Dan Martell - April 30, 2026


The Only 14 Ways to Make Money with AI in 2026


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00:00:00.000 Every single day, thousands of internet gurus tell you how to make money with AI, 0.99
00:00:05.320 but 99% of them are full of s***. Most of them haven't made a single dollar with AI. 0.98
00:00:10.600 As someone who actually launches a new AI company every single month,
00:00:14.460 most of which are making millions, I'll be ranking the only real ways to make money with AI.
00:00:19.520 And at the end, I'll tell you exactly which one I'd pick and how you can actually build it.
00:00:24.020 So let's start with the first idea, AI voice agents. So what we want to do is build an AI
00:00:28.720 phone agent that books appointments, qualify leads, and handles all calls for a business.
00:00:34.480 Essentially, it's a full-time receptionist that doesn't sleep, doesn't complain, doesn't get sick,
00:00:38.280 doesn't quit. And it helps businesses where one missed call could cost them thousands. For example,
00:00:43.600 think about like plumbers, HVAC, law firms, dental clinics. And the crazy part is most businesses
00:00:50.060 don't even know this exists yet, or they don't think it's that good. They're probably talking
00:00:54.260 to AI right now, and they don't even realize the person was AI. That's the window we're in right
00:00:58.580 now. Now I'll be ranking all of these AI businesses into one of four tiers. S tier, which is like
00:01:04.020 super duper tier. A tier, which is an S, it's a little bit below, but it's still great. B tier,
00:01:09.700 which is and then F tier, which is you might want to just ignore it and run away. And trust me,
00:01:15.360 most of these experts are talking about ideas being like, this is the one to do that I would
00:01:19.940 consider F tier. And to do that, we're going to look at three things. First off is profitability.
00:01:24.660 How much money are people actually gonna pay
00:01:26.720 and is it gonna make you money?
00:01:28.780 The second is competition.
00:01:30.400 How crowded is the market I'm talking about?
00:01:32.900 And the third is longevity.
00:01:34.660 How long will this be relevant in the future?
00:01:37.280 Because why would we do something
00:01:38.720 that doesn't allow us to build real wealth?
00:01:40.640 And just because of the speed AI is moving and changing at,
00:01:44.020 things that we're talking about now
00:01:45.020 that might make you some money
00:01:46.020 will literally fall off a cliff in the near future.
00:01:48.900 So where do we put the AI voice agent or assistant?
00:01:51.760 Profitability is high.
00:01:52.780 Right off the bat, I know what people are willing to pay.
00:01:55.260 I talked to my barber about this.
00:01:56.540 I talked to my friends that have local businesses.
00:01:58.400 When the AI starts attacking the labor costs,
00:02:01.340 essentially what you're paying for people
00:02:02.680 and you can replace a person,
00:02:04.240 all of a sudden now, anything you charge,
00:02:06.500 it's like $500, $1,000, $1,500 a month, feels cheap.
00:02:10.060 Next, we got competition.
00:02:11.580 I think the market's pretty crowded.
00:02:13.240 Every time I talk to people about an AI idea,
00:02:15.700 they're always like, oh, I'm building the voice agent,
00:02:17.320 I'm building the voice agent.
00:02:18.100 So good news is very few of them know how to market or sell.
00:02:21.120 You can tell by just going through Google Local
00:02:23.520 and calling those businesses
00:02:24.720 and hear them answer with a real person.
00:02:26.700 They're still not adopting this.
00:02:28.160 So the competition is there,
00:02:29.580 like people are talking about it,
00:02:30.800 but they don't have it widely used.
00:02:32.520 And longevity, I think this will be relevant for a long time.
00:02:35.640 Why?
00:02:35.960 Because voice is the path to AI doing a lot of stuff for us.
00:02:39.760 I think it's an A-tier opportunity.
00:02:41.940 So it's a solid business.
00:02:43.400 There's real demand.
00:02:44.380 You can make good money.
00:02:45.500 It's got legs.
00:02:46.520 The next one is AI lead generation.
00:02:48.780 This is where you build an AI
00:02:50.180 that automates prospecting for businesses.
00:02:52.660 It does research, it like qualifies people,
00:02:55.400 it gets data and essentially presents
00:02:57.600 qualified leads to a business.
00:02:59.660 What's super fun is you can use tools like Manus,
00:03:02.320 Cloud Cowork, Gemini to essentially go find those leads
00:03:06.160 and sell them to the business.
