The Only 14 Ways to Make Money with AI in 2026 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Every single day, thousands of internet
2. 0:02gurus tell you how to make money with
3. 0:04AI. But 99% of them are full of sh- Most
4. 0:08of them haven't made a single dollar
5. 0:09with AI. As someone who actually
6. 0:11launches a new AI company every single
7. 0:14month, most of which are making
8. 0:15millions, I'll be ranking the only real
9. 0:17ways to make money with AI. And at the
10. 0:19end, I'll tell you exactly which one I'd
11. 0:22pick and how you can actually build it.
12. 0:24So let's start with the first idea, AI
13. 0:26voice agents. So what we want to do is
14. 0:27build an AI phone agent that books
15. 0:30appointments, qualify leads, and handles
16. 0:32all calls for a business. Essentially,
17. 0:34it's a full-time receptionist that
18. 0:36doesn't sleep, doesn't complain, doesn't
19. 0:37get sick, doesn't quit, and it helps
20. 0:39businesses where one missed call could
21. 0:41cost them thousands. For example, think
22. 0:43about like plumbers, HVAC, law firms,
23. 0:47dental clinics. And the crazy part is
24. 0:49most businesses don't even know this
25. 0:51exists yet, or they don't think it's
26. 0:52that good. They're probably talking to
27. 0:54AI right now and they don't even realize
28. 0:56the person was AI. That's the window
29. 0:58we're in right now. Now, I'll be ranking
30. 0:59all of these AI businesses into one of
31. 1:02four tiers. S tier, which is like super
32. 1:04duper tier. A tier, which is an ass,
33. 1:06it's a little bit below, but it's still
34. 1:08great. B tier, which is meh meh.
35. 1:11And then F tier, which is you might want
36. 1:13to just ignore and run away. And trust
37. 1:15me, most of these experts are talking
38. 1:17about ideas being like, "This is the one
39. 1:19to do." that I would consider F tier.
40. 1:20And to do that, we're going to look at
41. 1:22three things. First off is
42. 1:24profitability. How much money are people
43. 1:25actually going to pay? And is it going
44. 1:27to make you money? The second is
45. 1:29competition. How crowded is the market
46. 1:31I'm talking about? And the third is
47. 1:33longevity. How long will this be
48. 1:35relevant in the future? Because why
49. 1:37would we do something that doesn't allow
50. 1:39us to build real wealth? And just
51. 1:41because of the speed AI is moving and
52. 1:43changing at, things that we're talking
53. 1:44about now that might make you some money
54. 1:46will literally fall off a cliff in the
55. 1:48near future. So where do we put the AI
56. 1:50voice agent or assistant? Profitability
57. 1:52is high. Right off the bat, I know what
58. 1:54people are willing to pay. I talked to
59. 1:55my barber about this. I talked to my
60. 1:57friends that have local businesses. When
61. 1:58the AI starts attacking the labor cost,
62. 2:01essentially what you're paying for
63. 2:02people and you can replace a person, all
64. 2:04of a sudden now anything you charge is
65. 2:06like $500 or $1,000 or $1,500 a month
66. 2:09feels cheap. Next we got competition. I
67. 2:11think the market's pretty crowded. Every
68. 2:13time I talk to people about an AI idea,
69. 2:15they're always like, "Oh, I'm building a
70. 2:16voice agent. Building a voice agent."
71. 2:18So, good news is very few of them know
72. 2:20how to market or sell. You can tell by
73. 2:21just going through Google local and
74. 2:23calling those businesses. Hear them
75. 2:25answer with a real person. They're still
76. 2:27not adopting this. So, the competition
77. 2:28is there, like people are talking about
78. 2:30it, but they don't have it widely used.
79. 2:32And longevity? I think this will be
80. 2:34relevant for a long time. Why? Because
81. 2:36voice is the path to AI doing a lot of
82. 2:39stuff for us. I think it's an A-tier
83. 2:40opportunity. So, it's a solid business.
84. 2:43There's real demand. You can make good
85. 2:44money. It's got legs. The next one is AI
86. 2:47lead generation. This is where you build
87. 2:49an AI that automates prospecting for
88. 2:52businesses. It does research. It like
89. 2:54qualifies people, it gets data, and
90. 2:56essentially presents qualified leads to
91. 2:58a business. What's super fun is you can
92. 3:00use tools like Manas, called Co-work,
93. 3:03Gemini, to essentially go find those
94. 3:05leads and sell them to the business.
95. 3:07Now, you'd ask yourself, "Why doesn't
96. 3:09the business do this for themselves?"
97. 3:10The truth is most entrepreneurs are
98. 3:12already overwhelmed. They're busy. And
99. 3:14what they don't have enough of is leads.
