Six Ways to Make Money with the New GPT Agent (It Blew My Mind)

Happy Thursday!

In case you forgot, I’m that guy (@thekoerneroffice on the socials) that you probably found in a short form video talking about random business ideas.

Today I’m sharing an exceptionally easy tool that is truly going to change your work life. I am not even kidding.

Who am I? I’m Chris Koerner: Dad of 4, husband of 16 years and proud Texan. I’ve started 75+ business (3 worth over $10m) and give away all of my learnings for free in a once/week email.

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Okay, so last week or so, it was 4:48 AM, when I found myself wide awake in bed, unable to sleep.

Why? ChatGPT just broke the internet again.

Not with another chatbot upgrade… They gave it the ability to take control of your browser and perform entire business tasks for you.

ChatGPT Operator is cool. ChatGPT Deep Research is incredible. ChatGPT Agent is both of them combined…on steroids.

I couldn't stay in bed. Had to test this thing immediately. What I discovered? Mind-blowing.

And if you want to actually watch the agents work (excuse my bedhead if so) or listen to this as a podcast, you can check it out here: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts. It’s my most viewed episode EVER.

I had six agents running simultaneously at the same time. Each one doing work that would normally take me hours or cost thousands to outsource. We're talking real revenue-generating business tasks here.

This Changes Everything

Look, I've been using ChatGPT almost daily for two years. I thought I knew what it could do.

But I had no idea how far this could be pushed.

This isn't just another AI upgrade. This is the moment AI stops being a fancy search engine and becomes your actual business partner.

Let me break it down. Think about your typical workday. You're juggling research, writing emails, analyzing competitors, prepping for meetings, and/or hunting for new leads. Each task eats hours. Each hour costs money or opportunity.

What if all of that just... happened? While you focused on the big picture stuff only you can do?

That's what just became possible. Not in some distant future. Right now. Today.

I'm not talking about AI writing blog posts or helping you brainstorm. Of course, yeah, you know it can do that.

I'm talking about AI literally taking control of your browser, logging into your accounts, researching your prospects, writing personalized outreach, building pitch decks, and delivering finished work while you sleep.

The businesses that figure this out first? They're You’re going to have an unfair advantage that compounds daily. While their your competitors are still manually doing research and writing emails, they'll you’ll be running multiple revenue streams with AI teams that never take breaks.

This is going to change your life because it changes the fundamental math of business. Tasks that used to require hiring people or grinding late nights? They now happen automatically.

What the ChatGPT Agent actually does:

Think of it this way: ChatGPT Agent combines all the research power of their deep research feature with the task automation of their operator feature. It can literally control your browser, log into your accounts, and complete complex multi-step processes.

Here's what just became possible:

• Finding every plumber in Nashville without a website and writing personalized sales emails

• Scraping competitor pricing pages and building complete pitch decks

• Researching your calendar appointments and creating briefing docs with talking points

• Analyzing Amazon reviews for product opportunities and creating market research

The gap between people who "get this" and people who don't? It's about to become as wide as the Grand Canyon.

So, all at the same time, I ran six different business tasks to see what this thing could actually handle:

Task 1: Hyper-Personalized Cold Emails

What I asked: Find five Austin dentists, research them obsessively, write personalized cold emails for SEO services. I think that’s a bit freaky

Result: I literally told it to be "almost creepily stalkerish personalized." And dang, it delivered. For Dr. Mathies, it found out he's an F-A-G-D (only 6% of dentists have this), graduated from Penn State, went to NYU dental school, does Spartan races, has a boxer dog named Yuri, and practices Kundalini yoga.

When it came time to actually send the emails, I had to log into Gmail with two-factor authentication. It kept wanting me to stay on the Gmail tab while it worked. Every time I switched tabs to check other tasks, it lost control and had to start over. But the email was amazingly specific.

Part of an email it wrote: "Hi Dr. Mathies, Chris here from Austin. I read that fewer than 6% of dentists hold F-A-G-D and you earned yours after 500+ hours of study. That's serious hustle... As a fellow overachiever, I think your online presence should reflect all that grit."

Three minutes. Five emails. Ready to send.

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Task 2: Lead Generation for Web Design Services

What I asked: Find 20 plumbers in Nashville with websites, get their contact info, put it in a Google Sheet.

Most people target businesses without websites. That's backwards. If someone doesn't have a website by now, they don't value websites. I want businesses that already have websites because they understand the value – they just need better ones.

Result: So, this one fought me. I had to manually log into Google Sheets, and every time I navigated away from the tab, it lost control. The agent kept wanting me to stay on the screen while it worked, which makes sense, like Tesla's Full Self-Driving making you keep your hands on the wheel… soon this won’t be necessary but I get why they made me do it. They just want to cover themselves.

Mixed bag. It found exactly 20 plumbers with names, phone numbers, emails, and websites. But it took 30 minutes and glitched out in Google Sheets. Had to export as CSV instead.

Task 3: Calendar Research and Meeting Prep

What I asked: Check my calendar for next week, research each client's recent news, create briefing docs with talking points.

Result: Pure magic. It logged into my Google Calendar, identified every meeting, researched each person online, and created detailed briefs with conversation starters.

