$40K a Month Selling AI to Small Businesses

Simon Bergeron runs Lemonbrand, an AI consultancy he built on his own in Ottawa.

He finds the jobs a small business repeats every week, then sets up AI to do them, for a monthly retainer 🤖

His second ever client was a local gym owner who wanted a website, so Simon pitched something bigger…

I’m going to make your business better. I’m going to automate these specific components of it and you’re not going to need to manage me…

I did a $2,500 initial lump sum and then it ended up being converted into a $1,500 a month retainer.

Three years later, the gym is still paying.

Simon now brings in $40K–$50K a month in revenue, according to a recent interview, with about 500 AI agents doing the work 🤯

Every new client starts with an inbox audit, because…

You can actually learn 80 to 90% of the business by just looking at the emails of the people who manage that business.

AI sorts the five busiest inboxes into types of work, then flags anything done hundreds of times a year or copied by hand into a spreadsheet.

He charges $1,500 for the audit and credits it against the retainer, which starts at $2,500 a month.

So the client pays to find out what’s worth automating, and gets that money back if they hire Simon to do it 👀

Offer the audit free to a local business that already knows and trusts you, then use the results to win a retainer or pitch other local businesses.

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