100. 3:16So, they're busy delivering for the
101. 3:17customers they have. And for you to come
102. 3:19to them and say, "I got some warm leads
103. 3:20with phone numbers and emails that I can
104. 3:22manage for you." That is a huge value
105. 3:24prop. Profitability? It's actually
106. 3:26pretty high because you're directly
107. 3:27putting money on the table for these
108. 3:29clients. Then when I think about like
109. 3:30competition, it's getting tougher.
110. 3:33There's actually new AI platforms like
111. 3:34clay.com that do this as a service. So,
112. 3:38it costs money and you can charge for
113. 3:39those leads and they're really high
114. 3:41quality. I have a friend Hunter that
115. 3:42does this every day. He was getting paid
116. 3:44to generate leads for people. Longevity
117. 3:46is pretty strong because I always think
118. 3:47there's a place where businesses needs
119. 3:49more leads. I think about businesses is
120. 3:51like what skill this is going to deliver
121. 3:53me, is it something I should learn, do I
122. 3:55need it for my own business? So, if
123. 3:57you're starting a company, learning how
124. 3:58to generate leads, probably a good idea.
125. 4:00So, let's talk about where I tier this.
126. 4:02I actually think this one is S tier.
127. 4:06You're selling money, it's a clear value
128. 4:08proposition, it's an easy yes, and you
129. 4:11can charge enough money cuz they know
130. 4:12what a customer's worth to them to be
131. 4:14able to make it really profitable. Next,
132. 4:16let's talk about faceless AI YouTube
133. 4:18channels. People are talking about this,
134. 4:20it's the new rage where they're
135. 4:21essentially creating these cash cow
136. 4:24fantasy things. I think it's bull.
137. 4:26YouTube algorithm buries AI-generated
138. 4:29content today. That might change in the
139. 4:31future, but as we stand today, it wants
140. 4:33real, organic, engaging content. [music]
141. 4:36Channels get demonetized within weeks
142. 4:38sometimes if that's all they're putting
143. 4:39out is just AI slop. There's no brand
144. 4:41being built, there's no audience or
145. 4:43loyalty, and there's no way to stand out
146. 4:44from the million of other AI channels.
147. 4:47Profitability is almost zero because,
148. 4:49again, channels get demonetized. The
149. 4:50competition, I mean, everybody with an
150. 4:53AI tool can essentially create these, so
151. 4:55it's not that hard. Longevity?
152. 4:58None. The faceless YouTube channel,
153. 5:00which is essentially like bit-slinging
154. 5:02AI slop to generate ads or sell
155. 5:04something in, it's like the bottom
156. 5:06feeder of the internet. People are
157. 5:07already getting tired of this kind
158. 5:09[music] of faceless YouTube content. So,
159. 5:11I'm going to put this in the F tier, if
160. 5:13that wasn't clearly an obvious right off
161. 5:16the bat. I think it's interesting to
162. 5:18learn how to get good at creating AI
163. 5:20video-generated content. That's a good
164. 5:22skill to learn, but in regards to like a
165. 5:23business, not my kind of business. And
166. 5:25look, if you want my help to sell any of
167. 5:28these AI companies without making a
168. 5:30single phone call, I've got a gift for
169. 5:32you. I have this whole process document.
170. 5:34It's called my Sell by Chat Playbook.
171. 5:36It's exact process that I use in all my
172. 5:38companies to help them make millions
173. 5:40selling through direct messages over
174. 5:42chat. It's got the offer template, it's
175. 5:45got the structure, the nine-box model,
176. 5:47how to deal with objections. It even
177. 5:48talks about the content you should be
178. 5:50creating to attract people that are
179. 5:51ready to buy. If you want it, find me on
180. 5:53Instagram at Adam Martell and DM me
181. 5:55YouTube SBC for Sell By Chat, and I'll
182. 5:58send it right over. Next, we've got AI
183. 6:00content repurposing. This one's fun cuz
184. 6:03you can take a long-form video like this
185. 6:06and turn it into short-form content like
186. 6:08tweets and carousels and newsletters. I
187. 6:11think right now, for example, my Threads
188. 6:12are blowing up by using content from my
189. 6:14YouTube and just repurposing it on
190. 6:16Threads. You can use tools that are
191. 6:17AI-powered like Opus Clips and Descript
192. 6:20to help you create this. So, now let's
193. 6:21break it down. First, we have
194. 6:22profitability. This is pretty solid
195. 6:24because every creator and company with a
196. 6:26podcast they need this. Next, I think
197. 6:28about competition. And essentially, it's
198. 6:30pretty moderate because yes, it's a
199. 6:32growing category, but a lot of people
200. 6:33have already figured out how to do this
201. 6:34themselves. And then I think about
202. 6:36longevity. You know, and this is where I
203. 6:37think it's weak because the tools are
204. 6:40catching up so quick where they're
205. 6:42starting to just repurpose on their own.
