Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

The $2.7K/Day AI Business That Practically Runs Itself

11 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, Chris Koerner talks with a guest who has built an AI‑driven service for local businesses that essentially runs on autopilot. The model involves a one‑time setup fee of roughly $2,000–$3,000 for a pre‑built solution, followed by a monthly retainers of $500–$1,000 that require virtually no ongoing work. The guest reports that the business now generates over $1 million in annual profit with a tiny team, and the operational cost per client is about $50. The conversation highlights how automation makes the service accessible to non‑technical owners and creates a highly scalable, low‑maintenance revenue stream.

We hit more than $1 million.
Holy cow.
This year. Good for you. Super exciting. Yeah. Around a $2,000 setup fee. It's already built. You're just selling it to them. Now it's finally become possible for normal people who aren't technical. Yeah. You can automate all of this process.
You can and you should.
And then the monthly retainer that you charge them on top of that, you're not even doing anything.
Yeah.
For that $500 a month, it's doing it for you.
What did that cost you all in?
About $50.
Wow. My guest today tried 8 different AI businesses in the span of 6 months while he still had a job. And the 9th one he tried makes over $1 million per year of profit with no office and 3 people helping. But the part that should interest you is that people with zero coding skills are charging $2,000 to $3,000 to set this up for local businesses and $500 to $1,000 a month to keep running it. And a robot writes the monthly report. And his 19-year-old son just signed a client that said his service will save him over $100 grand a year.