How Beginners Can Actually Make Money with AI — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'll be honest with you. This video is
2. 0:01going to be a difficult video for me to
3. 0:04make. I don't usually talk about myself
4. 0:06much, but in this video I am. Because if
5. 0:08you're trying to make money with AI and
6. 0:10automation, and if you feel stuck, no
7. 0:12client, watching tutorial after
8. 0:14tutorial, not sure how to actually make
9. 0:16money from that, then my story is the
10. 0:19exact thing I wish someone told me when
11. 0:21I was passing out from my college or I
12. 0:23when I was younger. By the end of this
13. 0:25video you will know how I actually did
14. 0:27it and playbook to do it yourself. And
15. 0:29if you are a running a business and if
16. 0:31you are stuck getting a client, this
17. 0:32video can be for you as well. So stay
18. 0:33with me. I started to my career as an
19. 0:35intern earning 7,000 rupees per month.
20. 0:387,000. Years later when I quit my job,
21. 0:41at the time I was earning 40 lakh
22. 0:43annually sitting on a comfortable remote
23. 0:45job because my company was in US and
24. 0:48then I walked away with no kind of a
25. 0:50backup plan of joining the job. And the
26. 0:52first client I landed that paid me
27. 0:54$5,000 and then $10,000 and many more
28. 0:57projects through the networks. Everyone
29. 0:58wants to learn how to make money using
30. 1:00AI and automation because they don't
31. 1:02want to stay behind in this AI era. But
32. 1:05the internet is a full of people who
33. 1:07gives you a false promise of earning
34. 1:09lakhs in 30 days. In this video I'm not
35. 1:11going to do that. Instead, I'm going to
36. 1:13show you how to actually make money in
37. 1:15this AI and automation era through my
38. 1:17real journey, the background, the
39. 1:19mistake, the grinds nobody told you, and
40. 1:21the exact playbook from where the client
41. 1:23came from, then how to create an amazing
42. 1:26proposal, how to create a proper system
43. 1:28which can help you to track each and
44. 1:30every client you have, the leads you
45. 1:32have, how to do the proper follow-ups.
46. 1:34So stick around because by the end you
47. 1:36will know exactly how to do it.
48. 1:38>> [music]
49. 1:40>> So let me take back to the time when I
50. 1:42just passed out from my college. At the
51. 1:44time, my only motto was to learn the
52. 1:46skill and upgrade myself. So my first
53. 1:48job was in an AI startup called as Daten
54. 1:51and Weizen. I was the first employee to
55. 1:52join as an intern earning 7,000 rupees
56. 1:54per month. Honestly, that's nothing. But
57. 1:57the years what that job gave me. I was
58. 1:58the only person in the room when
59. 2:00somebody needed to build anything,
60. 2:02nobody could do it because obviously I
61. 2:04was the first employee and it landed on
62. 2:05me. I was building machine learning
63. 2:07model from scratch and when it was time
64. 2:09to integrate the machine learning model
65. 2:10inside the website, I had to learn the
66. 2:12full stack development, the front end,
67. 2:14the back end, how the database works. So
68. 2:15I was juggling and handling everything
69. 2:18because I was placed on the client side.
