[00:00] There are five boring cloud AI businesses that can quietly make you rich right now, and almost nobody's talking about them. Most people hear AI business and think you need to build a SaaS or run an AI agency, but that is not correct, and that's not what I'm going to
[00:13] talk about in this video. These five businesses are the opposite. They're unsexy, easy to overlook, and that's exactly why they work. Because the flashier the AI opportunity looks, the more people flood in. The boring ones stay quiet, and quiet is where the money hides.
[00:27] So if you're new to the channel, my name is Sean and I've been running multiple businesses for over 10 years and I've made millions of dollars doing so. Before we move forward, I want to be very, very clear here that this is not financial advice and there are no guarantees.
[00:39] There is no scenario where you use Claude in any business and you're 100% guaranteed to make a lot of money. Because no matter what business you choose, every single one of those requires real work and the people who win long term are the ones who put in consistent work over time and stick to things.
[00:54] With that being said, though, these five businesses do work if you put in the work. These are all amazing businesses to get started with. So let's get into it. All right. Business number one is local business SEO blog writing. So basically every local business owners know that they should be putting out content to
[01:07] rank on Google. Plumbers, dentists, HVAC guys, roofers, landscapers, they all know that you can get a lot of customers, you know, if you just rank on Google, right? When someone searches for like the best plumbers in this area, if they're ranked number one,
[01:20] they can get a lot of customers. They also know that they're never going to sit down and write a blog post about drain repair or whatever field they're in, right? They just don't have the time or the knowledge to do so. So that exactly is going to be your opening.
[01:33] You use cloud to draft a batch of local SEO blog posts, you clean them up so they don't sound like generic AI content, and you sell them as a monthly package. So nothing fancy here. It's just consistent content that gets a small local business showing up on Google for the searches that matter in their town.
[01:48] And you can make serious money with this. A writer named Travis Nicholson wrote a blog post a few months back about testing local SEO services for small businesses. He landed two clients in his first month, one paying $300 a month, another paying $500.
[02:02] So that's $800 in monthly recurring income from one weekend of outreach. And this is completely random. It has nothing to do with the video. But as I was reading this script, I was thinking of my friend who does exactly this and he makes a full-time income doing this exact thing.
[02:16] And he just texted me out of nowhere while I'm talking about this. So it's just so funny. But anyways, let's talk about how you actually get started with this. So you pick one type of business like dentists in your city. And you use Claude to write three sample blog posts for them for free.
[02:31] So you have real work that you can show them. Then you go on Google Maps, find 20 to 30 dentists in your area and email them your samples with a package price. Something like four blog posts a month for $400. And these are something you can write with Claude within just a couple hours.
[02:45] So with every business, I want to give you the good side and the bad side, right? So although this is the fastest to learn for beginners, you're still selling your time because this is a service-based business. So when a client leaves, you have to go find another one to replace your income, which
[02:58] brings us to number two because with this one, you don't have to chase clients at all. And that's business number two, writing niche nonfiction e-books and publishing them on Amazon. So if you've never heard of this, it's called Amazon KDP, which stands for Kindle Direct
[03:11] publishing and it's Amazon's free program where it lets anyone upload a book to Amazon and sell it worldwide with zero inventory and zero upfront costs. You can sell it as an e-book, even audiobook, even paperback books, right? But when you're doing physical books like paperback, it is a print on
[03:25] demand model. So once you make a sale, that's when Amazon prints it into a physical book and ships it over for you. If it's an e-book, they just deliver it digitally and pays you a royalty on every sale. So this is actually the business that I've been doing for many, many years
[03:38] personally. I've made millions selling books on Amazon this way and I sold my very first catalog of books to a private buyer through Empire Flippers a few years back and I sold it for eight hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So when I say this is a great business idea it's actually coming from experience. So
[03:53] here why this is different from anything else on this list With blog writing you have to find your own clients and keep them happy With Amazon KDP Amazon does the finding for you right You upload a book targeting a real search firm inside Amazon and their algorithm shows your book to customers on Amazon who are
[04:09] already there with their credit card on the account searching for a book on that topic. You don't need a website or your own traffic because you can sell directly on Amazon's website and you can tap into millions of buyers on Amazon. The niche that pays best here isn't the trending
[04:23] stuff. It's boring and more specific evergreen books in categories like specific cookbooks, hobbies, books to learn something, and everyday topics people need help with. Things people search for on Amazon because they need an answer right now. And Clot is what makes this actually
[04:36] doable now. What used to take a goal threader three months and cost thousands of dollars, you can now create your first draft a lot faster. So you use Clot to research a topic, you outline the chapters, and generate the manuscript. Of course, you still want to edit
[04:48] the content, make it better, humanize it, because we don't want to just publish a 100% AI written book. You still have to pick a good niche, right? It's not like every single niche is profitable, but the writing part, which used to be the hardest part, it's so much easier now with AI.
