Codie Sanchez explains how to build an AI service business by solving specific problems for local small businesses. Start by asking owners about their bottlenecks, then build quick wins like chatbots using Claude or ChatGPT. Train them to maintain it, turn it into a case study, and watch referrals bring three new customers from one successful pilot.
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You can be the person in your town, in your city, who helps small businesses actually implement AI. Ask the owner what their biggest bottleneck is, not do you want AI? Maybe it's a chatbot to answer customer FAQs. You can use tools like Claude and Replit and ChatGPT, and they can help you build this. Show them how to use it. Don't just build it and leave. Train them. And here's what happens next. I guarantee you they'll tell your friends about you, and all of a sudden you have a customer case study. 3 new customers, a proven process. The people who figure out how to do this and turn that into a service are going to do really well over the next few years, like HVAC companies, construction companies, gyms and fitness studios. Every single one of them has repetitive tasks, and most of them have no idea how to use AI to fix these problems. That's your opportunity. The new paradigm— use the same tools causing the disruption as your advantage. You don't need to become an AI expert. You just need to identify one person who can lead this, spend a couple hours experimenting, come to a workshop like ours. That's how you start. The tools are here. The opportunity is right now. The only question is, what are you going to do about it?
