How to Get Rich with AI: The Complete Beginner’s Blueprint

I started with zero experience in Ai and within just 2 years I've built multiple AI businesses that have generated almost $3 million in Revenue collectively and that's without any formal coding experience that's with no degree and without any investors either it's just a proven blueprint that actually works so in this video I'm going to give you that exact blueprint for starting an AI business from scratch even if you're a total beginner the same blueprint that worked for me and for the thousands of successful AI entrepreneurs in both my free and paid communities and when I

say thousands I mean it from the data that I've collected of over 37,000 people in my free community over 5,000 people of those are already making between $1 and $10,000 per month with their AI business and 585 of them are already doing over $10,000 every month and this is when they first joined the community so the numbers are probably a lot higher than that so the proof is really in the numbers here so by the end of this video you'll know exactly what kind of AI business you should start you'll have a step-by-step 6mon road

map to your success and you'll have access to all of the resources that I used to get here completely free so this video is going to be split into three key Parts firstly we'll be diving into the AI business landscape what the top five opportunities are out there right now and why it's the perfect time to start even if you're a complete beginner it's in this section that I'll be sharing my own learnings from running each of these five different business types myself and how I use them to go from knowing nothing about generative AI

to generating over $2 million in 2 years next we'll cover the three phases of starting an AI business these are the exact steps that I followed and that every successful AI entrepreneur in my community has gone through too and finally we'll map out a crystal clear and actionable six-month road map that you can follow to reach your first Revenue Milestone by the end you'll have a step-by-step guide that includes how you can access all of the resources like contracts and proposal templates that I use to build my success for free so before we dive into

the nitty-gritty of starting your own AI business let's briefly talk about what's happening in the global economy right now why it's so important that you understand what's at stake for for you and for me for everyone with our careers moving forward so the brutal truth is the middle class is being wiped out right in front of our eyes and AI is only going to accelerate that the days of having a comfortable living from a regular career are disappearing fast as I'm sure you may have encountered in your own life or seen it firsthand from your

parents or other people around you who are suddenly having to work so much harder just to keep up and just to survive the stats here don't lie in 2024 44% of companies replaced workers with AI and PWC prodects that by the mid 2030s up to 30% of all the current jobs will be automated no career is safe not even the ones we thought were Untouchable like law accounting and even medicine and unfortunately most people are going to come out of this AI wave as net losers meaning that they are worse off than where they are

today their jobs are going to be gone their skills are going to be outdated and the income is going to be slashed and they're clinging to the false hope that the old way of making a living will survive it's really a losing bit at this point but it's not all doom and gloom the reality is that there's going to be a small number of people who will ride this wave and come out on the other side as winners they're not just going to be surviving this AI Revolution they'll Thrive through it they'll build businesses they'll

stack wealth they're going to be mastering the skills that the world will be desperate for and I mean I've done it there's thousands of other people in my community who have also done it and in this video I'm going to show you exactly how you can do it too so here's the choice basically are you going to sit back and watch AI wipe out everything you've built or soon will build or are you going to take control get ahead and come out of this AI Revolution wave as a winner I certainly know what I'm trying

to do over the next few years so if you are ready to take action on this then I've made this video specifically for you so let's dive into part one where I'm going to be breaking down the AI business landscape and showing you the biggest opportunities that you can capitalize on even if you're just starting from zero there are tons of AI opportunities popping up these days and I've pretty much tried all of them personally over the past 2 years so in this section I'm going to be breaking down the top five AI businesses that

complete beginners are using right now to launch their careers in the AI space and start making money so as I said over the past two years I've personally run or am still running all five of the business types we're going to cover in this section so I'm going to be giving you the Real World experience and insights into the pros and cons of each of them and really how much money you can expect to make from them and then at the end of the section I'm going to be recapping things and explain Which business is

