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#1
$5,000+T2
AI SEO Content Services for Local Businesses (Claude Code SEO Service)
Use Claude Code plus a Skill file to turn long-form videos and podcasts into SEO blog posts pushed straight into WordPress, or spin up a site in a few hours for an unglamorous local business (septic tanks, junk hauling, funeral homes) that ranks on page one of Google and gets cited in AI Overviews — billed as a several-thousand-dollar monthly retainer, with a $99 digital product on the side for passive income.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#2
$500-1,500/mo

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T3
AI Voice Receptionist / Phone Agent (AI Voice Agent)
Deploy an AI phone receptionist that never clocks out for local brick-and-mortar businesses — it answers, handles questions, qualifies leads, and books appointments directly — billed at $500-1,500 per client per month.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#3
Priced per lea…T3
AI Lead Generation
Use AI to automate prospecting, research, and qualification for businesses, then hand owners who are too slammed to find customers a package of hot leads complete with phone numbers and emails — what you're selling is money.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#4
~$5,000T3
AI Consulting & Audit
Go into a company and audit its operations, systems, and processes to find every place AI can save time and cut costs — charge $5,000 for the audit, then convert it into a $50,000 implementation project.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#5
Monthly retain…T3
AI Virtual Assistant / AI Chief of Staff
Point AI agents at a busy founder's email, calendar, and research — you play “agent operator,” managing the assistants and billing 3-5 clients a monthly fee.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#6
Monthly retain…T3
AI Chat Agent
Drop an AI chat agent onto local businesses' websites so customers can order and ask questions instantly (plenty of people won't pick up the phone — they just want to chat), billed as a monthly retainer.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#7
Project-based…T3
AI Agent Development
Design whole squads of AI agents for companies (sales bots, document processors, ops bots) — you're not selling one assistant, you're selling a “virtual team” that eats straight into their payroll budget.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#8
$10,000-15,000/moT3
AI Copywriting
Let AI draft the landing pages, case studies, and sales emails, then polish them in your voice and your sales strategy — but write for exactly one industry and become the specialist who owns every outward-facing word.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#9
Theoretically…T3
AI Venture Studio
Incubate AI companies factory-style — build MVPs dirt cheap and fast, test them, scale the winners, kill the losers, and let the portfolio compound into long-term enterprise value.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#10
Per project /…T3
AI Logo & Brand Design
Use AI tools to mass-produce logos, brand kits, and product visuals, and take on the more systematic branding projects — priced on value, not per image.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#11
Enterprise con…T3
Managed AI Cybersecurity
Use AI to manage a company's security threats 24/7 — phishing, intrusions, spam, AI voice cloning and other social engineering — sell enterprise contracts, and charge a fat monthly fee the way insurance does.
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#12
$10KT2
The One-Hour AI Website Client Play (Relume + Webflow / creator's own freelance workflow)
AI sitemap and wireframe tools crush web design delivery from 3-4 weeks down to 1 hour — and the client still pays $10K a site
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#13
~$67K/moT2
Influencer-Partnered App Venture Studio (Ambitious Labs Venture Studio / Aleem)
White-label a SaaS or app for mid-tier influencers who already monetize, then run a subscription business on their existing traffic.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#14
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Anonymous Vibe-Coding Creative Web Studio (The Bug Dev / Slam Dunk 3D)
A no-name burner account used AI to build jaw-dropping 3D creative websites — and the work itself pulled in the clients and the job offer
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#15
Potential spac…T2
AI Inbox + Calendar Management Service
Take over founders' and CEOs' email and scheduling with AI, and charge a monthly retainer
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#16
Potential spac…T2
Claude Corporate Team Training Service
Teach company teams how to use Claude, billed by the day or by the project
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#17
~₹15K-25KT1
AI Websites for Local Businesses (Done-for-You)
Find local businesses with no website, spin up a free demo with an AI site builder, then charge for it
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#18
Free tool as t…T2
Claude Code Marketing Audit Skill
One command fires 5 parallel subagents and produces a client-grade marketing audit PDF for any website — your crowbar for prying open high-ticket clients
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#19
$2,500/moT2
Precision (Data Cleanup + Next-Step Scorecard)
Pipe a company's messy data in and automatically tell them what to fix next — start done-for-you, productize later.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#20
PotentialT1
Kling 3D Animated Landing Page Studio
Claude Code + Kling video assets, and in 10 minutes you build a high-end landing page with 3D scroll animation
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#21
~$480K/yrT1
Couplepreneurs (Marriage + Business Coaching for Entrepreneur Couples)
High-ticket coaching for one narrow audience — couples who run businesses together — cutting delivery from 1:1 to 1:many plus two live “date night” getaways a year, with an offer rebuild that pushed the price to $25K/year
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#22
Booked out for…T1
Diesel Dudes Roadside Truck Repair (Local SEO Partnership)
Four hours of SEO with Claude Code for a mobile diesel truck repair shop — paying phone calls within 24 hours
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#23
$60KT1
Claude AI Travel Concierge
Turn a single Claude project into a travel planner with 20 years of experience, and sell custom itineraries at 1/10 what luxury agencies charge
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#24
$200T1
Claude Dating Profile Writing Service
Use Claude to write high-converting Hinge/Bumble/Tinder profiles for singles — $200 a profile, 15 minutes each
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#25
$2-5K/moT1
Claude Executive LinkedIn Ghostwriting
Draft with Claude, inject the human layer by hand, and ghostwrite LinkedIn for founders and executives at $2-5K/mo per client
