The $80K Monthly AI Business That's Right Under Your Nose

Happy Thursday!

Before I start, I was just on Codie Sanchez’s podcast today! It’s a banger. Watch here.

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.

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.

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Let’s get to it, shall we?

I talked to my buddy Cody Schneider (different Cody!) earlier this week about different money making ideas. He dropped some business ideas that could make someone very rich in the next 12 months. A few ideas had me so excited I could barely sit still.

And if you’d rather watch me talk to Cody about these goldmines, or listen as a podcast, you can check it out here: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts.

The first business idea:

Become the creative agency for physical product brands.

This might seem out of your skillset, but get this: now AI avatars can hold physical products in videos… realistically. This wasn't possible a few months ago. The technology just wasn't there. Now it is. And it changes everything for anyone selling physical products online.

Think about the current process for user-generated content. Companies have to hire creators, pay them $100+ per video, send them your products, wait weeks for delivery, and get back one version of your script.

If they want to test different hooks? Different angles? Different demographics? They’re looking at thousands of dollars and months of coordination with people who might ghost you after taking your money.

How you turn this into big money:

Anyone can access AI avatar tools. The technology isn't proprietary. Your advantage comes from understanding customers well enough to write scripts that convert.

Cody's method: Use Reddit combined with Perplexity AI. With this combo, you can target companies with high margins, recurring customers, proven ad budgets.

For example, if you're targeting creatine gummies for female long-distance runners, you have your AI agents search Reddit for something specific: "What problems do female long-distance runners have with supplements?”

You’ll get actual quotes from real people discussing their frustrations. Not marketing personas created in conference rooms. Those quotes become your video hooks written in the customer's exact language.

This research takes 30 minutes per client. Most agencies spend months trying to understand customer psychology through expensive focus groups.

Charge monthly retainers to deliver high-volume video content they can't get anywhere else at this speed and cost:

-Charge $5,000 monthly for 25 videos delivered weekly.
-Land 16 clients and you're at $80,000 monthly revenue.
-Each client takes about 2 hours weekly to generate content.
-Total time investment: 32 hours per week for $80K monthly income.
Supplement companies have characteristics that make them ideal clients:

Your outreach isn't selling them on video ads. They already know video works. Everyone knows video works. You're solving their constraint: creative volume.

How you implement this strategy:

Most people would overcomplicate this. Build websites, create complex onboarding, systematize everything before getting clients.

Here's the simpler approach:

1: You pick one supplement brand doing $5-15 million annually. Research their customers using the Reddit method. Create 5 sample AI avatar videos.

2: You email their team: "I created 5 sample ads for [product] to show what's possible with AI creative. They're in this Google Drive folder. If you want 100 videos like this monthly, let's talk."

Don't pitch your process. Show them what you can create.

If they respond positively, you have validation. If not, you try another brand. It’s just a matter of continuing til you get a yes.

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Second business idea:

Creating lead magnets from webinars.

About 60% of B2B companies run webinars monthly. Then most of them let their content disappear after the live event ends.

Your opportunity: Turn these webinars into LinkedIn lead magnets for $1,000 per webinar.

How you do it: search on YouTube for "webinar." Filter by the ones that are fresh- uploaded this week, and about 20+ minutes duration.

Look for business titles like "Sales Automation Strategies 2025" with low view counts (604-1,200 views). These companies create quality content but struggle with distribution.

Research the company on LinkedIn. Find their marketing team. Check if they're promoting webinar content systematically afterward. (Most aren't.)

This is where you take action:

1. Extract webinar transcript then use Claude to create a write up.

2. Identify 5-7 biggest insights

3. Design professional 10-15 page PDF in Canva using their brand colors/logo

4. Structure as "7 Key Insights from [Company]'s Webinar on [Topic]"

You're creating their first lead magnet before they know you exist.

Email template: "I watched your webinar on [topic]. The framework about [specific insight] was valuable. I turned your content into a LinkedIn lead magnet. Here's what I created: [attach PDF] Interested in systematic webinar repurposing?"

When you catch your first clients, they post the PDF on LinkedIn: "Comment GUIDE for the download link."

You can use Phantom Buster (about $50/month) to collect commenter emails. Import into their CRM tagged "Webinar Lead - [Topic]." It’s a complete cheat code.

Before next webinar, email previous downloaders: "You downloaded our sales guide. Tomorrow we're diving deep into attribution strategies."

Each webinar builds audience for future webinars. Compounding growth. You’ll make yourself irreplaceable.