best for you to start so let's dive in first up we have ai influencing so here's the deal people are hungry for simple and easy to understand info on AI right now your job as an AI influencer is to take all of the complicated stuff about AI like what new tools out there right now and how businesses can use them to benefit from them and then explain it in a way that anyone could understand you can kind of think of it as being a translator for AI but you're on YouTube or social media and you

definitely don't need to be a genius you just need to understand a little bit more than the average person or average viewer and so you can share your insights through videos like this on YouTube you can write posts on Twitter or medium and if people like what you're sharing then you can make money from ads from Partnerships or from promoting other people's products as well so I started out my journey as an AI influencer as a complete newb 2 generative AI in January of 2023 you can even go back and watch all my old videos

and see how little I knew about it and how stupid I was now that I watch them it's kind of painful to watch them but within 7 months of posting consistently my YouTube channel hit 100,000 subscribers which was a shock even to me but what I learned from my growth is that it's in these new and such hype spaces that's so much easier to grow a large following if your content is actually good and yep the AI influencer model does make a bit of money too you've got ad Revenue firstly which is money from ads

that are run on your YouTube video or on your content you've also got affiliate marketing which is when you get paid for sending signups to things like other AI tools that you recommend and then you've got video sponsorships where Brands pay you to mention their products and so you can start making anywhere from $2 to $55,000 per month even with a small audience but you are going to have to work consistently and create high quality content for about 3 to 6 months before you start seeing any meaningful revenue from the business the pros for this

model are that you've got super low startup costs just you and a camera you've got quick growth if you pick the right topics like I did in the first seven months and you only really need a phone and a laptop to get started started the cons are that it doesn't make the big bucks compared to the other models we're going to touch on later plus getting on the camera can be a pain in the ass if it's really not your thing um influencing bya YouTube and long form videos like this is by far the best

so if you're not willing to be on camera then you might have to do say writing on medium or Twitter and it's not going to get as good results as long form YouTube like this right so next let's talk AI Consulting so this is where businesses pay you for advice they want to know how AI can make their businesses better or what to avoid so that they can survive this a transition basically they're going to be paying you to tell them what to do or help them understand the new tools that are coming out and

stay up to date when I was doing this it felt like I was doing AI therapy for some of these businesses who are really stressed out or they see big opportunities and they want to talk to me as kind of an AI therapist to get an expert opinion on things and sooe their nerves to become an AI consultant you don't need a degree or some fancy qualifications you just need to know again a little bit more than the businesses that you're helping do and be able to explain it clearly to them for example within the

first 4 months of starting my YouTube channel I was pulling in $4,000 a month I think $4,200 in April of 2023 from my Consulting CA alone so I was charging $300 per call and I eventually jacked that up to $997 for a 45 minute session and yes people were buying even at that price as well so Consulting can be a very natural step from AI influencing as it's a more effective way to monetize your personal brand without having to create your own products or build your own complicated Services as well so the pros of this

model are that it's easy to start you can scale this quickly by raising your rates as you get more clients so I just continually increase my prices as I got more demand and it's a great way to build confidence and build Real World experience of working with clients and and helping businesses which is really where the money is in the space right now the cons for the AI Consulting model are that you're still really trading your time for money and while that can be fine at first it's not a long-term path to wealth and you're

only going to get paid for your time that you're actually working and also I found that Consulting wasn't the most accelerating work if I had my whole day booked out with Consulting calls it wasn't like accelerating I didn't feel excited and jumping out of bid to go and hop on these calls so that's another thing to factor in as well so now we're getting into the serious stuff the AI automation agency or what is known for short as the AAA model this is where you get businesses to pay you to set up AI tools for

them and you can kind of think of it like a a website design company but instead of building websites for companies you are helping businesses to use AI to save time or to make more money and the best part about this is that while a development background is a nice to have you don't have to know how to code to get started and this is what myself and my team at warning side figured out in 2023 about Midway through the year that we could sell AI Solutions using no Code and low code tools and our

