Annie 所长|May 01, 2026 03:09
Lao Ma invested in a company called Rebel Cheese, which specializes in selling pure cheese and has achieved global business. As long as you are engaged in physical or e-commerce shipping, you must understand one pain point: the billing of express logistics is extremely opaque.
Boxes of different sizes and shipping regions have vastly different prices. And logistics companies often overcharge, they won't always get you right. If it were in the past, you could only hire a few finance professionals to monitor the reconciliation every day, which was time-consuming and laborious, and in the end, you couldn't figure it out due to manual errors.
But how did this company do it? They didn't hire anyone at all, but instead wrote an AI agent.
This AI only does one thing: every time the goods are packaged and ready for shipment, it automatically takes a photo of the box, identifies the size, and then checks the corresponding official price list. Next, it will automatically capture the bills sent by the logistics company for comparison.
Once it is discovered that the bill has been overcharged, the AI can instantly generate a refund request and directly send it to the logistics company for compensation.
Can you guess how much money this small action saved them every month? A total of 50000 US dollars. Over the course of a year, it generated a net profit of several hundred thousand US dollars, all of which were picked up in vain by fully automated systems.
After listening to Lao Ma's sharing, I was completely shocked by this high granularity:
Firstly, profits are not extracted, they are calculated. This $50000 is not sales revenue, but a net profit that is actually put into the pocket, equivalent to millions of extra revenue out of thin air.
Secondly, highly repetitive actions can be fully delegated to AI agents. It doesn't need rest, won't make mistakes, and has no emotional friction. Hand over heavy physical labor to machines and leave your brain for strategy and growth.
Thirdly, break the inertia of thinking and seek arbitrage opportunities. Using automation to streamline processes and earn or save on invisible information gaps is the ultimate leverage.
This is the best era. One person combined with a group of AI can compete against a traditional large company.
Think about how to use AI agents to reshape the entire business transaction chain, break down the business, and automate the process!
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