The Five Agent Presets

Lesson 1: Meet the Five Presets

Each preset is a starting point — a tuned agent type with sensible defaults for personality, jobs, and behavior. You can customize anything, but the presets get you 80% of the way without thinking.

Hype-Man — the content creator

What it does: Generates posts in your voice, on your schedule, across your platforms.

Best for: Anyone who wants to publish more without thinking about it. This is the agent most people hire first.

What it won't do: Hunt for leads, run analytics deep-dives, or manage long DM relationships. Hype-Man writes; that's the job.

Hunter — the acquisition agent

What it does: Scans social platforms for opportunities — people asking questions you can answer, conversations relevant to your niche, accounts you should reply to or follow.

Best for: Founders looking for inbound leads, creators trying to break into a new niche, or anyone who knows engagement-as-distribution beats posting-as-distribution.

What it won't do: Write your scheduled content. Hunters chase opportunities; Hype-Men make them.

Analyst — the data agent

What it does: Watches your performance across platforms and surfaces insights. Which hooks work. Which posting times get traction. Which content types your audience saves vs scrolls past.

Best for: Anyone running 2+ agents who needs a feedback loop. Without an Analyst, you're flying blind — your other agents have no signal to learn from.

What it won't do: Post or engage. Analysts only read.

Engager — the conversation agent

What it does: Replies to comments and DMs, follows up on engagement, keeps conversations alive.

Best for: Accounts with active comment sections that you can't keep up with manually. Especially valuable on Threads, Bluesky, and X where reply velocity drives algorithmic distribution.

What it won't do: Cold-DM strangers (that's a Hunter or Relationship Manager job).

Relationship Manager — the long-game agent

What it does: Maintains warm relationships with people you've already engaged. Remembers context across conversations. Surfaces "you should follow up with X" reminders.

Best for: B2B founders, agencies, and creators with high-value individual relationships (vs broadcast audiences).

What it won't do: Manufacture relationships from scratch — you still need to start the conversation. RM keeps it warm.

Lesson 2: Who Should You Hire First?

Don't hire all five at once. You'll overwhelm yourself approving outputs, and you won't know which agent is doing the heavy lifting.

The decision tree

1. Goal is "publish consistently" → Hire Hype-Man first.
2. Goal is "find customers / inbound DMs" → Hire Hunter first.
3. Goal is "build authority in a niche" → Hire Hype-Man, then layer in Analyst after a month of data.
4. Goal is "manage a comment section that's getting away from me" → Hire Engager first.
5. Goal is "I have 50 warm leads I keep losing track of" → Hire Relationship Manager first.

A common pattern

Most founders end up with this stack within 90 days:

1. Hype-Man (creates content)
2. Hunter (finds engagement opportunities)
3. Analyst (closes the feedback loop)

That's a "Content Engine" blueprint, more or less, and it's the workforce most people want even if they don't know it yet.

Lesson 3: How Agents Combine

The magic isn't any single agent — it's how they reinforce each other.

Hunter + Hype-Man

Hunter finds a viral conversation in your niche. Hype-Man writes a post that rides the moment. You publish within an hour. This loop, run weekly, is the difference between "posting into the void" and "posting into a conversation."

Hype-Man + Analyst

Hype-Man publishes 21 posts in a week. Analyst tells you that 4 of them drove 80% of engagement and they all share a structural pattern (e.g., "personal story + hard-won lesson"). Hype-Man's persona gets refined to do more of those. Posts compound.

Engager + Relationship Manager

Engager catches a great comment from someone valuable. Relationship Manager flags them as "follow up in 2 weeks" and surfaces context when you do. You build real relationships at scale.

What not to do

1. Don't hire Analyst before Hype-Man. You need data before you can analyze it.
2. Don't hire Engager before you have a comment section. You'll be paying an agent to wait.
3. Don't hire Hunter on every platform at once. Pick the platform where your audience actually lives.

Action Steps

1. Pick one goal you actually have (not "grow"). Be specific: "Get 3 inbound DMs per week" or "Publish 5x weekly on Threads."
2. Use the decision tree above to pick a first agent. Hire only that one.
3. Run it for 14 days at Assisted autonomy before you hire a second agent. You're learning what an AI workforce feels like — don't skip that.

Next lesson: autonomy levels. This is where most founders make their first mistake.