The first AI service I ever sold was an AI audit.
I still firmly believe AI audits are the single best foot-in-the-door offer if you're new to selling AI services. I sell them for $999 all day long, and people love them.
They almost always lead to me selling even more expensive services to the same client.
But there's one problem with an audit.
Once you sell it and the client pays, you have to turn around and sell them something else. Over and over again. There's no recurring revenue baked in.
So my team and I started brainstorming offers with recurring revenue built in. And I had one rule: I'm not interested in selling anything that makes me less than $5,000 per month, per client.
That hunt led me to a guy named Nick Vasilescu, who owns an AI startup called Orgo.ai.
I saw him on a podcast talking about his managed AI agent business, and the offer was so genius, so simple that I had to learn more.
His offer in a nutshell:
He charges clients $5,000 per month for unlimited AI agents, unlimited usage, and unlimited updates.
His promise: he manages the agent end to end. If it breaks, he fixes it fast. The client asks for a new capability, he builds it. He runs the AI employee on the client's behalf so all they have to do is use it and figure out what they want next.
I sat down with Nick for a full interview on the Build With AI podcast where he gave away his entire playbook for free.
Now before I show you how you can copy his model, I want to address something.
You're probably thinking there's no way he makes margin offering unlimited usage and unlimited agents.
That's the exact objection I had. But his response made perfect sense.
Almost no client actually needs an army of agents. They need one or two very specialized ones.
So he sets each client up on a $200 per month OpenAI Codex plan, which gives them enough usage that they basically never run out. His entire overhead is that $200 Codex plan plus an Orgo.ai workspace to manage the deployments.
It is extremely possible to land 10 clients at $5,000 a month. That's $50,000 in monthly recurring revenue. One person can run the whole thing with a team of AI agents, at roughly 90% margins.
That's why I'm so excited about this model and plan to implement it myself.
Here's how you can build your own version starting this week.
Step 1: Lead with the audit, not the retainer.
Don't open with a $5,000 monthly ask to a cold prospect. Sell the $999 audit first. It pays you to learn the client's business, and it surfaces exactly which pain point a managed agent should solve.
Step 2: Pick one specialized agent.
Resist the urge to promise an army. From the audit, choose the single agent that drives the most obvious ROI. One sharp, specialized agent beats ten half-built ones.
Step 3: Price it at $5,000 per month, all-in.
Unlimited usage, unlimited updates, fully managed. The fact that the client never touches the technical side is what closes the deal. They use it, they tell you what they want next, you handle the rest.
Step 4: Keep your overhead tiny.
Set the client up on a $200 per month OpenAI Codex plan and manage everything from an Orgo.ai workspace. That's your cost of goods. Everything above it is margin.
Step 5: Deploy without writing code.
I watched Nick spin up a Hermes agent from scratch in 26 seconds on screen, with zero code. The deploy is no longer the hard part. The offer and the relationship are.
Step 6: Manage and expand.
When it breaks, you fix it fast. When they ask for more, you build it. Every new capability you add makes the agent stickier and your $5,000 harder to cancel.
The summary:
- Sell the audit to get in the door
- Deploy one specialized agent on a $200 plan
- Charge $5,000 a month to manage it end to end
- Let it compound into an asset the client can't run without
10 of those and you've got a $50,000 per month business one person can run.
Get the ball rolling this week. Reply and tell me which managed agent you'd sell first, and to who. I read every response.
- Corey
P.S. Nick shared a diagram in the episode that breaks the entire business model down end to end, the offer, how to find clients, how to fulfill it, and what to charge. Here's the link.
A few notes/tweets/cool things sourced from the AI community.
1)
The easiest Second Brain build I've seen.
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Local models are the future.
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Will be testing this on cold email campaigns for our managed agents offer.
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Be back next week.
-Corey
