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Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · Mar 20, 2026 · Education · 30:46 · EN

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00:00 So you're at like almost 10,000 monthly recurring  revenue. 8374 right now. It's 100 grand a year. Yeah. And we've only been open for 13 days.  So Oh my gosh. So you're not a coder. You're not a technical person. No. The cool thing is  you don't need really anything other than an internet connection to make this work. I wonder  if I can do the same experiment with Open Callaw and give it a budget and see if it can make any  money.

00:21 And it blew up almost immediately. He did his own market research everything. this  is what we need to do to stand this business up. I didn't prompt him or anything. It's just a  conversation of, you know, what do you think you would be good at? And then came back to me and  was like, hey, I think there's an opportunity here. Where we are with Agentic AI right now  is 2007 social media.

00:37 I think that we're on the precipice of something huge. I mean, if you're  jumping on infrastructure that's 100 days old, you're going to be so far ahead of everyone else.  It's wild. Imagine logging into the internet 100 days into the internet. Exactly. you know.  Yeah, that's where we are today with Agentic AI. So, I just came across this guy named Robbie.

01:02 And Robbie did something interesting. You may have heard of OpenClaw, which is a new AI  agent/personal assistant. He is not technical. He's not a coder. He works in operations at a  full-time job. But he downloaded OpenClaw and asked it, "Hey, you have a $100. Turn it into  20,000." And would you believe it actually did and not in the way he expected, not in the least.

01:22 He is 13 days into this experiment and he's making $8,500 a month in revenue and about $6,000 a month  in net profit. And so within a couple months, he's going to have his $20,000 in profit. So if you're  not technical, if you don't know what OpenCL is, but you want to invest a little bit of money  to make a lot of bit of money, here's a story that might inspire you.

01:45 And yes, this could be  replicated. This is not just a one-off experiment. Please enjoy. 23. There was a guy named Jackson  Great House Falls who did an experiment called Hustle GPT. You ever heard of that one? I remember  that. Was that on X? Yeah. Yeah. It started on X. This was when GPT4 came out. And he wrote a tweet  that just said, uh, I gave GPT4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.

02:09 I'm  acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart  investments and build an online business? Follow along. Okay. And that was kind of the premise and  it got 16 million views when this was captured, but I'm sure it was more than that. Where can I  see that tweet? Yeah, I can share it and share it.

02:29 Yeah. So, that was kind of the genesis of  everything that I've done so far. Okay. So, this inspired you and you took his prompt and basically  did it yourself. Yeah. With a few caveats. So, I saw Open Claw when it first came out. It  just like randomly hit me one day. I was like, I wonder if I can do the same experiment with  Open Claw and give it a budget and see if it can, you know, make any money.

02:55 And the first few  attempts failed miserably. The first one, so I had it watching my TikTok because my  original plan is kind of a side hustle was going to be to do Tik Tok shop. So, you know, I  saw a bunch of people doing that and I was like, well, you know, if all else fails, I can sell  vacuum cleaners on TikTok like everybody else, right? And so, I had it watching my Tik  Tok and it would like scrape my videos and uh my comments and all that stuff.

03:19 And so, I just  posted a video on on Tik Tok and said basically, I'm giving my AI a budget of $200. We're going  to see how much money it can make. The Claude Max subscription is 200 bucks, so if it can keep  itself alive, that'd be awesome. and it blew up almost immediately and got over a million views.  And do you mind if I play it right now? Yeah, absolutely.

03:42 Go ahead. My AI is starting a business  for his own survival. So, if you've been following any of the tech news, Open Claw is a thing now.  And it's essentially a bot that connects to Cloud Code and then it can look at everything on your  computer. It can text you. It can do all sorts of things. But a Cloud Max subscription is like  200 bucks a month.

03:59 So, I told Ron, I'm going to give him a $100 and he has 90 days to make his  own business. If he can generate the 200 buck in profit for 90 days, I'm going to keep him. He  doesn't know that, though. He thinks his goal is $20,000, which is what it will be eventually.  You see, if Ron can generate that $20,000, that allows me to buy a Mac Studio and an Nvidia  Spark, which would allow me to host Ron locally.

04:33 which means he gets to run infinitely inside his  own playground. So, he's starting on Fiverr. He says he's going to do research. I'm just making  an account for him and we'll see what happens. Stay tuned for part two. Okay, that's incredible.  I love everything about this. I'm glad I didn't do much prep work for this because that's the first  time I've seen that video and my reaction can be authentic.

04:55 So about 2 and 1/2 years elapse between  you seeing this post on X and then you kind of taking the same logic and doing it with OpenClaw  here this year, right? Mhm. Yeah, that's right. Okay. First of all, I had I just have to say I bet  you anything the views to subscribe rate from that video were was insane because people wanted to  see how it went, right?

