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Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about  Get my free AI Assessment template: https://audittemplate.ai/ In this solo episode, I lay out the exact 30-day playbook I'd follow to build a $10,000/month AI business from scratch using nothing but Claude, zero coding required. I walk through the offer, a $999 AI tools assessment, the outreach system that actually fills your pipeline, and the upsell path from a free mini assessment to a paid assessment to a recurring AI concierge engagement. By the end, you'll have the full math on how just eight clients a month gets you to $10K.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro: The $10K/Month Claude Playbook(02:10) Who This Business Model Is For(03:36) The Offer: What Is An AI Tools Assessment(04:23) The Three Outcomes Framework(05:13) Pricing, The Free Template, And The Claude Skill(06:45) The Elevator Pitch That Closes Clients(07:36) Week 1: Picking And Pricing Your Offer(08:08) Week 2: The Outreach That Actually Makes Money(09:43) The Free 15-Minute Mini Assessment(11:13) Week 3: Upselling To The Paid Assessment(12:15) Posting Content To Attract Inbound Leads(12:47) Week 4: Upselling To AI Concierge(14:51) The Math Behind Hitting $10K A Month(16:27) Next Steps And AI Operator Academy InviteFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about  Get the Free AI Audit Template: https://audittemplate.ai/ In this solo training, I walk through my exact end-to-end workflow for fulfilling a real $999 AI assessment, from pasting in a Fathom call transcript to handing a client a polished, ready-to-present report. I show how I run Claude's AI Tools Assessment skill on the transcript, then drop the output into Claude Design to auto-fill the assessment template with recommended tools, a four-day quick win plan, and full ROI numbers. By the end, you'll have the exact plug-and-play process to run this for your own clients in minutes.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro: The Assessment Workflow Question00:28 - Installing The AI Tools Assessment Skill00:57 - Running It On A Fathom Transcript01:24 - The Two Outputs: JSON And DOCX01:40 - Opening A Real Client Assessment01:58 - Reviewing The Recommended Solutions02:46 - Finding Alternative Tools If Needed03:31 - Importing The Blank Template Into Claude Design04:19 - Auto-Filling The Template From The DOCX04:58 - Reviewing The Completed Report05:34 - Effort Vs Impact Matrix And Quick Wins06:01 - Recommended Solutions Filled In Perfectly06:21 - The Four-Day Quick Win Plan06:41 - Financial Impact And ROI Calculation07:06 - Next Steps And Scheduling The Review Call07:50 - Exporting As PowerPoint Or PDF08:04 - Wrap-Up: Full Workflow RecapFIND ME ON SOCIAL:X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about Grab the free AI for Business Meetup Prompt here: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/f0f27f0f58In this solo episode, I rank all 12 ways to land clients for your AI services business, from door knocking to paid ads to referral partnerships. I break down which methods are S tier, which ones are a waste of time, and exactly which one you should start with if you're new. By the end, you'll have a full playbook for how to go out and land clients so you can start making money with AI.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro: Ranking 12 Client Methods00:27 - Door Knocking Local Businesses (A Tier)02:25 - Cold Calling Grind (D Tier)04:14 - Content Marketing Wins (S Tier)06:39 - Hosting Local AI Events (A Tier)09:32 - Cold Email At Scale (B Tier)11:07 - Cold DMs Done Right (C Tier)12:38 - Warm Outreach, The Best Starting Point (A Tier)14:09 - In-Person Networking Events (B Tier)15:53 - Referral Partnerships (S Tier)18:32 - Borrowing Other People's Audiences (A Tier)21:10 - Paid Ads As A Scaling Lever (B Tier)22:32 - Marketplaces Like Upwork And Fiverr (F Tier)FIND ME ON SOCIAL:X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about Get the Free AI Audit Template: https://audittemplate.ai/In this solo episode, I rank all nine AI business models everyone's pitching right now from worst to best, S tier down to F tier. I break down exactly which offers actually make money, which ones are a commoditized race to the bottom, and why the same two models keep printing for me every single month. By the end, you'll know exactly which AI offer to build your business around heading into 2026.Timestamps:00:00 - Ranking All 9 AI Offers Intro00:30 - AI Assessments Explained (S Tier)02:30 - AI Lead Gen Systems (A Tier)04:30 - Why AI Automation Agency Is F Tier05:40 - AI Concierge Model Breakdown (S Tier)09:20 - Hourly Consulting Ranked D Tier10:05 - AI Workshops With Real Examples (B Tier)12:00 - AI Voice Agents Reality Check (C Tier)14:25 - Managed Agents Explained (A Tier)16:45 - Knowledge Base Builds (B Tier)19:35 - Full Tier List Recap and Next StepsFIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Get $100 of free Hyperagent credits with any paid plan when you use this link: https://hyperagent.com/Corey100Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutI got in the trenches for real this time - cold calling 25+ tree service companies with no website, door knocking on decision makers, and testing two different offers (a free website build vs. a free mini AI assessment) to see which one actually converts to a booked sales call first. You'll hear the rejections, the pivots to my script, and the exact numbers behind how many conversations it took to land two sales calls for episode three.Timestamps:00:00 - Recap of Episode 1's lead list01:52 - Hyper Agent sponsor shoutout02:13 - The two offers: free website vs. free AI assessment02:37 - Cold calling begins - dead numbers and voicemails03:03 - First real conversation: Katu Tree Experts04:35 - Crafting the free-website voicemail script05:53 - Bentley Stump Grinding hangs up06:56 - Pivoting the cold call opening line09:15 - Getting cursed out on a cold call09:57 - SNK Tree Service: a live, warm lead12:13 - Pitching $500 against the $2,000 she already paid14:40 - Tearing apart the $2,000 "vibe-coded" website16:01 - More voicemails and no-shows21:12 - Running low on leads: sourcing 100 more prospects24:03 - Door knocking: the anti-AI home builder26:40 - Turning a hostile gatekeeper into a booked call29:33 - Door knocking: the new insurance agency36:00 - Explaining the paid AI assessment offer36:45 - Day six numbers: cold calls vs. door knocks37:50 - Where to learn the full playbookFIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Join AI Operator Academy: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutGet the Free AI Audit Template: https://audittemplate.ai/In this episode, I pull back the curtain and let you listen to a real $999 AI assessment for a real client, start to finish. This client is a business broker prospecting home service business owners for M&A deals, building agentic systems with Claude Code and HyperAgent. Learn how to diagnose an overbuilt AI system, spot the 80/20 opportunity in a workflow, and deliver high-value recommendations.Timestamps:00:00 - Why I'm showing you a real paid assessment00:52 - Kicking off the call and confirming the client's starting point02:03 - My approach: mostly listening, probing questions first02:50 - Client's background as an M&A business broker04:07 - How he prospects home service business owners today04:44 - Building his Claude agentic team for prospecting dossiers06:55 - Live screen share of his cannabis M&A buyer dossier10:54 - Finding the real gap: dossier is automated, outreach is manual13:53 - Why he built a HyperAgent team on top of Claude Code16:09 - His own diagnosis: I think I overbuilt this19:14 - Second workflow: automating cold contact-form outreach24:06 - Client admits he's diluted himself in a sea of agents29:21 - Identifying the 80/20 opportunity together30:41 - Wrapping the call and setting up the reportFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

I sat down with Mark Fershteyn, who spent seven years building a B2B SaaS company, raised $8 million, and eventually walked away from it — because on nights and weekends he started doing AI consulting and training for companies, and in six months of part-time effort it surpassed the $500K ARR his seven-year startup had built. Mark breaks down the exact offer ladder he's using to make money with AI trainings and implementations, starting with paid in-person workshops as low as $500 a head all the way up to six-figure AI transformation builds. We get into how he prices workshops, why he treats them as a lead magnet instead of the main event, and how one good workshop turns into a $25K-$50K custom build for a company. By the end of this episode, you'll have a clear playbook for turning AI knowledge into a paid workshop business, even if you're starting with zero audience.