I'm setting out to prove a point.

I hear so many lame excuses about why people can't sell AI services. They have kids. They have a full-time job. They're not technical.

I had most of these limiting beliefs myself when I started, especially around not being technical and not being an "expert."

The unlock for me was the movie Catch Me If You Can.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a con artist. At one point he teaches a college sociology class for an entire semester. When they finally catch him, they ask how he pulled it off without getting found out.

His answer: he just stayed one chapter ahead of the class.

That's the entire AI services business. You literally just need to be one step ahead of your clients, and most of your clients know nothing about AI at all.

So I'm proving it on camera.

I just kicked off episode 1 of a 4-episode series where I build an AI services business completely from scratch.

The scoreboard is simple: how many days does it take to land my first paying client? Not a verbal yes. A paid Stripe invoice sitting in my account.

The constraints are designed to kill every excuse.

• Use Hyperagent to do 99% of the work (the best agentic tool for non-technical folks like myself)
• 100% cold outreach
• Can't use my audience
• Can't use my network
• Can't work more than 60 minutes per day, because most people doing this have a job, kids, or both

What I love about this system is that it forces me to only do the work that makes money, which is outreach. Everything else is noise.

I'm going to destroy the biggest objection I get, "I know how to build the tools, I just can't find clients," because I show you exactly how to pick the right niche and make the offer a no-brainer.

Here's the exact playbook from episode one:

Step 1: Pick a blue-collar niche.

I chose tree services in Charlotte. High ticket (the average job is thousands of dollars), mom and pop owners, tons of after-hours emergency calls where the first person to respond wins the job, and most don't even have a website.

Step 2: Sell a stupid-simple bundle.

A fully built and hosted website, an AI lead intake agent (a speed-to-quote form that gives instant quotes and captures the lead), and a Google Business Profile cleanup. $500 flat.

Step 3: Build a five-agent fleet.

I'm building 5 Hyperagents:

• Prospector that scrapes and cleans lead lists (it found 98 verified tree companies and built me a pipeline dashboard in my brand colors)
• Opener that writes every text, call script, and objection response
• Site Smith that churns out websites on autopilot
• Fulfiller that takes a paid invoice all the way to fully delivered
• Account Manager for the $100/month maintenance upsell

(this free Google Doc contains the exact prompts I used in Episode 1 to build the Prospector and Opener)

Step 4: Lead with a free website.

The first text is under 160 characters, no links, no mention of AI: "Do y'all still do tree removal in Charlotte? Found you on Google. Corey."

When they reply, I reveal that I already built them a free website. No catch. They can take it and run. Nobody ever does. They ask me to install it, and that's the $500.

Step 5: Do 10 outreach attempts a day.

Texts, calls, and showing up in person for hot leads. All inside the 60-minute cap.

The 80/20:

• Be one "chapter" ahead of the client
• Pick a niche where speed wins
• Craft an offer nobody says no to
• Use Hyperagent to do the heavy lifting

Hope you follow along and enjoy the process with me.

- Corey

P.S. Hyperagent is giving my audience $1,000 in free credits, which is enough to build everything in the series multiple times over. Claim your $1,000 in free credits here.​

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Corey Ganim @coreyganim WATCH ME BUILD AN AI BUSINESS FROM SCRATCH (EPISODE 1) I'm building an AI services business from scratch, on camera, with 4 rules: -100% cold outreach -No audience -No network -60 minutes a day max The scoreboard is how many days it takes a total stranger to pay me $500. https://twitter.com/coreyganim/status/2073921315921174979 Corey Ganim @coreyganim If I started a YouTube series where I: -use AI agents to find local businesses -show myself cold calling/door knocking them -document the AI services pitch -document the fulfillment process Would you watch? The purpose would be to show how a little bit of consistent daily 2:0 PM • Jul 30, 2026 21 Retweets 294 Likes Read 27 replies

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Episode 1 of the From Scratch series.

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-Corey