ethanplusai/harvey

What it solves

Harvey is an autonomous sales agent designed to handle cold outreach without the high costs of traditional AI sales platforms. Most sales agents charge per-token for every action, which becomes expensive when running in a continuous loop. Harvey avoids these API bills by leveraging your existing Claude Pro/Max or ChatGPT/Codex subscription to perform prospecting, email drafting, and reply handling.

How it works

Harvey runs locally on your machine as a persistent loop that wakes up periodically to perform tasks. It uses a "skills library" composed of plain Markdown files that define its behavior, sales methodology, and objection handling. Instead of relying on a black-box model to decide what to do, it uses deterministic logic to prioritize tasks like prospecting, writing campaigns, and handling replies. It integrates with your email provider to send messages and provides a local dashboard for you to review and approve outgoing emails before they are sent.

Who it’s for

It is for sales professionals, founders, or small business owners who want to automate cold outreach to small local businesses (5–50 employees) without paying for expensive third-party sales databases or per-token AI API usage.

Highlights

• No API Bills: Operates using your existing Claude or ChatGPT/Codex subscription rather than per-token API calls.
• Human-in-the-loop: Includes a dashboard to review, approve, or reject emails before they are sent, ensuring quality control.
• Transparent Prospecting: Allows you to manually confirm which of the 23 available data signals (e.g., SERP rank, ad presence, missing website) the agent should look for.
• Editable Skills: Sales logic, email frameworks, and objection handling are stored in simple Markdown files that you can customize without writing code.
• Budget-Aware: Automatically throttles its activity to stay within your subscription's usage limits.