# Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today

Channel: Greg Isenberg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix43w_IssR8
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Words: 5165
Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/Ix43w_IssR8

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[0:00] One of the most common questions I get is Greg, stop giving us billion dollar startup ideas. Give me something practical, tiny that I can use with AI to go and build a cash flowing business that makes me a thousand dollars a day, two thousand dollars a day, three thousand dollars a day. Well, this episode is for you. I'm going to give away seven tiny AI agent

[0:20] business ideas that you can start today. I'm going to give you a framework for how you can come up with these ideas on your own and I'm going to give you a tool that I've been using lately called JenSpark Claw that basically is a safer version of open claw that normal people can actually use that's in the cloud, easier to set up, more secure for real

[0:39] work [music] and has skills built in. And I reached out to the team at JenSpark to see if they'd sponsor this video. They said yes, so shout out to them for supporting the community. By the end of this episode, you are going to be an idea machine. You're going to understand how you can create these tiny AI agent business ideas and how you can implement it today. So, I hope that you don't just take these ideas. I hope that you don't just take these frameworks. I hope that you just don't learn about these tools, but you actually end to end start creating them so that you can

[1:11] build cash flowing businesses, learn about AI agents and AI tools and [music] have fun along the way. Enjoy the episode. Let's get into it. The Startup Ideology [music] Keep it tight, baby. You know, the first idea I came up with was basically, you know, you have all these domains. It's you know, it's called the

[1:36] dead domain idea. You have You have all these, you know, .com domains that people owned at one point. And they they you know, might have forgotten that they owned it or they don't want to own it anymore and they're good domains. So, if you can use AI to basically follow the drops like integrate with the GoDaddys of the world. You can actually score some of these uh some of these domains. You can say this is a eight on 10, four on 10, a seven on 10, and then you can flip it. Um so, I'm going to show you uh how I built this idea, how how easy it

[2:14] was, and what that could actually look like. So, this is what GenSpark Claw looks like. Um so, it's running Sonic 4.6. Um and basically, what you can do is you could integrate it with um any different sort of uh communication channel. So, you can you can use WhatsApp, you can Slack, you can use Telegram. Um for me, if I'm making an AI employee, I want to use Slack. I get my work done in Slack. So, for me, I want my assistant to be in Slack. I just configured it

[2:55] here. I press uh configure. Took me maybe like 4 minutes to do. Um and I configured it. And I got What I ended up getting is this AI assistant in my Slack. So, super super simple. And basically, what I did is I took the one-liner for my idea. I said, "I want to create the dead domain flipper. I want Claw to monitor expired domain drops, like expired domains, GoDaddy auctions,

[3:26] drop catch against a criteria list. Niche keywords, DR of 20 plus, a clean backlink profile, no adult and gambling history." For me, yeah, just don't like don't want that. Every morning, you get a a ranked list of 10 domains worth bidding on under $200. Uh flip And then my idea is to flip it to newsletter operators, SEO agencies, or rebuild it as a content site. So, this is what happens. You know, at 7:40, this is last night. At 7:46, AI assistant is like, let's go. And it says, "Before I start building, let me make sure I understand the full picture." And it just writes, you know,

[4:02] it it it sort of repeats it back to you. But, it asks It's not dumb, right? It says, "Here's a few questions, you know, niche keywords. You have a starting list. A delivery, do you want to be a Slack? Data sources, you know, it needs a free account. DR check, do you want to

[4:18] like integrate with, you know, Ahrefs?" So, it goes and actually builds it. And what's really cool is uh you end up, you know, what you should do is create a new channel of the, you know, for me, I think this is just the simplest. I created a new channel, and then I have my domain flipper idea. And I actually, you can see here, here's 10 pics under $2,500. I actually increased the budget. So, in doing, you know, how did I increase the budget? I literally just went back to the AI assistant, and

[4:52] I was like, "Make it Make it $2,500." So, like, really treat it like your AI employee. And I got some pretty interesting domains. You know, wavedark.com. Like, you know, what does it mean? I don't know, but you can buy it for 1 cent. And it look like it looks good, right? Wavedark. Wavedark. You can see how someone might buy that for $2,500. And not a lot of people know this uh about me, but I actually had a premium domain marketplace many years ago where I would literally do just this. Actually, let me

[5:26] explain. What did I do? I would have a person scour the internet for domain auctions and stuff like that that would relapse. They would buy the domain. We'd buy it for $8. We would create a logo for it. So, and then people would buy the domain and the logo. So, for example, Wavedark, we would make the actual logo and we'd sell it for