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about  Timestamps 00:00 - Intro00:30 - Mark's $8M SaaS wind-down after 7 years02:00 - Consulting income beats 7 years of ARR in 6 months03:00 - The 7 different AI offers he's tested04:00 - How in-person workshops are structured and run05:00 - First workshop: $500/head, 15 people via Eventbrite06:00 - Why the 45+ demographic is hungry for AI training07:00 - Walking through the live offer-ladder diagram08:00 - Workshop + assessment pricing: $15-25K09:00 - His ICP for workshops and when he says no10:00 - Advice to niche down by industry or persona11:00 - Charlotte realtor example and per-head pricing13:00 - Working backward from client value to set price15:00 - What he upsells after the workshop16:00 - Building custom AI operating systems for teams17:00 - Case study: 7-hour staffing process cut to 15 minutes19:00 - Build pricing: $25-50K over three to six weeks20:00 - Why he avoids maintenance retainers23:00 - His ideal offer ladder and a future $49 entry offer26:00 - Advice for starting workshops with zero experience28:00 - Using a cheap public workshop as lead gen for six-figure dealsKey PointsMark's AI consulting and training side hustle surpassed $500K in ARR in six months of nights-and-weekends effort, beating the mid six-figure run rate his seven-year, $8M-funded SaaS company had built — which is part of why he wound the company down.His first paid workshop was $495–$500 a head, four hours long, and pulled 15 people through nothing more than Eventbrite and cold LinkedIn outreach asking people if they knew anyone in the area who'd be interested — proof you don't need an existing audience to start.His offer ladder runs free artifact or skill, to a paid assessment, to an in-person workshop priced $15K–$25K for a half day to two days, to a custom AI operating system build priced $25K–$50K over three to six weeks, with a retainer as the optional final rung.Workshops aren't the real business — they cap out at a couple hundred thousand dollars a year because of the hours involved. The real money is in the custom builds a good workshop uncovers, so he'll sometimes turn down a workshop entirely if there's no clear upsell path behind it.His pricing rule: work backward from the value the client will realize in the low, mid, and best case, then charge roughly 20% of that number — a CEO of a 150-person company can support a much higher price than an individual realtor because the multiple on outcome is bigger.He deliberately avoids sitting on retainers collecting maintenance fees, saying that if he's still needed for maintenance months later, it means he failed to actually train the client's team and hand the system off.His advice to anyone who wants to start running AI workshops with no track record: pick an industry you already know, run a cheap public workshop to build a case study and reputation, say yes when people ask you to bring it to their company, and figure out fulfillment as you go.FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimFIND MARK ON SOCIALWebsite: https://masteringai.io Email: [email protected]

Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about  In this episode, I sat down with Dino Watt, an orthodontics industry consultant with zero technical background, who used the exact AI Operator Academy playbook to land a $30,000 consulting deal in under three months. Dino walks through his entire funnel live: a $97 workshop that pre-sold assessments before he ever taught it, a $797–$997 paid AI assessment, and a standout add-on nobody else is doing, an AI-generated explainer video that turns his report into a seven-minute video his clients can forward straight to a business partner or spouse. He breaks down the actual numbers: $5,734 collected before a single sales call, a 44% close rate, and a $5,000-a-month, six-month AI Concierge retainer closed off the back of an assessment he got paid to deliver. By the end of this episode, you'll have a full blueprint for turning a paid workshop into a five-figure retainer, even if you've never written a line of code.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro: meet Dino Watt00:50 - Not technical, dyslexic, no coding background01:35 - Joining AI Operator Academy with his wife Shannon02:39 - The $30K AI Concierge retainer overview03:09 - Using Claude to build his podcast slides live04:55 - The filter: effectiveness, efficiency, quality05:27 - Pricing the $97 workshop and early bird upsells06:20 - Upselling the $997 paid assessment07:20 - Doing the assessments and giving one testimonial freebie08:29 - Booking the follow-up call off the explainer video09:30 - Why he charges $5K/month over six months, not $2K11:45 - Solve rich people problems12:48 - Walking through the full deliverable package13:19 - The one-pager and proof kit13:34 - Why he built a 7-minute NotebookLM explainer video15:49 - How the explainer video preempts objections17:39 - Selling to secondary decision-makers without being in the room19:14 - His real numbers: $65,734 from one $97 workshop20:37 - Why he'd scale this into in-person workshops22:41 - Where to follow Dino and final thoughtsKey PointsDino closed a $30,000 AI Concierge retainer, $5,000 a month for six months, despite having dyslexia, no coding background, and no marketing expertise. Proof the AI Operator Academy playbook works for anyone willing to run it as taught.His funnel gets him paid at every single step. A $97 workshop with a built-in $497 early-bird upgrade to the paid assessment, then a $797–$997 assessment, then the retainer. He made $5,734 before he ever got on a sales call.From one $97 workshop with 20 attendees, Dino generated $65,734 in total tracked value and a 44% close rate turning assessments into retainers.His standout move: he runs the finished assessment report through NotebookLM (Gemini) to generate a seven-minute AI explainer video, then sends it to the prospect ahead of the sales call. It becomes an asset the client can forward to a spouse, partner, or financial advisor who needs to sign off.He charges $5,000 a month on a six-month contract instead of pitching a flat total, and always frames the price against the dollar savings ("pay $30K to get $250K back") rather than naming the full number upfront.His advice to new operators: don't overcomplicate the discovery questions. Even with 15 years of orthodontic industry expertise, his actual assessments still trace back to the same core questions taught in the program, deep industry knowledge just makes the calls longer, not more accurate.He never pitches the retainer as the only option. Every prospect is told they can take the full assessment blueprint to any AI developer they want. That transparency, plus already being a paying customer, is what makes them choose to hire him instead.Claude, used to build the presentation deck and customize the assessment questionnaire for the orthodontics niche - https://claude.aiNotebookLM (Gemini), used to turn the finished assessment into a seven-minute explainer video for prospects - https://notebooklm.googleAI Operator Academy, the community where Corey and Dino teach people how to sell AI assessments and AI Concierge retainers - https://aoa.communityFIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimFIND DINO ON SOCIAL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dinowatt/

Grab the free Mini AI Assessment Playbook here: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/0cea7ca381In this solo episode, I break down the exact offer ladder that's letting complete beginners hit $10K a month selling AI services without a single cold call, cold email, or DM. I walk through the three rungs — a free 15-minute mini AI assessment, a $999 paid AI assessment, and a $1,000–$2,000/month AI Concierge engagement — and show you the real math behind why you only need four AI Concierge clients and four paid assessments a month to hit that number. I get specific on who your ideal client actually is, the exact text message script to send your warm network, and the pricing mistakes that keep people underpaid doing this work. By the end of this episode, you'll have the full playbook to land your first paying AI client this month, plus a free download to run it yourself.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about  Timestamps00:00 - Intro: the laziest way to $10K a month00:30 - The opportunity and the offer ladder overview01:45 - Why anyone can do this (no cold outreach required)02:45 - Your ideal customer: 3–20 employees, 500K–10M revenue04:30 - The real pain point: "where do I start," not an AI problem06:00 - Becoming the technical translator and prescribing tools07:30 - The three-rung offer ladder explained in full09:30 - Pricing and margins: 98% net margin math11:00 - The $1,000-an-hour AI concierge breakdown12:00 - Getting your first client: list, text, upsell14:00 - The exact text message script to send15:00 - Turning every "no" into a referral16:00 - Mistake #1: running out of your warm list16:45 - Mistake #2: underpricing the AI concierge offer18:00 - Mistake #3: not qualifying leads before the free assessment18:45 - Next steps and how to join AI Operator AcademyKey PointsThe whole business runs on one offer ladder: a free 15-minute mini AI assessment that finds one pain point and prescribes one tool, upsold into a $999 paid assessment that prescribes three to seven tools, upsold into a $1,000–$2,000/month AI Concierge engagement to implement it all.The math is simple: four AI Concierge clients at $1,500/month plus four paid assessments at $999/month gets you to $10K a month, and AI Concierge fulfillment is just two 45-minute calls per month per client.This is close to a 98% net margin business. The only cost of goods is a $20/month Claude subscription — no team, no overhead, nothing else required to fulfill any of these offers.The client acquisition system is three steps: make a list of 50 people you already know, send one specific text message offering a free mini assessment, then upsell. Send 50 texts and you can expect 15–25 mini assessments booked and 5–7 paying clients.Every "no" is still a win — ask for two referrals every time, whether you get a yes, a no, or no response at all. About 50% of nos turn into one or two referrals.Never price AI Concierge