70. 2:19So I taught myself everything from
71. 2:22scratch. No one was there to tell me do
72. 2:24this, do that. time I left, I had gone
73. 2:26from a solo intern to managing nine to
74. 2:2910 people team over there and my salary
75. 2:30had grown from 7,000 rupees per month to
76. 2:348 lakh annually. [music]
77. 2:35I know that is also not much, but at the
78. 2:37time it was great. The win wasn't the
79. 2:39money. The win was the confidence which
80. 2:41I gained by talking to the people who
81. 2:44are earning crores over there because
82. 2:45they are handling a big company which
83. 2:47was listed in the stock market. I cannot
84. 2:49name the client, okay? Then the skill
85. 2:51which I grew, I learned the machine
86. 2:53learning, I learned how the
87. 2:55full stack work, like the front end, the
88. 2:57back end, the database and that's the
89. 2:58skill that pay you for your life. Then
90. 3:00next, I joined my second company which
91. 3:02is called as Kuhoo. They had just raised
92. 3:04the 20 million dollar and I was their
93. 3:06first back end employee, okay? So I
94. 3:08joined as a senior software engineer,
95. 3:10mainly working in the back end job. And
96. 3:12here's the things started getting
97. 3:13serious. So at Kuhoo, we were building
98. 3:15the entire loan application. So from the
99. 3:18time the user come into our application
100. 3:20till the time we disburse the loan in
101. 3:22tranches. So we had done the DigiLocker
102. 3:25integration, CIBIL integration, penny
103. 3:27drop verification, bank disbursement
104. 3:28flows and when you are handling the
105. 3:30people's loan with the real money, your
106. 3:33system cannot have bugs. So I led a team
107. 3:36of six to seven people and then I left
108. 3:38the job at 20 lakh per year. So what was
109. 3:40the lesson from Kuhoo? That when the
110. 3:42real money is online, the reliability is
111. 3:45the key. That mindset, that building
112. 3:47things that actually holds up in the
113. 3:48production, that's what client pay
114. 3:51premium for. You will get tons and tons
115. 3:53of people who are saying that I got this
116. 3:54particular job, I got this particular
117. 3:56lead, but that lead won't be paying them
118. 3:58in lakhs or crores until and unless the
119. 4:00person who is delivering give them a
120. 4:02production-ready premium outcome. That's
121. 4:04what I learned in my second company. And
122. 4:06then came my last job. This was also a
123. 4:08startup, so I'll tell you why I'm
124. 4:09joining startup in a bit. So, my last
125. 4:11company was called as View Pro. It was a
126. 4:13US-based pharma tech company. It is a
127. 4:16fully remote, okay? I was getting 40
128. 4:18lakh a year, and yours, I built a system
129. 4:21called as Ria. This was a rag-based
130. 4:22system. So, we were scraping out the
131. 4:25open-source pharmaceutical research
132. 4:26paper. They were in millions, okay? And
133. 4:29we had created a rag system where a
134. 4:31client, if they wanted to do research
135. 4:33about any kind of a product or they are
136. 4:36want to invent or discover something,
137. 4:38instead of going online and searching
138. 4:40for papers, we had scraped all the paper
139. 4:42into our system. They could ask any kind
140. 4:44of a questions from millions of
141. 4:46document, and they would get answer
142. 4:48instantly. This is where I went deep in
143. 4:50LLM, AI product development, and rag
144. 4:53architecture. The exact stuff that
145. 4:55exploding right now. And the lesson I
146. 4:56learned, AI solves real painful problem
147. 5:00which people have, but they have never
148. 5:02noticed. So, looking back into my
149. 5:03journey, first the AI company, then
150. 5:05fintech startup, then again the AI
151. 5:07product itself from going from 7,000
152. 5:09rupees to 40 lakh a year, and the whole
153. 5:12time every single skill stacked upon one
154. 5:15after the other. ML led to full stack,
155. 5:17full stack led to back end at scale
156. 5:19production level, then AI product.
157. 5:21Nothing was wasted. And one thing to
158. 5:23make sure, I was in a startup. And I'll
159. 5:25tell you why I was joining startup,
160. 5:27because when I was in college, one of my
161. 5:29senior told me, "If you want to learn,
162. 5:31don't go in MNC." MNCs are like a uh big
163. 5:34big companies like Reliance, TCS,
164. 5:36Accenture. So, when I was in college, I
165. 5:38got a placement from uh TCS and Jio, but
166. 5:41I did not accept that, and I went for a
167. 5:43startup at a lower price. Because keep
168. 5:45one thing in mind, whatever you do in
169. 5:47your life, money is just an outcome. The
170. 5:49skill which you will develop, the
171. 5:50confidence which you will develop, the
172. 5:52communication skill which you will with
173. 5:53which you will talk to the people is the
174. 5:55one which will compound and give you
175. 5:56more and more money. Now, here's the
176. 5:58part of the story nobody puts in their
177. 6:00video of how to make money with AI
178. 6:02because it's not sexy. From the very
179. 6:04start of my career, I was working 10 to
180. 6:0712 hours. No one was forcing me. No one
181. 6:09sat on me and told me that you have to
182. 6:11work 10 to 12 hours. My company didn't
183. 6:14demand it. I did demand it because I
184. 6:15didn't came from a rich background. I
185. 6:17was a lower middle class person. So,
186. 6:19there were things which I wanted. There
187. 6:21are dreams which I want to achieve.