clients didn't care that it wasn't custom coded and since then we've really mapped out dozens of low code and no code AI tools that allow you to basically drag and drop to create AI solutions for your clients this means that there's no technical skills needed to get started for example one of my students Isaiah still doesn't know how to code and he scaled his own AI automation agency to $225,000 per month selling AI appointments EDS to coaches and Consultants so I've actually got an interview with them on the channel here so I'll put that in

the description if you want to check that out personally I started my AI automation agency morning side AI in March of 2023 and with my business partner we scaled it to over $100,000 per month and we got there by Landing huge projects I'm talking our biggest morning side project being over $115,000 for the initial phase and so I've done a full breakdown of this project on my channel so again I'll put it in the description if you want to check that after but while reaching this $100,000 per month uh Point wasn't easy we had a

lot of late nights and painful mistakes which I try to help you guys through on this channel our success proved that with the right marketing and the right team there's a ton of money to be made with the AAA model so for the pros of the AAA model we have low startup costs because you don't need to have a fancy product built first you can just start with a few subscriptions to low code and no code tools secondly there's huge demand businesses are desperate for AI systems and tools that can help them adapt and be

more efficient and make more money and the AAA model is very scalable meaning that you can start small and grow fast once you pick up traction now for the cons I would say that the learning curve of the AI automation agency model is steeper than the AI influencer or AI consultant route meaning that it is going to take you relatively more time to get the hang of it but once you do you're in a great position to make serious money and scale up much more than you'll be able to do with say just AI influencing

or an AI Consulting business so once you've got some experience you can actually make money by teaching other people about Ai and there's huge demand for this right now and this is what we'll call the AI education business model it means creating online courses or ebooks or webinar which are like online classes for people for example you could could teach Realtors real estate agents how to use AI to find more clients or you could even show show parents how to help the kids use AI for school so they can get good grades you know there's

so much out there you can do right now but the catch is you've actually got to know what you're talking about and have discovered something interesting that you can make an education product around it's not something you can easily fake and you definitely can't fake it over the long term so the best way to actually learn something that you can make an educational product around is by running an AI automation agency because by working on real projects with clients it gives you some real handson knowledge that you can then package into a course or a

product so the pros for the AI education business model are that it can scale like crazy meaning that you can sell your courses and your books to lots of people without having to do more work each time you sell a new copy and so you get high profit margins in these businesses because once a course is made it doesn't cost much to sell it to more customers and from my experience of running an education business it feels really good to help people and I've built some awesome relationships through the people that have helped in my

education business I even went to the wedding of one of my students last month in Italy I'll put a a photo up here of me now for the cons of course it actually takes time to become an expert you've got to go out and learn something new and actually get results before you can start to teach it you can try to do it without doing that but realistically you're not going to last that long in the AI education space and finally the big one AI SAS which stands for software as a service this is where

you create a software tool which solves a specific problem typically for businesses using Ai and instead of doing the work for yourself or a business you basically build a platform that businesses pay to use so you can think of it like Netflix but instead of movies you're selling access to an AI tool that you've built that businesses want to use to make more money or save time Etc so in October of 2023 I saw an opportunity to build an AI SAS that would help AI automation agency owners like myself and like many people in my

community to put their open AI gpts onto platforms like WhatsApp onto websites Instagram and more the videos that I did on these topics got hundreds of thousands of views so that I knew that there was a lot of interest in a solution like this and so now a year later I've put over $300,000 into this business we've got over 25,000 users on it and we're just starting to make money from it because we're rolling out monetization as we speak but I took a lot of time and a lot of cash to get here is my

point so the pros of the AI SAS model are that firstly you get in most cases recurring Revenue meaning you get paid every month from each customer secondly it's very scalable if you do it right once the software is actually built you can sell it to lots of people with very little cost of of replication which is similar to the education product we mentioned and of course if you do it right you can sell the whole business for a big payout which is called exiting your company and for the cons as I mentioned it is