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#26
$28K/moT1
Claude Resume + LinkedIn ATS Optimization Service
Use Claude to rewrite an old resume into an ATS-beating, job-tailored version — $200-500 each, bundled with a LinkedIn rewrite as a package
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#27
$35K/moT1
Website Landlord (Rank-and-Rent Local Service Sites)
Build ranking sites for local blue-collar services, never deliver the service, just rent out the lead flow for a flat monthly fee
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#28
$15MT3
Acquisition.io → Agentic Growth Firm (Serge Gatari)
A $7M-a-year growth consultancy being rebuilt as a one-person operation, where every job function becomes a playbook owned by an AI employee that reads from one shared context layer
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#29
$2,000-$10,000T2
AI-Assisted Grant Proposal Writing
Write the funding applications that nonprofits fumble every year, with Claude doing the structural work and you doing the compliance
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#30
$18MT2
The AI Installer for local professional firms — with Liam Ottley's agency as the scale reference
Walk into one industry's local firms, automate their single most repetitive task with Claude, charge for the install and then bill a maintenance retainer forever — the reference case went from zero generative-AI knowledge to a reported $18M in agency revenue in about three years.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#31
$999T1
The $999 AI Tools Assessment (Corey Gannon)
Sit with a small business owner for 45 minutes, prescribe 3-7 off-the-shelf AI tools, charge $999 — then upsell a $1,500/month concierge retainer at $1,000 an hour
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#32
$145T1
AI Book Interior Formatting for Amazon KDP (Fiverr service)
Self-published authors hand over a raw Word file and pay $145-$245 for a print-ready interior. Claude does the typesetting in one prompt, and the observed seller had seven orders queued at that price.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#33
$10K/moPROT1
LinkedIn Content Service for Construction & Glazing Firms (Brandon)
A construction-industry executive sells the one thing his own industry has nobody doing: writing and coaching LinkedIn content for glazing and contracting firms
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#34
$400,000T1
The free AI workshop as a Trojan horse (Matteo: $400K+)
Run a free AI training session for a company you already have a connection to, fix one of their real repetitive tasks live in the room, and let 70% of them turn into paid projects — one operator in Liam Ottley's community has made over $400,000 doing exactly this.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#35
$10K+PROT2
GoHighLevel white-label website SaaS (Juan's $199/mo offer)
Free website, $199/month forever: an agency owner turned one-off web projects into 64 recurring subscribers and $10K MRR in 3.5 months — entirely on Meta ads, zero cold calls
AI ServicePROT2
AI Service
#36
$89,000PROT2
Infinity Pilot AI (AI voice setter + human closer funnel)
An AI automation agency stuck on manual DMs bolted on paid ads, an AI voice agent that calls every lead within 5 minutes, and trained closers — $89K in 75 days
AI ServicePROT2
AI Service
#37
$23,000T2
Allison's ERP Automation Deals from Cold LinkedIn DMs
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.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#38
About 8 millio…T2
Oliver Henry's autonomous marketing agent — 8 million TikTok views, nobody posting
A 9-to-5 employee pointed an open-source agent at his own apps and told it to do the marketing: it researched competitors, generated slideshows, posted them, read the analytics and doubled down on winners — 8 million views on TikTok, run off an old PC under his desk.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#39
$61K/moT2
Pixel Painters
Unlimited graphic design as a monthly subscription — sold to nobody except churches, at $61K a month.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#40
$106,000PROT1
The 1,400-Subscriber Channel That Closed a $106,000 Contract (Carla, offshore staffing)
An unmonetized YouTube channel with 1,400 subscribers and 100-200 views a video closed a single B2B contract worth over $106,000 — because it was built for one buyer, not for an audience.
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#41
$3,000/moT1
Sandy's Upwork-to-Retainer AI SEO Service
She had never done SEO and had never used AI for it. She answered a fresh Upwork job posting with a Loom video, sold a $3,000/month blog retainer, lifted the client's SEO traffic 1,000% and got raised to $5,500 — on about twenty minutes a day.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#42
$124,000T1
StreamWeaver — Vibe-Coded Websites Laddered Into Automation Contracts
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.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#43
$90T1
AI-Built Client Websites + Recurring Hosting Commission
One observed Fiverr seller: 4,100 five-star reviews and 44 orders queued at $90 for a three-page site. The build now takes hours with an AI site generator — and the hosting referral pays every month after delivery.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#44
"Multi-million…T2
Candybox Marketing
A Canadian B2B lead-gen agency that grows ~40% a year on one monthly video email to 5,000 people — and keeps the average client for five years and nine months
CAAI ServiceT2
CAAI Service
#45
€7,500PROT2
Rocket Plan — a two-person AI-led growth agency for B2B SaaS (Hamburg)
€7,500 of ads bought 43 leads, 12 demos and 6 clients in four months — roughly €60K of revenue at a 50% close rate — run by one founder and two part-time employees who each orchestrate five to ten AI agents.
AI ServicePROT2
AI Service
#46
$5,500/moT2
Non-Technical AI Automation Retainer + Personal Brand (Sandy Lee)
A mother of three with a full-time job and no technical background learned AI in a couple of months, signed one client at $5,500 a month doing blog and SEO automations, and grew a YouTube channel from 500 subscribers to 500-600 new subscribers a day.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#47
$12,000PROT1
The Sponsor Inbox Qualification Agent (five minutes of setup, $12,000 in a fortnight)
An inbox agent given one rule — answer everything, only ask me before quoting a number — worked an abandoned sponsor inbox during the operator's holiday, qualified a lead, sent a calendar link, and the team closed $12,000 in a week and a half.
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#48
$100,000T2
AI Video Effect Prompt Library (rendered in the captions as "Protipal")
A credit-based AI video generator sold to content creators — $100,000 in its first year at 60% margin, with zero ad spend, distributed by shipping its own API inside free n8n automation templates
TRAI ServiceT2
TRAI Service