[5:49] anywhere between 3 and 5,000 dollars. And that was the model. And you can just automate that with GenSpark Claw. So, the margins are really big. So, this I think did a really good job. And now every morning I have this and I can just, you know, set up an email if I wanted and be like, send me an email of

[6:10] this of the updates to dead domains. Personally, I like it in Slack. These are some more ideas and we'll get into that and we'll we'll get into them. But, yeah, let's actually let's get into one more idea. Then we're going to get into um build building an idea live. And then let's get into coming up with your own

[6:30] ideas for that. Um so, the second idea is uh one of those boring business ideas that I think you're going to like. So, it's a local liquidation idea. So, it's the idea that having GenSpark Claw monitoring restaurant closures and liquidation auctions in your city. Um it pulls equipment comps. It pulls It It basically calculates the arbitrage spread and brokers the deal between the estate and the new restaurant for 15 to

[6:57] 30% fees with zero inventory risk. Basically, it's this idea that you have restaurants closing all the time. You have auctions happening all the time. How can you buy the the merchandise for these businesses at 10 cents at the dollar? Um and how can you use AI to automate that? So, I just took that idea. Um and I literally went to GenSpark Claw. Just I I literally put

[7:25] like the one-liner. And it says, here's what we're going to do. We're going to go into um BizBuySell, AuctionZip, Bid BidSpotter, Craigslist Miami, Florida Bankruptcy Court, which is where I live. It's going to detect vertical extract equipments from text. It builds the comms database for 40 plus equipment types plus a live eBay sold lookup and gives me a deal card. So, it shows the used market value, the established auction price,

[7:52] and the 30% broker fee. How did I actually go and build this idea? I had to copy and paste this uh command and put it into my terminal. Now, you don't need to be technical, really. You know, you just literally just copy and paste it. I use Ghosty for my terminal, but you can also use your default terminal. No affiliation with Ghosty. I just think it it just works a little bit better for me. And then what happens is as soon as you click that, it starts cooking. It shows This is what happens in your terminal. You'll see scraping listings on Craigslist and Florida Bankruptcy Court. Look, 1,600 different listings,

[8:35] and then it's starting to give you the deals. And then I ask it to post it to a Slack channel. So, again, I have to go file, new channel. I create a new channel. Um I set up a webhook within Slack. Um and if you don't know what that is, again, ask GenSpark Claw to help you figure that out. And look at this. So, look what look what it came up

[8:58] with. Here's It scanned 327 listings and and it flagged 10 deals. Kitchen hood grease, smoke hood restaurant. So, it rates it a 50 on 10. The used value is $1,500. Um so, there's a 300% spread here. So, if you go to the Let's just go click on the listing, see what we're looking at. Okay. So,

[9:23] uh it's got it's this hood uh hood here. Um It was updated 2 days ago. Uh contact info is this guy named Chris. And they're they're selling it for not a lot of money. They're selling it for not a lot of money relative to the amount that it's worth. So, you can actually go and just bring that listing to someone who would buy it, right? Or you buy it and then it you know, and you actually you buy it, you you store it, and you find someone who would buy it, you know, sell it. Now, I know someone in the comment section is like, "Well, why

[10:00] isn't someone buying it on Craigslist?" Well, sometimes the the actual tool um Well, first of all, sometimes Craigslist isn't the best marketplace for this. You actually have to do the work to actually sell it. Um calling people and also a lot of times you know, the this is just not optimized. Like the the actual title isn't optimized. These are restaurant owners, like they're not they're and they're busy, right? They they're busy, you know, unfortunately dealing with a liquidation of some sort. So, they're

[10:31] just like putting this quickly, right? So, um I think this is a really interesting one. You can see just here a bunch of different listings where you can you know, there's a spread of hundreds of percent, hundreds and hundreds of percent, and you can get this every day, and you can get this into your inbox. So, those are two ideas which are tiny, are boring, but you know, could help, you know, generate um income relatively easy using Jen Spark Claw. Now, let's actually go and pick another idea and build it live and see how we would actually go and you you know, using Jen Spark Claw. I'll

[11:14] actually build this out so that you can have a really concrete understanding of how to do this on your own. So, I like this idea uh where Jen Spark Claw is going to monitor job boards daily for hiring signals because that means budget is being spent. So, a head of growth needs an agency, you know, three SDRs need

[11:33] outbound tools. Um enriches the company, finds a decision-maker, and drafts personalized outreach referencing the exact post. So, we're going to go ahead and take that idea. I'm literally just copying and pasting it. And we're going to go to my assistant. And we're literally going to say, "I'm working on this idea. Go build it." And we're going to see