188. 6:23There are goals which I will pursue. So,
189. 6:25from the beginning of my career, the
190. 6:27skill is the one which I have given the
191. 6:29most priority and not the money as I
192. 6:31mentioned. So, my focus was never on the
193. 6:33money. My focus was the skill and I want
194. 6:35to be very clear about why because this
195. 6:36is the single most important mindset
196. 6:38shift in this particular video. Money is
197. 6:40the outcome. It is the result of being
198. 6:42genuinely good at something for which
199. 6:44people pay you. If you take money first,
200. 6:46you take a shortcut and you do some
201. 6:48shallow work for which you will you will
202. 6:50be getting the money, but it won't
203. 6:51compound in a long long race. But, if
204. 6:54you chase skill, if you go deep, solve
205. 6:57real problem, the money comes to you as
206. 6:59almost as a side effect. This is not
207. 7:00some motivational line. It's literally
208. 7:02how my career played out. Every time my
209. 7:04skill jumped, my income jumped after it.
210. 7:07So, while I had my job, I was not just
211. 7:09doing my job work, I was improving
212. 7:11skills, I was watching tutorials
213. 7:14on the YouTube on things, getting some
214. 7:16kind of a paid courses because paid
215. 7:18courses are the investment which will
216. 7:19give you more return than mutual fund
217. 7:20and stocks. I'm not telling to not
218. 7:22invest in mutual fund and stock, but
219. 7:23that's the later part. I won't go deep
220. 7:25in this, but yeah. Buy yourself as much
221. 7:27as course as you can. [music]
222. 7:29It could be communication, it could be
223. 7:30relationship, it could be technical
224. 7:32skill which you want to improve. Learn
225. 7:34that theoretically as well as
226. 7:35practically and implement that in your
227. 7:37life. So, I was doing my 9 to 5 and
228. 7:39after that I was doing my 5 to 12. And
229. 7:41in the 5 to 12, I was building my skill
230. 7:43and side by side started my content
231. 7:45creation journey. So, on October 2025, I
232. 7:48left my job not because things weren't
233. 7:50bad there. It was good job, good pay,
234. 7:53comfortable life. And that's exactly why
235. 7:55leaving is much harder than leaving any
236. 7:58kind of a terrifying or bad job. It's
237. 8:00always terrifying to leave a good one.
238. 8:02But the best piece of advice I got from
239. 8:04my CEO when there was a one-on-one call
240. 8:06on my last day,
241. 8:07he told me that if you're leaving a job,
242. 8:09if you want to start your own business,
243. 8:10you want to do freelancing, you want to
244. 8:12launch your own products, never keep
245. 8:14plan B in your mind. Always have plan B.
246. 8:17What does this thing mean? So, people
247. 8:18when they leave job, on the back of
248. 8:19their head, they have plan B. That if my
249. 8:22business or my product does not work
250. 8:25out, I'll always go to my job which was
251. 8:27paying me good because if I have my
252. 8:29skill, I can get job anytime. And that
253. 8:31makes your brain relax. That tells you
254. 8:34that if thing doesn't work out, there is
255. 8:35a exit door which I can go anytime. But
256. 8:38if there is no plan B, you have to work
257. 8:41so hard that you have to make your
258. 8:43business work. There is no option going
259. 8:45back. You have to do find a way, get a
260. 8:47lead, get a client, close the deal, work
261. 8:50on the project, and get the
262. 8:52money on the table because you have a
263. 8:54home which depends on you. Because you
264. 8:56are the man, you have the
265. 8:57responsibility, you have to feed the
266. 8:59people who are there in your family. And
267. 9:01there is no safety net. And one
268. 9:02disclaimer, before leaving the job,
269. 9:04always have a emergency window for you.
