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I've been using Hyperagent as a more secure, easy to use AI agent to build out my AI Concierge business.
Hyperagent is offering my audience $1,000 in free credits with this link.
On my latest podcast (Spotify/Apple/YouTube) I talk more about how you can use it to create a high-margin AI services business from scratch.
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I was one of the first people to get my hands on OpenClaw when it dropped back in January.
Right away I could see this new breed of AI agent was going to change everything. You hand it almost any task and it runs, unsupervised, through long multi-step projects that used to take a whole team.
Then I came to a difficult realization.
Agents like OpenClaw break. Constantly. I was spending more time troubleshooting my Claw than I was actually building with it.
So I went looking for an off-the-shelf agent that was as powerful as OpenClaw but without the babysitting that comes with an open source tool you have to maintain yourself.
One day I was listening to a podcast and the host mentioned an agent he'd been using called Hyperagent, built by the same team behind Airtable. I've used Airtable for years and it's a great product, so I figured Hyperagent would be in the same league.
I was wrong. It was better.
It is so much easier to use than OpenClaw. You give it a prompt, it writes its own plan, then it goes to work. I can walk away for an hour and come back to a finished project, done exactly the way I wanted it.
In one shot it built me a fully interactive AI Audit web app that replaced the clunky PDF audit report I'd been sending clients for months.
On this week's Build With AI podcast I mapped out a slam dunk AI services offer using Hyperagent.
It comes down to one move: give away the thing that used to be the deliverable, and sell the thing that actually drives revenue.
In a nutshell:
- You find local businesses with great reviews and a terrible website, or no website at all
- You point Hyperagent at them and it runs the whole sweep itself: discovers the businesses, scores them against its own criteria, narrows to a shortlist of finalists, then mocks up a brand new website for each one
- You lead your outreach with the free website. "People love you, but they can't find you. Here's the site we already built you. It's yours."
The website is the giveaway. The revenue system is the sale. That revenue system is an always-on agent that actually makes the business money.
A speed-to-quote tool for a landscaper that turns a photo of a customer's empty yard into three designed options with live pricing.
A speed-to-quote flow built into a mechanic's site that spits out an estimate before the customer ever picks up the phone.
In the episode we built the entire landscaping system, demo content and all, for nine dollars in compute.
Here's how you can run this play this week.
(you could simply send the link to this newsletter to your Hyperagent and have it build this entire system in one shot)
Step 1: Grab your free credits.
Go to this link and claim the $1,000 in free HyperAgent credits. That's enough to run the build I'm about to describe roughly a hundred times over. You have no real excuse not to tinker.
Step 2: Pick a niche and find the businesses.
Choose one local trade: landscaping, auto repair, restaurants, flower shops, anything with a visual or high-ticket service. Tell HyperAgent to find businesses in your area with strong Google reviews and a weak or missing web presence.
It will sweep, score them, and hand you a shortlist of around 10 finalists with sources cited so you can validate each one yourself.
Step 3: Have it build the command center.
Ask for one single web page that contains everything:
- each business
- their current site
- their reviews
- a brand new website mockup for each
This becomes the portfolio you click through before any outreach. Runtime is usually 20 to 45 minutes. Cost is a few dollars.
Step 4: Lead outreach with the free site.
Reach out and give away the website at cost. "Here's the site we built you, it's yours, just cover hosting." The goal is to earn the conversation here, not to make money off the website.
Step 5: Sell the revenue system.
Once they're in, pitch the always-on agent that drives revenue: speed-to-quote, speed-to-lead, a reactivation system, whatever fits their business. This is a $5 to 10k setup fee all day long, because they recoup it in a single closed deal.
Then attach a monthly retainer of a few hundred to a thousand to maintain and optimize it.
Step 6: Use plan mode for the big builds.
For anything intricate, run HyperAgent in plan mode first. Let it write out the full plan, iterate with it until you're aligned, then approve and let it execute.
For fuzzy, open-ended work, that upfront alignment is what keeps it on the rails.
Step 7: Run your agents on a board.
Connect HyperAgent to Airtable and have it set up a Kanban board (there's a skill for it). Run eight to ten agents at once. They move their own cards into review when they're ready for you. It keeps you from forgetting what you assigned to which agent.
Give away the static asset, sell the revenue system, charge to maintain it. You can spin up a V1 in an afternoon for the cost of a sandwich, then turn around and sell it for five figures.
Build it this week. Reply and tell me which niche you're going after first. I read every response.
- Corey
P.S. Here's the link for the $1,000 in free HyperAgent credits. That's enough to run this build a hundred times over before you ever spend a dime.
A few notes/tweets/cool things sourced from the AI community.
1)
I handed this tweet to Claude Code and it built this.
2)
Genius.
3)
You could build a profitable PR agency from this one tool.
Thanks for reading the Corey's Notes newsletter. I'd appreciate it if you sent it to a friend that might find it interesting.
Be sure to check out t he Build With AI podcast on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. If you're a non-technical entrepreneur who wants to learn how to integrate AI into your business, you'll love it.
Be back next week.
-Corey
