Fullstack Web Developer· AI Agents & Technical SEO
Hector Romero
I've spent more than 7 years writing software with teams in Mexico and the United States. I build fast, bilingual websites and AI-agent workflows that I test on my own projects first.
Demos are the vendor's best case; what you're buying is the Tuesday-afternoon case. This final post is the checklist for seeing it before you pay: five contract-level questions, the red flags, a fair pilot design — and, since I sell these systems, the scenario where the honest answer is don't buy from me.
You can't verify most AI sales claims without buying first. Speed to lead is the exception: how long a new lead waits for a real answer is a number, and you can measure yours this week with a stopwatch. I build these systems for a living, and this is the one part of my pitch you don't have to take on trust.
Vendors sell the term 'AI receptionist' on warmth. Here's the shift log instead: what one actually handles in a day for a clinic or a contractor, what a good handoff to a human looks like, and the four places where it breaks. I build these systems, so the failure modes come first.
I build AI sales systems for a living, so read my answer with the suspicion it deserves: no, AI will not replace salespeople. It's already replacing something else — the part of sales that was never selling. Knowing which part is which is worth real money if you run a business.
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A selection of things I have built and shipped, from client sites to a Rust marketplace.
Marketplace.city
A local-services marketplace with a Rust backend (sqlx + PostgreSQL) and a web frontend. In active development. Rust · PostgreSQL · TypeScript
Agency site + AI concierge
My web-dev agency site, being rebuilt on Astro 6 and Tailwind v4 with an AI concierge that answers visitor questions. Astro 6 · Tailwind v4 · TypeScript · AI