270. 9:06At least 6 to 12 month. And I'm telling
271. 9:08you this because you are not supposed to
272. 9:10leave the job tomorrow. Because there
273. 9:12are nuances which need to be completed
274. 9:14first. What is the skill which I can use
275. 9:16to get the money? What kind of a client
276. 9:18will I get? How much money is there in
277. 9:20my bank account? Because money having in
278. 9:22your bank account is very important. It
279. 9:24gives you freedom to work without
280. 9:26thinking about of money for some amount
281. 9:28of month. So, now let's understand how
282. 9:29to actually make money. So, keeping
283. 9:31story aside, I know it is a low long
284. 9:32story. So, sorry for that. But let's get
285. 9:34practical how to actually make money.
286. 9:36Because you came here to understand how
287. 9:38to actually make money in this field.
288. 9:40And now I'll show you how to do it. For
289. 9:41me, before I quit, I had had started my
290. 9:44content creation. So, I was building my
291. 9:46personal branding at that time. So, I
292. 9:48had good good amount of connection
293. 9:50people. So, I was getting inbound leads
294. 9:52a lot from my LinkedIn, from my YouTube.
295. 9:54That's the reason I was able to land the
296. 9:56client. But don't worry, I know most of
297. 9:58the people out there does not have any
298. 10:00kind of a personal branding or content
299. 10:01creation. But still, you can start
300. 10:03making money. And also, I would highly
301. 10:06recommend start creating a personal
302. 10:07brand side by side showing showcasing
303. 10:09your work what you're doing to the
304. 10:11people so that they can know that this
305. 10:12is a skill you have. So, whenever they
306. 10:14have any kind of a need, they can come
307. 10:16to you. So, now let's understand how to
308. 10:17make money if you don't have any content
309. 10:19creation, no personal branding. First,
310. 10:20warm up your network. So, your friend,
311. 10:22your cousins, your father's friend, your
312. 10:24college batchmate, someone in your
313. 10:26circle runs the business or work at one.
314. 10:29A family friend with a shop, a uncle
315. 10:31with a small factory, a friend doing a
316. 10:33startup. They already trust you. And
317. 10:35getting trust is the hardest part in
318. 10:36this field. Just message them simply
319. 10:38that, "Hey, I provide so-and-so
320. 10:40services. Will consider WhatsApp." So,
321. 10:42"Hey, I provide WhatsApp automation
322. 10:43services which can help you to save time
323. 10:46and stop losing your customer." So, that
324. 10:48will be the fastest way to get your
325. 10:50first client. Second, local businesses
326. 10:52in your city. The restaurant you order
327. 10:54from, the clinic you visit, the real
328. 10:56estate broker, the jewelry showroom, the
329. 10:58coaching classes. Every Indian city is
330. 11:00full of them. And they all have the same
331. 11:02problem. Let's say you want to work in
332. 11:04the jewelry industry. So, there are so
333. 11:06many jewelry industry. If you make one
334. 11:08solution for one of the jewelry
335. 11:10industry, you can resell the same
336. 11:12solution to other jewelry and show the
337. 11:14testimonial of what you did and how it
338. 11:16impacted the jewelry showroom. So, for
339. 11:18the first company, for the first jewelry
340. 11:20showroom, you can actually do it for
341. 11:22free. It's win-win for both of you. For
342. 11:24jewelry showroom, they don't have to pay
343. 11:25anything. For you, you're developing
344. 11:27your testimonial, your own small jewelry
345. 11:31product which you can resell to other
346. 11:33people and you're building your skill.
347. 11:34Third, cold outreach but done right.
348. 11:37WhatsApp, LinkedIn work better than cold
349. 11:39email in the Indian SMBs, small medium
350. 11:42businesses. But never send, "Hi sir, I
351. 11:44want to do the automation. Are you
352. 11:45interested?" That is not going to work.