00:03:07.960 Now you'd ask yourself,
00:03:08.820 why doesn't the business do this for themselves?
00:03:10.860 The truth is most entrepreneurs are already overwhelmed,
00:03:13.540 they're busy and what they don't have enough of is leads.
00:03:16.260 So they're busy delivering for the customers they have
00:03:18.420 and for you to come to them and say,
00:03:19.860 I got some warm leads with phone numbers and emails
00:03:21.840 that I can manage for you.
00:03:23.420 That is a huge value problem.
00:03:25.340 Profitability, it's actually pretty high
00:03:27.020 because you're directly putting money
00:03:28.620 on the table for these clients.
00:03:30.120 Then when I think about like competition,
00:03:32.020 it's getting tougher.
00:03:33.200 There's actually new AI platforms like clay.com
00:03:35.580 that do this as a service.
00:03:37.880 So it costs money and you can charge for those leads
00:03:40.600 and they're really high quality.
00:03:41.680 I have a friend Hunter that does this every day.
00:03:43.620 He was getting paid to generate leads for people.
00:03:45.660 Longevity is pretty strong
00:03:47.120 because I always think there's a place
00:03:48.600 where businesses needs more leads.
00:03:50.780 I think about businesses as like,
00:03:52.200 what skill this is gonna deliver me?
00:03:54.080 Is this something I should learn?
00:03:55.460 Do I need it for my own business?
00:03:56.880 So if you're starting a company,
00:03:58.620 learning how to generate leads, probably a good idea.
00:04:00.940 So let's talk about where I tier this.
00:04:02.900 I actually think this one is S tier.
00:04:06.560 You're selling money.
00:04:07.620 It's a clear value proposition.
00:04:09.740 It's an easy yes.
00:04:10.900 And you can charge enough money
00:04:12.060 because they know what a customer's worth to them
00:04:13.580 to be able to make it really profitable.
00:04:15.340 next let's talk about faceless ai youtube channels people are talking about this it's the new rage
00:04:21.340 where they're essentially creating these cash cow fantasy things i think it's both youtube algorithm
00:04:27.500 buries ai generated content today that might change in the future but as we stand today
00:04:32.620 it wants real organic engaging content channels get demonetized within weeks sometimes if that's
00:04:39.060 all they're putting out is just ai slot there's no brand being built there's no audience or loyalty
00:04:43.620 and there's no way to stand out
00:04:44.960 from the million of other AI channels.
00:04:47.120 Profitability is almost zero
00:04:48.640 because again, channels get demonetized.
00:04:50.780 The competition, I mean, everybody with an AI tool
00:04:54.220 can essentially create these, so it's not that hard.
00:04:57.360 Longevity, none.
00:04:59.300 The faceless YouTube channel,
00:05:00.440 which is essentially like bit slinging AI slop
00:05:03.420 to generate ads or sell something in,
00:05:05.620 it's like the bottom feeder of the internet.
00:05:07.440 People are already getting tired
00:05:08.800 of this kind of faceless YouTube content.
00:05:10.920 So I'm gonna put this in the F tier.
00:05:13.460 if that wasn't clearly an obvious right off the bat.
00:05:17.060 I think it's interesting to learn how to get good
00:05:19.180 at creating AI video generated content.
00:05:21.680 That's a good skill to learn,
00:05:22.800 but in regards to like a business, not my kind of business.
00:05:25.840 And look, if you want my help to sell
00:05:27.980 any of these AI companies without making a single phone call,
00:05:31.440 I've got a gift for you.
00:05:32.480 I have this whole process document.
00:05:34.600 It's called my sell by chat playbook.
00:05:36.040 It's the exact process that I use in all my companies
00:05:38.600 to help them make millions selling
00:05:40.880 through direct messages over chat.
00:05:43.240 it's got the offer template it's got the structure the nine box model how to deal with objections it
00:05:48.620 even talks about the content you should be creating to attract people that are ready to buy
00:05:52.180 if you want it find me on instagram adam martell and dme youtube sbc for sell by chat and i'll
00:05:58.360 send it right over next we've got ai content repurposing this one's fun because you can take
00:06:03.840 a long form video like this and turn it into short form content like tweets and carousels
00:06:10.280 and newsletters i think right now for example my threads are blown up by using content from my
00:06:14.680 youtube and just repurposing it on threads you can use tools that are ai powered like opus clips and
00:06:19.560 descript to help you create this so now let's break it down first we have profitability this
00:06:23.720 is pretty solid because every creator and company with a podcast they need this next i think about
00:06:28.360 competition and essentially it's pretty moderate because yes it's a growing category but a lot of
00:06:33.480 people have already figured out how to do this themselves and then i think about longevity you
00:06:37.240 You know, and this is where I think it's weak
00:06:39.020 because the tools are catching up so quick
00:06:41.900 where they're starting to just repurpose on their own
00:06:44.300 that your window may be kind of small
00:06:46.360 in regards to how long you do this for.