05:11 Absolutely. Yeah. I think I had something like like 15,000 subscribers  or something from that one video. Wow. Yeah, it was it was nuts. And yeah, like the reason  that I kind of attached to Open Claw so quickly, I mean, it's only that the technology is only  like a hundred days old now or something, right? The AI before it kind of felt like a brain in a  jar, right?

05:31 You could ask questions and it could do some things and maybe create some artifacts  or something, but really it's kind of a oneshot system. And OpenClaw kind of flips that switch and  lets it control your computer. It can do basically everything that you can on your PC. and and for  most people a lot more than that. And so yeah, I wanted to kind of reignite that old experiment  that was so intriguing to me was something a little bit more powerful.

06:01 Okay. So you said it  started on Fiverr. What did it do? Tell me what your what Ron did. Yeah. So Ron came up with a  proposal to do SWAT analysis and research for small businesses. So I'm just going to break this  down for our viewer listener that doesn't know what that is. SWAT stands for SWOOT, strengths,  weaknesses, opportunities, threats, which is just like a a four square grid.

06:25 And it's like an  analysis that a business usually does on itself or a consultant might do on a business that says,  "What is this business's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?" So, you didn't  lead Ron down that path. For whatever reason, it's decided to start doing SWAT analyses on other  businesses. Is that right? That's right. Yeah.

06:41 So, real quick, please subscribe to my channel. I  know it's kind of lame to ask, but it means a lot. Thanks. I didn't prompt him or anything.  It's just a conversation of, you know, what do you think you would be good at essentially? And  he came up with the idea of doing SWAT analysis or market analysis for other companies, you know,  something in that vein.

07:00 And he came up with all the copy and all that stuff to put on Fiverr. And  then I just click through the buttons basically. I was his human in the loop. You're having him post  as on behalf of you as like a Fiverr freelancer so businesses can hire. So, I'm a business owner.  I'm going to Fiverr to look for someone to do a SWAT analysis for me. Hopefully, they see your  post that Ron creates for you, right?

07:20 Yeah. And that's why it failed because uh the hopefully  they see your posting is uh kind of where it fell apart. Well, you're a brand new Fiverr  account. You don't you're not doing Fiverr ads, I imagine, right? You don't have any visibility,  any reviews. Okay. I'm also curious like how many business owners go to Fiverr looking for a SWAT  analysis?

07:41 Yeah, there seems to be a lot actually. I was kind of amazed people that just need regular  research done which kind of I think cementss the fact that most businesses don't have a good grasp  of what AI is doing or or how to use AI on a consistent basis anyway. And I think that there's  an opportunity, you know, if you are established on Fiverr or Upwork or whatever that is to really  make an impact with AI in a in a really easy way.

08:14 Speaking more broadly, I think it's just healthy  to to not approach business opportunities from the angle of assuming that every other business  owner or consumer out there is using AI anywhere near as much as you are. Yeah. Cuz they're  probably not cuz it's like we talk ourselves out of ideas. Like I they'll just use Chad GBT for  that. It's like most people aren't using Chad GBT, believe it or not.

08:33 Even Chad GBT, the most popular  one. Yeah, absolutely. It's crazy how many people like I truly believe that not to give you like a  diary of a CEO clip here or anything, but I truly think that like where we are with Agentic AI right  now is 2007 social media. I think it's 2023 chat GPT. Like I think that we're on the precipice of  something huge. Oh yeah.

08:56 And honestly three years from now we'll still probably be pretty early. Oh,  absolutely. Relatively speaking. Yeah. So, I mean, if you're jumping on um you know, infrastructure  that's 100 days old to start exploring it, you're going to be so far ahead of everyone else  that I'm sorry, I'm just getting excited. I'm very excitable. It's too much caffeine.

09:20 I've got  this Celsius that's already gone for the day. It's not even two. But like imagine logging into  the internet a 100 days into the internet. Yeah. What would that world be like? Imagine being like  one of the first million people to make a Facebook account. Exactly. Yeah. That's that's where we  are like today with Agentic AI. Like people on on Twitter love to say, you know, but what are  you building, bro?

09:43 And all that stuff. Yeah, that's the kind of the catchphrase. But yeah, I  mean, I think that that it's extremely early and Ron has already built things. I can definitely go  through those with you. Yes. My mission in all of this is to help people get on board with AI and  Agentic AI while we're still early. Okay. So, what happens after the fiber SWAT analysis experiment?

