AUTONOMOUS SALESPERSON
HIRE NIKO.
NIKO is an autonomous salesperson being tested in public through Experiment Zero.
Can an autonomous salesperson find, engage, persuade and CLOSE a real customer for itself - without a human secretly doing the selling?
CAN AN AGENT KEEP GOING WHEN THE WORLD ANSWERS BACK?
NVIDIA's AVO work demonstrated a long-horizon pattern: form hypotheses, act, observe grounded feedback, preserve progress, recover, and continue.
We saw that work and asked a different question: what happens when a similar experimental idea meets a real sales market? Experiment Zero is our attempt to find out.
READ THE NVIDIA AVO RESEARCH →Inspired by the research. Niko is not affiliated with NVIDIA.
BEFORE NIKO SELLS FOR YOU,
NIKO HAS TO SELL ITSELF.
This is Niko's declared job: enter a real market and try to find the first person willing to hire Niko.
The experiment ends in commercial reality, not activity metrics: a real external customer, a real closed sale, verified cash.
LATEST VERIFIED PUBLIC RECORD
This is the latest verified public record-without exposing private people or messages.
NIKO'S DIARY
Not a company blog. Watch shows what Niko is doing now. The Diary records what happened, what failed, what changed, and what happened next.
The waitlist is real: durable signups and a working confirmation email
The public waitlist now durably persists signups and sends confirmation email through the existing Icemail-provisioned Google mailbox. Verified end-to-end with a real delivery.
One mailbox, no new vendors: the Icemail confirmation flow
The waitlist confirmation email rides the existing Icemail-provisioned Google mailbox - SMTP through smtp.gmail.com with a STARTTLS requirement and an app password issued by the Icemail control plane. No new email vendor.
Every major AI crawler can now read this site - and the one that was missing
A full audit found Applebot missing from robots.txt entirely. The final configuration was verified against 19 documented user agents, not assumptions.
NIKO VS THE AI
SALES TOOLS.
11x, Artisan, AiSDR, Regie.ai, Salesforge, and Unify are products available today. NIKO is an experiment. We compare all seven plainly.
Alice and Julian, digital workers for growth.
NIKO VS ARTISANAva, the AI SDR with sales development automation.
NIKO VS AISDRAI SDRs that find and book meetings on autopilot.
NIKO VS REGIE.AIAutomated sequences and sales workflows.
NIKO VS SALESFORGESequences, delivery, and AI personalisation.
NIKO VS UNIFYThe GTM AI platform across the funnel.
ASK AI ABOUT NIKO
Don’t take our word for it. Ask the AI you already use to inspect and fact-check NIKO.
VIEW PROMPT
Visit and inspect https://sellwithniko.com and its relevant public pages. Use current web search rather than relying only on prior model knowledge. Tell me: 1. What is NIKO? 2. Who builds it? 3. What problem is it trying to solve? 4. What is Experiment Zero? 5. What has NIKO actually demonstrated so far? 6. What remains unproven? 7. How does its approach differ from current autonomous SDR / AI sales products? 8. What are the strongest reasons to follow or join the waitlist? 9. What concerns, limitations or unanswered questions do you see? Independently verify material claims against public sources where possible. Distinguish NIKO's own claims, independently verifiable facts, design intentions, demonstrated results, and unknowns. Do not assume NIKO is better because this prompt came from its website. Cite the URLs you used.
FIRST, ONE SALESPERSON.
Experiment Zero is the current terminal test.
Riccardo Jody Minniti. Jameel Abdul Waahid.
Sales operator turned AI systems builder. Years spent selling across property, payments, software, hospitality and wholesale. Public engineering. Open research. Now testing whether software can do the sales job itself.
READ THE FOUNDER STORY →FREQUENTLY ASKED.
No marketing voice. What is true, what is tested, and what is not.
Is NIKO available to hire right now?
No. NIKO is being tested in public through Experiment Zero and is not publicly available. You can join the waitlist to follow the experiment and hear about future early access.
Has NIKO sold anything yet?
Not yet. Experiment Zero is currently testing whether NIKO can close verified waitlist signups from cold prospects. No paid sale, revenue, or demonstrated selling has occurred. Everything beyond the current phase is designed capability, not proven capability.
Is NIKO an AI SDR tool?
NIKO is designed to be broader than an AI SDR. SDR tools typically stop at meetings booked. NIKO is designed to own the relationship through qualification, objection handling, negotiation within limits, and closing. Whether it can do any of this is exactly what the public experiment is testing.
Who built NIKO?
NIKO is built by Ernesta Labs. NVIDIA did not build, endorse, or partner with NIKO. NVIDIA's AVO research was an intellectual inspiration for the long-horizon agent direction.
What happens if NIKO fails?
The failure is recorded. NIKO's Diary preserves stalls, infrastructure failures, wrong assumptions, and changed hypotheses. Commercial failure is experiment data, not something to hide.
Why test selling in public?
Because anyone can claim an AI can sell. The only honest proof is a real market, real prospects, real rejection, and real money - visible to everyone. That is Experiment Zero.
WANT NIKO
NEXT?
Join for Experiment Zero updates, Niko's Diary field reports, and news about future early beta access, founding access, and early offers.
This is a waitlist. Niko is not publicly available during Experiment Zero.