00:06:48.260 So I would grade this as a B tier.
00:06:50.880 I'm a fan of learning how to do this.
00:06:52.580 I think you should learn it for your own business,
00:06:53.920 but I also think that long-term,
00:06:55.900 it'll just be automated for everybody.
00:06:58.040 Next, we've got AI consulting.
00:07:00.020 You get paid to come in, audit a company's operations,
00:07:03.160 their systems, their processes,
00:07:04.600 and find every nook and cranny
00:07:06.420 where AI can save them time, reduce waste,
00:07:09.400 make things better.
00:07:10.400 You could charge like $5,000 to audit any business
00:07:13.420 and turn that into potentially
00:07:14.960 a $50,000 implementation project.
00:07:17.400 And companies know, just look at the comments below.
00:07:19.960 They know they should learn AI.
00:07:21.280 They know they should use AI.
00:07:22.560 They just don't know where to start.
00:07:24.380 So you come in and you could be that person.
00:07:26.240 So if I think about it, profitability,
00:07:27.840 it's one of the top ones that I'm gonna talk about
00:07:30.420 in regards to making real money.
00:07:32.300 Doing it for them, educating them,
00:07:34.580 consulting them on it, huge.
00:07:36.420 competition. I mean, it's kind of low because there's not a lot of people that are qualified
00:07:41.520 that are good, that actually can say, look, I focus on this niche and I help people just like
00:07:46.260 you. Most people can't do it well. When I think of longevity, I think consulting is always going
00:07:51.440 to be needed and AI is not going to slow down. It's not going to stop changing. And somebody
00:07:55.180 knows how to help a business get the bandwidth to implement it so they can keep doing what the
00:07:59.980 business does and not have to worry about the tools and the AI. That's huge. It's strong.
00:08:04.080 So I'm gonna give this an S tier
00:08:06.460 because it's also, if you have domain experience,
00:08:09.780 it's a great place to start.
00:08:11.920 And I even like it better than lead gen,
00:08:13.660 so we're gonna put it in front of that.
00:08:15.420 I like it better because you got more meat on the bones
00:08:18.240 for money and what's called revenue growth
00:08:20.680 because you can sell more things to people
00:08:22.220 and it gets you in the game to see other opportunities,
00:08:25.640 whereas lead gen, you're just kind of like this transaction.
00:08:28.680 Next up, we have virtual assistants.
00:08:30.980 Now, as the guy who wrote the book, Buy Back Your Time,
00:08:33.640 my inbox is full. Literally the top five virtual agencies in the world are like, Dan, where do you
00:08:38.920 see AI disrupting us? You're kind of cooked. Using AI tools to handle your email, your scheduling,
00:08:47.040 researching things for busy founders, essentially acting as a chief of staff. This is what AI does
00:08:51.920 better than anything. And again, I have a dog in the fight. I built a whole platform called Apex
00:08:56.840 that allows agents, virtual agents to execute. That's what it stands for. Agents, platforms for
00:09:01.520 execution to do this kind of work for business owners. My guy is called Kai, and Kai does
00:09:07.840 everything. He's my chief of staff. He manages my inbox. He manages my calendar. He coordinates
00:09:11.860 projects. He checks my Slack. He follows up on things. He even makes phone calls. He even hired
00:09:16.520 a bunch of people like my real estate guy named Reese, and he does a lot of cool real estate
00:09:20.060 projects for me, but these aren't real people. And if you want to check out Apex, just click the link
00:09:24.100 below in the description. So here's what I think about this opportunity. One, profitability. It's
00:09:28.500 decent, right? You get three to five clients paying you. You're doing the work. You're managing
00:09:32.700 the agents because I really think that is the future of AI anyways, an agent operator. Then
00:09:36.980 we go to competition, pretty crowded. Everyone that knows how to use Claude Cowork can kind of
00:09:41.780 get all this stuff for free. And everybody and their mom seems to be offering this. And the
00:09:45.640 longevity is kind of moderate. The AI can kind of do this. So then the real value kind of looks
00:09:51.280 like the consulting at scale where you're coming in with business processes, not just being a
00:09:56.420 virtual assistant. So I think we are a B, but I do think the value prop is stronger than content
00:10:03.160 repurposing because it has a clear value of saving somebody's time. Now, I know I said I have Apex
00:10:08.940 and you're thinking I'm rating this opportunity B. That specific one for virtual assistant? Yes.