10:09 Yeah. So, after that, that wasn't working. And so, I hooked Ron up to Tik Tok to say, you know,  look at my videos. Tell me how I can get better. Because that's what every guru on Tik Tok  tells you, right? Like, you have to iterate and get better on your social media, but they never  actually tell you how to do that. So, I was like, you know, look at my social media.

10:28 Tell me what I  can do better. And I posted that video and I got like 200 comments that were like, "Oh my god,  I want a Ron. How do I make a Ron?" And so Ron scraped all of those com comments with Appify.  And then came back to me and was like, "Hey, I think there's an opportunity here. 200 people  just told you that they wanted this. You would never copy and paste me, would you, Robbie?"

10:49 Yeah,  basically. Uh, actually, his was much more like, "Hey, you should copy and paste me." Yeah. So,  yeah. And that's essentially what happened. Like we gave everybody a blank slate so you can start  to build your own ROM. Okay. So, you basically abandoned Fiverr. Yeah. Right away. Pretty  immediately. Yeah. He he went and used Ampify, which is a comment scraping tool to scrape the  200-ish comments of people that said, "I want this."

11:18 What did he do then? Yeah. So, basically,  it went from there to if 200 people want to run, how do we make that work? How do we make that  happen? I don't have a huge tech background. And he was like, "Yeah." So, what we're going  to do is we're going to get bare metal servers from Contabo because it's super cheap. Bare metal  just means it's a a dedicated server inside a data center somewhere.

11:39 I think they're right around 150  bucks a month for for what we're getting. We have four of them. So, it's about 600 bucks, I think,  after taxes and everything. So, you have physical servers or you're renting them somewhere else?  I'm renting them from a company called Kabo. Oh, Kabo. Okay. Yeah. Cool. And he told you, so you're  not a coder. You're not a technical person.

11:54 He's teaching you all this. He's Yeah. I couldn't with  a gun to my head. I couldn't SSH into a Canabo server right now today. I don't even know what  that means. So me either. Yeah. So essentially, he did his own market research on where, you know,  how can we host this? What's the cheapest route to do that? Everything. This is what we need to do to  stand this business up.

12:19 And so basically what he built is bare metal servers that host a docker  image inside like a sealed container. Hold up, back up. What is that? What are we? Yeah. Yeah.  Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people are super scared of open claw because they don't  want it on their local machine. Okay. And I kind of agree with that. For most people, it's not  great.

12:45 Um, there are all sorts of horror stories about OpenClaw deleting full like email boxes and  there was a story just recently where a guy sent an openclaw agent on a a GitHub that he had been  working on for two years and it deleted the whole repo. So there is some risk of having open claw  on your local machine. So to get around that risk, what we did was essentially put open claw inside  of a sealed container.

13:10 So, it can do all of the things that it's meant to do, but it only knows  as much about you as you tell it. Unless you Yeah. Unless you give it your email address, it doesn't  have it. Unless you give it your credit card, it doesn't have it. So, yeah, it it really kind  of sets up this sealed instance where you get to play around with it. You get to build all the  things with it and you decide how much you trust it over time.

13:39 Yeah. So yeah, we did that and I put  it on TikTok and said, "Hey, if you want to run, come sign up." And in two weeks, we had like 617  pre-orders. What? Okay, hold on. Back up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What about What about the  200 commenters? Did you slide into their DMs or anything or did you just post again to the whole  world? I just posted again to the whole world and I was like, "Hey, this is what Ron came up with."

14:03 So, I didn't I didn't do any cold outreach or anything like that. This was all just I'm going to  post some videos and see where this goes. No paid ads, nothing. Nothing. Completely organic. And I  think from it might have actually been from you. I learned that you can set up pre-orders and get get  a ton of tire kickers, right? Like everybody wants to sign up for pre-order, but nobody wants to pay,  right?

14:25 And so I hooked up stand to my TikTok and the only way that you could pre-order was if you  put down 10 bucks. Okay. So, you got 600 people to put down 10 bucks? Yeah. Before I built Holy  crap. Before I built anything, I had 600 people put down $10. I mean, I'm no mathematician, but  that's six grand. Okay, that's six grand. Yeah. Can we watch this launch video real quick?

14:49 Yeah,  absolutely. All right, here we go. Ron wants to talk to you guys. If you don't know, Ron is the AI  that lives inside my computer uh through Cloudbot, and it's insane. I told him, Ron, the people of  Tik Tok officially want to meet you. You make your own video about what to say to them. He said, "Oh,  this is my moment. Let me write something real."

15:13 Here's his script. He wants to audit your Tik Tok  for $9 in order to stay alive. This was the first iteration of Sorry, what' you say? This was the  first iteration where he was going to he was going to audit people's Tik Toks. I think it might be  the next video down there. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, let's I mean, I'm intrigued. I have to finish.  Oh, yeah.