206. 6:44Then your window may be kind of small in
207. 6:46regards to how long you do this for. So,
208. 6:48I would grade this as a B tier. I'm a
209. 6:51fan of learning how to do this. I think
210. 6:52you should learn it for your own
211. 6:53business, but I also think that
212. 6:55long-term, it'll just be automated for
213. 6:57everybody. Next, we've got AI
214. 6:58consulting. You get paid to come in,
215. 7:01audit a company's operations, their
216. 7:03systems, their processes, and find every
217. 7:05nook and cranny where AI can save them
218. 7:07time, reduce waste, make things better.
219. 7:10You could charge like $5,000 to audit
220. 7:12any business and turn that into
221. 7:14potentially a $50,000 implementation
222. 7:16project. And companies know, just look
223. 7:18at the comments below. They know they
224. 7:20should learn AI. They know they should
225. 7:21use AI. They just don't know where to
226. 7:23start. So, you come in and you could be
227. 7:25that person. So, if I think about it,
228. 7:27profitability, it's one of the top ones
229. 7:29that I'm going to talk about in regards
230. 7:31to making real money. Doing it for them,
231. 7:33educating them, consulting them on it,
232. 7:35huge. Competition, I mean, it's kind of
233. 7:39low because there's not a lot of people
234. 7:40that are qualified, that are good, that
235. 7:42actually can say, "Look, I focus on this
236. 7:44niche and I help people just like you."
237. 7:46Most people can't do it well. When I
238. 7:48think of longevity, I think consulting
239. 7:50is always going to be needed and AI is
240. 7:52not going to slow down, it's not going
241. 7:54to stop changing and somebody knows how
242. 7:55to help a business get the bandwidth to
243. 7:58implement it so they can keep doing what
244. 7:59the business does and not have to worry
245. 8:01about the tools and the AI, that's huge.
246. 8:03It's strong. So, I'm going to give this
247. 8:05an S tier because it's also if you have
248. 8:08domain experience, it's a great place to
249. 8:11start. And I even like it better than
250. 8:13lead gen, so we're going to put it in
251. 8:14front of that. I like it better cuz you
252. 8:16got more meat on the bones for money and
253. 8:19what's called revenue growth cuz you can
254. 8:20sell more things to people and it gets
255. 8:23you in the game to see other
256. 8:24opportunities whereas lead gen, you're
257. 8:26just kind of like this transaction. Next
258. 8:29up, we have virtual assistants. Now, as
259. 8:31the guy who wrote the book, Buy Back
260. 8:33Your Time, my inbox is full. Literally,
261. 8:35the top five virtual agencies in the
262. 8:37world are like, "Dan, where do you see
263. 8:39AI disrupting us?" Um, you're kind of
264. 8:42cooked. Using AI tools to handle your
265. 8:44email, your scheduling, researching
266. 8:47things for busy founders, essentially
267. 8:48acting as [music] a chief of staff, this
268. 8:50is what AI does better than anything.
269. 8:53And again, I have a dog in the fight. I
270. 8:54built a whole platform called Apex that
271. 8:57allows agents, virtual agents to
272. 8:59execute, that's what it stands for,
273. 9:00agents platforms for execution, to do
274. 9:02this kind of work for business owners.
275. 9:05My guy is called Kai and Kai does
276. 9:07everything. He's my chief of staff. He
277. 9:09manages my inbox, he manages my
278. 9:11calendar, he coordinates projects, he
279. 9:12checks my Slack, he follows up on
280. 9:14things, he even makes phone calls. He
281. 9:15even hired a bunch of people, like my
282. 9:17real estate guy named Reese and he does
283. 9:19a lot of cool real estate projects for
284. 9:20me, but these aren't real people. And if
285. 9:22you want to check out Apex, just click
286. 9:23the link below in the description. So,
287. 9:25here's what I think about this
288. 9:26opportunity. One, profitability, it's
289. 9:28decent, right? You get three to five
290. 9:30clients paying you, you're doing the
291. 9:31work, you're managing the agents cuz I
292. 9:33really think that is the future of AI
293. 9:35anyways, an agent operator. Then we go
294. 9:37to competition, pretty crowded. Everyone
295. 9:39that knows how to use Claude co-work can
296. 9:41kind of get all this stuff for free, and
297. 9:43everybody and their mom seems to be
298. 9:44offering this. And the longevity is kind
299. 9:46of moderate. The AI can kind of do this.