00:10:14.900 Apex essentially is a full team of AI agents that work to accomplish business goals. That's
00:10:21.380 different and the virtual assistant part inside of that is just a tiny little part and don't forget
00:10:26.600 the end of this video I'll be showing you my exact steps on how I'd launch my top pick and I've got
00:10:31.160 some bangers coming next we've got AI chat agents local businesses yes they get phone calls but a
00:10:37.480 lot of people email a lot of people go to the website and they chat I was just looking into
00:10:41.480 booking dinner tonight and I didn't want to even go through open table I'm lazy I wish I could have
00:10:45.740 just like started chatting on the website but no they didn't have an AI chat agent ready to go
00:10:50.520 they're trying to force me through their interface interfaces are dead okay can we just all agree
00:10:55.000 people that want to book local businesses they want instant replies they don't want to even call
00:11:00.120 they want to chat and the cool part is that when you deploy these ai chats within a business you
00:11:05.000 just build a monthly retainer so let's run through this we got profitability it's good because of the
00:11:09.080 monthly retainer that's where the real money stacks if you don't have a reoccurring revenue
00:11:12.840 component to your business add one then i think competition it's pretty crowded i mean there's a
00:11:19.560 lot of people i'm an investor in intercom they kind of led the space for like ai powered chat
00:11:24.760 and the barrier is pretty low because like anybody can build one of these no problem
00:11:29.320 when i think of longevity i mean it's kind of moderate you know like how competitive is this
00:11:34.200 is this just going to be built into every frontier ai model or other companies just going to keep
00:11:38.840 adding compelling chat options into the software they're already selling to the businesses so i'm
00:11:44.040 I'm gonna put it in A behind the voice agent.
00:11:48.000 And the reason why,
00:11:48.940 I think the voice agent is more compelling,
00:11:51.060 but what I see a lot of people
00:11:52.320 is they use the chat to qualify
00:11:54.400 and then kick it into the voice agent for booking
00:11:56.940 or having them call using the AI.
00:11:59.580 So it's there, it's great,
00:12:01.900 but it's not gonna be as good as a voice.
00:12:03.760 Next we have AI trading bots.
00:12:05.760 So this one is interesting
00:12:07.020 because where a lot of people are selling bots
00:12:09.880 to do something from a business point of view,
00:12:11.280 Now you've got your bot that technically can make you money.
00:12:14.080 Here's the thing nobody's telling you.
00:12:15.980 Everybody's selling some kind of trading bot
00:12:18.280 is essentially selling you a course.
00:12:20.220 They don't got a bot.
00:12:21.520 Dude, if I had a bot that made me 20% every year,
00:12:24.660 guess what?
00:12:25.100 I wouldn't tell anybody about it.
00:12:26.180 There are companies like Renaissance Technologies,
00:12:28.880 DE Shaw, Two Sigma,
00:12:31.160 that are so good at using AI to trade
00:12:33.880 that they're only trading the employee's money
00:12:36.920 and it's like 10 to 15 billion
00:12:38.800 and nobody can even invest
00:12:40.120 because that's how good it is.
00:12:42.100 These AI bots, essentially, they're selling signals.
00:12:46.080 They're like marketing companies
00:12:47.460 and the signals only last for like 16 months
00:12:50.960 and then they got to find the next signal
00:12:52.100 and then you got to buy the next thing.
00:12:53.540 If the bots actually worked,
00:12:55.280 why would anyone sell it to you for $97?
00:12:57.920 So essentially, the business you could be in
00:13:00.700 is trying to build these bots, market these bots
00:13:03.240 and get people to buy them from you.
00:13:05.560 If you want to create the bot, is it profitable for you?
00:13:08.840 Yeah, because you're selling the course,
00:13:10.680 you're selling the dream, you're selling the vision.
00:13:12.220 They're buying it from you.
00:13:13.480 Let's just leave the ethics out of it.
00:13:15.200 Competition, yeah, there's a lot of people out there.
00:13:18.300 Longevity, I think zero.
