Income models

AI automation agency

Level 3

Find a client's repetitive work, automate it, and charge for the build plus upkeep. What you sell is not the tool but knowing the work.

Difficulty
4/5
To first revenue
A demo is buildable in one or two weeks. Time to a signed contract is not something we estimate.
Startup cost
50,000~500,000
Coding
some
Sales
a lot
Automation
4/5

We have zero verified cases for this model, so no revenue range is shown. Publishing a figure without evidence is not something we do.

Who you sell to

  • Small and mid-sized firms
  • Owner-operated businesses
  • Teams with repetitive work

How the money comes in

  • Build fee
  • Monthly maintenance

Steps

  1. Pick one industry and survey its repetitive work
  2. Build a demo that automates exactly one of those tasks
  3. Take the demo to twenty prospects
  4. Quote the build and the upkeep separately from the start

Risks

  • Not knowing the client's work makes the automation wrong — that is a domain problem, not a tooling one
  • Maintenance accumulates and eats the time you need for new sales
  • When automation misfires the loss lands on the client. Put the liability boundary in the contract

Do this today

  1. Pick one industry
  2. Research and write down three repetitive tasks in it
  3. Draft a proposal that automates one of them

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