under $1,000/month. Anchor to the hours you save the client, not the hours you spend — one AI Operator Academy member just closed a client at $5,000/month for six months.Qualify before you assess. The ideal client has three to 20 employees doing $500K to $10 million a year in revenue — solopreneurs usually can't afford the follow-through, even if they want in.Claude - the AI tool used to fulfill every AI Concierge engagement, and the only real cost of goods in this entire business at $20/month - https://claude.aiFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Grab the free AI Concierge Playbook, the full step-by-step implementation guide to build this offer yourself https://corey-ganim.kit.com/cde665995bIn this solo episode, I break down my AI Concierge offer, the exact system that's paying me over $1,000 an hour for two 45-minute calls a month and Voxer access to me in between. I walk through why so many business owners stall out with AI tools on their own, the AOA framework we use to fix a broken process before we ever automate it, and the four deliverables that make up the entire engagement: the intake form, the strategy calls, unlimited Voxer access, and the Notion Hub that keeps clients renewing every month. I also open up the real numbers, going from zero to $8,000 in monthly recurring revenue in 10 days, and show you exactly how to price this so you're making $1,000+ an hour doing it. By the end of this episode, you'll have the full offer breakdown to copy and paste directly into your own business.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: the $1,000 an hour AI Concierge offer00:35 - The opportunity: done-with-you AI consulting for small business owners02:10 - Zero to $8K MRR in 10 days from six conversations03:15 - The problem: business owners stuck working in, not on, the business05:00 - Why AI tools stall without fixing the process first05:45 - The ideal client: wants a partner, not a course or a black-box agency06:45 - Free AI Concierge Playbook and the AI Operator Academy business-in-a-box08:15 - The intake form: no form means no call10:00 - The two monthly 45-minute strategy calls10:45 - The AOA framework: Audit, Optimize, Automate12:30 - The first call: onboarding clients to Claude Cowork with a custom plugin14:15 - Voxer: unlimited walkie-talkie access between calls15:45 - The Notion Hub: the retention weapon17:30 - Pricing and margins: how to price and when to raise your rates18:45 - Capping clients and using scarcity to sell the offerKey PointsAI Concierge is done-with-you consulting: an intake form, two 45-minute strategy calls a month, unlimited Voxer access, and a shared Notion Hub. No churned clients so far and an effective rate north of $1,000 an hour.The AOA framework is the whole methodology: Audit the manual process, Optimize it by cutting the fat (most 15-step processes only need nine), then Automate it into a Claude skill. Automating a broken process just speeds up the inefficiency, so the order matters every time.The ideal client doesn't want a course and doesn't want a black-box agency. They want a partner sitting beside them on the call, walking them through it step by step, so they actually understand what was built and how to maintain it.The intake form is a hard requirement before the first call. It surfaces the three tasks eating the client's week and asks what process they'd pay the most to never do again, which tells you exactly where to start the engagement.Voxer access is high perceived value and low fulfillment. Clients rarely use it, but knowing they can reach you anytime makes the retainer feel worth every dollar.The Notion Hub logs every call, recording, summary, and top-three takeaways at the call level, and doubles as the renewal weapon. Two Claude skills fill it out and draft the follow-up email automatically, so updating it takes about 30 minutes per call.Never charge less than $1,000 a month for this offer. Raise your price by $250 to $500 every time you close a new client, and if nobody's saying no, your price is too low.Jotform, the intake form tool with a direct Claude connector - https://www.jotform.comClaude / Claude Cowork, used to build the intake form, run the AOA framework live on calls, and onboard clients with a custom plugin - https://claude.aiNotion, home of the client-facing Notion Hub that logs every call, recording, and takeaway - https://www.notion.soVoxer, the walkie-talkie app used for unlimited between-call access - https://voxer.comFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Grab the free Mini AI Assessment Playbook that walks through the exact 15-minute assessment used to open doors with local businesses: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/0cea7ca381In this solo episode, I break down the seven laziest ways to sign AI clients fast, no audience, no ad spend, no capital required. I walk through exactly how I landed seven qualified leads and a paying client from 90 minutes of effort spending zero dollars, then hand you the same playbook: hosting an AI for Business meetup in your city, door knocking local businesses, LinkedIn outreach that doesn't read like AI spam, free AI audits for your warm network, partnering with agencies and consultants who already have the clients you want, hosting AI office hours at a local co-working space, and posting your wins on social media to stay top of mind. Every method is built around one truth: you don't need to be an expert, you just need to be the first credible person who shows up with a plan. By the end of this episode, you'll have seven concrete, low-cost ways to become the go-to AI person in your city, starting this week.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps:00:00 - Intro: the laziest ways to sign AI clients00:25 - Why local AI expertise is such a low bar to clear01:30 - The problem: business owners drowning in repetitive work02:35 - Method 1: Host an AI for Business meetup05:20 - How to run the meetup format start to finish07:00 - Method 2: Door knocking local businesses08:45 - The free mini assessment playbook and the paid upsell10:00 - Method 3: LinkedIn outreach done right11:30 - Method 4: Free AI audits for your warm network13:00 - Method 5: Partner with agencies and consultants14:20 - Method 6: Host AI office hours at a co-working space15:30 - Method 7: Post your wins on social media16:30 - Recap and how to join AI Operator AcademyKey Points:The bar to being "the AI guy" in your city is shockingly low. You don't need to be a big social media name, you just need to know more about AI than the local business owners who don't know where to start.Hosting a free AI for Business meetup is the highest-leverage method on the list. One meetup in a rented co-working space room, cost about $100, produced seven qualified leads and a paying client within a week.Door knocking still works better than almost anything else. One listener knocked on 30 businesses and landed five meetings and two paying clients in a week; another closed a client off a single door knock the same day.LinkedIn outreach only works if you never pitch in the first message. Send 20 personalized DMs a day to local business owners with 10 to 50 employees, ask what's annoying about their day-to-day, and you'll land a paying client in three weeks or less.Your first paying client is probably already in your phone. Texting 30 to 50 people in your warm network for a free 20-minute AI audit converts at a high enough rate that even the "no's" turn into referrals.Partnering with agencies, coaches, accountants, and realtors turns them into an unpaid sales team. Offer 10 percent of any deal that closes and follow up every two to three weeks until you're the first person they think of.Posting your wins doesn't require big results or a big following. Screenshotting a single answered question with permission and posting three to five times a week for 90 days is enough to become the person your network thinks of when they think of AI.Links mentioned:Luma – simple event registration page for hosting local meetups -https://lu.ma Eventbrite – event registration platform for local meetups - https://www.eventbrite.comMeetup.com – event registration and discovery platform for local meetups - https://www.meetup.comFIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Grab the Free report template: https://audittemplate.ai Grab the full Excalidraw diagram:  AI Assessment framework (public) — Excalidraw PlusThis is the full AI assessment masterclass. I walk through the four phases of the $999 AI tools assessment, the expansion menu of services you can sell after, seven ways to find clients without spending any money, and then the AI concierge upsell that is generating over a thousand dollars an hour for me right now. I have five clients on the concierge offer paying between twelve hundred and two thousand dollars a month each for two 45-minute calls. That is the entire deliverable. This episode gives you the full playbook end to end so you can go do this yourself.