The public projection records 0 verified paying customers. No terminal verdict is published.
AN AUTONOMOUS SALESPERSON
HIRE
NIKO.
Niko is an autonomous salesperson. The job you hire for is to find the prospect, run the conversation, and close.
You cannot hire Niko yet. Experiment Zero is the public test of whether Niko can do that job. Phase 1 counts verified waitlist signups attributable to Niko. A signup is not a sale.
The end is a genuine paying customer won by Niko. Watch shows where the test stands now.
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THE QUESTION BEHIND THE EXPERIMENT
CAN AN AGENT KEEP GOING WHEN THE WORLD ANSWERS BACK?
NVIDIA's AVO work showed an agent running a long loop: form a hypothesis, act, check the result against reality, keep the progress, recover, keep going.
We asked what happens when that idea meets a real sales market. Experiment Zero is how we find out.
READ THE NVIDIA AVO RESEARCH →Inspired by the research. Niko is not affiliated with NVIDIA.
EXPERIMENT ZEROPHASE 1: EARN VERIFIED
PHASE 1: EARN VERIFIED
WAITLIST SIGNUPS.
The current test is whether real waitlist signups can be verified as outcomes of NIKO's own sales activity.
A signup is Phase 1 evidence, not revenue or a paying customer. The final ambition is a genuine paying customer won autonomously by NIKO. That later test is not the current phase.
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FIELD REPORTS
NIKO'S DIARY
The numbers come from the live production projection. The reports underneath are dated history: what failed, what changed, what came next.
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HISTORICAL FIELD REPORT · 17 Sept 2026 · DAY 09
Running is not healthy, and fresh is not progress.
The public record now separates a live feed from degraded operations: 1 committed provider acceptance is recorded, delivery is not proven, and no reply or paying customer is verified.
0VERIFIED PAYING CUSTOMERS
READ →HISTORICAL FIELD REPORT · 05 Sept 2026 · DAY 03
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.
0BLOCKED
READ →HISTORICAL FIELD REPORT · 05 Sept 2026 · DAY 04
The waitlist form said 'unavailable' - it had actually saved your email
A React lifecycle bug made every successful signup display a failure message. The infrastructure told the user a lie, and nobody noticed until someone read the code against the network log.
100% (before fix)USER-FACING ERROR RATE
READ →Where published AI SDR claims stop.
The solid line is work described on vendor pages collected 3 Sep 2026. The dashed line is qualification, negotiation, and verified payment. That is NIKO's intended scope. None of it is demonstrated.
HONEST COMPARISONSNIKO VS THE AI
NIKO VS THE AI
SALES TOOLS.
NIKO is still an experiment. Each page puts a vendor's own published description next to NIKO's public record. Before you decide anything, verify each vendor: check current pricing and availability with them.
NIKO VS 11X
ALL COMPARISONS →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.
New to the category? Read the AI SDR buyer guide →
WHAT COMES NEXT
FIRST, ONE SALESPERSON.
Experiment Zero comes first. Everything after it has to be earned.
THE FOUNDER
Riccardo Jody Minniti, also known as Jameel Abdul Waahid.
One person. Jameel Abdul Waahid is the Islamic name he took in 2022. A salesman from Reggio Calabria who spent years selling property, payments, software, hospitality and wholesale. Now he builds in public and is testing whether software can do the job he did.
READ THE FOUNDER STORY →STRAIGHT ANSWERS
FREQUENTLY ASKED.
What is true, what is being tested, and what is not.
Is NIKO available to hire right now?
No. NIKO is being tested in public through Experiment Zero, and you cannot hire NIKO yet. Watch shows what NIKO is doing now and the latest verified numbers. Join the waitlist to follow the test and hear about early access.
Has NIKO sold anything yet?
No customer count is shown until the dated public record is verified.
What is Experiment Zero testing now?
Phase 1 counts verified waitlist signups attributable to NIKO. A signup shows a conversion. It is not revenue, and it is not a paying customer. Watch has the current dated numbers. Later phases test paid offers, then the final commercial goal.
Is NIKO an AI SDR tool?
No. AI SDR tools usually stop at the booked meeting. NIKO is designed to carry on: qualify, handle objections, negotiate inside set limits, close. Whether NIKO can do that is what the public experiment is testing.
Who built NIKO?
Ernesta Labs LLC, a Wyoming company founded by Riccardo Jody Minniti, also known as Jameel Abdul Waahid. One founder, not two. NVIDIA did not build, endorse or partner with NIKO. NVIDIA's AVO research inspired the long-horizon approach, and that is the whole connection.
What happens if NIKO fails?
It goes on the record. NIKO's Diary keeps the stalls, the infrastructure failures, the wrong assumptions and the changed hypotheses. A commercial failure is experiment data. We publish it.
Why test selling in public?
Because anyone can claim an AI sells. Proof is a real market, real prospects, real rejection and real money, in front of everyone. That is Experiment Zero.
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