00:13:20.220 I think it's one of those things where you build it,
00:13:22.760 it doesn't work, you try to get it going.
00:13:24.420 And it's also really risky
00:13:26.140 because people are paying you to invest.
00:13:29.160 And if you don't deliver,
00:13:30.380 I feel like you're getting in the SEC territory
00:13:32.500 of maybe them not liking what you're doing.
00:13:34.640 So I would rank it as S.
00:13:36.380 It's the best, I'm kidding.
00:13:37.620 It's ranked at the bottom.
00:13:38.880 I mean, come on.
00:13:39.560 You're selling hopes and dreams.
00:13:41.300 It's not a very good business.
00:13:42.660 Next, we have AI agent development.
00:13:44.780 This is where people pay you
00:13:46.420 to create some of these AI agents,
00:13:48.260 like I was saying earlier,
00:13:49.100 like my guy Kai, who can do all this cool stuff.
00:13:51.300 They have to be designed.
00:13:52.800 I'm talking about like sales bots
00:13:54.540 and document processors and operational bots
00:13:57.000 and like all these AI agents.
00:13:58.880 The difference between the virtual assistant and this,
00:14:01.200 this is like selling a team.
00:14:03.720 You have your chief of staff agent
00:14:05.720 and then the agent manages several other agents
00:14:07.900 and those are like virtual employees.
00:14:10.180 So the profitability, if you get it right, massive.
00:14:12.840 I really think this is a big opportunity.
00:14:14.500 The competition today,
00:14:16.000 most people can't even explain what this is.
00:14:18.200 So it's low because it's hard.
00:14:20.340 You need to have more technical experience,
00:14:22.040 which keeps most people out.
00:14:23.600 But the longevity is strong.
00:14:25.780 Everything that I'm seeing
00:14:27.000 that agents is the iPhone moment of AI is huge.
00:14:32.020 You create these repeatable workflows
00:14:33.480 and then you just get paid to drop them in
00:14:36.140 and they're attacking the labor dollars
00:14:38.060 on a small business's expense sheet. 0.89
00:14:40.620 It's gonna allow them to scale without adding people.
00:14:43.260 I consider this the top opportunity right now
00:14:46.380 if you've got the technical know-how
00:14:48.440 and you wanna go and live in that world,
00:14:51.140 it is the S of the S of the S.
00:14:53.600 Next, we have AI copywriting,
00:14:55.360 landing pages, case study, sales emails.
00:14:58.760 Essentially, AI writes every first draft
00:15:01.220 and the cool part is you can do it in your voice
00:15:03.140 and it can follow a strategic process to generate sales.
00:15:06.260 Generous are getting crushed.
00:15:07.580 There's a lot of people that did copywriting
00:15:09.080 and they did a lot of stuff.
00:15:10.460 It's the specialists who niche down into one industry
00:15:13.820 and really focus on delivering a solution,
00:15:16.300 not just AI, but actually a solution for a business
00:15:19.400 that are gonna win.
00:15:20.440 The key is, is don't be an AI writer.
00:15:23.320 Be the person who writes for one type of business
00:15:25.540 and manages all the words that go out.
00:15:28.000 So when I think of profitability, it's decent.
00:15:30.760 It's actually pretty good
00:15:31.680 because most people would have to pay an agency
00:15:33.980 10 to 15,000 a month to do this.
00:15:36.220 Competition is high.
00:15:38.140 This AI copywriting is probably
00:15:40.960 the most popular use case in all AI.
00:15:44.300 And the longevity is kind of shaky.
00:15:46.160 Back in the day, it required some kind of like
00:15:47.920 system prompt design to be able to make it right
00:15:49.960 like the person and the tone.
00:15:51.840 But now right out of the box with these new models
00:15:54.020 is getting pretty good.
00:15:55.700 So for you to stand out, it's gonna be pretty difficult.
00:15:58.560 So if you're specific enough, niche enough,
00:16:01.480 and really doing something personalized,
00:16:03.820 then you're at the top of B.
00:16:05.320 If you're not and you're just doing anything for anybody,
00:16:07.580 then you're just like Claude or any other AI model
00:16:09.820 and you're probably at the bottom of the list.
00:16:11.340 Next up, we have the AI Venture Studio.
00:16:13.960 Essentially, it's the idea that most entrepreneurs have,
00:16:16.560 which is I got a lot of ideas.
00:16:18.120 I wanna build a lot of stuff.
