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Artificial Intelligence Archive

Sneaky AI Service That Sells Itself ($500+/Month Per Client)

Chris Koerner shared how to build an AI agent that auto-texts back missed calls for small businesses.

The stat behind it...

57% of sales goes to whoever responds first. And that's not my opinion. That's data.

Most small businesses let missed calls go to voicemail. Callers don't call back.

The fix: an AI agent – built inside GoHighLevel – that texts the caller a couple of minutes later. Not a static "sorry we missed you" – a full two-way conversation that answers questions and books appointments 🤖

Customize the AI prompt per business – tree trimmer, plumber, dentist – and it handles the rest.

Here's the sneaky part 👇

You use the same system to find clients. Record a voicemail, blast it to local business phone numbers, and when they call back... your AI pitches them the service.

Chris demos this live – scrapes 181 tree trimmers in Dallas, sends voicemail drops, and within minutes a business owner texts back asking about pricing 👀

A teenager used the same approach and landed her first client on her 16th birthday.

Cost to start: ~$100/month. One client at $500/month covers everything.

Could be a nice recurring income stream selling this to tradespeople in your area 😎

$14K in 30 Days From Faceless AI TikTok Shop Videos

No face. No inventory. No filming. Just AI clips of trending products, posted to TikTok Shop on repeat 🤖

The clever bit: you're not chasing views. You're catching buyers who already saw the product elsewhere and are ready to pull the trigger.

David Margaryan sums up the logic…

We are not going for views, we are going for conversions.

Because when a video actually gets a conversion, what's going to happen is the brand of that product is going to run ads with their money on your video.

So one converting clip becomes an ad-fueled sales engine – paid for by the brand, not you 👀

The playbook 👇

  • Find a surging-but-unsaturated product on Kalodata, a TikTok Shop analytics tool
  • Generate a 5-second product clip with AI (~2 minutes)
  • Reverse it in CapCut so it zooms in, then out – now it's 10 seconds
  • Add a discount overlay ("45% off"), grab a trending sound, post

David runs 15-20 of these a day across several accounts, all handed off to a VA. He shows one client account that hit $14K in its first 30 days 🤯

Commissions on TikTok Shop run roughly 5-10% on electronics and 15-20% on health and wellness – so that's where the math gets interesting fastest 😎

He Built 350+ AI Local Newsletters – Then Got Acquired

📝 Matthew Henderson is a self-taught developer who built an AI newsletter so his grandparents could keep up with their hometown.

Then he scaled it.

By early 2025, his network Good Daily was running 350+ daily local newsletters across 47 states. All AI-driven 🤖

One person at the controls.

In July, 6AM City – the biggest US local newsletter publisher – acquired Good Daily and made Henderson VP of Engineering.

🤑 He'd added 500K+ subscribers in under a year, with markets as small as Rock Springs, WY (pop. 20K).

It's also reshaping how 6AM City scales.

From a recent podcast, COO Ryan Heafy laid out the math 👇

For a quarter million dollars, I can go turn on a city... be live in 90 days and be profitable in two years.

...now I can be up and running in one day and be profitable in two days and be in any city we want to be in.

Pick a small town nobody's covering and spin up your own AI-driven daily digest, monetized via local ads 😎

$6,800/Month From a Free Preview Website Service

  • NoGround511

  • Web Designer
  • $6,800 monthly revenue

$15K In 30 Days From One AI-Written PDF

  • Leon Green

  • YouTuber / Digital Products Seller
  • $15,114 in 30 days from one PDF guide

$8K/Month From a New AI-Generated YouTube Channel

  • Jonathan Laramy

  • AI History Creator (Chloe VS History)
  • $8,000 estimated monthly ad revenue

Client Told Him: This Is The Most Useful Tool For My Business

📝 An indie dev writes about building a simple AI bot that lets you set reminders over WhatsApp – think "remind me to follow up with John tomorrow at 3".

A few weeks in, a tailor told him it was the most useful tool in her whole business. He assumed she meant for her own reminders 👀

She wasn't using it for her own reminders at all. She'd given the number to her customers.

Her customers WhatsApp the bot when their order is ready to be picked up, when they want to reschedule a fitting, or when they want to check their order status.

The reframe 👇

She basically turned a personal productivity tool into a customer communication system. No app, no portal, no login. Just WhatsApp, which every single one of her customers already uses.

We built a reminder bot. She built a lightweight CRM with it.

🛠 You could replicate this with Twilio + a bit of AI for under $10/mo.

Sell to local business owners who are struggling with reminders and DMs across 4 different apps.

One WhatsApp number could replace the lot 🔥

15-Year-Old Has Earned $23K+ From His Complaints Database

  • Om Patel

  • Founder, BigIdeasDB
  • $23,000+ lifetime revenue

$4K/Day From “Cold Caking” Sales Prospects

  • William Lindholm

  • Cake Middleman
  • $120,000 monthly revenue

AI Wrote His Last Viral Video (175K+ Views)

📝 Ritesh Verma writes about a system he calls his Content OS

With Claude Code being as amazing as it is, I have been able to create small (kinda weird) AI systems that act like real humans and do work even better than humans! I even was able to fire my creative director for youtube!

Here's how it works 👇

He fed Claude Code 20 of his best handwritten YouTube scripts and tinkered until it could mimic his voice with 92% accuracy 🤖

Then he hooked it up to a browser so it could research ideas across YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and Reddit.

Scripting time dropped from 2 hours to 20 minutes per video.

