Business
Beginner
15 min
LLMs, multimodal, assistants and agents — the whole map in one page
The problem
A vendor demos an 'AI agent for your sales team' for ₹40,000 a month. A consultant offers 'AI automation'. A colleague says just use ChatGPT.
The workflow
1Name the level
2Ask what it can change
3Size the review
4Match to the problem
5Pilot small
6Add supervision
★Then scale
What you need
Vendor pitch: Our AI Sales Agent automatically follows up with every lead, personalises each message, and books meetings directly into your calendar. ₹35,000/month.
The tool
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini
The prompt
Subscribers. The full prompt is part of the SMEMinds AI Playbook. See plans.
What comes back
LEVEL — Agent (level 5). It decides who to contact, what to say and when, and it writes to your calendar.
Verify before you use it
Human review required. Check every line below before this leaves your screen.
- Did the model classify from the vendor's claims rather than from what the product demonstrably does? Marketing copy exaggerates the level upward — many 'agents' are automations with a chat box.
- Check the data answer against the vendor's actual privacy policy, not against the AI's guess. The AI has not read their contract.
- The cheaper-alternative recommendation is an opinion. Verify that the simpler level really covers your case before you use it as a negotiating position.
- Any pricing the AI quotes for alternatives is likely to be out of date — check the current price yourself.