300. 9:49So then the real value kind of looks
301. 9:51like the consulting at scale where
302. 9:53you're coming in with business
303. 9:54processes, not just being a virtual
304. 9:56assistant. So I think we are a B, but I
305. 10:00do think the value prop is stronger than
306. 10:02content repurposing because it has a
307. 10:05clear value of saving somebody's time.
308. 10:07Now I know I said I have Apex and you're
309. 10:09thinking I'm rating this opportunity B.
310. 10:11That specific one for virtual assistant,
311. 10:14yes. Apex essentially is a full team of
312. 10:18AI agents that work to accomplish
313. 10:20business goals. That's different. And
314. 10:21the virtual assistant part inside of
315. 10:23that is just a tiny little part. And
316. 10:26don't forget the end of this video, I'll
317. 10:27be showing you my exact steps on how I'd
318. 10:29launch my top pick. And I've got some
319. 10:31bangers coming. Next, we've got AI chat
320. 10:34agents. Local businesses, yes they get
321. 10:36phone calls, but a lot of people email.
322. 10:38A lot of people go to the website and
323. 10:39they chat. I was just looking into
324. 10:41booking dinner tonight and I didn't want
325. 10:43to even go through OpenTable. I'm lazy.
326. 10:45I wish I could have just like started
327. 10:46chatting on the website, but no. They
328. 10:48didn't have an AI chat agent ready to
329. 10:50go. They were trying to force me through
330. 10:51their interface. Interfaces are dead,
331. 10:53okay? Can we just all agree? People that
332. 10:55want to book local businesses, they want
333. 10:57instant replies. They don't want to even
334. 10:59call, they want to chat. And the cool
335. 11:01part is that when you deploy these AI
336. 11:03chats within a business, you just build
337. 11:05a monthly retainer. So let's run through
338. 11:07this. We got profitability, it's good
339. 11:08cuz of the monthly retainer. That's
340. 11:10where the real money stacks. If you
341. 11:11don't have a recurring revenue component
342. 11:13to your business, add one. Then I think
343. 11:15competition,
344. 11:16it's pretty crowded. I mean, there's a
345. 11:19lot of people. I'm an investor in
346. 11:20Intercom. They kind of led the space for
347. 11:23like AI powered chat, and the barrier's
348. 11:25pretty low cuz like anybody can build
349. 11:27one of these, no problem. When I think
350. 11:29of longevity, I mean it's kind of
351. 11:31moderate, you know? Like, how
352. 11:33competitive is this? Is this just going
353. 11:34to be built into every frontier AI
354. 11:37model? Are other companies just going to
355. 11:38keep adding compelling chat options into
356. 11:41the software they're already selling to
357. 11:42the businesses? So, I'm going to put it
358. 11:44in A behind the voice agent. The reason
359. 11:48why I think the voice agent is more
360. 11:50compelling, but what I see a lot of
361. 11:52people is they use the chat to qualify
362. 11:54and then kick it into the voice agent
363. 11:56for booking or having them call using
364. 11:58the AI. So, it's there, it's great, but
365. 12:01it's not going to be as good as a voice.
366. 12:03Next, we have AI trading bots. So, this
367. 12:06one is interesting because where a lot
368. 12:07of people are selling bots to do
369. 12:10something from a business point of view,
370. 12:11now you've got your bot that technically
371. 12:13can make you money. Here's the thing
372. 12:14nobody's telling you. Everybody selling
373. 12:16some kind of trading bot is essentially
374. 12:19selling you a course. They don't got a
375. 12:20bot. Dude, if I had a bot that made me
376. 12:2320% every year, guess what? I wouldn't
377. 12:25tell anybody about it. There are
378. 12:26companies like Renaissance Technologies,
379. 12:28D.E. Shaw, uh Two Sigma that are so good
380. 12:32at using AI to trade that they're only
381. 12:35trading the employees money and it's
382. 12:37like 10 to 15 billion and nobody can
383. 12:39even invest because that's how good it
384. 12:41is. These AI bots, essentially, they're
385. 12:44selling signals. They're like marketing
386. 12:46companies and the signals only last for
387. 12:49like 16 months and then they got to find
388. 12:51the next signal and then you got to buy
389. 12:52the next thing. If the bots actually
390. 12:54worked, why would anyone sell it to you
391. 12:56for $97? So, essentially, the business
392. 12:59you could be in is trying to build these
393. 13:01bots, market these bots,
394. 13:03>> [music]
395. 13:03>> and get people to buy them from you. If
396. 13:05you want to create the bot, is it
397. 13:07profitable for you? Yeah, because you're
398. 13:09selling the course, you're selling the
399. 13:11dream, you're selling the vision.
