Spent a week sure my setup was slow because I was on the wrong model. Swapped between a couple of the big ones, rewrote my prompts, same result. Then I actually counted what closing one deal took: 28 tabs across four windows. Gmail thread here, the HubSpot record there, the contract sitting in Drive, a couple calendar invites, a Slack DM I needed for context. The model was fine. I was the integration layer, copy pasting between all of it.
What moved the needle wasn't a smarter model, it was letting a desktop agent do the cross-app pull, reach into Gmail and HubSpot and Drive in one task instead of me stitching it by hand. first run it surfaced a couple of open loops I'd genuinely lost track of in old threads. it drafts the follow up and waits for me to hit send, which is honestly the only reason I let it near a live account.
the part that surprised me is how little the model choice mattered once the thing could actually touch the apps. same model that handed me generic advice in a chat window did real work the second it had my stack in front of it.
so for me the bottleneck was never the model, it was the copy paste between windows. still not sure if that's everyone's problem or just how my week happens to be shaped. written with ai
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