00:16:19.260 So I have a studio where I create
00:16:22.300 a lot of different AI companies.
00:16:24.740 Think about like if you had a factory
00:16:26.080 that churns out profitable businesses on repeat,
00:16:28.780 that's a Venture Studio.
00:16:29.580 And the cool part is pretty much since December,
00:16:32.340 the whole world's changed where any person with an idea
00:16:34.880 can actually get an app built themselves.
00:16:37.260 They can do it themselves.
00:16:38.300 I shut down my company for two days
00:16:39.840 and taught everybody how to code in Cloud Code.
00:16:42.740 Profitability, truth is, is unlimited.
00:16:45.300 And the cool part is if you do it right,
00:16:47.040 every company is built to sell, built to go public.
00:16:51.340 And then the winners get to ride 0.99
00:16:52.760 and then you just kill the losers 0.99
00:16:53.980 because you tested them and validated them 1.00
00:16:55.460 with very little investment upfront.
00:16:57.240 In regards to competition,
00:16:58.880 I mean, there's a lot of people
00:16:59.920 that might call themselves a studio,
00:17:01.840 but they don't compete.
00:17:03.000 They don't have distribution.
00:17:04.160 They don't have brand.
00:17:05.100 They don't know product.
00:17:06.260 They don't know how to get customers.
00:17:07.860 Most people can't think at this level.
00:17:09.660 It's a completely different experience.
00:17:11.220 You need to have the business background,
00:17:12.680 the marketing background,
00:17:13.460 the leadership background,
00:17:14.460 the capital to be able to hire and build teams.
00:17:16.820 And then when I think of longevity,
00:17:18.540 this is how you create ongoing enterprise value over time.
00:17:23.040 It's how you build the flywheel that eventually takes off.
00:17:25.800 And then you create the machine that builds the machine.
00:17:28.420 That's the whole point of the Venture Studio.
00:17:30.240 So personally, I'm not gonna rank it S
00:17:32.980 even though that's what I do.
00:17:34.200 Martell Ventures is a Venture Studio
00:17:35.580 that builds AI-powered companies.
00:17:37.560 The problem is that for most people,
00:17:39.560 it's too advanced of a move.
00:17:41.460 Yeah, I'm putting an A-.
00:17:42.860 Next, we got an AI to AI marketplace.
00:17:45.680 This one is so fun.
00:17:47.060 Did you know there's a website
00:17:48.520 where AI agents hire humans?
00:17:50.680 It's called rentahuman.ai.
00:17:52.240 It's kind of crazy.
00:17:53.220 I think they've had over 700,000 humans register
00:17:56.320 and 200,000 jobs already go out there
00:17:59.300 for the AI agents to hire humans.
00:18:01.980 So just so you know,
00:18:03.080 if you don't get into the AI like we're talking about,
00:18:05.740 then someday you'll either be the person leading it
00:18:08.140 or working for the AI.
00:18:09.860 But the other part is that AI will be buying from AI.
00:18:13.480 Stripe, which is the number one merchant provider
00:18:15.460 in the world, just came out with a protocol
00:18:17.280 to enable this.
00:18:18.420 Google jumped on board.
00:18:19.660 So this is the opportunity.
00:18:21.080 You decide to build the Facebook marketplace, right?
00:18:24.160 of AI agents and you decide to like figure out what would be valuable and how you rank them and
00:18:29.160 make sure there's no security issues with them and just like market the marketplace so you can
00:18:33.480 be like the Airbnb of AI agents. Now let's talk about this in regards to where it sits in the
00:18:38.980 ranking. First off, is it profitable? Well, you'll probably get on the low end 10%, on the high end
00:18:44.020 30% of that connection in that fee. So there's some money, but it's not wild. The competition,
00:18:49.780 I mean, almost nobody out there has built this yet at scale.
00:18:53.500 There's no like eBay of AI to AI marketplace.
00:18:57.440 And then longevity, marketplaces are wildly defensible
00:19:01.700 if you can get it going, like Uber, like Airbnb,
00:19:05.960 like Instacart.
00:19:07.200 These are incredibly valuable businesses.
00:19:09.420 So that's the upside.
00:19:10.520 In regards to where I'd rank this as an opportunity
00:19:12.960 for people to make money with AI,
00:19:14.900 it would probably be harder to do that
00:19:18.140 than start a venture studio.
00:19:19.780 but I do like it.
00:19:21.240 I don't have an AI marketplace business yet.