353. 11:47>> [music]
354. 11:47>> I get tons and tons of email that I can
355. 11:49help you create the thumbnail. I can
356. 11:52help you create the edit video. I can
357. 11:54help you in the automation. I never read
358. 11:57that email. If a person has sent me the
359. 11:59WhatsApp message, then also I ignore it
360. 12:01if this it's a generic and small message
361. 12:03if I get. Your message should always
362. 12:05contain some sort of information of how
363. 12:07you are going to help the particular
364. 12:09person and why that person need it. For
365. 12:11example, "Hi Dr. Sharma, I noticed your
366. 12:13cleaning gets appointment requests on
367. 12:15WhatsApp, but somehow has to be replied
368. 12:18manually.
369. 12:19I built a bot that books appointment
370. 12:21automatically even at night when you are
371. 12:23sleeping. One to two minute demo so you
372. 12:25can see specific problem, specific
373. 12:27outcome. It's a tiny ask. Fourth,
374. 12:29referral and partnership. So I had
375. 12:31partnered with lots and lots of people,
376. 12:34okay, who are just doing sales for me
377. 12:36and they are getting amount of money
378. 12:38whatever they want. I handle WhatsApp
379. 12:39automations for their client, so I don't
380. 12:42have to go out, do the sales. I have
381. 12:45zero cost sales team which are working
382. 12:48purely on commission, okay, and they are
383. 12:51smart people because they are selling
384. 12:53the high value thing which people really
385. 12:57want and they don't need to make it.
386. 12:59Let's consider I am Lakshya who provides
387. 13:01you WhatsApp automation solution, who is
388. 13:02expert in meta, WhatsApp, Facebook,
389. 13:04Instagram. Let's consider there is a
390. 13:06person called as Raj. He is not
391. 13:07technical person, but he is very good at
392. 13:09sales or communication. So what he'll
393. 13:11do? So he'll partner the people like me,
394. 13:13Lakshya. He will bring client. He will
395. 13:15take the commission of 20 to 30%. Let's
396. 13:18say Let's say I make the particular
397. 13:19solution in 50,000 rupees and 20,000 is
398. 13:22almost 10,000 and 30% is 15,000 rupees.
399. 13:26Now you do the math. If Raj can get
400. 13:28easily 10 to 15 client, he's making 1.5
401. 13:31lakh to 2 lakh rupees per month just by
402. 13:34referring the client. So you see the
403. 13:36power of referral and partnership. And
404. 13:38with all of this, I would highly
405. 13:40recommend start your personal branding
406. 13:43content creation journey side by side
407. 13:45and showcase what you are learning, what
408. 13:47new skill you have built. So I am doing
409. 13:49this from a long time, okay? And it has
410. 13:51compounded me each and every time. So
411. 13:53now, whenever I wake up in the morning,
412. 13:56I have good amount of email sitting on
413. 13:59my
414. 14:00inbox waiting for me to reply how I want
415. 14:03to partner with them, how I can help in
416. 14:05their businesses. I don't have to go
417. 14:06anywhere and get an outbound link. It's
418. 14:08just an inbound link for me. Now, this
419. 14:09is an interesting section which I want
420. 14:11to cover. People who are a beginner
421. 14:14really get confused of what to do after
422. 14:16the call. Like first work is to have a
423. 14:19meeting with the client. Never tell them
424. 14:20your offer or your proposal directly on
425. 14:22the WhatsApp chat or email. They say
426. 14:23some amount of price I want to go. Just
427. 14:25tell them let's come on the meeting of
428. 14:2615-20 minutes. I'll walk you through
429. 14:28what we are going to cover today. And
430. 14:30record that meeting. You could be using
431. 14:32uh Fireflies, Granola, Padam. All are
432. 14:35free, okay? And I am doing that. So if
433. 14:38you see my Granola, this are the
434. 14:39meetings. You can see there are so many
435. 14:42meetings. I am recording my all the
436. 14:44meetings which I am doing with my
437. 14:45clients or internal meeting call. So now
438. 14:48what to do with this meeting transcript
439. 14:49or summary? This will be your golden
440. 14:52information regarding your client.
