| Hi HN — I’m Viggy, founder of MyClone. We originally built a marketplace connecting startup advisors with founders. After ~6 months, we had hundreds of recorded discovery calls and transcripts. We noticed something interesting:
The first 10 minutes of most advisory calls were almost identical.
• What do you do?
• Who is this for?
• Pricing?
• What information do you need from me?
• Am I a good fit? So we pivoted. Today, MyClone lets service professionals (consultants, CPAs, etc.) deploy an AI voice agent that:
• Answers FAQs in their voice
• Runs structured intake conversations
• Qualifies leads
• Routes good prospects to a human Technical details Under the hood:
• Multi-source ingestion (websites, docs, PDFs, media transcripts)
• Structured knowledge graph + chunked semantic retrieval
• Custom RAG pipeline (not using off-the-shelf frameworks)
• Prompt templates generated dynamically based on objective (FAQ vs intake vs qualification)
• Guardrails to prevent hallucination beyond uploaded corpus We learned quickly that generic “chat with your docs” doesn’t work for client-facing scenarios. The hard part is:
• Controlling tone
• Avoiding overconfidence
• Structuring conversations instead of answering open-ended questions
• Handling partial / messy user inputs
• Maintaining low latency in voice mode Still early, but we’re seeing adoption from solo and small firms who want a 24/7 “AI associate” for first-touch conversations. We do share our technical learnings in our blog - https://www.myclone.is/blog Happy to answer technical questions, RAG architecture details, failure modes, or things that broke during the pivot. — Viggy |