[05:01] So to get started, you want to go to kdp.amazon.com, create a free account, use Claude to find and validate a boring nonfiction niche, write your first book, and upload it. That's the entire process in a nutshell. So although this business is absolutely amazing, right? I want to give you
[05:15] a reality check once again, because I want to give you the good side and the bad side. So the bad side here, or I guess, you know, a reality check is no one's going to sell one book and quit their job. You need a portfolio of books to add up to meaningful income.
[05:27] Most of the time, you're not going to retire from one book. You have to publish a lot of books. And each book will make something, right? Some might make you hundreds of dollars a month, right? Some might make you just tens of dollars a month. It still pays for your Netflix, right?
[05:39] It might still pay for your phone bill. And if you really hit it hard, then it can make thousands of dollars a month. But whatever you make from each book, those eventually adds up to the point where you can, you know, perhaps quit your job or do whatever you want. And every book you upload keeps paying you long after you wrote it, provided that if you do a good job.
[05:54] Of course, if you have no idea what the hell you're doing and you just upload a random book and a random topic, it might maybe sell because Amazon is so big. But maybe it's not going to sell for a long time or forever. But if you do a good job, I got a lot of tutorials on my channel.
[06:06] You know, if you follow those, pretty confident that, you know, the books, once it ranks, will sell for a long time. Of course, I cannot guarantee anything because obviously I cannot make income claims here, but that's the beauty of this business model. So that's something none of the service businesses like other business models that I might talk
[06:20] about here can give you. So if you just heard about Amazon KDP and you're thinking, all right, this sounds pretty good. I might want to try this out, but I have no idea where to actually start. Well, that's exactly what Road to Hero is for. Road to Hero is my mentorship program for Amazon Digital Publishing.
[06:34] We have over 2,200 students. we have a trust power page with 4.8 average rating with over 520 reviews. These are all real reviews, all organic reviews. So it is highly rated. People are happy with it. And if you're
[06:46] interested in learning more, you can book a free 30-minute discovery call to see if this program is a good fit for you. You can do so from the first link in the description. And just by showing up to the call, you get a free exclusive bonus, which is a cheat sheet on the five best niches to get
[06:59] started with. So again, if you're interested, you can check out the link in the description below. Number three is building onboarding documents and SOPs for small businesses using Claude. So every business that hires a new person burns days rewriting the same onboarding materials over and over.
[07:14] Every business that has been running for a few years have employees walking around with process knowledge in their hands and nothing written down. And that's a real problem to not have a centralized database of how the company should operate.