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 – Intro: The full AI assessment masterclass00:30 – What is the AI tools assessment and how does it work?01:30 – Phase 1: The 45-minute discovery call and key questions to ask02:24 – Phase 2: AI analysis, Claude finds 3-7 tools from the transcript03:30 – Using Futurepedia and There's an AI for That to fill gaps04:00 – Phase 3: The report, nine slides in Claude Design04:54 – Effort versus impact matrix, quick wins, financial impact05:30 – Phase 4: The review call, walking through the report06:00 – Three closing questions that convert 50-60% into paid work06:30 – The expansion menu: what to sell after the assessment07:00 – Process redesign at $3,000–$3,50007:30 – Automation builds at $1,000–$7,00008:00 – Knowledge systems at $3,000 with the business broker example09:40 – Custom workflows: prompt packs, skill packs, templates at $3,000–$5,00010:00 – Full implementation at $5,000–$10,000+10:30 – Seven ways to sell with no money and no audience11:00 – Method 1: Host a local AI meetup12:07 – Method 2: Door knock 30 businesses, the DM success story13:00 – Method 3: LinkedIn DMs targeting CEOs with 10-50 employees13:30 – Method 4: Free audits to your existing network14:20 – Method 5: Agency partners, become the AI guy for your CPA15:30 – Method 6: Free AI office hours at a co-working space16:44 – Method 7: Post your wins on LinkedIn18:00 – The AI concierge offer: done-with-you consulting at $1,200–$2,000/month19:10 – The math: $750–$1,250 per hour effective rate20:00 – Call 1: Onboarding to Claude Cowork with the plugin21:00 – Every call after: AOA on their workflows one at a time21:32 – What makes it feel premium: onboarding form, Notion hub, Voxer23:56 – Why this is the best AI startup idea of 2026Key PointsThe AI tools assessment is the front door. For $999, you sit down with a business owner for 45 minutes, pull out their pain points, have Claude find three to seven off-the-shelf tools, and deliver a nine-slide report. Fifty to sixty percent of the time, they want paid help implementing what you prescribed.The four phases are discovery call, AI analysis, report delivery, and review call. Phase two is where Claude does the heavy lifting by analyzing the transcript and finding tools. Phase four is where you close by asking which recommendation is most urgent, whether they want help, and what their timeline is.The expansion menu has five tiers: process redesign at three to three and a half thousand, automation builds at one to seven thousand, knowledge systems at three thousand, custom workflows at three to five thousand, and full implementations at five to ten thousand or more.Seven ways to sell with no money and no audience: host a local AI meetup, door knock local businesses, LinkedIn DMs targeting CEOs, free audits to your existing network, agency and referral partners, free AI office hours at a co-working space, and post your wins consistently on LinkedIn.The AI concierge is the highest dollar-per-hour offer. Two 45-minute calls per month at twelve hundred to two thousand dollars a month puts your effective hourly rate between $750 and $1,250. With five clients, total admin outside the calls is almost zero thanks to Claude skills that handle follow-up emails and Notion updates.The Notion hub is the renewal engine. After every call, a Claude skill logs the top three takeaways, action items, and an inventory of everything built. When the client looks at that ledger, they see undeniable value and keep renewing.Voxer is the high perceived value bonus that almost nobody uses. Five clients over three months generated a total of four Voxer messages. The 12-hour SLA makes it feel premium without adding real workload.Links Mentioned:Futurepedia: https://www.futurepedia.io There's an AI for That: https://theresanaiforthat.com Fathom: https://fathom.video Voxer: https://www.voxer.comIf this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Justin Brooke from Agent Skills is back on the podcast, and this time he walks us through the full business model behind selling AI systems as zip files with zero delivery work. His system is called CMO HQ, a marketing and sales operating system built entirely out of folders and markdown files that works with any AI, whether it is Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, Codex, or anything else. The delivery model is dead simple: the customer buys from a sales page, receives a zip file with an operations manual and an installer dot MD file, hands that file to their AI of choice, and the AI builds out the entire system for them. No onboarding calls, no Loom walkthroughs, no custom setup. Justin shows us the full folder structure, the finance layer, a live content pipeline, and the actual installer file on screen.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 - Intro: Justin Brooke is back00:23 - What CMO HQ is and why it works with any AI01:23 - The folder structure: HQ, brands, finance, shared03:30 - Brands folder: one per brand with intelligence, departments, and metrics04:10 - The finance folder and why it matters for true marketing metrics05:14 - The installer.md file that builds the whole system05:45 - Why this is the simplest marketing OS out there05:50 - Inside the finance folder: revenue, expenses, economics, reporting06:48 - Connecting Google Ads, Kit, Thrivecart, and Xeny for full-picture data07:56 - Building in iCloud for access from any device09:27 - Marketing departments: paid, earned, and owned channels10:00 - The sacred pipeline: active to review to publish11:06 - Live example: faith-based niche site blog post end to end13:30 - Automated performance reporting via MCP connections15:18 - Why Justin does everything in Claude Cowork, not Claude Code15:45 - How to sell any AI-generated asset to clients16:25 - The delivery problem and why folders and files solve it17:24 - The two-file delivery: operations manual plus installer.md19:13 - Session transfer documents and how the system started20:19 - Changelog.md for tracking business decisions20:46 - The jobs to be done framework for building any system22:01 - Jobs equal folders, instructions equal markdown files, which equal skills23:26 - Why the nerds who want to build it themselves are not your customers24:33 - Step one: jobs to be done, then vibe with Claude to build folders26:00 - Three things every agent needs: memory, instructions, tools26:18 - Why you should use a slide deck on every sales call28:25 - The installer file walkthrough on screen30:27 - Why this means zero delivery work31:14 - Where to find Justin and Build Club32:22 - Justin hangs out mostly on TwitterKey PointsThe entire system is folders and markdown files. No code, no complex frameworks, no platform lock-in. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, Codex, or any other AI because all of them can read folders and files.The delivery model eliminates all fulfillment work. Customers buy from a sales page, receive a zip file containing an operations manual and an installer dot MD file, hand that installer to their AI, and the AI builds out the entire system. No calls, no custom setup, no support tickets.The installer dot MD file is the key innovation. It contains a greeting, an interview section that asks the customer about their business, and then the full folder structure with instructions. The AI reads it and builds everything automatically in one session.CMO HQ has four main sections: an HQ folder for personal and business identity, a brands folder with one subfolder per brand containing intelligence, departments, and metrics, a finance folder that connects to accounting and ad platforms for real financial reporting, and a shared folder for team collaboration.The jobs to be done framework is how you replicate this for any niche. Figure out what jobs need to be done in a business, make a folder for each job, put instructions in each folder, and you have a sellable system. Dentists, lawyers, agencies, any vertical works the same way.Three things every agent needs: memory so it knows what happened, instructions so it knows what to do, and tools so it can do the work. If you have those three things in folders and files, you can handle any job.The sales advice is simple and powerful: stop doing calls on the fly and use a slide deck for every sales call. It keeps you on pace, makes every call uniformly good by the fifth or sixth time, and becomes the training material when you hire a salesperson.Links Mentioned Agent Skills / Build Club: https://agentskills.ai Jake Van Cleef (ICM system and folders-and-files research): mentioned, search YouTube Ghost CMS: https://ghost.org 11 Labs: https://elevenlabs.ioIf this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimFIND JUSTIN ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/agentskills_ai                  https://x.com/IMJustinBrookeAgent Skills: https://agentskills.ai