[12:00] what happens. We're going to see how to do it. We're going to go through the steps. And I love that First of all, it it it feels like when I talk to it, it feels It doesn't feel Obviously, it it it It's a bot. So, I was going to say it doesn't feel like a bot, but it it it feels like a human bot, which is kind of

[12:19] crazy. So, it's asking me a few things. Uh what are you selling? The outreach needs to be specific. Are you pitching SaaS tools, consulting? I'm going to say, "I'm pitching consulting." Which job boards to uh to monitor? I'm going to say, "You pick the best ones." Decision-maker outreach. I'm going to just say, "Post to Slack with a draft plus LinkedIn URL so I can copy-paste." So, I'm not going to have it uh actually um reach out to people automated, although I could, but just so just uh

[13:03] just so we can see the quality first. You want to see the quality first. Um then you can automate it. And hiring signals, what matters What signals matters most to you? And then I'll say, "What What signals matter most to you? Whatever you think is best. I'm try to focus on selling marketing services

[13:27] to marketers. And yeah, so it's like pretty broad and we'll see we'll see what it comes up with and and you know, usually it takes around 5 minutes from what I from you know, to build something like this and I will say I or sorry, last night I was I was messaging with my AI assistant and it wasn't responding to me and I went back to my Gen Spark uh claw app. I was like, why is it not re- reaching out to me? And I went to it and it was like, we're you know, it's connected, everything's work you know, it should work. And it was because it

[14:02] was like reconfiguring, rebuilding the app. So, if you ever have trouble like it's not working or whatever reason, um just make sure that it's online and sometimes it's just like rebuilding you know, the app if it's learning how to how to build it better, which I thought was really interesting. It was like basically like it was around the domain flipper idea and it was basically like, yeah, we like added a few extra marketplaces. I was like, well, you know, wish you would have told me but uh love that you did that. There's two uh different um tabs that I I switched on when I when I downloaded down downloaded this. By

[14:42] the way, while that's cooking in the background, one is prevent sleep. So, it's all it's off by default but uh keeps your computer awake so Gen Gen Spark claw stays active. Like for me, this is you know, I do really treat this as my AI employee. Like I treat it as like you are my product manager, vibe vibe coder, person who's going to help me build a business. Therefore, I really don't

[15:06] really don't want you to go to sleep. And then heartbeat. So, what is heartbeat? It checks for pending events and runs heartbeat MD task every 30 minutes. So, this is a way to save tokens. So, um it's off by default. But if you uh you know, if you have a business is starting to generate revenue from this, this is obviously something that you're going to want to turn on cuz you're going to want it to You're you're going to want it to you know, keep producing although it it it's going to it's going to take tokens. So maybe not initially, but eventually

[15:43] something that you might want to do. All right, let's go back. So it's still building now. Like I said, it usually takes about 5 minutes or so. What what can we do? Okay, so the other thing that's interesting about GenSpark claw is you can see that there's some popular tasks. You can organize desktop by content. You can see you know, fill a job applications for me. Look at the

[16:10] screenshot of a data table. Batch and edit photos. Refactor in VS code, data analysis in spreadsheets. Reminder, this is working on your local computer. So it sees your local local files. And um Go back here. And uh It just this just gives you a sense of like how you how you can use something like this. The other really cool thing is the schools that the skills that you can just go ahead and download, right? Like the fact that you can just like turn on audio transcription, you know, creating tasks using specialized AI AI agents, listing emails from a folder. So I encourage you to like just go and

[16:59] check out different skills. Turn on, turn off, and it'll also give you a sense for how you can use GenSpark claw. So now it says now run it live. So my question to my AI assistant, how do I run it? What commands? And how do I set up the Slack channel? So, you're just going to go ahead and ask it how to do these things, and it

[17:23] it's going to tell you how. All right, so I just asked it, how do I run it, what commands, and how do I set up the Slack channel? It said, it just hit your Slack 14 hiring signals, each with a copy paste cold email draft. Here's what it did. It scraped 222 jobs from HN, Hacker News Who's Hiring, Remote of Greenhouse. It scored each against a signal map, service 14 companies against hiring marketing leaders, enriched with decision-maker LinkedIn search, and wrote a personalized cold email for each referencing each exact post. So, it's actually added it in my Domain Flipper uh channel. I would want this as a

[18:03] separate channel, personally. Um but, let's just look at this quick. So, uh it's it's it's, you know, showing QuestDB. This is they're hiring remote. Um this is the email. It says, "Hey, saw QuestDB is scaling the marketing team, specifically the technical content writer. Um the kind of hiring usually happens when there's real momentum. I work with companies at this exact stage on marketing strategy and execution. Happy to share a few ideas specific to what I've seen in your space. Open to a quick call." Wow, and actually you know, pulled my uh

