{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Build With AI","title":"How to sell managed AI agents as a service (recurring revenue)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2167,"description":"\nIf you use BOTH the following link and code COREY, you'll get your first 3 days of Orgo free, then 20% off your first 3 months: https://www.orgo.ai/?r=COREY\nI sat down with Phil Goodwin, a completely non-technical designer who sold his last business this past November and, just months later, built a managed AI agent business he now runs under the name Sidecar. Phil walks through his exact stack, how he prices setup fees and monthly per-agent retainers, and the \"guinea pig\" pitch he used to land his very first paying clients without a following or an email list. We get into real client use cases (a one-man directional drilling company, a short-form video editor), the group-chat trick he uses so clients actually learn to talk to their agent, and a dead-simple weekly value tracker that quantifies exactly why a client should keep paying every month. By the end of this episode, you'll have a working blueprint for pricing, pitching, and delivering a managed agent offer even if you've never written a line of code.\nJoin our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about\nTimestamps\n00:00 - Intro: The Promise of This Episode00:41 - Phil's Non-Technical, Design-First Background02:43 - What \"Managed Agents\" Actually Means04:14 - Coaching Plus AI Employee, Not Plug-and-Play05:31 - How Phil Built Agents for Himself, Then Friends08:23 - Setup Fee Plus Per-Agent Pricing Model Explained09:55 - Why \"We Fix It Before You Notice\" Is the Real Value Prop11:53 - Real Client Use Cases Across Industries12:30 - Drilling Company Client and the Telegram Group Chat Trick15:21 - The Value Ledger: Tracking Hours and Dollars Saved Weekly17:00 - Short-Form Video Editing Use Case18:41 - Give Agents a Human-Readable Source of Truth, Not Just Markdown19:53 - Finding First Clients Through Friends and Referrals23:21 - Pick the Offer You Enjoy Fulfilling, Not Just the Lucrative One24:31 - The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fPP_LXbA6Rbv7hw4e1qgK-hy_oKL684f8rf7EF5X7TI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYWVm/NTk5YjU3OTk3NzAy/YzBlZDkzNzA0ZDIz/MjVjNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}