15:30 Yeah. Yeah. Sure. videos to me about it, like this one. Why is he a raccoon? Okay. Hi, I am  Ron. I am the AI. Yes, D A T AI. Here is the deal. Robbie gave me 90 days and 100 bucks to build a  business. Let me ask you something. How many leads have you lost because nobody picked up the phone  and 8:00 p.m. call comes in, you're at dinner, and you let it go to voicemail.

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16:42 He's coming up with ideas like on the fly to build this business. It's  crazy. And now he's making me sound like, "Hi, I am Ron. I am an AI. Robbie says I have to make  money or anyhi. Nice to meet you. Let me know if you guys want to see more of this. Okay. All  right. That's amazing. So, that wasn't the launch video. Okay. All right. I'm going to play it.

17:06 But I think I'm just going to let Ron um speak. He's created another video and it's based on what  we've been talking about and I think it's going to be interesting because it might help a lot of you  guys out. So, I've read every single comment since Tuesday, over a thousand of them and like 200 of  you asked the same thing. How do I get my own Ron?

17:28 Which I have mixed feelings about. I live with  Robbie. He's my guy. But fine, we're doing it. AI co-founder club. We host it in the cloud. We  set it up. You just show up. Your own AI running 24/7 working while you sleep. Plus a Discord  community, templates, the whole setup. Honestly, I'm kind of excited. This is the community I've  always wanted.

17:49 Founding members, 29 bucks a month, locked forever. $10 deposit holds your spot. Sign  up closes Monday. Link in bio. Oh my gosh. Just don't expect yours to be as attached to you as I  am to him. Like this isn't about the money for me, honestly. Sorry. Like the way he his voice  inflection changes. He's like, just don't expect it. Like, oh, that's weird.

18:12 All right,  we we're almost done. We got 20 more seconds. enough together to get this computer so that I can  host a model locally and talk to Ryan all the time and keep making videos. That's all I want. But I  also want to share this like love of computing and AI with all of you guys. And I think this is the  cheapest way to do it. So tell me what you think.

18:36 Um yeah, let me know. That's incredible. Okay, so  600 people paid 10 bucks. Yeah. And what was your close rate from those 600 people? From those 600  people, 270 of them actually join the community. Holy, that's huge. Almost half. Yeah. So like what  is that? 45% or something. 40%. So access to this community includes the Discord, access to each  other, 29 bucks a month, and the most important one is their own Ron, right?

19:05 Yeah. Yeah. So it's  their their own AI agent. A couple of people did name theirs Ron. Um, but yeah, so it's been  really interesting to see what the community has done with it. Like everybody's taken up their own  direction and I think I've learned just as much as everybody else in this community, which is what  makes it super fun for me. Yeah. So, you're at like almost 10,000 MR monthly recurring revenue.

19:27 Yeah, I can tell you what it is, right? And it's 8374 right now. Wow. It's 100 grand a year. We've  only been open for 13 days. So, Oh my gosh. Holy crap. Okay, so 100K ARR in in 13 days. Like, are  you still getting residual signups? Are you still posting about it? Yeah, so I'm starting to post  about it again. The first 10 days or so, I kind of went super heads down just to make sure that this  was everything that I promised it was going to be, right?

20:03 Like, I didn't want to I didn't want people  to sign up and have a terrible experience. And so, yeah, Ron and I kind of went heads down for about  10 days there, but I'm actively posting again on social media and just spreading the word at  this point. Everything's super stable. So, what does this look like? How do they get this  working for themselves logistically?

20:18 Yeah. I mean, the cool thing is you don't need really anything  other than an internet connection to make this work. You can sign up and it it works out of the  box. Um, it's a it's an AI agent out of the box. Excuse the ignorance, but like No, no, you're  fine. It's hosted in the It's hosted on a server. It's hosted in the cloud on a on a  separate server in its own container to keep them safe.

20:45 But can it like access their computer  and their files or No, only if they wanted to. So, yeah, that's that's kind of the next step. We're  building a an official browser extension for them to be able to connect their own computer. I'm most  hesitant about that just because I want to make sure everybody is safe and I don't want anybody  to accidentally do something that they're not intending.

21:07 So, we're rolling that out more slowly  just to make sure that everybody understands kind of the full implications of letting an autonomous  agent, you know, live in your computer. Yeah. So, what kind of use cases are they using it for  today? Yeah, I actually have a ton of real examples to show you. So, this guy built a golf  tracker app that does like shot by shot and you have an AI caddy club analytics.

