$23K from 4 deals: post build videos on YouTube and let clients come to you
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[Video] Started as a solo freelancer: purely out of interest, he posted videos of himself building AI agents on YouTube, with an email address in the description. The first client saw a video and emailed asking for custom work — "I hadn't positioned myself as a freelancer for hire at all." He later partnered with Milan (CEO) and Tyler (CTO) to found True Horizon AI, then added developers and an account manager — roughly a year in total. The four deals: 1) a personalized outreach agent, $1,650 (a guessed quote he now admits was too low); 2) a sales quoting agent, $4,000 (they forgot to capture baseline data, so no ROI case study was possible); 3) a Slack personal-assistant agent, $6,000 (priced by build complexity, which he now calls a mistake); 4) an AI concierge, $12,000 (value pricing + three-tier anchoring: a $25K Scale tier anchors high so $12K looks reasonable).
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