His AI Automation Agency Did $120K in Year 1

An agency owner on Reddit got fed up with teenagers claiming $300K/month from AI automation agencies.

His own agency finds the one expensive, repetitive job inside a business and builds an AI system to handle it.

So he posted his real numbers 👇

A bit over $120k in that first year of building AI Automations. The best month I ever had was $35k. Once. Most months land somewhere between $10k and $15k. That’s with a full pipeline and me working on it every single day.

That’s revenue for a small team, from an agency that’s been around for 8 years.

Some of his builds sell for five figures, but small business owners push back on a four-figure retainer 👀

How he finds the job worth automating…

One client was losing somewhere around 20 hours a week matching invoices to purchase orders. The cause turned out to be a single supplier who puts the PO number in the email subject and nowhere else. I found it by sitting in their office for 3 weeks watching someone do the job.

Anyone can copy the automation in an afternoon, he says, so clients really pay for the person who knows the business and picks up the phone when something breaks.

Pick one niche, find the repetitive job costing owners the most hours, and charge to automate it and keep it running.

Just don’t expect to be earning $300K/month overnight 🤞

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