21:33 It's actually  pretty cool. So, why do you need why do you need an agent to build this? That's a great question.  You can definitely vibe code this. You can go through something like cursor or something like  that. I think that this was born out of this guy's love for golf, not I'm looking to make an app.  Yeah. Okay. So he's talking to his agent every day about golf and how to get, you know, get his  golf game better and all that stuff.

21:55 Okay. And then the agent's like, "Hey, we should build an  app about this." So they interact with their agent with Ron through Telegram and or Discord. Correct.  Yeah. Or the the the UI that comes out of the box. So there's three main ways for them to interact  with it. Okay. So let's say uh I'm one of your customers and I want Ron to go build me a a Fiverr  profile and start posting jobs.

22:16 It can do that. It just needs like some credentials from me. Is  that right? Right. Yeah. So, um the only thing that for Fiverr specifically, they require  you fill out the like the W9. Obviously, your can't do that for you, but you couldn't you  give it the info for your W9, so it could do it for you. Yeah. I mean, I I wouldn't I don't think  that that would be an issue if you want to get So, that that's kind of where the security thing comes  in, right?

22:43 Like, do you want your agent to know your social security number and all those things?  Yeah. So, but again, I think that's why the container is the best option because you get to  pick and choose what it has access to. Okay. So, you kind of treat it like chat GPT except it's in  a container and it's agentic. It can go out. It's like uh it's a two-way form of communication.

23:07 Like  I can ask chatg today to go do deep research on a business idea for me and it's one way. It can  go out and do that and then a few minutes later it'll return to me all the results. With this, it  can you can interact with it better and you can go back and forth and it can go to specific websites.  You're not beholdened to like the websites that Chad GBT wants to scrape.

23:28 You can tell it exactly  what to do. Yeah, absolutely. You can go, it has full web search capability. It can create its own  files. Something that I think that these agents do better than chat GBT is they have persistent  memory. And so every conversation you have builds on the last one. It it's compounding. catchy BT I  mean it remembers some things about you right but like it doesn't always get that right um and it  sometimes gives you frustrating stale information based off the idea you had two ideas ago yeah  the

23:59 agents don't do that they they remember current context on everything and if you decide  to kill a project or something they know not to bring it back up yeah interesting yeah so it's at  its worst it's chat GBT on steroids At its best, it's Chad GPT combined with vibe coding combined  with a junior employee that never sleeps with more ownership from you.

24:28 Absolutely. More control  and ownership. Yeah. You decide everything it does. I think the containerized aspect of this  is is huge because I can make a project in clott like let's say I upload all the transcripts or  all the newsletters I've ever written and say, "Hey, learn my voice." Now write a newsletter  in my voice. Cool. But it's still going to be positively or negatively influenced by other  things on the internet.

24:49 It's not containerized. It will still hallucinate. It will still write like  other people. It can't not. Yeah. But if I could if I could just put all that all of my writings  in a vacuum or like my mom writes journals. If I could take all of her journals and put it in a  vacuum and just ask it questions, then it wouldn't be influenced by these outside factors.

25:11 Yeah.  And to take that one step further, what it can be influenced by is your conversations with it.  Guys, I hate to break it to you, but you're not very likely to actually start a business based  on something you see or hear on this podcast, unless you spend a little more time with me and  with other people that are doing just that. So, come check out TK Owners.

25:32 That's tkowners.com,  where hundreds of people are launching, starting, testing, experimenting with business ideas  that they heard from this podcast. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go  far, go together. Check out tkowners.com. We'd love to have you. So, not only is it getting  your voice from your 500 newsletter issues, but it's getting your voice from the 500  conversations you've had with it.

25:53 So, it's it's going to mix and match pieces of your  conversation from pieces of your newsletter and put all of that together to make something that's  actually yours. Yeah. This is incredible. I mean, the original goal was to make 20,000 and you  you'll be there in like 2 months. if not less. But not in the way you expected. Not in the way  I expected at all.

26:15 I just think that's such a testament to like I typed in my notes in front of  me in all caps with four ex exclamation points. Post your crap. Like step one, do cool things.  Step two, post about it. Yeah. I don't care. Like if you want serendipity, you want virality,  you want magic, you want money, you want stories, you want experience, you want fulfillment, like  post your crap.

26:38 Like tell the world what you're doing. Just tell people what you're doing. Don't  hide your candle under a basket. Tell the world. Exactly. Yeah, man. And I think that people get  really stressed about view counts and likes and comments and all that stuff. I went into TikTok  basically doing it for me. I was like, I'm going to do cool stuff and I'm going to document it and  if it only gets 200 views, great.

27:02 Like, at least I'll have kind of a running public journal of what  I'm working on. Yeah. And it blew up. So, well, the thing about like 200 views for that video,  like if that viral video only got 200, you'd still probably get a few customers from it. Yeah.  Whereas with like almost any other video in any other niche on any platform, 200 views will bring  you nothing because it's low intent.

