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She quit her job, picked one unglamorous system nobody wants to touch — ERP and inventory management — and cold-DMed Canadian companies about automating it. Two deals in one month: $23,000 and $28,000, with no testimonials and no portfolio.
The reason a beginner can close $28,000 with no track record is that in a brand-new AI market there is barely any competition — you are not hard-selling against rivals, you are the only person who has raised the problem at all.
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Allison left a nine-to-five to build an AI services business, and the interesting decision was her niche: helping companies automate their ERP systems — the software that runs inventory, ordering and internal operations at mid-sized firms. It is about as unfashionable a target as exists in AI right now, which is precisely the point. Her channel was cold LinkedIn DMs to people in Canada, following the framework her coach gave her. She had no testimonials, no case studies and no personal brand. In the month before this video she closed one client for $23,000 and another for $28,000, and her coach says she did around $50,000 in deals that month with a further recorded call on top of that. We are recording this because the numbers are specific, the niche is specific, and the two together make an argument worth taking seriously: the same cold-outreach motion that yields $2,000-a-month content retainers in a crowded service category yields five-figure project fees in an operational one, because the buyer's alternative is a six-figure enterprise implementation or nothing. The transcript is thin on exactly what she delivers and how, and we are not going to invent it. What is documented is the niche, the channel, the sales framework she used and the two deal sizes. Everything else about her delivery — tooling, timeline, whether the work is integration, agent-building or process redesign — is absent from the source.
One channel, run as arithmetic. Allison set up a LinkedIn account, tidied the profile without making it elaborate, and sent 200 connection requests a week to people who could plausibly buy ERP and inventory automation at companies in Canada.
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Data credibility: Second-hand and unaudited. The $23,000 and $28,000 deals, the roughly $50,000-in-a-month total, the Canadian target market and the no-testimonials starting point all come from Patrick Dang describing his client Allison. She does not appear in the video, and no contracts, invoices, client names, dashboards or screenshots are shown. The deals had reportedly just closed when the video was recorded, so nothing is known about whether the projects were delivered successfully. The transcript contains no description of her actual delivery — tooling, scope, timeline or team — so this entry deliberately marks that as missing rather than filling it in. The outreach and sales frameworks described (200 connection requests a week at about 40% acceptance, three follow-ups, the river-crossing sales frame, the cost-of-inaction close) are the coach's methods, offered alongside a free three-day training and a booked sales call, which is the commercial interest behind the video.
The first money was a $23,000 project, closed in the same month the outreach was running, followed by a $28,000 project weeks later, roughly $50,000 in signed deals from a standing start with no proof of work. Both were project fees rather than retainers, and that is why the numbers are this large.
Nothing compounds yet, and that is the honest state of it. Two project fees in a month is a great month attached to a pipeline that starts empty again.
She quit a full-time job before any of this existed, which sets the clock running. The outreach numbers describe exactly what the quiet period feels like: 200 connection requests a week, about 80 acceptances, a DM to each and three follow-ups, and for most of that traffic nothing comes back.
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