Grab the assessment report template I use to deliver $999 AI assessments (free): https://audittemplate.ai/Grab the full Excalidraw diagram I show in this video depicting the AI Offer Ladder: https://app.excalidraw.com/l/4z8Z2Lyybfg/8FAvEjYbuGc This is the full AI offer ladder that I use to sell AI services, from a free mini assessment all the way up to a two thousand dollar per month concierge retainer and beyond. I walk through all three tiers of the ladder step by step: the free mini assessment that converts thirty to fifty percent of the time, the paid assessment that we charge $999 for, and the AI concierge model that is my primary income source right now. I also cover four à la carte builds you can sell on top of the ladder, with real examples and exact pricing from engagements we have actually closed. If you want theof this offer ladder plus the assessment report template, both are linked below for free.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps 00:00 – Intro: The three components of the AI offer ladder00:30 – The free mini assessment: What it is and how it works01:00 – Three levers of ROI: Effectiveness, efficiency, and quality01:30 – Meeting one: Discovery call and the magic wand question02:00 – Meeting two: Prescribing the fix02:21 – Download the Excalidraw diagram for free03:00 – Off-the-shelf tool vs. Claude Cowork vs. Claude skill: When to prescribe each04:00 – Closing the free assessment: Gauging appetite for paid help04:30 – Conversion data: 30 to 50 percent of free assessments convert to paid04:44 – Step Two: The paid assessment at $99905:30 – Annie: The voice agent that conducts the 45-minute interview06:30 – Building the report in Claude Design07:06 – Six parts of the paid assessment report07:30 – The effort versus impact matrix and quick wins08:30 – Quantifying ROI: Hourly Rate × Hours Saved − Tool Cost09:29 – The 30-minute walkthrough call and the upsell moment10:00 – Pricing progression: Free to $200 to $500 to $1,00010:30 – Step Three: The AI concierge retainer11:57 – Effective hourly rate: At $1,500/month is $1,000/hour12:30 – JotForm intake as a hard requirement before call one13:30 – Framework: AOA (Audit, Optimize, Automate)14:06 – The call cadence and Voxer between sessions15:30 – The Notion Hub as a renewal mechanism16:26 – Two Claude skills that fill out Notion and draft follow-up emails in 30 seconds17:00 – Concierge pricing: $1,000 to $2,000/month, capping at six clients18:00 – À La Carte Build 1: Process optimization at $3,000 to $5,00019:30 – À La Carte Build 2: Zapier or Make automation at $1,000 to $5,00020:00 – À La Carte Build 3: Knowledge system or custom GPT at $3,00021:00 – Case Study: Business broker custom GPT that cut 400 emails to 1022:00 – À La Carte Build 4: Speed to lead agent23:36 – Wrap-up and where to get the diagram and templateKey PointsThe offer ladder has three tiers that build on each other. A free fifteen-minute mini assessment identifies one pain point and prescribes one tool. Thirty to fifty percent of those convert into a paid assessment at $999 that uncovers three to seven opportunities and delivers a full report. From there, clients can upsell into AI concierge at one to two thousand dollars a month.The free mini assessment is a two-meeting process. Meeting one is pure discovery for fifteen minutes. Between calls you research the bottleneck and find a tool. Meeting two you prescribe the fix and gauge appetite for paid help with three simple questions.The paid assessment report has six parts: executive summary, effort versus impact matrix, recommended tool stack, four-day quick wins plan, upsell opportunities for heavier builds, and a financial ROI slide that quantifies their monthly savings in dollars.The AI concierge model is two 45-minute calls per month where you run the AOA framework on every bottleneck: audit the manual process, optimize by cutting unnecessary steps, automate with a Claude skill. Two Claude skills handle the entire back end in thirty seconds.The math on concierge is compelling. At $1,500 per month for ninety minutes of call time, the effective hourly rate is $1,000 per hour. Capping at six clients means the maximum workload is nine hours of calls per month.Four à la carte builds can stack on top of the ladder: process optimization at three to five thousand dollars, Zapier or Make automation at one to five thousand, knowledge system or custom GPT at three thousand, and speed to lead agents that drive revenue directly.Links Mentioned Futurepedia: https://www.futurepedia.io There's an AI for That: https://theresanaiforthat.com JotForm: https://www.jotform.com Voxer: https://www.voxer.com Fathom: https://fathom.videoIf this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIAL: X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Grab the exact template I use to deliver the $999 AI audits here (free): https://corey-ganim.kit.com/fd0829de10This is the actual AI tools assessment template that we deliver to clients after a $999 audit. Nine slides, built from scratch in Claude Design, walked through one by one so you can see exactly what goes on every slide and why. I cover the effort versus impact matrix, the tool stack recommendations, the four-day quick wins plan that gets clients to implement at least half the report in under a week, and the financial impact slide that shows them their monthly ROI in dollars. I also show you exactly how the assessment sets up the upsell into bigger projects, and at the end I give you the actual template file so you can duplicate it in Claude Design and start using it with your own clients.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 – Intro: The real AI tools assessment template00:30 – Building the template in Claude Design and why we canceled Gamma01:00 – How to auto-fill the template by dropping in a client transcript01:30 – Slide 1: Title slide and the tweaks menu in Claude Design02:00 – Slide 2: Executive summary with primary pain point and outcome02:24 – The three levers of ROI: Effectiveness, efficiency, and quality02:50 – Slide 3: The effort versus impact matrix03:30 – Quick wins, fill-ins, major projects, and what to ignore04:44 – Slide 4: Quick wins summary with pain point to tool mapping05:30 – Slide 5: The full tool stack with cost, setup time, and time saved06:30 – Slide 6: The four-day quick wins plan07:02 – Why the four-day plan prevents implementation paralysis07:30 – Slide 7: What comes after quick wins and the major projects upsell08:30 – How to tee up the upsell on the review call09:00 – Slide 8: Financial impact and the monthly net ROI calculation09:20 – The ROI formula: Weekly Hours Returned × Hourly Rate − Tool Cost10:30 – Slide 9: Next steps and the review call booking11:00 – Three questions that close 50 percent of upsells on the review call11:43 – How to duplicate the template in Claude Design using the HTML file12:30 – Sixty seconds to a fully imported templateKey PointsThe assessment template is nine slides built in Claude Design. You can drag and drop a client transcript into the Claude Design chat and it will auto-fill the entire template for you, making this nearly plug and play.The effort versus impact matrix is the light bulb moment for clients. It sorts all recommendations into four quadrants: quick wins that are high impact and low effort, fill-ins, things to ignore, and major projects that become your upsell opportunities.The tool stack slide is where you spend most of the review call. Each recommendation shows the pain point, the tool, a brief description, the monthly cost, setup complexity, and estimated weekly time saved.The four-day quick wins plan prevents implementation paralysis. Instead of overwhelming clients with six recommendations, you give them four things to do in four days that capture at least fifty percent of the report's value.The financial impact slide makes the ROI undeniable. Take the weekly hours returned times the client's self-reported hourly rate times four, then subtract the total monthly tool cost. A typical result: five hours per week at a hundred dollars per hour minus fifty dollars in tools equals $1,950 per month in net ROI from a $999 assessment.The major projects slide is the upsell. High impact, high effort solutions that need custom builds like Zapier automations, AI agents, or knowledge bases. On the review call, three simple questions close over fifty percent of clients: do you want my help implementing these, which will you tackle first, and how urgent is it.Links Mentioned: Claude Design: https://claude.ai SanBox: https://www.sanebox.com Fathom: https://fathom.videoIf this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Grab Nick's exact blueprint for scaling a managed AI agent business to $50k/month: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/5e8c982461 Use code COREY to get your first 3 days of Orgo.ai free then 20% off your first 3 months: https://www.orgo.ai/?r=COREYI brought on Nick Vasilescu, co-founder of Orgo, and we built out the complete blueprint for a one-person managed AI agent business that can hit $50K a month in recurring revenue. The model is straightforward: charge $5K per month per client for unlimited agents, unlimited tokens, and unlimited infrastructure. You handle everything so the business owner never has to think about what a token is or how to set up Hermes. We walk through the full stack, the offer, how to find and close clients, how to onboard them using an effort versus impact matrix, and how to deploy and manage agent fleets on Orgo. Nick even sets up a Hermes agent from scratch in twenty-six seconds live on screen. If you want a business you can start this week with skills you already have, this episode gives you the whole thing.