[18:40] it actually pulled my company's URL. So, this is this is pretty, you know, pretty good. I mean, it's not it's not perfect in the sense of you know, look at that link. It's like that's a bug, obviously. But, I could, you know, go and be like you know, to my AI assistant, right? And just be like, "Hey, I noticed some of the links in the cold emails are

[19:12] like this. Can you make it so it isn't? I want the you know, no one is going to convert if they see emails like that. And you literally just talked to it. You literally just talked to it like that and it fixes it. And it's crazy, right? It says, "Oh, that's the HTML entities bleeding into the email address from the job description. Easy fix, strip all HTML

[19:42] entities before the draft is written." So, we've gone and actually created something that, you know, we can start a a marketing business from that. And if we wanted, we could say, "Hey Jen call like go and vibe code me a landing page that's based on you know, how Greg Eisenberg's landing pages look like." And it's going to do

[20:01] it. And, you know, I can do a whole separate video on that and how to go deeper into these ideas, but for now I just want to show you how quick it is to actually do these sorts of things. Um By the way, here's how you can add this create a new slack slack channel. You have to create a new channel like I said, you have to go to

[20:21] api.slack.com/apps. You have to add a new webhook and then you paste the URL. Just tells you what to do, right? Um so, there you have it. Uh how to how to build an idea live. I want to go back to and just sort of give you ideas around um how you can come up with ideas of your own. You know, these are these are some some ideas that I have, you know, I wanted to I gave you the dead domain idea. I gave you the um

[20:51] uh local liquidation idea. There's a few more ideas I'll give you and then let's go into how to brainstorm some of these ideas. Um a few a few ideas. So, um pointing claw at bizbuysell.com Basically, these marketplaces where people sell businesses, and it pulls the financials, it cross-checks review reviews and web mentions, and it gives you a should I even call memo in 6 minutes. So, you can either do this if you want to build a if you want to buy a business for like, you know, a few thousand dollars, you can also maybe

[21:24] integrate with trustmmr.com. You know, they have businesses there, you know, selling for not, you know, a few thousand dollars. But you don't know if it's a business worth actually buying. So, there's there's two options. You actually buy the building business yourself, or you uh you sell this should I even call.com, and you sell this as a service to people

[21:49] who want to buy businesses. Three. Uh or sorry, four. Oh, no, we did three and four. Five. GenSparkLaw scans ProductHunt launches from 2 to 4 years ago. It finds one where the site is dead, but the SEO traffic is still alive, and you reach out to the founder who will sell to like, you know, maybe 25k, 5k, just to stop paying their AWS bill. And there's a lot of these founders who are just like happy to

[22:17] get this off their hands. Um number six, and this one I'm really interested in. Uh GenSparkLaw monitors App Store rankings for apps that were top 100 3, 4, 5, 6 years ago, but have dropped to 500 plus, but still have 100,000 K reviews, or 20,000 reviews, or 10,000 reviews. It pulls the developer contact, and you offer to acquire for, I don't know, 10,000, 50,000, and relaunch with better monetization. You don't have the money, maybe you go and find an investor to do it. You don't want to, you know, do 100,000 K views uh reviews, you do five 500 reviews, five-star reviews. But point is, you can find uh

[22:58] you can find, you know, these deals, and people are going there there will be some people happy to sell it and have an acquisition at some point. Um and the last thing uh last idea is telling uh Claude to monitor your top five competitors overnight for pricing changes, new pages, founder tweets, job postings, change log updates, and you wake up to a one-page brief of what has

[23:20] moved in your market while you slept. So, that either could help you, whatever it is you're building, or you sell that as a service. So, you basically, you know, competitive intelligence. Um and you sell that as a service, maybe it's $9.99. And this is when people say, you know, agents are the new SaaS, what do they mean by that? They mean, you know, you're selling an agent with a with an outcome, you know, moving from a per seat model to an outcome-based model, and you're using Gen Spark Claude

[23:49] to do it. So, those are a few ideas that I think anyone could could start in within just a few um a few prompts uh get that, you know, create an MVP. I realize, by the way, with all these Excalibur drives, I I am this guy right now, and I'm like, this is how you could

