If We Had to Make $1M Fast, We’d Start These Businesses

Synopsis

Chris and Nik Hulewsky challenge each other to build a $1M business in six months, pitching RV rentals, AI wrapper agencies, offshore staffing, buying newsletters, AI audits, and AI automation agencies. Chris describes spinning up an AI voice agent for a garage door company and closing a deal in under an hour; chapters also cover flipping equipment, glamping and Bingo Loco.

Ideas in this episode

• Buy and operate newsletters

  Chris and Nik include buying newsletters in a $1M-in-six-month challenge, alongside AI automation agencies and a garage-door voice-agent deal closed in under an hour.

• RV rental business

  Chris and Nik pitch RV rentals as one path to a fast $1M business while also emphasizing AI voice agents and automation agencies.

• ChatGPT-wrapper consumer MVP

  Chris's garage-door voice-agent close-in-an-hour story can be copied: productize an existing AI receptionist for specific trades and sell it locally as a packaged service.

• Voice agent SaaS (Vapi-style)

  Chris Koerner's garage-door voice-agent playbook can be replicated as a productised AI receptionist for specific trades, with the missed-call text-back feature sold locally to home-services businesses.

• AI / n8n workflow automation agency