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Structure a premium recurring revenue service as an "AI concierge." Offer a limited number of monthly calls where you guide clients through building their own AI solutions on a shared screen. This co-creation model justifies a high hourly rate ($1,000/hr) and fosters client adoption.
Business owners are overwhelmed by AI terminology. A consultant can create a personalized GPT ecosystem using their unique preferences, goals, and workflows. This service turns an executive's operational knowledge into valuable intellectual property, packaged as custom system prompts and GPTs they can use daily.
Tools like Buddy Pro allow coaches and consultants to clone their knowledge into an AI, creating a new, lower-tier product. Clients can get 24/7 access to the expert's wisdom without taking up their valuable time, providing a scalable revenue stream for the expert and a more affordable entry point for customers.
Instead of selling AI tools to incumbents (e.g., law firms who bill by the hour), build an AI-first service that delivers the end result directly to the customer. This avoids conflicts of interest and captures more value.
An app bundling various LLMs into one interface is making $300k/month. Replicate this success by targeting a specific professional niche like lawyers or teachers. Stitch together models and workflows to become the default AI assistant for that vertical.
The high price point for professional AI tools is justified by their ability to tackle complex, high-value business tasks, not just minor productivity gains. The return on investment comes from replacing expensive and time-consuming work, like developing a data-driven growth strategy, in minutes.
To increase deal size and escape the limitations of per-user pricing, embed AI into specific, productized use cases. This allows you to create new value-based pricing levers, such as AI credit consumption or custom AI agents, boosting average deal size.
To significantly increase your income, stop selling discrete skills or tasks. Instead, solve larger business problems tied to revenue and growth. Taking ownership of a client's outcome, rather than just executing instructions, makes you vastly more valuable and allows you to charge retainers instead of hourly rates.
Begin by offering AI consulting or services. This provides immediate cash flow and deep customer insights with a 70-80% margin. Use this experience to document workflows and then productize the solution into a scalable software product with ~95% margins.
The most profitable way to leverage AI tools without code is to package their output as a managed service. Instead of selling access to an AI, sell lead generation, process automation, or financial analysis on a monthly retainer, with the AI doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
A major new business model is creating pre-configured AI agents for specific industries (e.g., HVAC). Instead of selling a horizontal tool, agencies can provide a productized service, managing these 'AI employees' for clients at a high monthly retainer.