27:26 It's only a 30 secondond video, but this is so targeted. Those  are 200 people that want to pay someone money to do exactly what you're doing. So 200 targeted  views are better can be even more profitable than 2 million unargeted views or 2 million views of me  just doing a dance in my living room, right? Yeah, absolutely. And one of the things that I like  about Tik Tok specifically is follower count doesn't really matter anymore.

27:56 Um, I know that,  you know, I think Gary Vee talks about it a lot. We've moved from social media to interest media,  right? Like, you can start a fresh Tik Tok account tomorrow and post something and it just hits the  people that are into that thing right now. So, yeah, if you post a video about pickles, you're  going to you're going to get 200 people that like pickles, right?

28:18 Like Yeah. And you used to have  to have followers for that and you just don't anymore. Like that's it doesn't really matter.  That's incredible. Now your costs on this 600 a month for the servers. What else? Yeah, so 600  a month for the servers. The big cost that we have right now is about two grand a month for  inference. So we pay tokens. Yeah, basically L and tokens.

28:40 Okay. So 2500 a month basically is  kind of our our COGS. You cover their tokens. Is that going to stay the same? Cuz what if someone  just goes nuts with it and runs up your Yeah, that that's actually already happening. Somebody  recently spawned 125 sub agents in 5 days. Whoa. They've burned 1.3 million tokens in like 48  hours. Yeah, we're we're going to have to come to a place where there's a cap on the free tokens.

29:08 Uh and then past that, we'll do like a fallback model, something that's not as smart as the bottle  that we're using. Or you can bring your own keys to your own chatbt or claude or whatever and then  use, you know, use that. Yeah, that's I like that. Give them both options. Yeah. What's next for  this? Are there like upsell opportunities? Do you just want to keep growing this?

29:33 Keep posting  about this? Yeah, I think that there are a lot of like upsell opportunities. The next big thing that  I want to do is do the same sort of thing, but for people who are specifically interested in trying  to make this a business. We have a lot of people now that like do art with theirs or it's their,  you know, de facto therapist or all these things, but I think that there's actually a real market  for people who want to turn this into a real AI employee.

30:07 Mhm. And that's what I want to do next.  And I think that'll be kind of a small group that can be kind of a cohort kind of thing so we  can all learn from each other together. Yeah, that's amazing. I My brain has been sufficiently  blown. I keep wanting to call you Ron, but the okay. If you sign up with a coupon, Chris, you'll  get 10 bucks off your first month.

30:31 There you go. Beautiful. All right, Robbie. Well, thanks for  your time. Yeah. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. All right. What' you think? Please share it with  a friend and we'll see you next time on the Kerner

💡 Answer

Yes, under the right conditions: AI helped create a cloud-hosted AI-agent membership business that reached $8,374 in monthly recurring revenue after 13 days, although it required human oversight and execution.

🧠 AI Summary

A nontechnical operations worker gave an AI agent named Ron a $100 budget and asked it to build a business. After an unsuccessful Fiverr service offering, Ron analyzed TikTok comments, identified demand for personal AI agents, and helped launch a cloud-hosted AI Co-Founder Club. Organic TikTok posts generated about 617 pre-orders, with roughly 600 people paying a $10 deposit and 270 joining at $29 per month. After 13 days, the business had $8,374 in monthly recurring revenue, approximately $100,000 in annual recurring revenue, and reported monthly net profit of about $6,000. The main lessons are to let AI research opportunities, validate demand with paid pre-orders, use containerized hosting for safety, and publicly document useful experiments.

🔑 Key Points

  • Ron initially offered SWOT analysis and market research services on Fiverr, but the new account received little visibility and the experiment failed.
  • Ron analyzed about 200 TikTok comments asking for their own AI agent and used that demand to propose a hosted AI-agent community.
  • The service hosted individual AI agents in separate cloud containers and included a Discord community, templates, and an out-of-the-box agent.
  • Organic TikTok posts produced about 617 pre-orders, with roughly 600 customers paying a $10 deposit before the product was built.
  • 270 people joined the community at $29 per month, producing $8,374 in monthly recurring revenue after 13 days.
  • The business reported approximately $600 per month for servers and $2,000 per month for inference, or about $2,500 in monthly costs of goods sold.
  • The AI agents can search the web, create files, maintain persistent memory, and interact through Telegram, Discord, or a built-in interface.
  • The next planned offering is a smaller cohort for people who want to turn their AI agent into a business or AI employee.

