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An AI power dialer sold at $250/seat/month to call-heavy mid-market companies — 100-seat deals mean $300K ARR from a single customer

Eighteen months ago Portugal had about three Shopify Plus brands and no Shopify staff covering the country. One agency lobbied the platform to staff it, became the local Plus partner, and now runs 32+ Plus accounts as the market grew towards forty.

The operator of a $400K/month automation agency explains, with his own P&L on the table, why the technical skill it runs on is about to be worth nothing — and what replaces it.

An $8,500 GPU rig rented out to strangers for AI workloads at $0.50/hour — $12 a day, ~$365 a month, and a payback period of two to four years paid in a volatile token

He quit big tech in October, built with zero revenue for two months, peaked at $8K/month by March — then watched it slide to $6.7K on churn and went back into a deep build phase.

Ten years and $100M+ building AI bookkeeping for accounting firms, three weeks from profitability — then eight clients cancelled their expansions in the same quarter, took a third of the revenue with them, and the company had to announce its own shutdown before an acquisition rescued it

Off-the-shelf cameras on drones and forklifts turn a warehouse into a live inventory map — sold as an outcome, not hardware, at ~$500K a year per customer

An AI workspace for lawyers built by founders with no legal background — a document-by-query review grid plus a Word add-in that runs a firm's negotiation playbook against a contract and marks it up

Before shipping an AI selling agent, they ran a staffed e-commerce sales floor in Arizona where people conversationally sold for brands by hand — millions of real conversations that became the training set no competitor can buy

Real-time speech-to-speech accent harmonisation — a $20M check written before there was a product or a dollar of revenue, then $22M+ of revenue in the 18 months after launch