[07:27] And that's the kind of problem people gladly pay to make disappear. So here's what the work actually is. you get on a 30 to 45 minute call with a business owner. You ask them how they onboard a new hire or how they run their most repeated process and you record it. And you drop that transcript of
[07:41] the interview into a cloud project and you prompt it to convert the conversation into a clean structured SOP. Then you clean it up, format it, and deliver a professional document a few days later The pricing on this is where it gets interesting There a documented range from AI business showing solo operators pricing SOP and documentation projects at to per project So even a small package of five SOPs at a few hundred dollars each can clear
[08:07] $500 to $1,000 per client, which is a pretty good amount. And once you have your cloud templates dialed in, the actual work that you have to do is just a few hours per client, right? It's just like an hour interviewing the client, and then you drop that into cloud and you do a little bit of back
[08:20] and forth. Most of what you have to do here is done by cloud. So here's how you get started. You pick one type of business. Can be coaches, agencies, e-commerce brands. Those are all good targets. Then you build one SOP example for free as a portfolio piece. This is the example that you're
[08:35] going to show in your portfolio. Then you email 20 similar businesses with that sample in a package offer. The interview to SOP workflow using cloud projects is how you can scale with this. So the catch with this one is every dollar here is tied to a project. So when a client's SOP library is
[08:51] done, they don't need you again. This is not a subscription thing. You don't really update SOPs that often to the point where you can keep them on a monthly subscription, unless you're like a sales guy and you come up with this crazy offer, which I've never heard of in this space. So it's
[09:05] usually a one-off project. You have to keep looking for new clients. So it's good money, but you're always feeding the pipeline with new clients. All right, business number four is setting up AI chatbots for local businesses using cloud. So every local business gets the same 10 questions
[09:18] from their website visitors. What are the store hours? Do they take a specific insurance? Do they serve a specific neighborhood? How much does it cost, right? And most of those visitors bounce because no one's answering calls at 9 p.m. on a Sunday. And those are money businesses are losing.
[09:33] So you solve that by installing a small chatbot on their website that's trained on their SAQ and their pricing. Cloud runs the reasoning behind it and the interface is basically drag and drop through tools like VoiceFlow or BotPress.
[09:45] You're not coding anything here. You're basically filling out a form that gets converted into a functioning bot. The pricing model that works here is basically a setup plus a retainer model. So you charge a one-time setup fee to get the bot live and connect it to their site.
[09:57] Then a monthly retainer to keep it updated as your business changes. Documented ranges from AR business show that setup fees from around $500 on the low end up to $5,000. And monthly retainer fees, which is a separate thing,
[10:10] sit between $500 and $2,500 per client. So how do you get started with this? Well, you pick one industry like all the other ones, dentists, med spas, HVAC companies, whatever you want to do.
[10:22] This way you can reuse the same base spot with small tweaks. You build one working demo as a sample, then you go and email 30 to 50 businesses in that industry with a Loom video of your demo and a proposed price. Loom is essentially a software
[10:34] that allows you to do a screen recording. You can send that link to potential clients. So you're not selling technology here. you're selling the solution of not losing customers who visit your website at 9 p.m. on a Sunday, which is a huge selling point. So one thing to know here is that chatbots aren't set and forget.
[10:50] Once they're live, you're on call to update them when the business changes something. So that is the downside here, right? This business sounds amazing and it is, you know, every business that I shared in this video works, but because we have them on a retainer, right, obviously they'll be
[11:03] expecting you to work whenever they ask you to as well, right? That's kind of how it works. So it's real recurring revenue, but there's a lot of maintenance job attached to every client. Business number five, the last one on the list, and this is where things get pretty interesting.
[11:16] Building AI voice agents for small businesses. If chatbots handle text on a website, voice agents answer the actual phone, and the phone is where local businesses are losing the most money. Something like 73% of small businesses miss a big chunk of the calls that come in every
[11:31] day, and every missed call is a customer picking up the phone and calling somebody else instead. A voice agent picks up on the first ring. It sounds pretty close to human and it handles bookings, answers common questions, and routes anything complicated to a real person.