441. 14:54Whenever you do your meeting, have a CRM
442. 14:56where you are storing all the meeting
443. 14:57transcript. And from this particular
444. 14:59transcript, you can generate [music] the
445. 15:01proposal which can be customized to your
446. 15:03client on the spot. What people normally
447. 15:05do, they had a meeting, after two to
448. 15:08three days they will send them a
449. 15:09proposal. By that time, client has
450. 15:11already forgotten about you and have
451. 15:13gone with some other client. You send
452. 15:15them the proposal within five to 10
453. 15:17minutes. That shows the speed and
454. 15:19agility with which you want to work the
455. 15:20a client. And just to give you a very
456. 15:22simple tips and trick regarding the AI,
457. 15:24take the transcript, share your own
458. 15:25thoughts about the meeting, and tell
459. 15:27Claude to create a proposal with
460. 15:30whatever information you want to put and
461. 15:32the pricing and all, and create in a
462. 15:34markdown format, MD format. [music]
463. 15:36Don't go directly for the PDF. First,
464. 15:38create markdown format because there
465. 15:39will always be some changes which you
466. 15:41want to make. And because the changes
467. 15:42done inside the markdown format or the
468. 15:44PDF format are very different. PDF will
469. 15:45require a lots and lots of changes and
470. 15:47it will hamper your styling. In the
471. 15:48markdown format, it's a very less open
472. 15:50consumption. Once you have done it in
473. 15:51the markdown, then tell him to convert
474. 15:53in the HTML to have a proper kind of a
475. 15:55styling and kind of a look and feel for
476. 15:57your according to your company. Once it
477. 15:59is done, then tell him to convert into a
478. 16:01PDF format and send the PDF format
479. 16:03directly to your client on the spot. Not
480. 16:06every client is going to reply you back,
481. 16:08and don't get disheartened by that
482. 16:10because most of the client won't be
483. 16:12replying to you after putting so much of
484. 16:14effort in proposal, which by the way we
485. 16:16have not in just a 5-minutes job. So,
486. 16:18follow-up is the reality. Have a
487. 16:20follow-up system. You send a proposal
488. 16:22today, send message them [music] message
489. 16:24tomorrow asking them, "Did you get it
490. 16:26the time to you read the proposal? What
491. 16:28are your thoughts?" If he doesn't reply
492. 16:30or they reply, "I will let you know."
493. 16:31After 3 days, again them
494. 16:33message them. After 7 days, have a
495. 16:34proper follow-up system till certain
496. 16:36point of time. Do not spam them
497. 16:38continuously, otherwise they will get
498. 16:39irritated and block you or give some
499. 16:41negative feedback or review somewhere
500. 16:43which other people or lead might see and
501. 16:46come to you. And this is all the
502. 16:47experience work I'm able to speak so
503. 16:49many things because I have have a good
504. 16:51amount of experience working with the
505. 16:52leads and client and how to managing
506. 16:54them. So, don't worry if your first
507. 16:56lead, first [music] two, three leads are
508. 16:58bad and you are not able to deliver.
509. 16:59Just have a proper system and process
510. 17:01which can help you land up the lead,
511. 17:03convert it, and work for them. So, I
512. 17:05hope you find good amount of information
513. 17:07in this particular video. And there are
514. 17:08so many things which I had skipped which
515. 17:11I thought is unnecessary and I don't
516. 17:12want to bore with that. So, if there is
517. 17:15any thought, any questions in your mind,
518. 17:16just let me know. I know I think this
519. 17:18might this video might be a little bit
520. 17:20big, but yeah, I went and told you
521. 17:23whatever things were necessary. So, if
522. 17:24you have any thoughts, any questions,
523. 17:27any doubt, just let me know in the
524. 17:28comment box. As always, we'll meet in
525. 17:30the next video. Till then, take care.