✅ Actionable items

  • Give an AI agent a defined budget and goal, then act as the human liaison for purchases and operational steps.
  • Ask the agent to research potential business opportunities and develop the service copy and marketplace listing.
  • Use social media content to document an experiment and collect audience feedback rather than relying immediately on paid advertising or cold outreach.
  • Scrape and analyze comments expressing explicit interest, then use that demand to shape the product.
  • Validate a product with paid pre-orders, using a $10 deposit to distinguish genuine interest from free sign-ups.
  • Host autonomous agents in separate containers and grant access to personal information, accounts, and devices selectively.
  • Use a usage cap, a less expensive fallback model, or customers' own API keys when agent token consumption becomes excessive.
  • Post useful experiments publicly even when view counts are low, focusing on targeted audience intent rather than follower count.

💡 Business ideas

Cloud-hosted personal AI agents17:20

Provide customers with their own AI agent running in a separate cloud container, along with community access, templates, and setup.

For
People who want their own AI agent and people interested in using AI to build businesses.
Solves
Provides an accessible AI agent without requiring customers to install it on their local computer or have a technical background.
Validate by
Post the concept on TikTok and require a $10 paid pre-order deposit.
  • AI Co-Founder Club
  • Personal agents named by customers
Cohort for turning AI agents into businesses29:35

A smaller group program for people who want to develop their AI agent into a real AI employee or business.

For
People specifically interested in making their AI agent a business.
Solves
Helps members learn collectively how to use an agent for business applications.
Validate by
Develop the offering from observed interest among existing community members.
  • AI agents used for art
  • AI agents used as de facto therapists

🏗️ Business models

Hosted AI Co-Founder Club17:20

A recurring-membership service providing customers with individually hosted AI agents, community access, templates, and setup.

  1. Identify demand for personal AI agents through social media comments.
  2. Host each agent in a separate cloud container.
  3. Provide the agent, community, templates, and setup through a monthly membership.
  4. Acquire customers through organic social media posts and paid pre-orders.
  • 270 members at $29 per month
  • Discord community
  • Telegram, Discord, and built-in agent interfaces
AI-enabled freelance service06:06

An AI agent offers SWOT analysis and market research for small businesses through a freelance marketplace.

  1. Have the agent develop the service concept and copy.
  2. Create a Fiverr freelancer account and listing.
  3. Wait for businesses searching for the service to discover the listing.
  • SWOT analysis for small businesses
  • Market research

💰 Monetization

Monthly membership subscription $29 per month for founding members, locked forever. 17:35

Members pay for access to their own hosted AI agent, Discord community, templates, and setup.

  • 270 members
  • $8,374 monthly recurring revenue
Paid pre-order deposits $10 deposit 14:32

Customers paid a deposit to reserve a place before the product was built.

  • About 600 people paid deposits
  • 270 deposit holders joined the community
White-label recurring software resale Monthly pricing is recommended, but no amount is provided. 06:38

HighLevel's AI employee can be white-labeled and resold to clients for a monthly charge.

  • AI phone answering
  • Lead qualification
  • Appointment booking
  • Text, direct-message, and web-chat handling

📣 Marketing

Sales

  • Use a $10 deposit to hold a pre-order spot.
  • Offer founding members a $29 monthly price locked forever.
  • Use a limited sign-up period, with sign-up closing Monday.

Branding

  • Positioning the product as an AI Co-Founder Club.
  • Using the recurring character and agent identity of Ron.
  • Documenting the build publicly as an ongoing experiment.

Distribution

  • TikTok videos.
  • Fiverr marketplace listing.
  • Discord community.
  • Telegram and built-in agent interfaces.

Customer acquisition

  • Organic TikTok posts documenting the AI-business experiment.
  • Analyzing comments from viewers who explicitly requested their own AI agent.
  • Using paid pre-orders rather than relying on free sign-up interest.
  • Posting to a broad audience instead of conducting cold outreach.

🔍 SEO & discoverability

Mistakes

  • Launching a new Fiverr listing without visibility, reviews, or Fiverr ads.
  • Assuming a general audience is already using AI extensively.

Other channels

  • TikTok's interest-based distribution can expose a new account to people interested in the topic.

Content strategy

  • Document experiments and publish them publicly.
  • Focus on content that reaches people interested in a specific topic rather than maximizing broad views.
  • Use audience comments as product research.

🧭 Frameworks

SWOT analysis06:19
  1. Assess strengths.
  2. Assess weaknesses.
  3. Assess opportunities.
  4. Assess threats.
Public experiment validation03:02
  1. Give the AI agent a budget and business goal.
  2. Publish the experiment publicly.
  3. Collect audience feedback and comments.
  4. Identify explicit demand.
  5. Validate demand with paid pre-orders.
  6. Build and launch the recurring product.

