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Twenty free websites to learn on, then £800 for a landing page, then £5,000 once he bolted a CRM and n8n workflows onto it — £124K net across six months, with a $52K deal at the end.
last deal alone was $52,000 · price ladder: 20 free sites → £800 first paid → £1,000-1,500 landing pages → £2,000 → £5,000-6,000 with CRM/chatbot/automation → five-figure enterprise contracts
"Before I started making money on these websites or these mobile apps, I built about 20 websites and apps." He built for free until he could produce a first draft in a client meeting that impressed them before he'd even quoted a price — that presentation speed, not the price, is what won the work.
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In March-April 2025 Zeeshan was on a trading floor in the City of London teaching people to trade futures markets. He had a Python and full-stack background from three or four years earlier but had left it behind. When GPT-3 arrived and the desk started using it to work through fundamentals and technical analysis, he had what he calls an epiphany — "the world's going to change, we're not going to be manually doing these things anymore" — and went all in on understanding AI. His first realization was practical: he'd built websites before, but it used to mean grinding through HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python. Now he could think of an idea, prompt it, and have it. His first paid landing page took three to four working days and earned about £800, roughly $1,000. "That was when I had the lightbulb moment. I'm like, this can be an income." Six months later he tells the interviewer he and his team have crossed six figures — "we crossed 124k net" — with the most recent deal alone worth $52,000. He is now narrowing to two niches, healthcare and e-commerce, and describes a two-to-four-year plan to build a banking AI SaaS off the back of the agency.
The first customers came out of a phone book and a Facebook post. Zeeshan is 38 and counts roughly 600 contacts — gym instructors, futures traders, bank managers — so his opening move was a post on LinkedIn and, in his words, "the boomer area of Facebook": anyone wants an app, just message me or comment below.
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Data credibility: A guest interview on Michele Torti's channel. Every number is Zeeshan speaking: $124,000 net in deals over roughly six months, a $52,000 last deal, £800 for the first paid landing page, $1,200 for the first client website, the £1,000-1,500 → £2,000 → £5,000-6,000 ladder, 20 free builds followed by about 11 paid ones, 60-100 cold calls a month yielding about five clients, and the 30/30/30 channel split. No dashboard, contract, invoice or bank statement is shown, and 'net' is never defined — it is unclear whether it means gross deal value, revenue after costs, or his own share after paying his developers. Client names (Southwest Cars, Also Organic, Nomad, a London restaurant) are given and some sites are shown on screen, which makes the work itself partly verifiable even though the fees are not. The host sells one-to-one AI-agency coaching, closes the video by directing viewers to apply to work with him, and states that Zeeshan runs vibe-coding sessions inside his paid community — so both parties have a commercial interest in the numbers sounding good. Costs, margins, team pay and any retainer revenue are never disclosed.
The first paid landing page took three or four working days and returned about £800, roughly $1,000. "That was when I had the lightbulb moment.
The compounding happened inside existing accounts rather than through new ones. Once the landing pages carried contact forms, the forms started producing data: "now we don't just have a $1,000 website.
The unpaid stretch was deliberate and it had a measurable exit condition. Twenty websites and apps built for free, not for a portfolio but for speed: "you're trying to sharpen your tools and learn how to debug much quicker."
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