[24:07] go and build a business with AI. Um so, I'm just acknowledging that that I realize that's me with all these crazy diagrams. So, let me know if you don't like the diagrams in the future and just want me to riff. How How can you use a simple framework for finding new businesses? This is how I think about it. Look for public data, look for neglected assets, and look for a clear buyer. So, the first thing you're going to want to look for is some sort of messy feed. Job board, auction sites, closures of some sort, like we saw with the the restaurants. Two is you're going

[24:37] to want to look for some mispriced thing. Could be a domain, like the domain flippers thing, the apps, like the mobile app thing we're talking about, equipment, a small SaaS. Then a trigger event of some sort. A drop, a shutdown, a hiring, a rank decline. Then you're going to want to look for an obvious buyer, an operator, an agency, a founder, a new owner,

[24:56] ideally someone with money. Um and then five, you know, how you're going to make money. What is the liquidity point? Is it a flip? Is it a broker? Is it a retainer? It is a relaunch. These are the type of businesses that with something like a claw is going to uh like they're the easiest businesses to

[25:15] create with claws. So, uh in terms of like path to monetization. And then in terms of like how do you brainstorm uh claw ideas? Well, I have you know, it's basically three lenses to come up with ideas really fast. One is looking at uh places with constant change, places like marketplaces, places like listings, app rankings. Filings are really

[25:41] underrated. Um job postings. Two is, you know, what to hunt, things people ignore, like stale traffic, distressed inventory, abandoned software, underpriced attention. Cuz that's where you're going to be able to get deals. And three is, what to ask. So, what are quick screening questions? Is there urgency? Is there spread? Can claw monitor it? And who pays first? So, the way to I the way to think about it just from a you know, framework perspective is you have a feed, goes to an asset, goes to a trigger,

[26:13] goes to a buyer, goes to monetization. These are the boring tiny ideas that you can use AI and use claw to go and build some of these ideas. So, um yeah, that's that's uh that's that in a nutshell. Um I wanted to just quickly go over what else like if you're, you know, what else is on Jen Spark AI workspace 4.0. So, um you know, if you're using Jen Spark claw, there's other things that uh it comes with, right? It actually comes with, you know, I know a lot of us use Whisper flow. It comes in with Whisper

[26:55] flow, basically. What's cool is GenSpark gives you unlimited use of the AI chat, all the models there, and unlimited use of the AI image model for anyone who pays for it. So, um definitely the almost like the Costco You know Costco is always a a little bit cheaper than everything else. That's how I'm thinking about GenSpark. And for a lot of people, I think that's going to

[27:21] be a big deal. You have that all in there. It has um AI video, too. SeeDance 2 is in here. So, what can you use AI video for? So, the first is you're going to you're going to want to use it to make ads. So, uh we're all trying to get customers to our Vibe Coded Startups. How do we actually get people to it? Well, instead of hiring an agency, you know, one way to do it is just use AI video, SeeDance 2, for example, and create incredible,

[27:52] scroll-stopping meta ads. Uh now, how do you actually create meta ads that convert? You know, this is a numbers game. You're going to want to create a lot. Um and that's why, you know, a tool like this, you know, comes in handy cuz it's it's it's a cost-effective way to get a lot of these uh videos out and then just take, you know, the ones that start to convert and double down on those. The second uh way, you know, I would use AI video is just crafting almost like cinematic uh mini documentaries or mini videos that

[28:26] tell the stories of your business. You're starting to see a lot of that on X, where, you know, startups will, you know, do a 2-minute launch video, but it's like a it feels like a crafted Hollywood uh story. So, you can do that now with AI video, right? Um we're at that point where if you play with some of these models and on GenSpark, you have you have access to pretty much all of you

[28:48] know all the main ones. You uh you can go and craft those stories. And you know one thing I see a lot of people not doing is including those videos on their website. So, you know, if you're trying to convert more on your website, you're trying to stand out, you know, having a video that tells the story that feels cinematic, that's Hollywood style, um is

[29:12] is something that I would use it for. So, just a couple of use cases, ads and storytelling uh that you know I are top of my list for for using this product. Overall, I was impre- Yeah, I think I was just impressed with you know GenSpark claw or it's still one of my go-tos for uh AI image, it's still one of my go-tos for video. Um and it's just cool that, you know, I did a video on Codex building a super app. Um it's cool that you see GenSpark also moving into this uh

[29:44] category, too. Um except that it it's all tied to, you know, multiple models. And I think this is sort of the future of where AI is going, super apps. Get everything done in one place for, you know, 25 bucks or whatever a month. And and then yeah, I like that it's integrated with multiple models because then I can get the best out of uh and you know out of out of each of

[30:07] these. So, yeah. That's uh that's where we're at. Hope this got the creative juices flowing and I'll see you I'll see you next time.

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