{"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":"Landing a $30K Retainer BRAND NEW to AI (Case Study)","slug":"landing-a-30k-retainer-brand-new-to-ai-case-study","published_at":"2026-08-26T00:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453/landing-a-30k-retainer-brand-new-to-ai-case-study","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-with-ai-6407453","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/191e6ecd","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/191e6ecd/77eb389c.mp3","summary":"Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about In this episode, I sat down with Dino Watt, an orthodontics industry consultant with zero technical background, who used the exact AI Operator Academy playbook to land a $30,000 consulting deal in under three months. Dino walks through his entire funnel live: a $97 workshop that pre-sold assessments before he ever taught it, a $797–$997 paid AI assessment, and a standout add-on nobody else is doing, an AI-generated explainer video that turns his report into a seven-minute video his clients can forward straight to a business partner or spouse. He breaks down the actual numbers: $5,734 collected before a single sales call, a 44% close rate, and a $5,000-a-month, six-month AI Concierge retainer closed off the back of an assessment he got paid to deliver. By the end of this episode, you'll have a full blueprint for turning a paid workshop into a five-figure retainer, even if you've never written a line of code. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro: meet Dino Watt 00:50 - Not technical, dyslexic, no coding background 01:35 - Joining AI Operator Academy with his wife Shannon 02:39 - The $30K AI Concierge retainer overview 03:09 - Using Claude to build his podcast slides live 04:55 - The filter: effectiveness, efficiency, quality 05:27 - Pricing the $97 workshop and early bird upsells 06:20 - Upselling the $997 paid assessment 07:20 - Doing the assessments and giving one testimonial freebie 08:29 - Booking the follow-up call off the explainer video 09:30 - Why he charges $5K/month over six months, not $2K 11:45 - Solve rich people problems 12:48 - Walking through the full deliverable package 13:19 - The one-pager and proof ki…","meta_description":"Join our AI Operator Academy Community where we help entrepreneurs start and scale a profitable AI services business: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracad…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1669,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/build-with-ai-6407453/episodes/landing-a-30k-retainer-brand-new-to-ai-case-study/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/landing-a-30k-retainer-brand-new-to-ai-case-study.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}