{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Build With AI","title":"# 181 Best AI startup idea of 2026 (I'm making $1,000/hour with it) ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1537,"description":"\nGrab the Free report template: https://audittemplate.ai\nGrab the full Excalidraw diagram:  AI Assessment framework (public) — Excalidraw Plus\nThis is the full AI assessment masterclass. I walk through the four phases of the $999 AI tools assessment, the expansion menu of services you can sell after, seven ways to find clients without spending any money, and then the AI concierge upsell that is generating over a thousand dollars an hour for me right now. I have five clients on the concierge offer paying between twelve hundred and two thousand dollars a month each for two 45-minute calls. That is the entire deliverable. This episode gives you the full playbook end to end so you can go do this yourself.\nJoin our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about\n\nTimestamps\n00:00 – Intro: The full AI assessment masterclass\n00:30 – What is the AI tools assessment and how does it work?\n01:30 – Phase 1: The 45-minute discovery call and key questions to ask\n02:24 – Phase 2: AI analysis, Claude finds 3-7 tools from the transcript\n03:30 – Using Futurepedia and There's an AI for That to fill gaps\n04:00 – Phase 3: The report, nine slides in Claude Design\n04:54 – Effort versus impact matrix, quick wins, financial impact\n05:30 – Phase 4: The review call, walking through the report\n06:00 – Three closing questions that convert 50-60% into paid work\n06:30 – The expansion menu: what to sell after the assessment\n07:00 – Process redesign at $3,000–$3,500\n07:30 – Automation builds at $1,000–$7,000\n08:00 – Knowledge systems at $3,000 with the business broker example\n09:40 – Custom workflows: prompt packs, skill packs, templates at $3,000–$5,000\n10:00 – Full implementation at $5,000–$10,000+\n10:30 – Seven ways to sell with no money and no audience\n11:00 – Method 1: Host a local AI meetup\n12:07 – Method 2: Door knock 30 businesses, the DM success story\n13:00 – Method 3: LinkedIn DMs...","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}