very expensive to set one of these thing up relative to the other business models I've mentioned you're probably going to need to spend a lot of money before you even start to see a profit from it because you have to build the whole software first and then eventually people come to it and you have to modify it to the needs basically and you have to keep improving it until you get to a point where people are happy to pay you money for it and also because Ai and the AI Market is changing so fast your

software could become outdated overnight so you put in all this effort into building this entire software and then overnight opening a releases something or anthropic Etc and your whole s is just done and useless so big risk of that because you're investing a lot of time and energy into doing one thing so after having those five business models thrown in your face I bet you wondering where should I start so let me make this very simple the AI automation agency model is by far the best choice if you want real momentum and to have lots

of options later on in your AI journey and so here's why firstly AI automation agency owners learn the most valuable skills in the AI space so with influencing and Consulting they can be good to get you started but they don't actually teach you the skills that matter the most and so with a AAA you end up learning how to set up AI tools for businesses you can automate their tasks you can build systems that actually save time and money and these skills are what businesses are willing to pay top dollar for My Success at morning

side and the other guys in the community are Testament to that and these businesses will keep coming back for more as the technology continues to improve and they need to keep up the AI automation skill set that you pick up from being a AAA owner is what will make your future basically Bulletproof regardless of what happens to your business what happens to the economy there's going to be demand for these AI automation experts who know how to implement AI into businesses to create value for them secondly you're going to make more money so while Consulting

might earn you just a few thousand a month and influencing can bring in some ad revenue and some sponsorships they're both still very limited and with an AI automation agency you're going to be landing bigger contracts thousands or tens of thousands or like I have hundreds of thousands of dollar per project and that's exactly how my agency Morningside AI hit over $100,000 per month for the first time by stacking projects and building long-term relationships with our clients so basically the earning potential of the AAA model is way higher than the others while also still being

accessible to beginners to start and thirdly the AAA model is the gateway to bigger opportunities in the AI space so if you want to create a course or even build a software then running a AAA successfully gives you the real world experience and results which you can then turn into courses that people will pay for it's also incredibly useful for helping you spot software opportunities like I did when I built my AIS SS so the AAA model is the only path that naturally opens these doors for you to AI education and to AI S as

well and finally we are still so early to this the truth is that most businesses still don't get what AI can do for them they think it's just some tech buzzword that they might have to pay attention to in a couple of years but that's where you come in right now there's a huge chance to become the go-to expert in AI Automation in your Niche before everyone catches on it's basically like being one of the first digital marketers back when websites were still new the people who got and then they made a fortune and the

people who came later to things like smma they got the crumbs left under the table so if you want to start strong and learn the most valuable skills in the AI space and have the most options for the future the AAA model is by far the best way to go and from my experience and what I see in my communities as well it's not the easiest of the bunch but it is a good balance between easy to start but also having the biggest payoff longterm for you so now that you know where you're going I'm

going to show you how to get there so in the next section we're going to be breaking down the steps of how you can find your first client how you can deliver your first project and how you can scale it into a full agency so let's get into the three key phases of starting an AI business all right so now that you've got a good sense of the AI business landscape and why the AI automation agency model is the best place to start as a beginner it's time to break down exactly how you're going to

make this happen how you going to get your agency off the ground this is really where the rubber meets the road there are three key phases that you'll go through to build your agency from scratch firstly learn secondly apply and finally monetize each of these phases is designed to take you from knowing absolutely nothing about AI automation to running a profitable agency with a clear path laid out the entire way in these phases you'll build skills you'll gain Real World experience and you'll start earning money as well and I've already mapped out all of the

steps for you in the next section which is the six-month profit path to start an AI automation agency you're going to need some basic skills but don't worry as I said coding skills are not mandatory of course they can help but they are not mandatory to get started thanks to the hundreds of awesome no code tools that have popped up in the past few years anyone can learn to build valuable AI solutions for businesses on these tools over the past 2 years I've spent a lot of time teaching beginners these basic skills because I had

