Dr. Violet Howard sold her first AI agent after a viewer found her YouTube build video and emailed her directly. She had posted the videos for learning, not marketing, but the organic discovery led to discovery calls, a scoped project, and a paid contract.
Now, how did I actually sell this? Well, the client found me on YouTube because I had built something similar on my channel just for fun, and he emailed me saying that he wanted something similar. We hopped on a couple of calls, I scoped out the build, I told him I could do it, he said yes. It was that simple. The crazy part is, at this stage, I wasn't positioning myself as a freelancer or saying that I did paid work. I just happened to have my email address in the description of the videos, and I was posting builds online because I was excited about learning. But because I was putting myself out there, people started reaching out, and that's how I was able to close this deal and my other first ones. So that was the first agent. So
