforms where user acquisition can happen—forums, aggregators, directories, and any place where submissions are allowed.

Functionality:

  • Identifies every site where a product should be listed

  • Navigates through submission forms using browser control

  • Automatically registers the product

  • Ensures presence across platforms with zero manual outreach

“Listing Bot is an example of an agent that finds all places on the internet where your product can be relevant, and it lists you there... anywhere where it’s allowed to submit a product.”

~ John Rush

This replaces hours (or days) of repetitive outreach. Instead of hiring a VA or manually filling forms, Listing Bot handles everything through browser automation—submitting on behalf of the founder, quietly scaling presence.

Listing on popular sites like Reddit, LinkedIn, and directories is how Google finds you especially if you don't install any Google products like Google Analytics or submit your site to Google Search Console for indexing purposes.

SEO Bot

Purpose: Full automation of long-form SEO content creation, indexing, and publishing—triggered by a single input.

Functionality:

  • Accepts a single URL

  • Uses AI to determine what topics are worth writing about

  • Generates blog articles in bulk

  • Publishes them directly to a CMS

  • Requires no human involvement after activation

“It does everything for you. It creates all the articles, sends them to my CMS. I just never touched it again.”

~ John Rush

There is no interface, no content dashboard, and no editing step. SEO Bot turns content into a one-button operation, bypassing typical writer workflows completely. It’s designed for founders who want growth without recurring effort.

AI Scraper

Purpose: Autonomous data extraction to populate directories or build datasets from public websites—without writing scrapers or hiring contractors.

Functionality:

  • Takes a list of URLs

  • Visits each site and analyzes the content

  • Extracts structured fields like price, features, pros/cons

  • Compiles the data into CSV for direct CMS import

“AI can look at the websites and find the information it has to find... and creates a CSV file that I bring back to my CMS.”

~ John Rush

This removes the need to contract scraping jobs or manage scraping logic. Instead of dealing with breakable XPath code, John points the agent at URLs and gets back enriched product data, organized for public consumption.

Tiny Ads

Purpose: Monetization agent that handles sponsor discovery, outreach, and ad placement—especially for small or niche products that aren’t yet big enough for inbound advertiser interest.

Functionality:

  • Understands the theme or vertical of the product

  • Finds businesses interested in reaching that audience

  • Extracts contact details from the web

  • Reaches out via cold email or social media

  • Lets sponsors place ads directly on the platform

  • Operates entirely without founder interaction

“The system finds them and lets them place their ads on your platform, and you just get the money.”

~ John Rush

Tiny Ads converts a directory’s passive audience into revenue automatically. It doesn’t wait for ad inquiries—it finds relevant advertisers, initiates the deal, and closes it, all while the founder works on something else.

Social Bot

Purpose: Turns weekly memory fragments into polished, well-researched AI news content, ready for social sharing.

Functionality:

  • Begins with a list of AI events John remembers from the week

  • Researches each bullet point to gather exact details, stats, and context

  • Returns an enriched summary

  • Final write-up is manually rewritten for tone and virality

“I make a list of everything I remember from the last seven days. Then I take that list and I give it to my tool called Social Bot... I ask it to bring details because I don’t want to go and, you know, find exact numbers.”

~ John Rush

This hybrid approach allows him to keep the human voice while automating the labor-intensive parts of research. It’s not designed to write the final draft—but it dramatically cuts the time it takes to go from rough idea to polished post.

A System That Replaces Work, Not Just Tasks

What makes John’s agents unique is their level of autonomy. They don’t just assist—they operate independently. Most don’t even have a user interface. His end goal is to reduce his workload to the point where he only handles creativity and strategic input. Everything else, from content to monetization to outreach, is managed by a system.

He doesn’t build tools with dashboards or feature sets. He builds tools with “just one button”—and in many cases, no buttons at all. These agents function like micro-employees: invisible, tireless, and designed to solve a single pain point from end to end.

Credits to Angel Poon for the insight.

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Phenomenal product insight. Bluesky and Truth Social have a similar eco-chamber.

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For 2 decades, enterprise SaaS companies could get away with charging lots of money. See Salesforce and Slack's pricing. Now they have to innovate due to competition.

AI has reduced the time it takes to make a product in 1 month to making it in 1 day. Countless SaaS were never attempted because they took 1 or 2 years to get off the ground. Now with a cracked team, you can build a similarly scoped product in <3-6 months.

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The future of all apps is text-based so that AI can automate it.

Website builders like Webflow basically store their layout values in JSON/XML/YAML. This helps once you can make the AI translate values to JSON/XML/YAML.

Such products will lost longer than alternatives. Figma has its data in such text format whereas Adobe probably doesn't. Any product that has stored its data in binary product have to rewrite it un.

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