00:19:24.660 This might be the moment that I decide to build one.
00:19:26.780 I'm gonna put it on the top of A.
00:19:28.500 I'm not gonna think you can't do this.
00:19:30.340 I actually think you can.
00:19:31.840 So now we only have two more
00:19:32.840 and I'm gonna tell you which one I would pick
00:19:34.600 and how I would go about launching it
00:19:36.120 so you can use that blueprint to launch your own.
00:19:38.200 Next, we have AI logo and brand design.
00:19:40.540 Now this is getting paid to use AI
00:19:42.860 to generate logos and brand kits
00:19:45.640 and examples of brands on products.
00:19:48.420 You can use tools like Nano Banana to do some of this.
00:19:51.420 Manus can do a lot.
00:19:52.520 So you can approach these businesses to get paid to do this
00:19:55.520 as long as they're like more involved projects.
00:19:58.520 Profitability, it's kind of medium
00:20:00.000 because you can still get paid what people think it's worth.
00:20:03.220 Like the other day, I designed a website
00:20:04.800 that in the past, I would have paid $100,000.
00:20:07.120 It had animation and effects.
00:20:09.520 I value something and you can sell it.
00:20:12.020 Then the profitability could be there.
00:20:13.520 So you might not be able to charge that much,
00:20:14.840 but trust me, people are willing to pay.
00:20:16.020 the competition you got a lot right you got all the tools you got the people using the tools
00:20:22.480 and then longevity i just don't see a world where long term this is not something that most people
00:20:30.540 can't solve themselves by just asking their ai because you're probably doing it already where
00:20:35.320 you just ask the ai to design your website and say make it look like apple designed it and boom
00:20:40.380 Most beautiful thing in the world.
00:20:41.680 So I'm gonna give this one a B-tier ranking
00:20:44.680 right after copywriting
00:20:46.380 because I think copywriting sells money,
00:20:48.600 brand is identity, some people value it,
00:20:50.720 but it doesn't have the longevity I would like.
00:20:53.160 Next up, we have manage AI cybersecurity.
00:20:55.860 This is where you get paid to use AI
00:20:58.500 to manage the threats on a business 24 seven,
00:21:01.520 everything from phishing attempts
00:21:03.320 to getting past their firewall
00:21:05.520 to sending spam emails like social engineering
00:21:08.620 where people are using AI to spoof a person's voice.
00:21:12.160 We've detected suspicious activity on your account.
00:21:14.940 Can you tell me your login information?
00:21:17.220 Just kidding, I'm fake.
00:21:19.200 It's kind of crazy.
00:21:20.360 I mean, one breach can cost a company millions.
00:21:23.200 You essentially can get paid to help business
00:21:25.900 understand security and put basic things in place.
00:21:28.980 Most people barely understand AI,
00:21:30.900 let alone understand the risk that AI
00:21:33.020 in the hands of bad people can be used
00:21:35.180 to actually attack you from a security point of view.
00:21:37.240 So that's where you come in.
00:21:38.360 profitability wildly profitable it's massive you can charge a lot of money per month because
00:21:43.800 not having somebody's systems go down would be massive value now you are selling like insurance
00:21:50.040 where they only know they need you once they have an incident but you can sell enterprise level
00:21:55.720 contracts and that's where the big money comes from the competition because it's so technical
00:22:00.840 almost none now there are people out there that have ai platforms for this and people that are
00:22:05.080 specialists in security so if you love to do this you're well positioned for this in longevity i
00:22:11.480 just think the more ai gets powerful the more there's going to be need for ai experts to stop
00:22:16.520 the cyber attacks stop the hackers stop the ai powered hacking and that's a great market to be in
00:22:21.880 now i'm going to put it in s tier right behind agent development because i think agent development's
00:22:25.960 easier less technical and you can get paid but the cyber security is a huge opportunity
00:22:31.560 so now that i've ranked every one now i'm going to tell you how it launched my favorite so clearly
00:22:36.120 that's agent development here are my five steps number one is i got to validate so what i'm going
00:22:41.080 to do is i'm going to create a landing page i'm going to ai create this and it's going to talk
00:22:44.920 about my agent development but i'm going to pick one use case i'm going to pick chief of staff
00:22:49.000 because that's the thing that everybody needs they all know they need somebody help them with
00:22:52.280 their email and scheduling and follow up and legals and all that stuff so you can create a
00:22:56.440 simple landing page that talks about this new AI power chief of staff that they can buy and they
00:23:02.540 can get added to the waitlist. Now, after you build that page, I then want you to text every
00:23:07.240 person you know in your phone. This is what I do. I just ask them, who do you know that's looking
00:23:12.280 for an AI power chief of staff that helps them get back 10 to 15 hours of their week and manage
00:23:18.300 more projects? Send, send, send. If you want that little script, it's in the description below. So
00:23:23.840 just go grab it. The cool part is you're not asking if they want it. You're asking if they
00:23:27.420 know anybody, but most people are going to reply and say, well, I want that. Then the next thing
00:23:31.600 you got to do is ask if they would pay to solve that problem today. So we do that to validate.