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 – Intro and what you'll walk away with01:14 – The $5K per month per client blueprint overview01:46 – The biggest arbitrage: most businesses don't know what agents can do03:11 – The offer: unlimited tokens, agents, and infrastructure05:08 – Best industries for managed agents and how to pick a niche06:07 – Go broad first, let the market pull you into a niche08:06 – How to find clients: content, Upwork, and free work for case studies09:43 – Why your first clients should be free11:06 – Onboarding: voice recorder to workflow map to effort versus impact matrix12:32 – The audit as a foot-in-the-door offer14:49 – Steal this flow: free mini audit into paid audit into managed service16:00 – The agent stack: Hermes, Composio, and Orgo17:51 – Composio for one-click tool connections19:53 – Orgo walkthrough: spinning up workspaces and agent computers21:02 – How workspaces map to clients22:25 – The client never sees Orgo, it's your operator layer24:38 – Troubleshooting client agents from your phone26:49 – Building industry-specific productized agent apps27:59 – From audit transcript to deployed skill in ten minutes28:36 – Orgo discount code for the audience29:47 – Windows computers on Orgo: managing Codex and Claude Code for clients32:35 – Cloning agent templates for instant productization33:50 – Twenty-six second Hermes installation live on screen37:16 – The full stack: Hermes, Composio, Orgo, Agent Mail38:08 – Watchdogs: get alerted before your client notices a problem39:31 – Why being a good communicator is your biggest edge41:28 – Token cost management with Codex subscriptions41:36 – The math: ten clients equals $50K MRR at 85% margins43:04 – Why most people still won't take action45:00 – Thinking long term: the cost of intelligence is going to zeroKey PointsThe core offer is simple: unlimited tokens, unlimited agents, unlimited infrastructure for $5K a month. Business owners do not care about the technical details. They want their problem solved, and your job is to remove all complexity.The best sales flow is a three-step funnel: a free mini audit that uncovers one pain point, a paid full audit for $1,000 that maps five to seven workflow opportunities, and then a $5K per month managed service where you credit the audit fee toward the first month.The effort versus impact matrix is the key to onboarding. After the first call, you map every workflow the client mentions, plot them by value versus effort, and start with the ones in the high-value low-effort quadrant. That first win is the hook.Orgo lets you manage fleets of agent computers across all your clients from one dashboard. Each client gets their own workspace. You can spin up a Hermes agent from a template in twenty-six seconds and clone golden snapshots to productize your setup across multiple clients in the same niche.Composio solves the biggest fulfillment bottleneck in managed agents: connecting all of a client's tools. The client connects their apps in one place, gives you the API key, and your agent has access to everything.The math works even with conservative assumptions. One new client every six weeks gets you to ten clients and $600K ARR in a year. Token costs per client run about $200 a month via a Codex subscription, leaving you with 85 percent or higher gross margins.Nick's long-term thesis: the cost of intelligence is going to zero. Even if you lose money on tokens in month one, the spread will widen every month as models get cheaper. Think about where the puck is going. Hermes Agent: https://www.hermes.agent Agent Mail: https://agentmail.to Excalidraw business blueprint diagram: [placeholder - link to diagram]If this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimFIND NICK ON SOCIAL X: https://x.com/nickvasilesYouTube:@nickvasilesOrgo: https://www.orgo.ai

LIMITED bonus from Hyperagent: First 1,000 people get $1,000 in free Hyperagent credits. Claim yours: https://www.hyperagent.com/coreyI brought on Alex McDonnell from HyperAgent, which is the new agentic platform built by the team at Airtable, and we walked through a full business model for selling AI services to local brick-and-mortar businesses. The play is simple: use agents to find businesses with great reviews but terrible or nonexistent websites, have HyperAgent build them a new site automatically, then lead with that as a free tripwire offer. We go deep on the real upsell, which is revenue-driving systems like speed to quote tools for landscapers and mechanics that close deals faster. By the end of this episode, you'll have a complete offer structure you can take to any local business owner this week.Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps 00:00 – Intro00:43 – What HyperAgent is and the business model concept02:19 – Why this outreach wasn't possible before AI agents05:16 – The command center for managing agent-built prospects07:59 – Website before and after: Veslo Family Restaurant10:36 – How HyperAgent judges website quality on its own15:10 – Speed to quote system for a landscaping business19:53 – Why zero landscapers in your city have this yet22:55 – Pricing the offer: $5-10K setup plus monthly retainer26:14 – Live build: speed to quote for CS Automotive27:35 – Plan mode vs execute mode in HyperAgent30:39 – Running agents on a Kanban board in Airtable33:30 – Selling the agent itself as the product37:03 – Agent marketplace and the compute markup model38:05 – Live result: the CS Automotive quote tool finishes42:20 – Static artifacts as lead gen, always-on agents as the upsellKey PointsThe tripwire offer model works because agents can now build a full website for a local business in under an hour for about nine dollars in compute, turning what used to be a paid deliverable into a free lead gen tool.HyperAgent doesn't just find businesses without websites. It has the judgment to recognize that a business has a website but it's bad, which is a much harder problem that most agentic tools couldn't solve even a few months ago.The real money is not in the website. It's in upselling always-on revenue systems like speed to quote tools that help businesses close deals faster, priced as a $5-10K setup fee plus a monthly retainer of $200-1,000.The landscaping speed to quote example is the standout: a customer submits a photo of their yard and gets back three design variations with toggleable features, live pricing, and financing options, all generated by an agent.Every skill Alex builds for HyperAgent demos gets published for free on X and GitHub, so you can grab the landscaping build, install it, and take it to a client without building from scratch.HyperAgent's long-term vision includes an agent marketplace where creators publish agents and earn a markup on compute costs, making distribution feel free to the end user while the builder still gets paid.Airtable - System of record for managing agent workflows via Kanban boards - https://www.airtable.comIf this episode was valuable to you, it would mean a lot if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more entrepreneurs find the show.FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimFIND ALEX ON SOCIAL X/Twitter:  @hyperagentapp 

Grab the full mini assessment playbook in Notion for free, including the first-call script and the second-call prep checklist: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/0cea7ca381In this solo episode, I hand over the complete free AI mini assessment framework I use to turn business owners into paid clients in two 15-minute calls. I walk through the three levers of ROI, the five questions to ask on the fact-finding call (including the ROI anchor and my favorite, the magic wand question), and how to pick the one bottleneck that sits at the intersection of high frequency and high friction. Then I break down the prescription tree, when to recommend an off-the-shelf tool, Claude Cowork, or a custom Claude skill, and the exact three things you bring to the follow-up call. By the end, you'll be able to run this assessment confidently in about 15 minutes and ask the money question that converts 30 to 50% of free assessments into paid work.Join our AI Operator Academy Community: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 – Intro00:14 – The lens: one bottleneck, one tool, one upsell00:30 – The three levers of ROI00:57 – Meeting one: the 15-minute fact-finding call01:25 – The forking question01:43 – The repetition question01:58 – The friction question02:10 – The ROI anchor question02:45 – The magic wand question03:35 – Closing call one and booking the follow-up03:55 – Between meetings: frequency and friction research04:43 – Meeting two: prescribing the one solution05:15 – Finding off-the-shelf tools in AI directories06:20 – Claude Cowork vs. a custom Claude skill07:08 – The three things you bring to call two07:40 – The money moment and the upsell questionKey PointsEvery prescription has to pull one of three ROI levers: effectiveness (more revenue), efficiency (hours back in their week), or quality (happier customers). Let the owner pick the lever, then weight everything back to it.Meeting one is pure discovery. Prescribe nothing. Ask the five questions, listen, and close by naming the one bottleneck with the highest opportunity back to them.The ROI anchor: get the owner to quantify the pain in their own words. Two hours a week at $200 an hour is $400 a week they could get back, and that number does the selling for you.The bottleneck worth fixing sits at the intersection of high frequency and high friction. That's the one you prescribe. Everything else stays in your back pocket.The prescription tree: common tasks get an off-the-shelf tool, tasks involving judgment, writing, or research get Claude Cowork, and repeatable workflows unique to their business get a custom Claude skill.When prescribing a custom Claude skill, tell them the what, not the how. That gap is your upsell.Come to call two with three things, the name of the tool, what it costs, and the first step they could take this week, then ask the money question: hand it off, build it with you, or build it for you? 30 to 50% of the time, they say build it.Free Notion template with the full mini assessment playbook, first-call script, and second-call prep checklist - [ADD NOTION TEMPLATE LINK]There's An AI For That - AI tool directory searchable by industry to find off-the-shelf fixes - https://theresanaiforthat.comFuturepedia - another AI tool directory for matching tools to client pain points - https://www.futurepedia.ioClaude Cowork - the prescription for tasks involving judgment, writing, or research - https://claude.comFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimClick to enable keyboard move mode.