to learn them at one point and I've got a full free course that I'm going to give you access to at the end of this video so if you're worried about how you're going to learn these skills don't worry cuz I've covered everything and that six-month roadmap in the next part of this video but when it comes to learning skills by far the most important thing you need to learn as an AI automation agency owner is prompt engineering and if you think that using chat gbt a bit has made you a pro at writing prompts

you need to think again because building prompts that actually solve problems for businesses is a whole different ball game it's more complex but in your six-month road map I provided all of the resources you'll need to master it easily so once you've got a handle on prompt engineering the next thing you'll be doing is figuring out where to focus as an AI automation agency owner so there's three main areas in the AI automation space right now that you can focus on and specialize in firstly we have text based AI chat Bots these are the kinds

of bots that you see on websites that help answer questions or help with customer service there's a lot more to it but that's the high level of what you need to understand about them secondly we have ai voice agents and you can think of these as like super smart phone operators that can directly talk to customers or people over the phone and thirdly we have ai workflow automation so this is about using AI to handle the repetitive tasks like managing schedules or processing data so that businesses can save a bunch of time and you create

value for them and you can get paid for that as well and don't worry the six-month Ro map has everything you need to dive in and start learning how to build AI Solutions as a beginner after youve learn the basics of AI automation skills the next phase is to start applying those skills in the real world this is where you'll start working with businesses or working with friends and family and getting hands-on experience and learning how AI can deliver real value to your clients for these first couple of clients you won't be charging them just

yet firstly it's about building up your experience and working with a few clients for free is going to help you avoid beginner mistakes it's going to boost your confidence and it's going to teach you things that you can't learn just from watching tutorials from me like adapting to your client's needs and solving real world problem so there's a lot of things that you you can't learn from a theoretical level watching tutorials you just have to dive in and you build up this real world experience that is really the gold of this AI automation space right

now that if you can get these successful deliveries and learn things like this by doing you become far far more valuable in the AI space when it comes to finding those first few clients it's actually a lot easier than you think my free school Community firstly is packed with over 37,000 AI entrepreneurs and business owners who are looking for help with AI automation so I'll be getting active in there and sharing your process and offering your services it's very easy to connect with people who need what you're learning so the skills you develop in Phase

One you then basically publicize a little bit and say hey I'm interested in and doing some projects with people is there anything I can do for anyone and remember we're going to be covering the exact steps for doing this and finding these clients and how to get the most out of this phase two of applying in the next section in the six-month road map so for now we just know that gaining Real World experience early on is key and I've got you covered on how to do that in the plan we're going to touch on

next and finally once you've gained some experience you're ready to start the monetization phase this is where you start turning your skills and experience into real income so there's two main ways I recommend to beginn is to start pricing the services when you actually start charging your clients firstly is with an hourly rate so this is where you charge based on your own time so if you're delivering the projects yourself you're kind of like an AI freelancer you basically estimate how many hours the project is going to take you you set yourself an hourly rate

say I'm worth $50 an hour then you build the client for the total hours so it's very straightforward and give gives you a clear way to start earning based on your time the second option is to hire a developer so if you don't want to do all the technical work yourself you can hire a developer to handle it for you and here's how the pricing for that works firstly you'll need to estimate the total number of hours that the project will take then you're going to pay the developer their hourly rate so $3 or $40

and then you're going to charge your client two to three times the amount you paid the developer so 2 to 3x markup is the best way to get started this is called Cost Plus pricing and I've done an entire video here on this channel and that video will be linked in the six-month roadmap document for you by pricing the way you get to cover all the cost of the developer and then make profit without having to do all the Hands-On work yourself finding paying clients becomes a lot easier once you've proven yourself with a few

successful projects so by staying active in places like my free school Community delivering great results and then sharing your wins in school and on social media these are all great ways to attract more clients but remember that we're going to break down the exact process of Landing those clients in the next part it's going to be built into the road map you've got a ton of great resources you can use there once you've started monetizing your services here's where the really big opportunity comes in for a automation agencies and that is niching down this means

