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I'm Starting an AI Agency from Scratch (Episode 1)
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- Build With AI
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- Jul 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2635
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Summary
Try Hyperagent for free ($1,000 free credits for first 1,000 signups): https://www.hyperagent.com/corey Want the exact prompts I used to build these agents? Download them free here: Steal the 4 Exact Prompts I Used to Launch an AI Services Business From Scratch . Copy, paste into Hyperagent, and your lead gen + outreach agents are live today. In this solo episode, I kick off a four episode series where I build an AI services business from scratch and prove exactly how many days it takes to land a paying client using 100% cold outreach, no audience, no network, and a hard cap of 60 minutes of work per day. I walk through why I'm targeting tree service companies in Charlotte, North Carolina, the dead-simple $500 offer I'm selling them (a website, an AI lead intake agent, and a Google Business Profile cleanup), and then build the first agent in the fleet live inside Hyper Agent, the Prospector, which scrapes the web, finds and cleans a full lead list, and gets our outreach machine ready to go. By the end of this episode, we have 98 verified leads, a live sales pipeline dashboard, and a full outreach script pack ready to start texting, calling, and knocking on doors in episode two. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: Proving Anyone Can Land an AI Client 01:24 - Series Constraints: Cold Outreach Only, 60 Minutes a Day 02:19 - Why Tree Services in Charlotte Are the Target Niche 03:35 - Backup Niches: Pressure Washing, Junk Removal, Driveways 04:02 - The Offer: $500 Website Plus AI Lead Intake Plus GBP Cleanup 05:07 - The 5-Agent Fleet Hyper Agent Will Give Away in Episode 4 05:55 - Agent 1: The Prospector, Scraping and Cleaning Leads 06:31 - Agent 2: The Opener, Writing Texts, Calls, and Replies 07:16 - Agent 3: SiteSmith, Building Free Lead-Magnet Websites 08:17 - Agent 4: The Fulfil…