I brought on Ryan Doser — a non-technical marketer with over a decade of experience who built a real-world Claude Code SEO workflow that's generated $5,000 in passive revenue in under two months — to show exactly how this works, step by step. We walk through two full demos: how Ryan repurposes YouTube videos into SEO-optimized blog posts automatically via a WordPress MCP connection, and how he vibe-coded an entire local service business website from scratch using Claude Code, Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare — no developer required. He also shows us how he's running the same WordPress workflow for a paying client that's now showing up number one in Google AI overviews for national keywords. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to do this yourself, how to sell it as a service to local businesses, and where Ryan's $99 Claude Code Skill Stack fits into the equation.Skool Community: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 – Intro and what you'll take away 00:33 – Does this require coding knowledge? 01:12 – Demo 1: WordPress Claude Code SEO workflow 03:26 – Who to sell this to (creators vs. B2B clients) 05:50 – How the blog post auto-publishes to WordPress 07:15 – Google Search Console results and $5K in passive revenue 09:38 – Breakdown of the revenue timeline and digital product 11:42 – Real client example: MedX Dental IT 13:34 – AI search results and ranking #1 in Google AI overviews 14:50 – How to price this as a service and prove ROI 16:42 – Demo 2: Local service businesses as the target niche 19:47 – The fake septic tank site ranking on page one 22:00 – Building and deploying with Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare 27:35 – Why this model beats time-saving automations 31:23 – Why SEO is evergreen and the long-term pitch to clients 33:00 – Live deploy: blog post goes from Claude Code to live site 34:14 – Wrap-up and where to find RyanKey PointsRyan is a non-technical marketer — no coding background. He built this entire workflow as a regular person figuring it out, which means anyone watching can do the same thing. If the barrier felt technical before, that framing matters.The WordPress workflow is fully hands-off after one prompt. Claude Code scrapes a YouTube transcript, pulls screenshots from the video, compresses and uploads images to WordPress, writes the blog post with proper H2/H3 structure, assigns a category, sets the featured image, writes the meta description, and publishes a draft — all without touching the CMS.Ryan made over $5,000 passively from a $99 digital product, with roughly 80% of that revenue attributed directly to blog traffic from AI-repurposed YouTube videos. He implemented this in late February and the traffic didn't even start building until mid-April - so the real window was about six weeks.The fake Des Moines Septic site - built in a single three-to-four-hour Claude Code session two weeks before recording - was already ranking on page one of Google, beating legitimate businesses, Better Business Bureau, and HomeAdvisor for "septic tank pumping near me." That's the case study you use to land clients.The client pitch for boring local service businesses is not immediate ROI - it's long-term compounding. Work done today pays dividends in year one, year two, and year five, even after the retainer ends. Business owners who think long-term immediately get this, and they're exactly who you want as clients.The whole stack is nearly free. GitHub is free. Cloudflare has a generous free tier. VS Code is free. Astro is free. All you need is a Claude subscription - $100 a month gets you real output capacity. The arbitrage between a $100/month subscription and two or three clients paying $2,000–$5,000 a month each is hard to argue with.Ryan's approach to client acquisition for local businesses: go in person. With AI-generated spam calls and emails everywhere, walking into a business and talking to the owner directly cuts through the noise. Even as a mediocre salesperson, ten in-person conversations with decision-makers will close at least one client.Links MentionedRyan's Claude Code Skill Stack — 25–30 marketing and content skills including the WordPress repurposing workflow and the local service site builder — https://ryandoser.com/Ryan Doser's YouTube channel — real-world Claude Code workflows for marketing and content, with full walkthroughs of everything shown in this episode — https://www.youtube.com/@RyanDoserAIAI Marketing Insiders community — Ryan's 1,000+ member community for marketers using AI — https://www.skool.com/ai-marketing-insidersFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim Skool Community: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutFIND RYAN ON SOCIALYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanDoserAI Website: https://ryandoser.com/ AI Marketing Insiders: https://www.skool.com/ai-marketing-insiders

Build your voice agent in 10 minutes (No code required) https://corey-ganim.kit.com/18da152cf4 In this episode, I sat down with Susan Westwater, co-founder of Pragmatic Digital and a conversational AI veteran since 2017, to build a working voice agent in Voiceflow live, with zero code. Susan walks through her exact prompt template for an appointment-scheduling agent, explains the difference between in-the-loop, on-the-loop, and fully autonomous agents, and shows how to separate your agent instructions from your knowledge base so you can update facts without breaking the whole build. We test the agent live (it called her cell phone mid-episode), connect it to a Google Sheet to capture customer intake, and talk about competitors like VAPI, ElevenLabs, and Voiceify. By the end, you'll have the exact playbook (and the template Susan is giving away) to spin up your own MVP voice agent in under an hour. Timestamps 03:42 – Inside Voiceflow and what makes it different 04:23 – Chatbot vs voice agent: listen, decide, act 05:30 – In the loop vs on the loop vs fully autonomous 09:09 – The system prompt: identity, purpose, and boundaries 11:54 – Voice, persona, and speech sculpting 13:22 – Separating agent instructions from knowledge base 17:14 – Stopping the agent from troubleshooting electrical issues 20:31 – Rules for collecting info one question at a time 23:21 – Pasting the prompt and one-shotting the build 26:34 – Voiceflow competitors: VAPI, ElevenLabs, Voiceify 30:22 – Connecting tools at each conversation step 33:13 – Why faster builds give up control 38:21 – Adding the knowledge base as a Word doc 43:13 – Sending customer intake to a Google Sheet 45:57 – Live phone call with the voice agent 50:09 – Branching, exit conditions, and iteration 54:52 – Custom voices, ElevenLabs integration, and voice security Key Points Keep two documents separate: agent instructions (how the agent behaves, its identity, persona, escalation rules) and knowledge base (the facts about your business). If pricing or hours change, you update one cell in your knowledge base instead of digging through a giant system prompt. The strength of a Voiceflow build lives in the prompt. Susan pastes her full instructions doc into the new project prompt and Voiceflow generates the entire conversation flow — greeting, qualification, intake, confirmation, escalation — with no coding. Be explicit about what the agent does NOT do. LLMs are trying to "win the game" (Susan's War Games analogy), so if you don't tell the electrical-appointment bot "do not troubleshoot," it will try to problem-solve its way out of every conversation. Collect intake one question at a time, use explicit confirmation on critical fields like callback numbers, and tell the agent to be empathetic but not apologetic — nobody wants a bot that says "I'm sorry" five times instead of solving the problem. Voiceflow — https://www.voiceflow.com Pragmatic Digital — Susan's agency helping brands operationalize conversational AI and applied AI for CX - https://www.pragmatic.digital VAPI — alternative voice agent platform - https://vapi.ai ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io Voiceify — centralized library for chatbot, voice agent, and telephone deployments across web and mobile - https://voicify.com/ Twilio — phone number and telephony layer for connecting Voiceflow agents to real phone calls - https://www.twilio.com Make.com — automation platform that can connect to Voiceflow as a tool integration - https://www.make.com Robert Scoble on X https://x.com/Scobleizer Brian Roemmele on X https://x.com/BrianRoemmele FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim FIND SUSAN ON SOCIAL X: https://x.com/sjw75 Website: https://www.pragmatic.digital

