# How to sell managed AI agents as a service (recurring revenue)

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Podcast: [Build With AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453)
Published: 2026-08-03T00:15:00+00:00
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## Resource

If you use BOTH the following link and code COREY, you'll get your first 3 days of Orgo free, then 20% off your first 3 months: https://www.orgo.ai/?r=COREY I sat down with Phil Goodwin, a completely non-technical designer who sold his last business this past November and, just months later, built a managed AI agent business he now runs under the name Sidecar. Phil walks through his exact stack, how he prices setup fees and monthly per-agent retainers, and the "guinea pig" pitch he used to land his very first paying clients without a following or an email list. We get into real client use cases (a one-man directional drilling company, a short-form video editor), the group-chat trick he uses so clients actually learn to talk to their agent, and a dead-simple weekly value tracker that quantifies exactly why a client should keep paying every month. By the end of this episode, you'll have a working blueprint for pricing, pitching, and delivering a managed agent offer even if you've never written a line of code. Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: The Promise of This Episode 00:41 - Phil's Non-Technical, Design-First Background 02:43 - What "Managed Agents" Actually Means 04:14 - Coaching Plus AI Employee, Not Plug-and-Play 05:31 - How Phil Built Agents for Himself, Then Friends 08:23 - Setup Fee Plus Per-Agent Pricing Model Explained 09:55 - Why "We Fix It Before You Notice" Is the Real Value Prop 11:53 - Real Client Use Cases Across Industries 12:30 - Drilling Company Client and the Telegram Group Chat Trick 15:21 - The Value Ledger: Tracking Hours and Dollars Saved Weekly 17:00 - Short-Form Video Editing Use Case 18:41…

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