[11:44] You can install one for a plumber, a dentist, a med spa, and you're literally recovering revenue they used to lose. The setup here is a little bit more complicated. It not like it a push super easy thing There is real work in designing the conversation flow testing it against edge cases and integrating it with their calendar and CRM But because it a little bit more technical the numbers reflect that as well The setup fees run from around
[12:06] on the simple end up to a few thousand dollars for more integrated ones. Monthly retainers sit between $300 and $1,500 per client. Getting 10 to 15 clients can put an agency over $10,000
[12:18] a month in recurring revenue. So how do you get started with this? Well, it's the same play as all the other service-based businesses, right? So you want to focus on one industry at a time. You can use a platform like Valpy, Retail, or Bland to build your first agent. You then demo
[12:32] that to a business owner in that niche. You close a couple clients at a lower price to build case studies and testimonials, then you use those case studies to close the other ones at your full price. Now here's the tricky part. This has the highest technical requirement. So you have to actually
[12:45] understand call flows, and you have to be responsive when things break out, let's say, 9 a.m. on a Monday because your clients, the business owners, will be calling you to fix this as soon as possible and you have to jump on that. But out of all the different business models,
[12:57] out of all the different services you can offer, this one is the newest opportunity here. Not a lot of people are doing it, which means competition is still small right now, but that's not going to last. All right, so those are five cloud AI businesses that can make you a lot of money
[13:09] right now. Now, if you step back and look at all five of them together, you know, they're all real, right? They all work. All of these have people making real money right now. But if you look at what these actually are. One is a little bit different than how the other four works. So four
[13:21] of them are client services. You find clients, you deliver the service, you get paid, and you repeat the process. It works fast, right? And it works well if you do it right. But you don't really own an asset, right? You're just providing a service and kind of exchanging your service or exchanging
[13:34] your hours for money. So when you stop working, you stop getting paid. One of them is a little different though, and that's publishing books on Amazon. Because every book you upload is an actual asset that keeps selling on Amazon while you sleep, while it's the weekend, while you're
[13:47] on vacation, and years after you wrote it. Amazon brings the buyers, you keep publishing, and the portfolio compounds. So generally speaking, everything that I do in my business, I always focus on something that can compound, right? Every video that I publish on YouTube is going to rank
[14:03] on YouTube, and it's going to keep getting views, and it'll make me money years after I make these videos. Same as the books that I publish. Everything I do right now, once again, I basically only focus on creating assets like this that compound. At this point, I don't do anything that's like a
[14:18] service-based business where I'm just like exchanging my time for money because I don't want to. But I do acknowledge that if you're a beginner, you know, you just want money fast, it is a good option. What you can do is to start with a service-based business, make money, and
[14:31] then you save that and invest in something that compounds over time so that you're not in this hamster wheel of just having to constantly work to keep up with your lifestyle, right? Eventually, you have this asset that is making money while you work significantly less because
[14:44] you put in the work up front and you have assets that are paying you for a long time, which could be the books on Amazon or stocks or real estate, whatever you want to do. But I like the books on Amazon angle because if you do it right, the returns are often faster and bigger than traditional stocks and real estate. But once again, I cannot make any income
[14:58] claims, so do not quote me on that. This is a real business. It takes work. It takes effort. but if you can make it work, it can be absolutely amazing. So if you want us to actually guide you step-by-step on picking the right niche, writing the book properly, and launching it so it starts getting sales,
[15:12] then you can jump on a free call with me and the team. During the 30-minute discovery call, you can ask any question you want. You also will get a personalized plan for your own KDP business and understand exactly which niche makes sense for you for your situation.
[15:24] Whether you decide to work with us or not, just by showing up to the call, you will get a free exclusive bonus that you will not get anywhere else, which is a brand new exclusive cheat sheet on the best niches to publish right now. So if you're interested in learning more, make sure to check out the link in the description.
[15:38] So which of these five businesses would you actually build first? Which one sounds the most interesting to you? Let me know in the comments. I try to respond to as many comments as possible. If you enjoyed this video, leave a like, subscribe. It helps the channel more than you think. It's also the best way to let me know to make more of these videos.
[15:52] With that being said, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.