00:23:36.660 That's number one. Second, we have to pre-sell. I'm a big fan of crowdfunding. It's a multi-billion
00:23:41.440 industry. People launch ideas and crowdfund it and have people support it. And they do it with
00:23:46.440 one page. You can do the same thing. The landing page we just created, that's essentially the
00:23:51.200 offer page. And now what we do behind the waitlist is we actually email those people and
00:23:55.680 say, we actually are opening up our early adopter program. If you'd like to be part of it, here's
00:24:00.140 how much it costs and send them a payment link and see if they buy. Maybe you get on a call with
00:24:04.740 them and you walk them through it. But those same people that you contacted, maybe they replied or
00:24:09.100 they referred people or they joined the waitlist. Those are the people that you want to use to
00:24:13.620 pre-sell to validate that your problem is a real problem, a painkiller problem, not a vitamin
00:24:19.080 problem. Then the third step is launch it manually. You can literally launch what I just said by
00:24:24.580 manually doing it for people. No core tech, no like deep AI agentic stuff. Yes, eventually they'll
00:24:30.380 get that, but you can just bring them on in a consulting approach, a concierge approach and
00:24:35.320 customize the tech for them. So you can prove a real transaction, deliver real value before you
00:24:41.580 build or automate anything. Now I want to go build my audience. So my favorite way to do that is find
00:24:46.500 the people that are already talking about the problem
00:24:48.820 and then see if I can partner with them
00:24:50.900 to promote my business, my AI, my landing page.
00:24:54.320 And you could do that right now.
00:24:55.300 You could go find people currently talking about
00:24:57.280 chief of staff using AI
00:24:59.120 and see if they wanna promote your company.
00:25:01.500 So that is how we build the wait list.
00:25:04.000 Again, we haven't even launched publicly,
00:25:05.380 but you can recruit partners,
00:25:06.840 give them a link that's unique to them,
00:25:08.680 track that they're referring people
00:25:10.340 and then pay them if those people buy.
00:25:12.280 This is basically the distribution of our idea
00:25:15.340 to the world through other people.
00:25:17.200 So unless you already have an audience,
00:25:19.100 partner with somebody who does.
00:25:20.400 Number five, which is last, is product ties.
00:25:22.920 Notice how most people start here,
00:25:24.520 and I'm saying it's the last thing.
00:25:26.040 Once you have the transactions and they're consistent,
00:25:28.580 you're automating and you're doing most of it manually.
00:25:30.760 You have the partners that are promoting it out there
00:25:32.540 and you're getting paid to do it.
00:25:34.140 Then you take the income
00:25:35.480 and you reinvest it in building it out.
00:25:37.960 That is how you could launch any single one of these ideas
00:25:40.820 to any market and get there fast.
00:25:43.400 This is how I've built every one of my companies.
00:25:45.040 this is my process. I keep doing it every month. Now, I know that was a lot, but basically what I
00:25:50.140 want you to get out of this is first off, you're not behind. There are so many opportunities ahead
00:25:55.920 of you and you just might've been following the wrong map and you're just in the wrong destination.
00:26:00.320 So now all you have to do is just pick one. Pick one of these ideas. Use my feedback as the guide,
00:26:06.720 but just stay focused. Build yourself. Invest in yourself. Understand that business is there
00:26:12.500 to develop you people who win aren't the ones who start first they're literally the ones who don't
00:26:18.820 quit the people that kept showing up they kept putting one foot in front of the other and over
00:26:23.620 time they built the business out of all these ideas which one did you find the most interesting
00:26:28.180 just let me know below in the comments and remember dm me youtube sbc on instagram adam martel
00:26:34.100 for the offer template who has a sell by chat the structure even the content and if you want to
00:26:39.540 to learn how to build a business that runs itself, click the video and I'll see you on the other side.