I’m an operations manager for an AI CRM company and my boss just asked me to book 65 beta testers this week.

I know this might be a long shot, but here it goes. I’ve gotten a task that tbh I don’t feel super confident for. I got a new position at a start up as their operations manager and if you know anything about start ups that’s just ONE of the many hats I wear.

Anyways, my boss (who is the ceo and founder) came to me saying we need to find beta testers for our AI CRM. How many? 100 for the month.

I was super optimistic and thought that that would be plenty of time. Between myself and the rest of our 5 person team we should be set. (Spoiler: I was wrong)

First week started of pretty decent and then the second and third week whooshed by as we tried to put out “fires”, tiny changes that took a day to fix, the formatting on mobile was too big, contacts would only import 25 as opposed to the 250, on top of building out the team, recruiting and making sure everyone was sane it was a lot.

That brings me to this week – the last week of the month. We’ve only done 35 user interviews. I tried facebook ads, instagram reels, offering some free meetings, bribing my friends and family, getting my boss to go on networking events and we’re still 65 short.

So I’m coming to you with 2 things: I want to know the best way to beta test/get user interviews and 2 want to see if you’re interested/ have 10-15 of your time to review it live with me.

A big ask I know, but I can offer a coffee in exchange for your time.

Also, if this is the wrong subreddit to ask free free to point me elsewhere!