The first video the system fully ideated, researched, and scripted...

175K+ views and counting 🤯

Ritesh runs an agency that builds AI "employees" for clients, and his Content OS is essentially a live demo for one of their products.

You could carve out a similar lane – build Content OS setups for YouTubers, podcasters, or LinkedIn ghostwriters who don't want to DIY.

Or think broader: for any niche, there's a version of this waiting to be built 😎

$5,700/Month Selling AI To Tradespeople

  • Special-Mastodon-990

  • AI Automation Agency Founder
  • $5,700 monthly recurring revenue

$81K/Month From a Hebrew-Only Calorie App

  • Tomer Cnaan

  • Founder of CalBuddy
  • $81,108 revenue in one month

$1,000/Month From 5 Faceless AI Music Channels

  • PostExpensive2418

  • AI Music Channel Operator
  • $1,000 monthly across 5 channels

$1.2K/Month From a Cold Message to an Insurance Agent

  • Tricky_Mentiong

  • Software Engineering Intern
  • $1,200 monthly revenue from one client

$1 AI Videos – 8.7M Views in a Month

Someone on Reddit shared how he built a system that auto-generates reaction-style marketing videos using AI.

It scrapes viral TikToks, figures out why they blew up, generates AI reaction clips with text overlays and product b-roll, then auto-posts across 12 TikTok and Instagram accounts.

Results after one month? 8.7 million views. One video alone hit 5.3M 🤯

Cost per video? About $1.

His approach 👇

When a format works, milk it with lots of variations and copy it across all accounts.

The trick is narrowing the automation to a very specific type of content. You can clone the automation for different content, but each have their own skill file.

Doing this manually would cost a lot more…

Hiring someone instead of automating it would add (at least) $500 per person per month. Might need 2 people to manage those accounts.

That's $1,000+/month – replaced by ~$1 per video 🤑

Could be a neat agency play: set up AI video pipelines for brands, charge $1,000-2,000/month, and your actual costs are a few hundred bucks 😎

$5K/Month Potential From a Viral AI Job Search Tool

Santiago Fernandez ran a mobile repair shop in Seville for 16 years.

He sold it in 2025, then built an AI system to automate his own job search 👀

It evaluates listings across 10 dimensions, scores them A to F, then generates a personalized, keyword-optimized resume for each one.

740+ listings evaluated. 100+ tailored resumes. 12 interviews.

74% of listings scored below his threshold – without the system, he'd have wasted hours reading job descriptions that were never a good fit.

Best part? The job he actually accepted came inbound. A CEO saw his systems thinking and recruited him for a Head of AI role 🤯

He open-sourced the whole thing – MIT license, completely free.

Most job seekers won't set up a system like this themselves. But you could offer AI-powered job search management as a service at $300-500/month per client.

Your main cost is around $200/month for the AI subscription. Take on 5-10 clients and you're looking at $1,500-5,000/month 😎

$600K/Year Flipping Free Backyard Sheds (AI Shortcut)

Chris Koerner describes a friend in North Carolina with a wild hustle 👇

The guy finds free or cheap sheds on Facebook Marketplace. People moving house need them gone – but don't own a flatbed truck to haul them.

So he messages every listing. His pitch: I'll come take it for free.

Sellers usually say no at first. But weeks pass, the shed's still there...

If they don't get rid of it for free, they're going to have to pay money to a junk removal company to come break it apart and take it away, or they're going to have to rent a roll-off trailer for 500 bucks.

Then comes the flip. Same shed relisted for ~$2,000 – with free delivery 🤑

Buyers pay 4x because they can't move the thing themselves.

$600,000 a year in net profit, according to Koerner. Started by renting trucks. Often had sheds pre-sold before he even picked them up.

He also shows how to use AI to scrape Facebook Marketplace for underpriced listings automatically – first to message on every "must go" and "free" post 🤖

Hot tubs, riding mowers, trampolines – anything bulky that people can't easily move.

Lots of opportunity there 😎

$2-5k/Month Problems You Can Solve In A Weekend

AI consultant Niravenin writes about an opportunity they keep seeing from clients...

The real time sinks are always the same boring stuff.

Manually copying data between spreadsheets. Sending the same follow-up emails over and over. Pulling reports from 3 different tools every Friday.

Every client comes in wanting a chatbot. What they actually need is 3 simple automated workflows running on a schedule.

Result? Clients save 10+ hours a week. No fancy AI interface – just background agents doing repetitive tasks.

The technical build is 20% of the job. The other 80% is understanding the business well enough to know what to automate first.

Another consultant with 10 years experience agrees...

Sounds like all my clients as well.

Bad processes and messy data are their issues.

One commenter puts numbers on it 👇

Boring problems + AI solutions = high margins and low competition.

The dentist doesnt care about transformer architecture, they care about fewer no-shows. Thats a $2-5k/month problem you can solve in a weekend.

Another commenter claims they made half a year's salary from a single 4-hour implementation 🤯

The thread has multiple experienced consultants all confirming the same thing.

The trick to getting started?

Don't ask business owners what they want automated. Ask them to walk you through what they did yesterday, step by step. The automation targets reveal themselves 😎

15-Year-Old Made $30K With AI In A Few Weeks

  • Branson Pfiester

  • AI Agent Setup Specialist
  • $30,000 in about three weeks

$600/Month AI App Outearns Her Husband

  • Mary Ha

  • AI App Builder & Designer
  • $600+ monthly recurring revenue

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