focusing on solving one key problem for one type of business this matters because it makes everything easier for you and much more profitable for you over the long term you're not starting from scratch on every new client you build instead you're going to be offering a solution that you've already mastered and made before making it much easier to scale you basically just take what you've done on the previous project modify it a little bit to the new client's needs and then you can get the same amount of money as that one without having to completely

rebuild it from scratch so it's a lot more profitable and a lot more scalable too again there's no need to make some decisions right now in the next part I'm going to walk you through how to find your Niche and build a repeatable process that makes growing your agency simple and predictable and so that's it for the three phases now that you know the phases here's how to put them into action with a simple six-month plan to get started you can grab the six-month road map checklist which is going to be the first link in

the description it's completely free you can access it right there and it's going to have everything you need step-by-step instructions contract links template links guides everything you need to get started with your own AI automation agency a big part of this road map is my free course on school where I teach you all the key skills you need to know to build your own AI automation agency it's going to be no guesswork just follow the plan on that document first link in the description and you'll be ready to launch your own AI business so here's

a quick overview of what the six-month road map is going to cover for you so it's been the first two months working through my free course which is going to help you to understand the AI automation agency firstly then it's going to teach you the crucial skills like prompt engineering and exploring the different types of AI automation systems like chat Bots and voice agents and workflow automations all the tutorials on there going to show you how to build them yourself the checklist in the description is going to guide you through each step of this course

to make sure that you're building a solid foundation in the next two months you'll start applying those skills that you've just learned by working with a few free clients and so the road map will show you exactly how to find those clients whether that's through my school Community or by reaching out to your friends and family what we call warm connections which is by far one of the easiest ways to get clients on the road map you'll be getting step-by-step scripts and tips for making those first few connections and gaining Real World experience and finally

finally once you've built up some experience you'll move on to getting paid for your work the road map covers how to create social media posts that actually attract clients to your business how to set your rates how to focus on just one platform to get results like LinkedIn or or YouTube and how to build your reputation and turn interest into paying customers so remember this is just a quick preview the full plan is in the six-month road map doc first link in the description along with every contract template and guide you'll need along the way

and so I hope that you are buzzing with excitement for the journey you're about to embark on I'm certainly excited for you because starting an AI business and my firstly my AI automation agency has completely changed my life for the better and every imaginable way over the past 2 years and I've seen it not only in my life but in thousands of other people in my free and pay community so I know that it is possible for you to do it as well I'm not going to stand here and say that it's going to be

easy cuz it's not it's going to be a lot more difficult than you expect it's going to take a lot more time than you expect but that does not mean that it's not worth it I promise you I promise you that the end result that you're going to work towards is worth it as we covered earlier in this video the world is changing this technology is coming for all of us whether we like it or not and you have a choice now to take action and actually do something to position yourself to come out of

the other end of the AI Revolution better off than you were when you started billions of people are going to be negatively affected by this stuff and I've just given you the information the awareness to make a decision right now on the life that you want to live not only in the next year 2 years but 5 10 years and Beyond by investing your time in learning learning AI skills and building a business in the space I can't tell you how much of a relief it is for me knowing that I don't lose a wink

of sleep at night about whether my future is at risk or whether I I'm I'm going to be made redundant or something because I'm in this future I'm in this AI space and I'm creating the future actively through my businesses I don't have to lose a win of sleep all night about whether or not I'm going to be able to eat next year so take it from me take it from all the other people in my community go in there have a chat to people there's so much opportunity here and you now have an opportunity

to take this and run with it if at any point over the next 6 months you have issues in implementing the road map that I've given you in the description then you can join the free school community and you can actually ask questions to me directly on my free community q&as which are once a week you can go to the calendar section you can put it on your calendar you can come in and talk to me directly and I'll help you and guide you through the steps you need to start so I'm so excited for

you to get started I'm not going to ramble anymore but I will see you in my free community very soon if you want to learn a little bit more about me and how I got here before you the decision to jump into this business model you can check out my full My Story video up here but aside from that guys that's all for the video thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one