The Easiest Way to Actually Make Money With AI

Synopsis

Guest Corey Ganim explains his AI assessment service for small businesses, which started when a friend offered $1,000 for AI help and became a repeatable offer using a voice agent, Claude, and a clean client report. He walks through how the assessment works, the simple AI tools he recommends, and why the real money is in the implementation upsell after the audit. Customer acquisition tactics include local meetups, office hours, free assessments, and door knocking.

Ideas in this episode

• AI readiness / implementation consulting for SMBs

  Corey Ganim's AI-assessment-service playbook can be applied by formalising a fixed-price AI audit offer through a business network, using an existing telephony voice agent for intake and an automated Claude-generated report.

• Pay-per-use deep research

  Corey Ganim's AI assessment service supports a fixed-price AI audit offer that uses a voice agent for intake and an automated Claude-generated report, with implementation as the upsell.

• Voice agent SaaS (Vapi-style)

  Formalise a fixed-price AI audit offer through a business network using an existing telephony voice agent for intake and an automated Claude-generated report.