400. 13:12They're buying it from you. Let's just
401. 13:13leave the ethics out of it. Competition?
402. 13:16Yeah, there's a lot of people out there.
403. 13:18Longevity? I think zero. [music] I think
404. 13:20it's one of those things where you build
405. 13:22it, it doesn't work, you try to get it
406. 13:24going, and it's also really risky
407. 13:26because people are paying you to invest
408. 13:29and if you don't deliver, I feel like
409. 13:30you're getting in the SEC territory of
410. 13:32maybe them not liking what you're doing.
411. 13:34So I would rank it as S. It's the best.
412. 13:37I'm kidding. It's ranked at the bottom.
413. 13:38I mean, come on. You're selling hopes
414. 13:40and dreams. It's not very good business.
415. 13:42Next we have AI agent development. This
416. 13:44is where people pay you to create some
417. 13:47of these AI agents like I was saying
418. 13:48earlier. Like my guy Kai who can do all
419. 13:50this cool stuff. They have to be
420. 13:51designed. I'm talking about like sales
421. 13:54bots and document processors and
422. 13:56operational bots and like all these AI
423. 13:58agents. The difference between the
424. 13:59virtual assistant in this, this is like
425. 14:02selling a team. You have your chief of
426. 14:04staff agent and then the agent manages
427. 14:06several other agents and those are like
428. 14:08virtual employees. So the profitability
429. 14:11if you get it right, massive. I really
430. 14:13think there's a big opportunity. The
431. 14:14competition today, most people can't
432. 14:16even explain what this is. So it's low
433. 14:19because it's hard. You need to have more
434. 14:21technical experience which keeps most
435. 14:22people out. But the longevity is strong.
436. 14:25Everything that I'm seeing that agents
437. 14:27is the iPhone moment of AI is huge. You
438. 14:32create these repeatable workflows and
439. 14:34then you just get paid to drop them in
440. 14:36and they're attacking the labor dollars
441. 14:38on a small business's expense sheet.
442. 14:40It's going to allow them to scale
443. 14:41without adding people. I consider this
444. 14:44the top opportunity right now. If you've
445. 14:46got the technical know-how and you want
446. 14:49to go and live in that world, it is the
447. 14:51S of the S of the S. Next we have AI
448. 14:54copywriting. Landing pages, case
449. 14:56studies, sales emails. Essentially AI
450. 14:59writes every first draft and the cool
451. 15:01part is you can do it in your voice and
452. 15:03it can follow a strategic process to
453. 15:05generate sales. Generals are getting
454. 15:07crushed. There's a lot of people that
455. 15:08did copywriting and they did a lot of
456. 15:09stuff. It's the specialist who niche
457. 15:12down into one industry and really focus
458. 15:14on delivering a solution. Not just AI
459. 15:17but actually a solution for a business
460. 15:19that are going to win. The key is is
461. 15:21don't be an AI writer. Be the person who
462. 15:24writes for one type of business and
463. 15:25manages all the words that go out. So,
464. 15:28when I think of profitability, it's
465. 15:30decent. It's actually pretty good
466. 15:31because most people would have to pay an
467. 15:33agency 10 to 15,000 a month to do this.
468. 15:36>> [music]
469. 15:36>> Competition is high. This AI copywriting
470. 15:40is probably the most popular use case in
471. 15:42all AI. And the longevity is kind of
472. 15:45shaky. Back in the day, it required some
473. 15:47kind of like system prompt design to be
474. 15:49able to make it right like the person in
475. 15:51the tone. But now, right out of the box
476. 15:53with these new models, it's getting
477. 15:54pretty good. So, for you to stand out,
478. 15:56it's going to be pretty difficult. So,
479. 15:58if you're specific enough, niche enough,
480. 16:01and really doing something personalized,
481. 16:03then you're at the top of B. If you're
482. 16:05not and you're just doing anything for
483. 16:07anybody, then you're just like Claude or
484. 16:08any other AI model and you're probably
485. 16:10at the bottom of the list. Next up, we
486. 16:11have the AI venture studio. Essentially,
487. 16:14it's the idea that most entrepreneurs
488. 16:16have, which is I got a lot of ideas. I
489. 16:18want to build a lot of stuff. So, I have
490. 16:20a studio where I create a lot of
491. 16:22different AI companies. Think about like
492. 16:25if you had a factory that turns out
493. 16:26profitable businesses on repeat, that's
494. 16:28a venture studio. And the cool part is
495. 16:30pretty much since December, the whole
496. 16:32world's changed where any person with an