I only had to log into my calendar once. Then it just went to work. No babysitting required. It pulled up each meeting, researched every person online, and started forming its own opinions about what I should discuss with them.

For my friend Brandon who runs Walleroo agency, it found a recent interview where he mentioned shifting budgets to Pinterest ads. The talking points it suggested? "Ask how the merger has changed day-to-day operations and what new capabilities clients are seeing."

This is work an assistant normally does. Nine minutes. Done.

Task 4: Competitive Analysis for My E-commerce Business

What I asked: Research competitors for Texas Snax, analyze what they do well, check their SEO.

This was kind of a test. I wondered if it would just find random Shopify stores or actually identify my real competition.

Result: Nailed it. Listed Amazon as my biggest competitor (correct – third-party resellers kill us there). It found Texas Bite Box, which I'd never heard of but apparently shipped to 13,000 customers. Gave me specific recommendations: "Emphasize social proof on your site, use TikTok and Instagram more aggressively."

Task 5: Market Research for Energy Drink Business

What I asked: Someday, in the future, I might start an energy drink brand. So just for fun, I had the agent research Amazon reviews for energy drink powders, find common complaints, create solutions.

Result: It spent 49 seconds analyzing hundreds of reviews, then I asked it to show me a pie chart of the complaints. Boom. Instant data visualization showing exactly what percentage of people hate what. Pure gold. It analyzed hundreds of reviews and created a pie chart showing exactly what people hate:

• Mixability/clumps: 31%

• Taste issues: 25%

• Packaging problems: 12%

• Too expensive: 12%

Then, when prompted, it built a complete pitch deck addressing each pain point. When I uploaded Airbnb's famous pitch deck as reference, it redesigned mine to match their style while incorporating personal details about me it knew from our previous conversations. Insane.

Task 6: Business Opportunity Analysis

What I asked: Analyze Google Trends for five affordable business ideas, rank by opportunity.

Result: This one took forever, like 15-20 minutes, when the system claimed "2 minutes." I actually had to check in and ask "How's it going?" It responded like a real employee: "Hey Chris, yep, moving along nicely, gathering data and citations, almost done pulling the info together."

When I asked for specific case studies, it didn't just give me generic CNBC articles. It found real Reddit posts and YouTube videos with actual numbers. Stories like "$811 spent, $920 made from five customers in month one."

So, it took a while, but delivered solid data. Ranked mobile car wash as the top opportunity, then found real case studies from Reddit and YouTube. One story: "22-year-old, $50K a month business." Another: "Spent $811, made $920 from five customers in month one."

The agents’ business implications are staggering

Here's what just changed forever:

Before today: You needed a virtual assistant, data scraper, copywriter, research intern, and maybe a pitch deck designer to do what I just showed you.

Today: You tell ChatGPT Agent what you want and watch it work.

Most people are going to treat this like a fancy Google search. They'll ask it to brainstorm while others are using it to automate entire revenue streams.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this: We're looking at the biggest shift in how business gets done since the internet itself.

Okay, a note here though: the real power is in the follow-up questions

The magic isn't just in the initial research. It's in what happens next.

After ChatGPT Agent gathered all that energy drink data, I could ask: "Which complaints appeared most often?" It knew exactly what I meant and gave me proportional breakdowns.

When it found those mobile car wash case studies, I could say: "Give me 40 more stories and create a 30-day launch plan using the best tactics from all of them."

It's like having a research team that never forgets what they found and can instantly answer follow-up questions based on proprietary data they just collected for you.

What This Means for You Right Now

For $20 a month, you can have PhD-level employees working around the clock. Six at once, doing work that used to cost thousands to outsource.

But here's the thing: ChatGPT Agent remembers everything you've ever asked it across all your conversations. It knows how you write, how you think, what you're building. That personalization is what makes this so powerful.

When it made my pitch deck, it included details about my social media following and business background without me asking. It wrote cold emails in my style because it learned my communication patterns over two years of conversations.

Full transparency: This isn't perfect yet. You have to log into each service manually (Google Calendar, Gmail, Sheets). It wants you to stay on the tab while it works in sensitive areas. Sometimes it glitches out.

But remember Tesla's Full Self-Driving. Started clunky, now cars drive without humans in Austin.

This AI stuff? Same trajectory. The rough edges disappear fast.

Bottom Line

Most Chrome extensions and AI tools built on OpenAI's technology? They're about to become irrelevant. OpenAI is pulling a Costco move – finding what works and building it themselves.

The question isn't whether this changes everything. It's whether you're going to adapt fast enough to compete with people who have AI teams doing the work of entire departments.

Twenty bucks a month. That's less than a daily energy drink. And again, if you want to actually watch the agents work or listen to this as a podcast, you can check it out here: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts.

The future of work just arrived. Are you ready?

I'm building a private community called TKOwners for people who want to turn these insights into real businesses. We have a slack channel where we drop insane AI tools and possibilities everyday. If you're serious about staying ahead of this AI revolution, check it out at tkowners.com. It's where the 300+ action-takers hang out.

We’d love to have you!

So let's get after it!

Chris

P.S. I share deep dives on business ideas and complete playbooks three times a week on YouTube and every podcast platform.