{"podcast":{"title":"Build With AI","slug":"build-with-ai-6407453","podcast_index_feed_id":6407453,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/build-with-ai","website_url":"https://riverside.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Nrae1lNmIksIWbscbGLdyk1gBS5SK1Ozgw74x00cRiA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYWVm/NTk5YjU3OTk3NzAy/YzBlZDkzNzA0ZDIz/MjVjNC5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Corey Ganim","episode_count":77,"summary":"Most AI podcasts talk about what's possible. Build With AI shows you how it's done, live. Each episode, host Corey Ganim brings on entrepreneurs and operators who share their screen and build real AI automations, workflows, and tool setups right in front of you. No boring slides. Nothing that hasn't been battle-tested. You'll watch actual implementations get built from scratch so you can follow along and do the same in your business. If you're a non-technical entrepreneur who wants to put AI to work without becoming a developer, hit play and build along with us.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T06:21:58.212368+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453"},"episode":{"title":"How to sell managed AI agents as a service (recurring revenue)","slug":"how-to-sell-managed-ai-agents-as-a-service-recurring-revenue","published_at":"2026-08-03T00:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453/how-to-sell-managed-ai-agents-as-a-service-recurring-revenue","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/36b8ac62","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/36b8ac62/420eaf6e.mp3","summary":"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…","meta_description":"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=COR…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2167,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/build-with-ai-6407453/episodes/how-to-sell-managed-ai-agents-as-a-service-recurring-revenue/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453/how-to-sell-managed-ai-agents-as-a-service-recurring-revenue.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}