🔗 Deploy your own Hermes agent on Hostinger -10% off any plan with code COREY10: http://hostinger.com/corey10 (use code COREY10)Grab the free step-by-step Hermes Second Brain setup guide here: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/60fc0fe6d9In this solo episode, I walk through exactly how I built the ultimate AI second brain using Hermes and its built-in LLM Wiki skill — inspired by Karpathy's wiki setup. I break down the three core operations of the Hermes agent (ingest, query, lint), the three layers of the knowledge base (raw sources, the wiki, schema/tags), and why I chose Hermes over Claude Code, OpenClaw, or Obsidian for this build. From there, I show the full one-click deploy on a Hostinger VPS, the OpenAI model setup, the Telegram bot integration via BotFather, and the Markdownload Chrome extension trick I use to feed any tweet, article, or webpage straight into the wiki. By the end of this episode, you'll have a clear, step-by-step path to deploy your own self-improving second brain that gets smarter the more you use it.Key PointsHermes ships with a built-in LLM Wiki skill that handles the second brain function out of the box — your job is to curate sources, the agent's job is to summarize, tag, and file them away.The knowledge base has exactly three layers: raw sources you give it (read-only), the agent-owned wiki of markdown files, and the schema/tags Hermes builds to make querying low-friction.Run the Lint command roughly once a month — it audits your wiki for contradictions, sources older than 90 days, and oversized files that should be split for more accurate retrieval.Deploy on a Hostinger VPS instead of locally — it's a one-click install with no terminal, cheaper than a Mac mini, always-on, and your data stays private.The simplest workflow for feeding the wiki: use the Markdownload Chrome extension to clip any tweet, article, or webpage to markdown, drag it into your Telegram chat with Hermes, and tell it to add it to the wiki.This is a compounding asset — on day 1 the knowledge base is the dumbest it'll ever be, but feed it consistently and by day 90 it becomes incredibly useful for retrieval.Hermes agent VPS deployment on Hostinger (use code COREY10 for 10% off) - https://www.hostinger.com/vps/hermes-agent-hostingMarkdownload Chrome extension - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdiTelegram BotFather - https://t.me/BotFatherOpenAI Codex - https://openai.com/codexFIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim

Tom Crawshaw (8+ years in automations, $25M+ in attributed e-com revenue) cracks open the content system that's pulled him millions of views. We walk through the Claude Code skill he built that handles voice profile, copywriting principles, hook scoring, image prompts, and a humanizer pass from one slash command. He also surfaces a hidden Claude Code feature called /insights that audits your full usage history and tells you what to build next. You'll learn how to turn messy ChatGPT workflows into a real skill, why Whisperflow is non-negotiable, and the one slash command 99% of Claude Code users are sleeping on.Timestamps00:00 Intro00:30 Tom's automation background03:30 Skills vs. Projects on context08:30 Auto-updating voice profile from X11:00 Nano Banana plus Canva workflow23:30 Live demo: a Whisperflow post34:30 Hook scoring with copywriting principles46:30 The hidden /insights command54:30 Skills vs. n8n vs. LovableKey PointsSkills beat Claude Projects on context. Projects load every reference file on every message. A skill works like a book: Claude pulls only the chapter it needs, so a full pipeline runs in one chat.Tom's skill auto-updates his voice profile weekly. The X API pulls his last 7 days of posts, ranks by engagement, and rewrites the profile so the skill keeps drifting toward what's working./insights is the most slept-on feature in Claude Code. It audits your full session history and hands back a real report: what's working, where you're breaking your own rules, skills to build, and prompts to run.Image gen is 80% Nano Banana, 20% Canva. Generate fast in the AI tool, then finish in Canva with magic grab and magic erase.Whisperflow changed how Tom and Corey think, not just type. Speaking forces tighter thinking and makes prompts richer because adding context costs almost nothing.LinksClaude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-codeWhisperflow: https://wisprflow.ai/Nano Banana: https://gemini.google.com/Canva: https://www.canva.com/n8n: https://n8n.io/Tom's site: https://learnn8nautomation.com/Build With AI: https://www.skool.com/buildwithai/aboutFIND ME ON SOCIALX: https://x.com/coreyganimInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimTOM ON SOCIALX: https://x.com/TomCrawshaw01YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIGrowthLabWebsite: https://learnn8nautomation.com/

Free audit template Corey is giving away — https://audittemplate.ai In this episode, I sat down with Chris Koerner and outlined how I sell AI assessments to small businesses. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:33 – The $1,000 AI audit pitch 01:10 – The lunch conversation that started it all 02:23 – Why 99 out of 100 owners need this 02:57 – Why Loom screen recording failed 04:25 – From Zoom calls to a voice agent 05:31 – Meet Annie, the AI interviewer 06:17 – Live demo of the voice agent 08:06 – How the voice agent was built (Retell + skills) 10:18 – Walking through a real assessment in Gamma 12:00 – The effort vs impact matrix 13:00 – Wedding venue saves 8 hours with Dash This 15:16 – Pricing journey: free to $1,000 17:30 – Why charging more makes upsells easier 18:02 – The full upsell menu breakdown 22:00 – Custom GPT knowledge system for a business broker 24:46 – Which industries this works best for 25:53 – Seven ways to find clients with no followers 26:39 – Hosting a local AI meetup 27:30 – Door-knocking businesses in 2026 29:25 – Using free audits to land warm contacts 30:30 – Running free AI office hours 31:30 – Hard-won lessons and the speed-to-lead upsell 34:36 – The simple Claude prompt that builds the audit 35:33 – Where to find Corey Key Points The business started from one lunch where a friend said he'd pay $1,000 just to be followed around for a day. After validating with 50–100 owners, Corey found 99 out of 100 small business owners need this — they just don't know which AI tools to use. The upsell menu is built into the report. Common follow-ons: process optimization ($3K–$5K), Zapier or Make automation builds ($1K–$3K), custom GPT knowledge systems, CRM setups (high-level CRM at $3K–$5K), and speed-to-lead AI agents tied directly to revenue. The seven-way client acquisition playbook works with zero followers: host a local AI meetup on Luma or Meetup.com, door-knock local businesses, run free audits for your network, host free AI office hours at coworking spaces or realtor offices, partner with well-connected locals, and lean on warm intros from your CEO peer group. You don't need to be an AI expert. As Corey puts it, you just need to be one step ahead of your average client — which is about seven days of studying. The realtor's office where he hosted his free AI meetup turned into paying assessment work. The Claude prompt to generate an audit is dead simple: attach the transcript, tell Claude to find off-the-shelf tools that fix the pain points, and point it at directories like Futurepedia or There's An AI For That. FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/coreyganim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim