In this solo episode, I fire up Codex's voice mode with zero plan and challenge it to build me a real business from scratch in under 30 minutes, an idea to offer to a list of leads I could walk in and pitch today. I talk Codex through five AI service business ideas, land on a "local lead and reputation engine" for service businesses, and have it apply Alex Hormozi's $100 Million Offers framework to turn it into something a business owner would feel stupid saying no to. From there I built a live website using Codex Sites and went to find 10 real local businesses near me in Charlotte, with no digital presence, sorted by walking distance so I could hit all 10 in an hour. By the end of this episode, you'll see exactly how I went from nothing to a working offer, a website, and a prioritized prospect list, without touching my keyboard once.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 - Setting the challenge: idea to offer to leads in 30 minutes01:30 - Brainstorming five AI service business ideas with Codex03:00 - Landing on appointment recovery plus review growth05:00 - Applying Hormozy's $100 Million Offers framework07:30 - Building the actual offer and pricing structure09:30 - Crafting the one-liner pitch for walking in cold11:00 - Choosing the tech stack: why GoHighLevel wins13:00 - Working around businesses that already have a CRM15:30 - Building a live website with Codex Sites in three minutes18:00 - Walking through the finished Signal Local website21:00 - Setting lead criteria: good reviews, poor digital presence23:00 - Codex researches and ranks 10 local leads by proximity25:00 - Reviewing King Auto Repair and Plaza Tire and Auto27:00 - Why this is a no-brainer offer for mom-and-pop businesses28:30 - Doing it all hands-free, even from your phone29:30 - Join AI Operator AcademyKey PointsI never typed a single word. The entire idea, offer, website, and lead list were built through a live voice conversation with Codex, which means this same process works while driving, walking, or doing anything else.The strongest offer bundled two services into one: instant replies and follow-up texts for missed calls (speed to lead) plus automated, personalized review requests after every completed job. I had Codex run that combo through the $100 Million Offers framework to make it irresistible.GoHighLevel was the pick for the tech stack because it can either run standalone or sit alongside a business's existing CRM, and a huge number of local businesses, even established ones, aren't using a CRM at all. That gap is the lowest-hanging fruit.Codex Sites built a full one-to-two-page website with a logo, headline, value prop, and a working "book a consultation" button in about three minutes. Four years ago, that same site would have cost around $5,000 and taken three weeks.For lead-finding, the filter that matters isn't industry, it's digital presence. Good Google reviews plus no website (or a Google Business page that just links to Facebook) is the signal of a mom-and-pop shop that's leaving money on the table.Codex sorted the 10 leads by proximity to my neighborhood so I could walk the route in order instead of driving across town, and it added direct links to each business's Google Business page so I could pull them up instantly from my phone.Real example: King Auto Repair has a 4.5-star rating with 251 reviews and unanswered one-star complaints, but no website and no way to book online. The only way to do business with them is to show up or hope someone answers the phone. That's the entire opportunity in one business.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

In this solo episode, I walk through the exact three-stage roadmap I used to build my AI services business past $10K a month in under a year: the free mini assessment, the paid assessment, and the AI concierge model. I break down what each stage actually looks like on a call, how to price them (including the exact math that gets you to 10K/month), and the three biggest ways this business breaks if you're not careful. I also hand you my AOA framework - Audit, Optimize, Automate - which is literally how I turn a client's manual process into a Claude skill during every concierge engagement. By the end of this episode, you'll have the full playbook for landing your first AI services client and scaling to recurring revenue.Grab all the free resources mentioned in this video: https://corey-ganim.kit.com/6a4bf70e48Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/aboutTimestamps00:00 Overview of the three-stage roadmap to 10K/month01:15 Stage 1: What a free mini assessment actually is03:00 Stage 2: The paid assessment (3-7 tools vs. 1)04:30 Stage 3: The AI concierge recurring revenue model06:00 The AOA framework: Audit, Optimize, Automate07:00 Why unlimited Voxer access is high perceived value07:45 The math: How many clients you need to hit 10K/month09:00 Who to sell this to (ideal client profile)10:00 Action step: Text 10 business owners today11:00 Three ways this business breaks (and how to avoid them)12:00 How the free assessment call actually runs14:00 How the paid assessment works and quantifying ROI17:30 How AI concierge calls run using the AOA framework19:30 Pricing strategy: Raise by $250 every time you get a yes20:30 Recap and where to get the free resource libraryKey PointsThe business runs in three stages: a free mini assessment to get testimonials, a paid assessment ($500-$2,000) to prove deeper value, and AI concierge (done-with-you consulting) for recurring revenue.The free mini assessment is intentionally small: a 15-minute call to identify one pain point, followed by a 5-10 minute call to prescribe one tool or workflow. No implementation, no building — just a roadmap. Only do this for your first one to three contacts to earn testimonials.The paid assessment is "the free assessment on steroids" — a 45-60 minute discovery call that surfaces 3-7 opportunities, scored on an effort-versus-impact matrix to find the high-impact, low-effort quick wins. Priced at $500 to start, with $1,000 as the sweet spot and $2,000 as the ceiling once you have proof.AI concierge is where the real money is: two 45-minute strategy calls a month plus unlimited Voxer access, priced $1,000-$2,000/month, using the AOA framework (Audit the manual process, Optimize it, Automate it into a Claude skill inside Claude Cowork).The math to 10K/month: 10 AI concierge clients at $1,000/month, 7 at $1,430/month, or 5 at $2,000/month — all before counting a dime of assessment revenue.The best clients are owner-led service businesses doing $3-10M+ in revenue with repetitive manual work, visible bottlenecks, and budget — they already know they need AI, they just don't know where to start.The three ways this breaks: doing free implementation work instead of stopping at the roadmap, letting concierge calls turn into unlimited ad hoc Zoom sessions instead of a fixed cadence, and building a custom tool stack for every client instead of standardizing on Claude Cowork and Claude skills.Raise your price by $250 every time a prospect says yes — if someone pays $1,000, pitch the next person $1,250, and keep climbing until people start saying no.SaneBox – the AI email triage tool most commonly prescribed during assessments to cut hours of inbox time - https://www.sanebox.comAI Tools Assessment Report template – the free consulting-style report template used to deliver paid assessment roadmaps - https://audittemplate.aiVoxer – the walkie-talkie app used to offer unlimited AI concierge access with a 12-business-hour response window - https://voxer.comClaude Cowork – the tool used to build and standardize Claude skills for every AI concierge client - https://claude.aiFIND 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

In this solo episode, I break down a hidden Codex feature most people are sleeping on and show you exactly how to turn it into a client-getting machine. I walk through the entire offer from scratch: how to target local service businesses with bad or missing websites, how to use Codex Sites to build them a free homepage preview in under two minutes, and how to turn that free preview into a paid website, a monthly care plan, and eventually an AI assessment and managed AI services retainer. Then I open up Codex live, off the hip, and build a real homepage for an actual Charlotte pressure washing company using voice mode, find their broken quote form, fix it, and generate outreach templates to contact the owner directly. By the end of this episode, you'll have a full repeatable playbook you can run on literally any local service business in your area.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 to the Hidden Codex Feature00:45 - Picking the Target: Local Service Businesses to Go After02:15 - Building the Free Codex Sites Homepage Preview03:45 - Pitching the 2-Minute Loom Walkthrough04:30 - Pricing the Full Paid Website Build05:15 - The $99–$299/Month Care Plan Upsell06:00 - Uncovering Speed to Lead & Follow-Up Problems07:30 - Selling the $1,000 Paid AI Assessment08:45 - 3 Pitfalls: What NOT to Do When Pitching10:30 - Live Demo: Talking to Codex in Voice Mode12:00 - Finding a Local Business & Building the Site14:30 - First Look at the AI-Generated Homepage Draft16:00 - Comparing It to the Real (Broken) Website18:00 - The Audit: Uncovering a Broken Quote Form20:00 - Iterating Live: Fixing Logo, Layout & Quote Form24:00 - Testing the New Speed to Quote Form27:30 - Finding the Owner's Contact Info & Socials30:00 - Drafting Outreach Email, Text & Cold Call Script33:00 - How to Attach the New Site to the Client's Domain35:00 - Wrap-Up & AI Operator Academy InviteKey PointsThe best prospects for this offer are mom-and-pop local service businesses selling a higher-ticket service (tree services, roofers, HVAC, commercial pressure washing) that have great Google reviews but a weak or missing website, and where you can reach the owner directly by phone.Codex Sites lets you build a fully custom, hosted homepage in minutes using nothing but voice chat, using only verified public information about the business so you're not misrepresenting them to a prospect.The free homepage preview is a foot-in-the-door offer, not the moneymaker. The real path is: free preview to paid website ($500–$1,000) to a $99–$299/month care plan to a $1,000 paid AI assessment to ongoing managed AI services that can run $1,000–$2,000+ a month.Never let Codex invent facts about a business, never promise traffic you can't control (sell trust instead), and never upsell before you've actually delivered — those are the three fastest ways to torch your credibility with a cold prospect.In the live demo, Codex found a real Charlotte pressure washing company, built a homepage with a working speed-to-quote form in about five minutes, and the form actually generated a real quote range ($975 to $3,225) and let the user text themselves the estimate — instantly beating the business's real website, whose quote form was completely broken.Codex can research the business owner's contact info, LinkedIn, and social channels, then draft a full outreach sequence (email, text, cold call script, DM script) for you, giving you seven-plus ways to get in front of a decision-maker without writing a single word yourself.If a prospect worries about the technical side of attaching a new website to their existing domain, the answer is the same as everything else in this workflow: ask Codex to handle it. It's turnkey and can be bundled into the price you charge for the build.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 the exact 10-page prompt I used to build this app here: Steal the prompt I used to build the SEO machine in LetaidoAll Ahrefs customers get 1 month of Letaido for free. Sign up for Ahrefs here: https://ahrefs.com/ Right now there's a massive opportunity in AI that most companies have no idea how to solve: they don't know how to show up in AI search results. In this solo episode, I walk through how to build a standalone app inside Latito (Ahrefs' new agentic tool) that finds exactly where your competitors are getting cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity while you're invisible, then writes, previews, and one-click publishes content to close that gap. I show the whole build end to end, from the exact prompt I used to generate the app, to pulling live opportunity data on real competitor sites, to publishing a finished article straight to my website. By the end of this episode, you'll have a repeatable system you can turn around and sell to local and mid-size businesses as an AI visibility audit, a content service, or a full monthly retainer.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 - Why AI Search Visibility Is the Opportunity Right Now01:30 - Introducing Latito: Ahrefs' Agentic SEO/GEO Tool02:30 - The Exact Prompt Used to One-Shot the App Build04:00 - Setting Up Brand, Competitors & Target Platforms06:30 - Finding Opportunities: 47 AI Answers Analyzed in Seconds08:00 - Breaking Down the Top Opportunity ("What is Poppy AI for?")10:30 - How a Competitor's Article Is Winning AI Citations12:00 - Generating a Competing Article Automatically14:30 - Why AI Search Rewards Numbered Lists, Tables & FAQs16:00 - Previewing the Article Before Going Live18:00 - Turning Off Test Mode & Publishing to the Live Site20:00 - Tracking Daily AI Citation Performance Over Time21:30 - 4 Ways to Monetize This as a ServiceKey PointsTraditional SEO has shifted into GEO/AEO (generative/AI engine optimization) — the game now is getting cited inside AI answers on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot, not just ranking on a Google results page.The Latito app connects directly to Ahrefs' data to scan AI answers across all platforms, flag which competitors are getting cited, and surface content gaps as concrete "opportunities" ranked by how winnable they are.In one demo run against two real competitor sites, the app pulled 47 AI answers, found 47 answers where the brand was missing, and narrowed that down to 5 final content opportunities worth acting on.The app doesn't just diagnose the gap — it writes a full article (with meta description and URL slug), validates its own draft for quality, and lets you preview it live on your actual site before anything goes public.AI citation engines consistently favor a specific content structure: numbered lists, comparison tables, and FAQ sections at the end are what get pulled into AI answers, and the generated article included all three by default.Publishing is deliberately friction-heavy for safety — you have to verify facts and sources, then type PUBLISH in all caps before anything pushes live to the site via GitHub/Vercel.Once published, the app tracks daily whether your brand is mentioned, whether your page is cited, and your AI share of voice against competitors — the exact data needed to sell this as an ongoing retainer with a monthly ROI report.Latito - the agentic SEO/GEO tool from the makers of Ahrefs used to build this app - https://www.letito.appFIND 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

In this solo episode, I break down the exact 7 AI service offers that small business owners are lining up to pay for right now, starting with the one that requires zero AI experience to sell. I walk through the what, why, build process, and real pricing for each one, from the $999 AI assessment that converts 50-60% of clients into bigger engagements, to the AI concierge retainer that's currently my biggest personal income stream, to full implementations that can run $5,000 to $10,000 or more. I share real client stories along the way, including a fintech CEO whose weekly memo process we cut from two hours to 15 minutes, and an Amazon seller whose 25-step ad reporting process we trimmed to 10. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly which offer to start with, how to price each one, and how they stack into each other so you're never stuck pitching something you're not ready to fulfill.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 7 AI Offers Small Businesses Want00:20 - Offer 1: The AI Assessment (What, Why, Build, Price)02:40 - Free Report Template (audittemplate.ai)04:00 - Offer 2: The AI Concierge (Corey's Top Income Offer)06:30 - Turning Client Intake Forms into Claude Projects & Skills07:40 - Concierge Pricing & Effective Hourly Rate Math08:40 - Client Story: Automating a Fintech CEO's Weekly Memo09:40 - Offer 3: Process Redesign (Fixing Broken Workflows First)11:20 - Case Study: Cutting a 25-Step Amazon Ad Process to 1012:20 - Offer 4: Simple Automation Builds with Zapier & Make.com13:40 - Case Study: Automating a Wedding Venue's Asana Onboarding14:50 - Offer 5: Knowledge Systems (Custom GPTs Trained on Client Data)16:10 - Case Study: Business Broker's Custom GPT Cuts 500 Emails to 1017:10 - Offer 6: Custom Workflows & Claude Skills18:30 - Case Study: The Podcast Production Orchestrator Skill19:50 - Offer 7: Full Implementation (Mix and Match Everything)21:00 - Why You Start with the Assessment, Not the Full BuildKey PointsThe AI assessment is the best offer to start with because it requires no AI expertise to sell. It's a paid diagnostic: a 45-minute interview uncovering bottlenecks, delivered as a report showing 3-7 off-the-shelf AI tools the business can implement immediately. Priced at $999, and 50-60% of clients convert into a bigger implementation engagement.The AI concierge is a done-with-you monthly retainer where you sit side by side with the business owner and turn their manual processes into Claude skills. Priced at $1,000-$2,000 a month for two 45-minute calls, which works out to $750-$1,250+ an hour, because you're pricing on hours saved for the client, not hours worked.Never automate a broken process. A process redesign strips the waste out of a workflow before any AI or automation touches it. One Amazon seller paid $3,500 just to cut his 25-step, 10-hour-a-week ad analysis process down to 10 steps and about an hour a week, before automation was ever on the table.Simple automation builds using Zapier or Make.com work best when the input and output are concrete and repeat the same way every time. A wedding venue business paid $1,500 to fully automate a manual Asana onboarding duplication task that was eating an hour of a project manager's time every week.Knowledge systems are custom GPTs or Claude projects trained on a client's content to answer repetitive questions. A business broker went from 500 buyer emails per listing to about 10 after we built a custom GPT trained on his marketing package, priced at $3,000.Custom workflows turn a client's existing scattered AI use into one-click Claude skills. One client's podcast production process, previously 30-45 minutes of manual copy-pasting into ChatGPT, became a five-minute run of an orchestrator skill. This tier prices at $3,000-$5,000, based on the deliverable, not the hours.Full implementation is the mix-and-match top tier, combining any of the previous six offers into one engagement priced at $5,000-$10,000 or more, plus a monthly retainer worth roughly 10% of the build price to maintain it. Don't pitch this until you've done 5-10 smaller projects first.Links mentionedFree AI assessment report template, the exact one used to deliver $999 assessments - https://www.audittemplate.aiFathom, the AI notetaker used to transcribe discovery calls - https://fathom.videoClaude, used to analyze call transcripts, find matching tools, and build client-specific Claude Projects and skills - https://claude.aiGamma, one of the tools used to build assessment report deliverables - https://gamma.appJotform, used to build the AI concierge client intake form - https://www.jotform.comZapier, used for simple workflow automation builds - https://zapier.comMake.com, used for simple workflow automation builds - https://www.make.comAsana, the project management tool automated in the wedding venue case study - https://asana.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

If you use BOTH the following link and code COREY, you'll get your first 3 days of Orgo free, then 20% off your first 3 months: https://www.orgo.ai/?r=COREYI sat down with Phil Goodwin, a completely non-technical designer who sold his last business this past November and, just months later, built a managed AI agent business he now runs under the name Sidecar. Phil walks through his exact stack, how he prices setup fees and monthly per-agent retainers, and the "guinea pig" pitch he used to land his very first paying clients without a following or an email list. We get into real client use cases (a one-man directional drilling company, a short-form video editor), the group-chat trick he uses so clients actually learn to talk to their agent, and a dead-simple weekly value tracker that quantifies exactly why a client should keep paying every month. By the end of this episode, you'll have a working blueprint for pricing, pitching, and delivering a managed agent offer even if you've never written a line of code.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 Promise of This Episode00:41 - Phil's Non-Technical, Design-First Background02:43 - What "Managed Agents" Actually Means04:14 - Coaching Plus AI Employee, Not Plug-and-Play05:31 - How Phil Built Agents for Himself, Then Friends08:23 - Setup Fee Plus Per-Agent Pricing Model Explained09:55 - Why "We Fix It Before You Notice" Is the Real Value Prop11:53 - Real Client Use Cases Across Industries12:30 - Drilling Company Client and the Telegram Group Chat Trick15:21 - The Value Ledger: Tracking Hours and Dollars Saved Weekly17:00 - Short-Form Video Editing Use Case18:41 - Give Agents a Human-Readable Source of Truth, Not Just Markdown19:53 - Finding First Clients Through Friends and Referrals23:21 - Pick the Offer You Enjoy Fulfilling, Not Just the Lucrative One24:31 - The Exact Text Phil Sends to Pitch Free "Guinea Pig" Work26:29 - Pricing Breakdown: From $250/Month to a $1,500 Setup29:37 - Should You Skip the Free Phase and Go Straight to Paid?31:23 - Step One Advice: Pick Orgo and Land Your First Client34:22 - Where to Find Phil and SidecarKey PointsManaged agents aren't plug-and-play. Phil's offer is a hybrid of coaching, consulting, and a deployed AI employee — he acts as the ongoing manager of the agent, not just the person who installed it, which is why clients pay a few grand a month instead of walking away after setup.Phil started by pricing pure infrastructure setups at $500, then raised it to $1,000, $1,500, and $2,000 as people kept saying yes — but he learned that handing off infrastructure without ongoing coaching causes clients to abandon the agent within weeks because they don't know how to talk to it.His current pricing model is a setup fee plus a per-agent monthly fee, a deliberate departure from flat unlimited-agent pricing (like the $5K/month unlimited model his podcast guest Nick uses) because most clients only need one or two agents, not unlimited access.The single most valuable "pro tip" from this episode: have the agent maintain a value ledger that logs every task it completes and assigns it a time and dollar value, then send the client a weekly report. One client saved 63 hours and $6,300 in his very first week — a number that makes churn almost impossible.Phil sets up a three-way Telegram group chat with himself, the client, and the agent, so the client can watch him interact with the agent and learn how to prompt it, while Phil can see exactly what tasks are being requested and coach in real time.Client acquisition ran entirely on free work and referrals — no social following required. Phil did free setups for close friends to get testimonials, and those friends referred him to paying clients in bigger cities, expanding a small-town Georgia network into clients across the country.Not every profitable offer is the right offer for you. Phil explicitly avoids multi-tool consulting and audits (the AI Concierge model) because it's not what he enjoys fulfilling — his advice is to find the intersection of what's lucrative and what you actually want to deliver.Orgo, an AI agent infrastructure platform - https://orgo.aiWatch Corey's prior episode with Nick, co-founder of Orgo, referenced in this conversation - https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganimSidecar, Phil's managed AI agent service (Sidecar SMB, with an enterprise tier in development) - https://runsidecar.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/@coreyganimFIND PHIL ON SOCIAL Phil’s X: https://x.com/fhlcreativeSidecar Website: https://www.runsidecar.com/

Try Hyperagent for free ($1,000 free credits for first 1,000 signups): https://www.hyperagent.com/corey Want the exact prompts I used to build these agents? Download them free here: Steal the 4 Exact Prompts I Used to Launch an AI Services Business From Scratch. Copy, paste into Hyperagent, and your lead gen + outreach agents are live today. In this solo episode, I kick off a four episode series where I build an AI services business from scratch and prove exactly how many days it takes to land a paying client using 100% cold outreach, no audience, no network, and a hard cap of 60 minutes of work per day. I walk through why I'm targeting tree service companies in Charlotte, North Carolina, the dead-simple $500 offer I'm selling them (a website, an AI lead intake agent, and a Google Business Profile cleanup), and then build the first agent in the fleet live inside Hyper Agent, the Prospector, which scrapes the web, finds and cleans a full lead list, and gets our outreach machine ready to go. By the end of this episode, we have 98 verified leads, a live sales pipeline dashboard, and a full outreach script pack ready to start texting, calling, and knocking on doors in episode two.Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: Proving Anyone Can Land an AI Client01:24 - Series Constraints: Cold Outreach Only, 60 Minutes a Day02:19 - Why Tree Services in Charlotte Are the Target Niche03:35 - Backup Niches: Pressure Washing, Junk Removal, Driveways04:02 - The Offer: $500 Website Plus AI Lead Intake Plus GBP Cleanup05:07 - The 5-Agent Fleet Hyper Agent Will Give Away in Episode 405:55 - Agent 1: The Prospector, Scraping and Cleaning Leads06:31 - Agent 2: The Opener, Writing Texts, Calls, and Replies07:16 - Agent 3: SiteSmith, Building Free Lead-Magnet Websites08:17 - Agent 4: The Fulfiller, Delivering the Paid Engagement08:56 - Agent 5: Account Manager, the $100/Month Upsell09:49 - What Each of the Four Episodes Will Cover13:03 - Building the Prospector Agent Live in Hyper Agent19:03 - Running the Lead Scrape in Plan Mode21:03 - Hyper Agent Auto-Discovers a Marketplace Skill on Its Own24:26 - 8 Sub-Agents Dispatched to Research Leads in Parallel24:52 - Results: 494 Businesses Found, 98 Qualified, $151 in Credits Spent25:56 - Touring the Leads' Broken, Missing, or Hijacked Websites30:03 - Reviewing the Auto-Branded Live Pipeline Dashboard31:29 - Building the Opener Agent and Its No-Pitch First-Text Rules37:04 - The Finished Outreach Scripts and Objection Responses41:38 - Episode 1 Recap and What's Coming in Episode 2Key PointsThe series has a strict scoreboard: the day counter only stops when a Stripe invoice is actually paid, not on a verbal yes, and every constraint (cold outreach only, 60 minutes a day) is designed to strip away any advantage so the process is copyable by anyone watching.Tree services in Charlotte were chosen because the industry hasn't been consolidated by private equity, it's high ticket (multiple thousands per job), buyers often hire whoever picks up the phone first during emergencies, and most operators don't have a working website.The offer is deliberately underpriced at $500 flat for a hosted website, a speed-to-quote AI lead intake agent, and a Google Business Profile cleanup, specifically so price can never be the reason the challenge fails.Five agents get built across the series and given away free in episode 4: the Prospector (finds and cleans leads), the Opener (writes texts, call scripts, and objection replies), SiteSmith (builds the free lead-magnet websites), the Fulfiller (delivers the paid engagement end to end), and the Account Manager (a $100/month maintenance upsell).The Prospector agent scraped 494 businesses, verified down to 98 qualified leads with mobile numbers and no working site, and did it by autonomously deploying 8 sub-agents to search different cities in parallel, all for about $151 in credits.While building the plan, Hyper Agent independently found and installed a "Small Business Website Builder" skill from its own marketplace, without being asked, because it judged the skill relevant to the task.The Opener agent's first-touch texts follow strict rules: under 160 characters, no links, no emojis, no mention of AI, websites, or marketing, signed only "Corey," written casually enough (using local phrasing like "y'all") to read as a neighbor texting, not a company pitching.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

Download the exact blueprint behind Nick’s always-on AI agent Dewey, with its own cloud computer, phone, email, payment card, and password vault and start texting your own in about two minutes (free).Nick and I both use Orgo to build and deploy our managed agents. If you use BOTH the following link and code COREY you'll get your first 3 days of Orgo free then 20% off your first 3 months. Orgo - Computers for AI agents | OrgoNick Vasilescu is back on the pod, and this time he's showing exactly how his personal AI agent, Dewey, is running his managed agent business for him. I sat down with Nick, co-founder of Orgo, to break down how Dewey builds, deploys, and even supports client agents inside Slack and iMessage with zero hands-on work from Nick. We get into the full 80/20 tech stack he uses (harness, model, computer, memory, connectors), how he closed another $5K/month client and had their agent live within 48 hours of the wire hitting his account, and the B2B2B insight that's making these deployments sticky: building an agent for a client that they then resell to their own customers. By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly what tools to stack together to build your own AI employee and how to turn that into a productized, recurring managed agent business.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro & What You'll Learn From This Episode01:29 - Meet Dewey, Nick's Personal AI Agent02:03 - Watching Dewey Onboard a Client Agent Into Slack Live04:00 - Hermes Maker Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers Signals Opportunity09:02 - Orgo Elevator Pitch: Purpose-Built Cloud Computers for Agents12:05 - Orgo Discount Code: 3 Days Free + 20% Off 3 Months13:02 - Spinning Up Agents From Templates With the Nick Stack15:32 - Productizing Agents So You're Not Rebuilding From Scratch19:50 - Why a Client Pays $5K a Month for a Managed Agent22:56 - The B2B2B Model: Reselling the Agent to Your Client's Customers27:22 - Breaking Down the Full Agent Stack: Harness, Model, Computer, Memory & Connectors33:01 - From Paid Invoice to Live Agent in 48 Hours36:24 - Turning a Granola Call Transcript Into Agent Skills39:27 - Why Paid Assessments Are the Perfect Lead-In Offer41:02 - Where to Find Nick & Follow His WorkKey PointsThe service layer of deploying AI agents into businesses is the real opportunity right now. Hermes's creators are hiring forward deployed engineers to deploy agents into enterprise, which validates that this is a venture-scale market — and the SMB and mid-market tier beneath enterprise is wide open.Dewey, Nick's personal agent, does the actual fulfillment work: he builds client agents from scratch, onboards them into Slack, texts customers on iMessage to fix issues, and manages the entire agent fleet without Nick touching a keyboard.Newer models are increasingly choosing computer use over MCPs or connectors because they're trained on human behavior — they operate a full desktop the way a person would, which is why Orgo gives agents a real computer instead of a headless sandbox.Nobody pays $5K a month for a managed agent unless it makes them money. The unlock isn't always a direct-revenue agent like sales or speed-to-lead — it can be a B2B2B model where you build the agent for a client, and they productize and resell it to their own customer base, creating true stickiness since their revenue now depends on your infrastructure.The core agent stack breaks down into a harness (OpenClaw or Hermes) powered by a model (Grok or GPT-5.6), running on a persistent computer (Orgo), with its own email and phone (Agent Mail, Agent Phone), a knowledge base (Obsidian), persistent memory (Honcho.dev), and tool connectors (Composio).Speed to value matters enormously: the same day a client wires their first payment, their agent should already be live and something should be visibly built for them — that immediate reciprocity builds trust fast.Building is commoditized. The real skill today is asking the right discovery questions, understanding a client's workflow, and knowing which tools to hand off to your agent — which is exactly why paid audits and assessments work so well as a lead-in offer.The Agent Bundle - bundle of Agent Card, Agent Mail, and Agent Phone (plus an Orgo computer) for around $20/month, from the "agent mafia" - https://www.theagentbundle.comHoncho.dev - managed persistent memory layer so an agent remembers context across Slack, Telegram, and every other channel - https://www.honcho.devComposio - free tool connector layer that gives agents read/write access to Gmail, calendars, and other platforms - https://composio.devHiggsfield - AI creative generation tool Dewey uses to make thumbnails and short explainer videos - https://higgsfield.aividIQ - YouTube research tool Dewey uses to find high-performing videos and build winning thumbnails - https://vidiq.comLatitude.so - observability platform for monitoring agent conversations and catching customer sentiment issues - https://latitude.soObsidian - knowledge base tool Nick wires into his agent's stack - https://obsidian.mdApify - scraping connector used to source leads that get enriched via Clay - https://apify.comClay - lead enrichment platform connected via MCP - https://www.clay.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/@coreyganimFIND NICK ON SOCIAL X: https://x.com/nickvasiles YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nickvasiles Website: https://www.orgo.ai

In this episode, I sit down with Greg and give away the entire playbook behind our AI Tools Assessment offer, the simplest AI-powered business model you can start in 2026 with zero AI skills, zero audience, and zero capital. I walk through the exact four-phase process we use to run a $999 assessment for small business owners, the client-facing report template (which you can download for free), and the six-item upsell menu that turns a $999 foot-in-the-door offer into $3K, $5K, and $10K+ engagements. I also break down my current AI Concierge retainer, which is generating me over $1,000 an hour, and the seven no-capital, no-audience client acquisition methods I'm using right now to fill my pipeline. By the end of this episode, you'll have the full stack: the offer, the fulfillment process, the upsells, and how to actually go get clients.Grab the free AI Tools Assessment report template (built in Claude Design, plug-and-play for your own clients): https://audittemplate.aiJoin 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 Simplest AI Business Model of 202602:00 - Why Give Away the Entire Playbook (Blue Ocean Opportunity)03:30 - The AI Tools Assessment Offer Explained ($999, 45 Mins)05:00 - The 5-Hour Guarantee & Average Client Results09:00 - Phase 1: The Discovery Call & The Magic Wand Question13:00 - Phase 2: Feeding the Transcript to Claude for Tool Research15:00 - Quality Assurance & Making Judgment Calls18:00 - Best Tool Directories: Futurepedia & There's An AI For That19:30 - Phase 3: Building the Client Report in Claude Design24:00 - Free Download: The AuditTemplate.ai Report Template27:30 - The Effort vs. Impact Matrix & Quick Wins32:00 - Why Most Recommendations Are Simple SaaS Tools (Not Big AI)34:00 - Phase 4: The Review Call & The 3 Closing Questions37:30 - Upsell 1: Process Redesign (Fixing Broken Workflows First)39:00 - Upsell 2: Simple Zapier, Make & n8n Automations41:00 - Upsell 3: Knowledge Systems (The Business Broker Example)43:30 - Upsell 4: Custom Claude Skill Workflows & Retainers46:00 - Upsell 5: Full Implementation Packages47:30 - 7 Ways to Find Clients With No Capital or Audience59:30 - The AI Concierge Offer: $1,000+/hr Done-With-You Consulting1:05:00 - The AOA Framework: Audit, Optimize, Automate1:07:00 - Why Niching Down Is the Key to Pricing Power1:09:00 - Wrap-UpKey PointsThe AI Tools Assessment is a $999, 45-minute structured interview where you prescribe three to seven off-the-shelf AI tools that reclaim at least five hours a week for the client, backed by a 100% money-back guarantee if you can't find that time.The fulfillment process is four phases: a recorded discovery call to surface pain points, feeding that transcript to Claude to research matching tools, building a templated client report in Claude Design, and a review call that ends with three closing questions to surface the upsell.A confused mind doesn't buy, doesn't implement, and doesn't upsell. The report is built around an effort versus impact matrix that isolates "quick wins," a four-day quick start plan, and a financial impact slide that shows exact monthly ROI.There are six upsells after the assessment: process redesign, simple automation builds, knowledge systems, custom Claude skill workflows, retainers, and full implementation packages, with average tool costs around $60 a month against thousands of dollars in monthly ROI.Seven ways to find clients without capital or an audience: hosting a local AI meetup, door knocking, LinkedIn DMs that lead with pain instead of pitching, free mini-audits for your network, agency referral partnerships, AI office hours at co-working spaces, and posting your wins publicly.The AI Concierge offer is two 45-minute monthly calls plus Voxer access, teaching clients to use Claude Cowork and build their own Claude skills. It closed five of the first six people pitched and hit 8K MRR in ten days.Crediting the $999 assessment fee toward a bigger upsell, while quietly marking the upsell up to stay profitable, is one of the most effective ways to get a prospect off the fence.Links mentioned:Futurepedia.io, a large AI tool directory recently acquired by HubSpot - https://www.futurepedia.ioTheresAnAIForThat.com, an AI tool directory searchable by industry - https://theresanaiforthat.comGamma, the tool used early on to build assessment reports - https://gamma.appClaude, used to research tools from the discovery call transcript and to build client-facing skills - https://claude.aiAudittemplate.ai, free download of the exact AI Tools Assessment report template used in Claude Design - https://audittemplate.aiFathom, the AI note taker used to record and transcribe discovery calls - https://fathom.videoSanebox, the most-prescribed tool for getting clients out of email overload - https://www.sanebox.comZapier, used for simple one-to-three-step automation builds - https://zapier.comMake, used for automation builds as an alternative to Zapier - https://www.make.comn8n, another automation platform used for client workflow builds - https://n8n.ioFIND 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

Download the full AI Services Resource Library including every resource mentioned in this episode (free): Steal the Entire AI Services Resource Pack This is the full AI services business course, A to Z, completely free. I walk through exactly how I built a business that hit $8,000 in MRR in 10 days and now generates over $1,000 an hour, starting with one lunch conversation with a commercial real estate broker who offered to pay me to find AI opportunities in his business. I break down the entire three-offer ladder: the free mini assessment that gets you in the door, the $999 paid AI tools assessment, and the AI Concierge retainer that's now the majority of my personal income. You'll see the exact scripts, the Claude skills, the Notion and JotForm templates, and the pricing psychology behind all of it. By the end of this episode, you'll have a full playbook to go from zero to your first $5,000-$10,000 in revenue in 30 days.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 and the AI Concierge origin story02:24 – The AOA framework: Audit, optimize, automate04:43 – The three-offer ladder overview07:06 – How the free mini assessment works09:31 – The magic wand question14:20 – Prescribing the right tool and teeing up the upsell19:04 – Building a voice agent to run assessment interviews21:26 – Using a Claude skill to score pain points and tools23:47 – Inside the six-part assessment report31:01 – Why $1,000 is the minimum assessment price33:25 – Defining the AI Concierge retainer offer40:30 – Automating the concierge backend with Claude skills52:25 – Four ways to find your first clients01:04:08 – The 30-day plan to your first $5K–$10KKey PointsEvery AI implementation has to pull one of three ROI levers: effectiveness, meaning it makes you more money, efficiency, meaning it saves you time, or quality, meaning it improves your product, service, or customer experience. If it doesn't hit one of those, it's not worth doing.The AOA framework governs everything: audit the process as it's done manually today, optimize by cutting the fat, and only then automate. Business owners who skip straight to automate usually fail because they never simplified the process first.The free 15-minute mini assessment is the tripwire offer. Ask about repetitive tasks, friction points, and hourly value, then close with the magic wand question. Done right, this converts 30-50% of people into the $999 paid assessment.Never charge less than $1,000 for the paid AI tools assessment. Pricing it at $200 and then $500 still got yeses, but clients didn't take the recommendations seriously until the price hit $1,000 and they had real financial skin in the game.The AI Concierge retainer runs $1,000-$2,000 a month for two 45-minute working sessions, and Corey's blended hourly rate across his five current clients comes out to roughly $1,250 an hour.Four Claude skills automate the entire concierge backend, intake to project files, call update, follow-up email, and an orchestrator called AI Concierge Post Call that chains the last two together, cutting admin work down to under five minutes per client per week.Both the assessment and the concierge offer run at about 99.8% net margin since the only real cost is a $20-a-month Claude subscription.Links Mentioned: AI Tools Assessment Report Template: https://audittemplate.ai SaneBox: https://sanebox.com Futurepedia: https://futurepedia.io There's An AI For That: https://theresanaiforthat.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