The $1,000/hour Solo AI business (Full Course)

I've got an AI business idea for you, and the best part is you don't need to have an audience, you don't need money to get started, and you don't even need to know how to code. You know how every small business owner right now is super stressed that they're falling behind with AI? Well, my friend Corey Gannon built a whole business around solving exactly that, and today he gives his whole playbook away for free. You meet a business owner, you spend 30 minutes finding their biggest time drains, and you prescribe AI tools that fix it. It's kinda like a doctor writing a prescription. He charges $999, and it opens the door to way bigger work that he ends up charging thousands of dollars for. The one thing you do need to know is you obviously need to understand AI, and that's the part he walks you through step by step. He shares how the service works. He shares the upsells that get him to $1,000 an hour. He shares seven ways to get clients starting from nothing. It's all here. It's under an hour. It's a free course for how to start this business, and even if you don't wanna start this particular business, this is gonna get your creative juices flowing around how to start a productized service agency with AI. Enjoy the episode. [singing] The Startup Ideas Podcast. It's sippin' time, baby. What's up, Corey? By the end of the episode, what are people gonna get out of this?

So Greg, we are gonna show the people literally the simplest, I think the best startup idea of 2026. This is a way that anybody can make money with AI, and the beauty of this model, and, and people are gonna think that this is, like, clickbait-y or sensationalist, but I s- promise you, you don't even need to know how to use AI to make money with this model because all we're doing is we're prescribing tools that already exist. We're not building anything. We're not implementing anything. This is something anybody can do, and then towards the end of the episode, I'm gonna share kinda the follow-up offer to this that I'm using to make $1,000 an hour as, like, an upsell to this, uh, this offer here, so I think this is gonna be really accessible for folks.

Okay, and you're not just gonna give the idea, right? You're gonna give people the steps so they can actually copy this workflow and actually build a similar idea, right?

We're gonna give them the full playbook. So we're gonna, we're gonna explain the entire offer, how it works, how to fulfill it. We're going to give them the exact template that they can literally download and plug and play with their own clients. We're gonna show them six things they can upsell after this, uh, assessment, and then we're gonna show them seven ways that they can get clients, none of which require any capital or any audience. So we're pretty much gonna destroy every single objection that somebody might have when it comes to this business model, so we're gonna make it super simple for everybody.

The last objection that, that is gonna happen is they're, they're gonna say, "Corey, like, are you Mother Teresa? Why, why are you being so nice?"

[laughs]

What, what would you say to that?

I mean, this is literally... So, and people say that all the time. They're