497. 16:34idea can actually get an app built
498. 16:36themselves. They can do it themselves. I
499. 16:38shut down my company for 2 days and
500. 16:39taught everybody how to code in Claude
501. 16:42code. Profitability, truth is is
502. 16:44unlimited. And the cool part is if you
503. 16:46do it right, every company is built to
504. 16:49sell. Built to go public. And then the
505. 16:51winners get to ride and then you just
506. 16:53kill the losers because you tested them
507. 16:54and validated them with very little
508. 16:56investment up front. In regards to
509. 16:57competition, I mean, there's a lot of
510. 16:59people that might call themselves a
511. 17:01studio, but they don't compete. They
512. 17:03don't have distribution. They don't have
513. 17:04brand. They don't know product. They
514. 17:06don't know how to get customers. Most
515. 17:08people can't think at this level. It's a
516. 17:09completely different experience. You
517. 17:11need to have the business background,
518. 17:12the marketing background, the leadership
519. 17:14background, the capital to be able to
520. 17:15hire and build teams. And then when I
521. 17:17think of longevity,
522. 17:18this is how you create ongoing
523. 17:21enterprise value over time. It's how you
524. 17:23build the flywheel that eventually takes
525. 17:25off, and then you create the machine
526. 17:27that builds the machine. That's the
527. 17:28whole point of the venture studio. So
528. 17:30personally, I'm not going to rank it S,
529. 17:33even though that's what I do. Martel
530. 17:34Ventures is a venture studio that builds
531. 17:36AI-powered companies. [music] The
532. 17:37problem is is that for most people, it's
533. 17:39too advanced of a move. Yeah, I'm
534. 17:41putting it A-minus. Next we got an AI to
535. 17:44AI marketplace. This one is so fun. Did
536. 17:47you know there's a website where AI
537. 17:49agents hire humans? It's called
538. 17:50rentahuman.ai. It's kind of crazy. I
539. 17:53think they've had over 700,000 humans
540. 17:55register and 200,000 jobs already go out
541. 17:59there for the AI agents to hire humans.
542. 18:02So just so you know, if you don't get
543. 18:03into the AI like we're talking about,
544. 18:05then someday you'll either be the person
545. 18:07leading it or working for the AI. But
546. 18:10the other part is that AI will be buying
547. 18:12from AI. Stripe, which is the number one
548. 18:14merchant provider in the world, just
549. 18:16came out with a protocol to enable this.
550. 18:18Google jumped on board. So this is the
551. 18:20opportunity. You decide to build the
552. 18:22Facebook marketplace, right, of AI
553. 18:24agents. And you decide to like figure
554. 18:26out what would be valuable and how you
555. 18:28rank them and make sure there's no
556. 18:29security issues with them, and just like
557. 18:31market the marketplace so you can be
558. 18:33like the Airbnb of AI agents. Now let's
559. 18:36talk about this in regards to where it
560. 18:38sits in the ranking. First off, is it
561. 18:40profitable? Well, you'll probably get on
562. 18:42the low end 10%, on the high end 30% of
563. 18:45that connection and that fee. So there's
564. 18:47some money, but it's not wild. The
565. 18:49competition, I mean, almost nobody out
566. 18:51there has built this yet at scale.
567. 18:53There's no like eBay of AI to AI
568. 18:56marketplace. And then longevity,
569. 18:59marketplaces are wildly defensible if
570. 19:02you can get it going, like Uber, like
571. 19:04Airbnb, like Instacart. These are
572. 19:07incredibly valuable businesses. So
573. 19:09that's the upside. In regards to where
574. 19:11I'd rank this as an opportunity for
575. 19:13people to make money with AI, it would
576. 19:15probably be harder to do that than start
577. 19:18a venture studio. But I do like it. I
578. 19:21don't have an AI marketplace business
579. 19:24yet. This might be the moment I decide
580. 19:26to build one. I'm going to put it on the
581. 19:27top of A. I'm not going to think you
582. 19:29can't do this. I actually think you can.
583. 19:31So now we only have two more, and now
584. 19:33I'm going to tell you which one I would
585. 19:34pick and how I would go about launching
586. 19:35it so you can use that blueprint to
587. 19:37launch your own. Next we have AI logo
588. 19:39and brand design. Now this is getting
589. 19:41paid to use AI to generate logos and
590. 19:44brand kits and examples of brands on
591. 19:47products. You can use tools like Nano
592. 19:49Banana to do some of this. Manis can do
593. 19:51a lot. So you can approach these
594. 19:53businesses to get paid to do this as
595. 19:55long as they're like more involved
596. 19:57projects.
