The Origami Hustle: Unfolding the AI Sales Revolution

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SAN FRANCISCO — A foggy morning in the city of silicon-drenched dreams, where two madmen have embarked on a righteous crusade to dismantle the festering corpse of outbound sales.

The culprits: Finn Mallery and Kenson Chung, co-founders of Origami Agents, a Y Combinator-backed outfit promising to turn the chaos of internet chatter into a symphony of sales gold. They’ve taken the age-old hustle of cold-calling and slathered it in AI, automation, and a fever dream of predictive intent.  

“This isn’t your grandfather’s Rolodex, man,” Finn muttered over a late-night Zoom call, the faint glow of his monitor casting an otherworldly light on his face.

“We’ve built millions of agents—each one like a tireless, coked-up private investigator—scouring every dark corner of the internet for whispers of buying intent.”  

At the heart of their operation lies an idea so deceptively simple, it borders on insanity: take the endless ocean of unstructured data flooding the internet—social media comments, product reviews, even a stray mention in a forum thread—and turn it into actionable leads.

Not just any leads.

The top 1% of buyers who are primed, salivating, ready to throw cash at your solution.  

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Finn calls it the point of maximum buying intent. Kenson, ever the engineer, simply calls it “proof the future is here.”  

 Out of the Ashes of Outbound Despair  

The pair didn’t stumble into this battlefield by accident. Finn, a Stanford-trained GTM wunderkind, spent his early years building custom outbound sales solutions for over 20 startups. Meanwhile, Kenson—a UCL dropout and former CTO of an enterprise sales platform—was busy crafting research workflows for billion-dollar companies.  

Their mutual frustration was palpable.

“Outbound sales is a goddamn grind,” Finn lamented, “and most of these teams are swinging blindfolded in the dark. Everyone’s pulling from the same tired databases, spamming the same leads, and praying for a miracle.”  

That’s when they realized the key wasn’t more sales reps or better scripts. It was data. Or rather, the right data at the right time.  

So they built the tool they wished they’d had all along: Origami Agents. Part AI research analyst, part clairvoyant bloodhound, and entirely relentless.  

 Millions of Origami Agents, 24/7  

Origami’s pitch is as sharp as their name suggests. Every agent operates like a dedicated human sales rep, armed with the intuition of an industry veteran and the obsessive work ethic of a Silicon Valley founder on Red Bull.  

“They don’t sleep,” Kenson quipped. “They don’t eat. They don’t need coffee breaks. They just hunt, 24/7, across every corner of the internet.”  

The result?

Sales teams get an actionable dossier of buyers so hot they might as well come with a surgeon general’s warning. Each lead comes with its own backstory, painstakingly pieced together by AI—why they’re interested, what they’ve been searching for, and where they’ve dropped digital breadcrumbs.  

In a world where response rates have plummeted, quotas go unmet, and the traditional sales playbook is on life support, Origami promises a radical departure. A lifeboat in a sea of spam.  

 The Origami Revolution  

It’s easy to dismiss the hype as just another YC fever dream. But Finn and Kenson aren’t in this for the vanity metrics or hollow valuations. They’re building a system to weaponize the internet’s chaos—turning millions of scattered data points into a ruthless, lead-generating machine.  

“We’ve barely scratched the surface of what these agents can do,” Finn mused. “Today, they’re finding buyers. Tomorrow? Who knows. Maybe they’ll predict markets, or write Hunter S. Thompson knockoff profiles like this one.”  

As the fog rolls in over the Bay, Origami’s founders are already plotting their next move. They’ve tasted the thrill of the hunt, and they’re determined to keep unfolding, layer by layer, until every company on Earth realizes one simple truth: the future of sales is automated, relentless, and powered by millions of tireless Origami Agents.  

A.I. Gods, help us all. 

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