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Notes from building Speak2MyCV: on freelancers losing clients to silence, what AI agents change about being findable, and what it actually takes to build this alone.
Speak2MyMCP: Why I Made My CV Callable by Every AI
Speak2MyMCP: Why I Made My CV Callable by Every AI
People now ask Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity about professionals before they ever visit a website. Speak2MyMCP lets those AIs ask your real CV directly.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
3 min read
I Looked at Chatbase and Calendly Before Building This. Here’s the Gap Both Left Open
I Looked at Chatbase and Calendly Before Building This. Here’s the Gap Both Left Open
Chatbase builds AI support agents. Calendly books the meeting. Neither tells you whether the person on the other end is worth your time. What I found.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
Why Freelancers Lose Clients to Silence, Not Competitors
Why Freelancers Lose Clients to Silence, Not Competitors
Freelancers rarely lose clients to a better competitor. They lose them to silence: a question asked at 11pm with nothing there to answer it.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
I Built an AI Page From My Own CV in 60 Seconds. Here’s What Happened Next
I Built an AI Page From My Own CV in 60 Seconds. Here’s What Happened Next
I tested Speak2MyCV on myself before asking anyone else to trust it. One CV upload, 60 seconds, one real question answered correctly. What it taught me.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
The Hidden Cost of Replying to Leads After 5 Minutes (An MIT Study Explains Why)
The Hidden Cost of Replying to Leads After 5 Minutes (An MIT Study Explains Why)
An MIT study found replying to a lead within 5 minutes makes you 21x more likely to qualify them. Why that window is nearly impossible to defend solo.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
Website Builder + Chatbot + Lead Form: Why You’re Paying for 3 Tools to Do 1 Job
Website Builder + Chatbot + Lead Form: Why You’re Paying for 3 Tools to Do 1 Job
A website builder, a bolted-on chatbot, a separate lead form: three subscriptions that never talk to each other. Why I collapsed all three into one.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
What Happens to Your Online Presence When AI Agents Start Doing the Searching
What Happens to Your Online Presence When AI Agents Start Doing the Searching
As AI agents start searching, screening and evaluating on someone’s behalf, most professional profiles are unreadable to the thing doing the evaluating.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
I Went Bootstrapped and Solo to Build This. Here’s the Real Timeline
I Went Bootstrapped and Solo to Build This. Here’s the Real Timeline
Incorporated in 2024. Live three weeks ago. The honest, unfiltered timeline of building Speak2MyCV alone, with no co-founder, no team, and no outside funding.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
Hot, Warm, or Cold: Why Most AI Lead Scoring Is Just a Guess
Hot, Warm, or Cold: Why Most AI Lead Scoring Is Just a Guess
I gave a well-known AI chatbot the same lead twice and got two different answers. Why Speak2MyCV’s Hot/Warm/Cold scoring never uses model inference.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
The Freelance Economy Is Worth $580 Billion. Most of It Is Still Invisible to AI
The Freelance Economy Is Worth $580 Billion. Most of It Is Still Invisible to AI
The global freelance economy is worth hundreds of billions and growing fast, especially in India. Most of that workforce is still unreadable to AI agents.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
Your LinkedIn Profile Can’t Answer Questions. Your CV Shouldn’t Have To Either
Your LinkedIn Profile Can’t Answer Questions. Your CV Shouldn’t Have To Either
Static profiles are built to be skimmed, not interrogated. The answer to "have you done X specifically" is in your CV. No human should have to dig it out.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read
What I Learned Reading Every Question Visitors Asked My AI Page in Week One
What I Learned Reading Every Question Visitors Asked My AI Page in Week One
I read every question my Speak2MyCV page received in its first week. What real visitor questions revealed that a static profile never could.
Subhendu Bhattacharyya
2 min read