597. 19:58>> [music]
598. 19:58>> Profitability? It's kind of medium
599. 20:00because you can still get paid what
600. 20:01people think it's worth. Like the other
601. 20:03day I designed a website that in the
602. 20:05past I would have paid $100,000. It had
603. 20:07animation and effects. I value something
604. 20:10and you can sell it, then the
605. 20:12profitability could be there. So you
606. 20:13might not be able to charge that much,
607. 20:14but trust me, people are willing to pay.
608. 20:16The competition,
609. 20:18you got a lot, right? You got all the
610. 20:20tools, you got the people using the
611. 20:21tools, and then longevity,
612. 20:24I just don't see a world where long-term
613. 20:27this is not something that's most people
614. 20:30can't solve themselves by just asking
615. 20:32their AI. Cuz you're probably doing it
616. 20:34already, where you just ask the AI to
617. 20:36design a website and say make it look
618. 20:38like Apple designed it and boom, most
619. 20:40beautiful thing in the world. So I'm
620. 20:41going to give this one a B tier ranking
621. 20:44right after copywriting, cuz I think
622. 20:47copywriting sells money, brand is
623. 20:48identity, some people value it, but it
624. 20:51doesn't have the longevity I would like.
625. 20:53Next up we have managed AI
626. 20:54cybersecurity. This is where you get
627. 20:56paid to use AI to manage the threats on
628. 20:59a business 24/7, everything from
629. 21:02phishing attempts to getting past their
630. 21:04firewall to sending spam emails, like
631. 21:07social engineering, where people are
632. 21:09using AI to spoof a person's voice.
633. 21:12We've detected suspicious activity on
634. 21:13your account. Can you tell me your login
635. 21:15information?
636. 21:17Just kidding. I'm fake. It's kind of
637. 21:19crazy. I mean, one breach can cost a
638. 21:21company millions. You essentially can
639. 21:23get paid to help business understand
640. 21:26security and put basic things in place.
641. 21:28Most people barely understand AI, let
642. 21:31alone understand the risk that AI in the
643. 21:33hands of bad people can be used to
644. 21:35actually attack you from a security
645. 21:36point of view. So, that's where you come
646. 21:38in. Profitability? Wildly profitable.
647. 21:40It's massive. You can charge a lot of
648. 21:42money per month because not having
649. 21:44somebody's systems go down would be
650. 21:46massive value. Now, you are selling like
651. 21:49insurance, where they only know they
652. 21:51need you once they have an incident, but
653. 21:54you can sell enterprise-level contracts,
654. 21:56and that's where the big money comes
655. 21:57from. The competition, because it's so
656. 21:59technical, almost none. Now, there are
657. 22:02people out there that have AI platforms
658. 22:04for this and people that are specialists
659. 22:05in security. So, if you love to do this,
660. 22:08you're well positioned for this. And
661. 22:10longevity, I just think the more AI gets
662. 22:13powerful, the more there's going to be
663. 22:14need for AI experts to stop the cyber
664. 22:17attacks, stop the hackers, stop the
665. 22:18AI-powered hacking, and that's a great
666. 22:20market to be in. Now, I'm going to put
667. 22:22it in S tier, right behind agent
668. 22:24development, because I think agent
669. 22:25development's easier, less technical,
670. 22:27and you can get paid,
671. 22:29but the cybersecurity is a huge
672. 22:30opportunity. So, now that I've ranked
673. 22:32everyone, now I'm going to tell you how
674. 22:34I'd launch my favorite. So, clearly
675. 22:36that's agent development. Here are my
676. 22:37five steps. Number one is I got to
677. 22:39validate. So, what I'm going to do is
678. 22:41I'm going to create a landing page. I'm
679. 22:42going to have AI create this, and it's
680. 22:44going to talk about my agent
681. 22:46development, but I'm going to pick one
682. 22:47use case. I'm going to pick chief of
683. 22:48staff, because that's the thing that
684. 22:49everybody needs. They all know they need
685. 22:51somebody to help them with their email
686. 22:52and scheduling and follow-up and legals
687. 22:54and all that stuff. So, you can create a
688. 22:56simple landing page that talks about
689. 22:58this new AI-powered chief of staff that
690. 23:01they can buy, and they can get added to
691. 23:03the wait list. Now, after you build that
692. 23:05page, I then want you to text every
693. 23:07person you know in your phone. This is
694. 23:09what I do. I just ask them, "Who do you
695. 23:11know that's looking for an AI-powered
696. 23:13chief of staff that helps them get back
697. 23:1610 to 15 hours of their week and manage
698. 23:18more projects?" Send. Send. Send. You
699. 23:21want that little script? It's in the
700. 23:22description below. So, just go grab it.
