Time is Money

As a professional with public presence, I’m flooded with messages. To solve and help community: I built an AI secretary to triage, monetize and filter meetings—ensuring right connections and NO spam.

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Inspiration

As a professional with a public presence and large community, I’m constantly overwhelmed by meeting requests and messages. While many are genuine, the majority are spam, unclear, or low-value.
The real problem? The volume is so high, it's impossible to vet them all—leading to burnout, missed opportunities, and a loss of valuable time that could be spent more meaningfully.

I imagined what it would be like to have a personal assistant who could intelligently triage requests, protect my time, and even help me earn from my expertise. That’s when Time is Money was born—an AI-powered secretary that filters, prices, and prioritizes inbound requests to focus only on meaningful connections, while enabling professionals to generate revenue from their most in-demand asset: their time.

Overwhelmed with messages

What it does

Time is Money is an AI secretary that:

  • Analyzes incoming meeting requests using Conversational AI.
  • Determines the purpose, complexity, and credibility of each request.
  • If purpose aligns with the provider's interests, it directs the user to booking page and book a slot.
  • Will integrate with calendar tools and respond automatically in future to handle free and open slots
  • Tracks and displays earnings from meetings, turning your time into a monetizable asset.[Demo payments right now]

The goal: more genuine conversations, less spam, and a smarter, revenue-generating way to manage inbound demand.

How we built it

  • Tech Stack: Bolt.new, Node.js, ReactJS, Elevenlabs APIs, Netlify, Entri, Supabase, Resend APIs, Stripe [TBD].
  • AI/NLP: Elevenlabs Conversational AI.
  • Backend: Supabase CRUD and functions.
  • Frontend: Dashboard for bookings, earnings, AI config, evaluation setup, and profile setup.
  • Payments: Currently in demo mode, with Stripe functions disabled for demo reasons.

Challenges we ran into

  • Bolt getting stuck in loops to implement a change and fixing errors.
  • Integrating Elevenlabs widget and passing context data to it.
  • Ensuring the AI maintains a human-like touch while remaining efficient.
  • Tuning AI prompts to cover guardrails and make triage fair, not robotic.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Successfully built an MVP that auto-triages requests based on real-world inputs.
  • Created a viable solution for a personal and professional pain point.
  • Introduced a systematic way to monetize inbound demand without compromising access.
  • Maintained a strong ethical focus on fairness and transparency throughout.

What we learned

  • How to apply AI to solve time management problems in a human-centered way.
  • That protecting and monetizing one’s time isn’t selfish—it’s sustainable.
  • The importance of thoughtful UX in building trust with users being triaged.
  • How AI and automation can elevate—not replace—human judgment when designed well.

What's next for Time is Money

  • Expand triage logic with real-time data (e.g. social signals, reputation scores).
  • Add richer personalization based on past interactions and behavior.
  • Launch a public beta with early users to test at scale.
  • Integrate payment gateways (like Stripe) for seamless monetization.
  • Enhance the earnings dashboard with insights and analytics.
  • Explore B2B use cases for high-volume executives, creators, and consultants.
  • Integrate fully with calendar tools for auto-scheduling and follow-ups.

Challenges Compliance

  • Voice AI Challenge: Using Elevenlabs Voice AI to smartly evaluate the user's meeting purpose and reduce spam for the provider. Elevenlabs Voice AI does the evaluation for you and share a summary so the provider doesn't have to spend countless hours dealing with spam.
  • Deploy Challenge: Deployed the bolt.new product using Netlify and is live is the shared link
  • Startup Challenge: Used Supabase for the authentication and edge functions to integrate with AI business logic and also the whole database for the product
  • Custom Domain Challenge: Used Entri and IONOS to buy the unique domain that defines the problem statement "Time is money"

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