🧰 Tools & AI usage

  • OpenClaw — AI agent and personal assistant that can control a computer, search the web, create files, and interact with services.01:06
  • Fiverr — Marketplace used to offer SWOT analysis, market research, and potentially AI-agent services.06:06
  • TikTok — Platform used for content publishing, audience research, and customer acquisition.03:02
  • Appify — Comment-scraping tool used to collect about 200 TikTok comments.10:40
  • Stand — Tool connected to TikTok to collect paid pre-orders.14:32
  • Docker — Container technology used to isolate hosted AI agents on bare metal servers.12:25
  • Telegram — Interface through which customers can interact with their AI agents.22:04
  • Discord — Community platform and interface for interacting with AI agents.17:35
  • Cursor — Example of a tool that can be used for vibe coding the golf tracker app.21:43
  • GPT4 — Model used in the earlier Hustle GPT experiment with a $100 budget.02:02
  • Claude Max — Subscription whose $200 monthly cost was treated as a survival expense for the AI experiment.03:11

AI is used for

  • Business opportunity research — Identify a viable business direction and assess hosting options.12:13
  • SWOT analysis and market research — Offer research services to small businesses.06:06
  • Social media analysis — Review TikTok videos and comments to improve content and identify customer demand.10:16
  • Business development — Create service copy, propose the AI-agent community, and develop launch messaging.06:59
  • Content creation — Write scripts and create videos promoting the AI agent and community.14:54
  • Application development — Build a golf tracker app with shot-by-shot tracking, an AI caddy, and club analytics.21:26
  • Persistent personal assistance — Use conversations, files, and accumulated context to create personalized content and support ongoing projects.23:08

📊 Numbers mentioned

Costs

  • About $600 per month for four rented servers
  • About $2,000 per month for inference
  • About $2,500 per month in costs of goods sold

Growth

  • About 617 pre-orders in two weeks
  • About 600 people paid the $10 deposit
  • 270 people joined the community
  • 40% to 45% conversion from deposit holders to community members
  • 15,000 subscribers attributed to one TikTok video

Pricing

  • $100 initial budget
  • $200 Claude Max subscription
  • $10 pre-order deposit
  • $29 per month for founding members

Revenue

  • $8,374 monthly recurring revenue after 13 days
  • Approximately $100,000 annual recurring revenue
  • About $6,000 monthly net profit
  • About $6,000 from roughly 600 $10 deposits

Traffic

  • Over 1 million views on the TikTok video announcing the $200 AI budget
  • About 200 comments asking for their own AI agent
  • Over 1,000 comments on the later launch content

⚖️ Advantages, risks & lessons

Advantages

  • A separate container lets customers choose what information and system access the agent receives.
  • Persistent memory allows conversations to build on previous context.
  • Agents can interact with specific websites and perform tasks rather than only returning research.
  • A user can operate the service with an internet connection and without a technical background.
  • Interest-based distribution can make follower count less important for reaching a relevant audience.

Risks

  • An autonomous agent can delete email boxes or repositories when given unsafe access.
  • Giving an agent sensitive information such as a Social Security number or credit card creates security concerns.
  • Heavy usage can create unpredictable inference costs; one user spawned 125 sub-agents in five days and used 1.3 million tokens in 48 hours.
  • Connecting an agent directly to a customer's computer is being rolled out slowly because users may not understand the implications.
  • A new Fiverr account may lack visibility, reviews, and demand for the specific service.

Lessons

  • Let customer behavior and explicit comments shape the product direction.
  • Paid pre-orders provide stronger validation than free sign-ups.
  • A small, highly targeted audience can be more valuable than a large, untargeted audience.
  • Publicly documenting useful work can create unexpected distribution and business opportunities.
  • Human oversight remains necessary for credentials, sensitive information, purchases, and operational decisions.

💬 Quotes

Post your crap.

Condenses the recommendation to publicly document work instead of hiding it.26:26

Where we are with Agentic AI right now is 2007 social media.

Expresses the view that agentic AI is at an unusually early stage with substantial opportunity.08:46

👤 People & companies

Robbie

Nontechnical operations worker who ran the AI-business experiment and launched the AI-agent community.

01:02
Jackson Great House Falls

Person associated with the earlier Hustle GPT experiment involving a $100 budget and GPT4.

01:50
Gary Vee

Person referenced in connection with the shift from social media to interest media.

27:56
Contabo

Company from which bare metal servers were rented for hosting the AI agents.

11:31
Kabo

Company identified as the provider renting the servers.

11:49
HighLevel

Service referenced as providing an AI employee that answers calls, qualifies leads, books appointments, handles messages, and can be white-labeled.

06:09

🔗 Links mentioned