701. 23:24The cool part is you're not asking if
702. 23:26they want it, you're asking if they know
703. 23:27anybody, but most people are going to
704. 23:29reply and say, "Well, I want that."
705. 23:30Then, the next thing you got to do is
706. 23:32ask if they would pay to solve that
707. 23:33problem today. So, we do that to
708. 23:35validate. That's number one. Second, we
709. 23:38have to pre-sell. I'm a big fan of
710. 23:39crowdfunding. It's a
711. 23:40multi-billion-dollar industry. People
712. 23:42launch ideas and crowdfund it and have
713. 23:44people support it and they do it with
714. 23:46one page. You can do the same thing. The
715. 23:48landing page we just created, that's
716. 23:50essentially the offer page. And now what
717. 23:52we do behind the wait list is we
718. 23:54actually email those people and say we
719. 23:56actually are opening up our early
720. 23:57adopter program. If you'd like to be
721. 23:59part of it, here's how much it costs,
722. 24:01and send them a payment link and see if
723. 24:03they buy. Maybe you get on a call with
724. 24:04them and you walk them through it. But
725. 24:05those same people that you contacted,
726. 24:08maybe they replied or they referred
727. 24:09people or they joined the wait list,
728. 24:11those are the people that you want to
729. 24:12use to pre-sell to validate that your
730. 24:15problem is a real problem, a painkiller
731. 24:17problem, not a vitamin problem. Then the
732. 24:19third step is launch it manually. You
733. 24:22can literally launch what I just said by
734. 24:24manually doing it for people. No core
735. 24:26tech, no like deep AI agentic stuff.
736. 24:29Yes, eventually they'll get that, but
737. 24:31you can just bring them on in a
738. 24:32consulting approach, a concierge
739. 24:34approach, and customize the tech for
740. 24:36them. So, you can prove a real
741. 24:38transaction, deliver real value before
742. 24:41you build or automate anything. Now, I
743. 24:43want to go build my audience. So, my
744. 24:45favorite way to do that is find the
745. 24:46people that are already talking about
746. 24:48the problem and then see if I can
747. 24:49partner with them to promote my
748. 24:51business, my AI, my landing page. And
749. 24:54you could do that right now. You could
750. 24:55go find people currently talking about
751. 24:57chief of staff using AI and see if they
752. 24:59want to promote your company. So, that
753. 25:02is how we build the waitlist. Again, we
754. 25:04haven't even launched publicly, but you
755. 25:05can recruit partners, give them a link
756. 25:07that's unique to them, track that
757. 25:09they're referring people, and then pay
758. 25:11them if those people buy. This is
759. 25:12basically the distribution of our idea
760. 25:15to the world through other people. So,
761. 25:17unless you already have an audience,
762. 25:19partner with somebody who does. Number
763. 25:20five, which is last, is productize.
764. 25:22Notice how most people start here and
765. 25:24I'm saying the last thing. Once you have
766. 25:26the transactions and they're consistent,
767. 25:28you're automating and you're doing most
768. 25:30of it manually. You have the partners
769. 25:31that are promoting it out there and
770. 25:32you're getting paid to do it, then you
771. 25:34take the income and you reinvest it in
772. 25:36building it out. That is how you could
773. 25:38launch any single one of these ideas to
774. 25:41any market and get there fast. This is
775. 25:43how I've built every one of my
776. 25:44companies. This is my process. I keep
777. 25:46doing it every month. Now, I know that
778. 25:48was a lot, but basically what I want you
779. 25:50to get out of this is first off, you're
780. 25:52not behind. There are so many
781. 25:55opportunities ahead of you, and you just
782. 25:57might have been following the wrong map,
783. 25:58and you're just in the wrong
784. 25:59destination. So, now all you have to do
785. 26:02is just pick one. Pick one of these
786. 26:03ideas. Use my feedback as the guide, but
787. 26:06just stay focused. Build yourself.
788. 26:09Invest in yourself. Understand that
789. 26:11business is there to develop you. People
790. 26:14who win aren't the ones who start first.
791. 26:17They're literally the ones who don't
792. 26:18quit. The people that kept showing up,
793. 26:20that kept putting one foot in front of
794. 26:22the other, and over time, they built the
795. 26:24business. Out of all these ideas, which
796. 26:26one did you find the most interesting?
797. 26:28Just let me know below in the comments.
798. 26:29And remember, DM me YouTube SBC on
799. 26:32Instagram at Dan Martell for the offer
800. 26:34template, which has the sell by chat,
801. 26:36the structure, even the content. And if
802. 26:39you want to learn how to build a
803. 26:40business that runs itself, click the
804. 26:42video and I'll see you on the other
805. 26:43side.