This systematic approach is currently falling through cracks because it's valuable but not urgent.

That's why they'll pay $1,000 per webinar to handle it systematically.

The Economics of this:

• $1,000 per webinar

• 4 monthly webinars = $4,000 recurring revenue

• 10 clients = $40,000+ monthly

• 2-3 hours work per webinar after systematization

• Effective hourly rate: $350-500

Yeah, companies understand that LinkedIn generates leads. You're solving their execution problem, not educating on new channels. They know webinars create valuable content but lack systematic repurposing processes.

Third business idea:

Creating city-specific cheap flight newsletters. (This was my favorite part of the conversation.)

You might have heard of “Scott's Cheap Flights”- the membership site which makes millions by aggregating deals.

We talked about how people don't want cheap flights from anywhere and everywhere. They want cheap flights from where they live.

So THIS is the bigger opportunity: city-specific newsletters.

Okay, here's how simple this is to set up:

-Choose a city.
-Set up an AI agent to go to Google flights.
-Search "Dallas to London" with flexible dates.
-Click "Track Prices" and Google emails you when deals drop below your threshold.
-Make a newsletter for the subscribers

Have the agent repeat this for every major destination from Dallas: Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome, etc… Then when Google sends you a deal alert, you forward it to your city’s subscriber list:

"Flights to Tokyo just dropped to $487 roundtrip. That's 40% below normal. Book by Friday."

The pricing model is already tested. Scott's Cheap Flights has charged $72 annually for over a decade. You just copy that exactly.

One city with 5,000 subscribers generates $360K annually. Most major US cities have populations over 500,000. Getting 5,000 travel-interested subscribers isn't unrealistic.

Scale this to 10 major cities and you're looking at $3.6M potential revenue.

Customer Acquisition:
You run Facebook ads to people in Dallas who have "travel" in their interests. Your landing page: "Get notified when flights from Dallas drop below $400."

This is aspirational purchasing. People buy the dream of spontaneous travel even when they're not actively booking trips. They'll pay $72 annually for the possibility.

You can automate the entire business once it's built. Set up email automation that pulls from your Google Flight alerts and formats them into newsletter templates.

The only ongoing work is customer acquisition and basic customer service.

The domains are still available. DallasFlights.com costs $11 on Namecheap right now. Same with most other major cities. If it gets taken before you read this, check the site .Online and there are loads of .online domains available for cheap.

"Dallas cheap flights" gets 1,200 searches monthly. That's people actively looking for this exact service. You'd rank on page one immediately with a dedicated domain.

The beauty of this model: you're not creating content. Google is doing the work of finding deals. You're just curating and delivering them to people who want them in their specific city.

Why Most People Won't Execute:

These opportunities have everything you want: high margins, recurring revenue, proven demand, scalable delivery.

But execution requires getting past common obstacles:

Overthinking the technology: Spending months researching tools instead of picking one and just starting
Avoiding sales: The constraint isn't delivery systems, it's client acquisition
Ignoring research: Focusing on AI tools while missing the customer psychology that makes them work
Trying to boil the ocean: Targeting "e-commerce" instead of "supplement brands"
Waiting for perfect conditions: Building websites before validating market demand

The opportunity belongs to whoever executes fastest with minimal viable implementation. This could be you. If you just start.

AI avatar technology just crossed from "interesting demo" to "business viable." First-mover advantage probably lasts 6-12 months.

The supplement market is large, growing, and already spending heavily on video ads. Demand exists. Technology works.

You can spend three months researching platforms, or pick one this week and start creating samples.

You can wait to understand every detail, or get good enough to deliver value and improve with paying clients.

You can build perfect processes, or test core assumptions by emailing sample videos to supplement companies.

Get Started This Week!

Pick one supplement brand. Find their target customer discussions on Reddit. Create 5 AI avatar videos using their product imagery. Send them out and say you can offer 100 a month. Scrape YouTube for webinars and start creating lead magnets. Get your AI agent on Google Flights and start compiling a list of cheap flights for your city.

The tools exist. Market demand is documented. The business model has been validated by existing agencies charging similar rates for human-created content.

The only remaining variable is execution speed.

Don't wait for perfect understanding. Start creating videos, or lead magnets, or flight newsletter while others debate whether this is real.

Everything is figureoutable.

Again, we go into more depth and a few more ideas in the actual pod. If you want to actually want to watch this experiment, or listen to this as a podcast, you can check it out here: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts.

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 400+ action-takers hang out.

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.