Mit KI Geld verdienen: 5 Geschäftsmodelle mit echten Zahlen

0:00A founder from the US started an online company for weight-loss injections with about $ 20,000 and a few AI tools. According to a report by the New York Times, this company generated around 400 million dollars last year with the founder's brother as the only permanent employee. The company is called Medvi and is even considered by some as proof of a prediction made by OpenAI boss Sam Altman. Altman had long been betting with fellow CEOs on which year the first one-person company would be worth a billion dollars. However, Medvi does not yet have an official company valuation. At the same time, the American medical authority accused Medvi in a warning letter of having

0:38created the impression of official approval. Furthermore, some of the advertising for Medvi apparently showed doctors who do not even exist. In this one example, you can see both the huge opportunity and the trap. In the past, you needed employees, agencies, and a lot of starting capital to have your own company. According to Altman, this was previously a question of privilege, luck, and money. Then, at the end of September, he said in a podcast that the barrier for a one-person company will now drop radically. In this video, I will show you five ways how you can earn money as a one-person company with AI. For each way, you will get real

1:10figures, the effort for the government, and the typical trap. I will also reveal to you which path currently has a particularly large gap in Germany. Let's get started. My name is Sebastian , and together with my team, I help companies understand AI and use it effectively in their daily work. But now back to the one-person company. In Germany, the share of self-employed people without employees is actually declining, according to the Federal Statistical Office. In contrast, the number of them using AI is growing rapidly. According to the demo

1:38institute, it is now more than half. The first way is to offer a service that you can handle alone using AI. For example, videos, images, or texts for companies. An example of this is provided by the American filmmaker PJ Acosta, who created a commercial entirely with AI for a betting platform . The spot was broadcast during the NBA basketball league finals, so in front of a huge audience. The production cost around $ 2,000 according to Acosta, while classic commercials often swallow up hundreds of thousands. According to his own statements, he still charged

2:12his customers five-figure fees. Financially, the starting cost is manageable because an AI subscription costs between 20 and well over 200 euros a month, depending on the scope. However, the decisive factor is the craft itself, which Acosta already brought to the table as a director. The trap is tasks that every customer can now handle themselves with AI. A study on a large freelance platform showed that in the first months after ChatGPT, about one-fifth fewer jobs for writing and programming were posted. However, the remaining jobs were more demanding and better paid. Therefore, don't just offer what the customer can do themselves with AI, but offer something more special. If you enjoy videos like

2:50this, I would be thrilled if you gave it a like. It doesn't cost you anything , but it helps us a lot. But now back to the five paths. The second path is to build your own small software product using AI. One of the best-known examples is the Dutchman Peter Levels, who runs his products alone. However, Levels has been programming for over 10 years. AI primarily makes him faster here. For his photo app PhotoAI, he reported a record of $ 50,000 in monthly revenue a year ago with exactly one employee: himself. Today, he lists $ 86,000 a month on his profile. That shows how quickly such numbers can fall

3:27again. Financially, the starting effort is small here too. For that, you mainly need time. According to Levels, it took almost 1000 days to reach his record. The first trap is security vulnerabilities, which the AI hardly takes care of on its own. Levels even writes that the AI only does this if you explicitly ask it to. The second trap is the costs of AI, which can quickly eat up the profits again. This even applies to the AI builder Base44, which the website provider Wix.com

3:53acquired for around 80 million dollars. According to Wix, there was almost nothing left of the revenue at the start of this year after deducting AI costs. The third path is to sell knowledge and content, such as courses, newsletters, or a YouTube channel. One example is the newsletter "AI Tool Report" about AI tools, which Martin Crowley started alone. According to his own statement, he is making around $

4:1630,000 a month after not even a year. What's interesting is that hardly any text in this newsletter is written by AI. The AI mainly does the cover images ; the knowledge and the texts come from humans. The starting effort is primarily time, because building an audience can take months or years. Crowley also put money into advertising at the beginning. The trap is AI mass-produced content. Meaning many videos based on the same template without any original thoughts. YouTube does not pay out advertising revenue for such content. AI in itself, however , is explicitly allowed. Also excluded since this summer are AI characters that act as doctors or financial

4:50advisors. The fourth path is to help companies use AI. For example, by automating workflows or setting up an AI assistant. Precisely because my team and I work in this field ourselves, I stick to numbers here instead of success stories. Most of these success stories come from people who sell courses about exactly that. However, the demand is well-proven, which brings us to the gap I promised you at the beginning. According to the Federal Statistical Office, just under a quarter of companies in Germany with 10 to 49 employees use AI. Among large companies, it is already more than half . Of the small companies that have considered AI but haven't implemented

5:27it yet, nearly three out of four cite a lack of knowledge as the reason. Only a third, however, say that AI would be too expensive. To start, you need automation tools, an AI subscription, and above all, knowledge of your customers 'industry. The trap lies in the question of who is liable for an AI's answers. In Canada, Air Canada had to pay damages to a customer because the airline's chatbot provided incorrect information. The court clarified that the company is responsible for everything on its website, including the chatbot. If you set up an AI assistant for a company, it must therefore be thoroughly tested before launch. The fifth way is online

6:03retail, the path MedWI took at the beginning. In this case, the AI writes product descriptions, creates advertisements, and answers customer inquiries. According to Amazon, independent sellers created over 12 million listings with AI last year. The initial effort is highest here because you need goods, storage, partners, and an advertising budget. MedWI only works with two people because doctors, prescriptions, and shipping are outsourced to partner firms. You have already heard the trap from MedWI itself. The responsibility for every ad and every statement remains with you, regardless of whether a human or AI wrote it. Before you start, you should

6:37know two more points for Germany. Depending on your activity, you register a business, which usually costs up to € 60, or you register as a freelancer with the tax office. As a small business owner, you also don't have to charge VAT as long as your revenue in the year of founding stays under € 25,000. A one-person company is therefore no longer a fantasy, but it is not a self-runner either. Which of the five ways would you be most likely to try? Services, software, content for companies, or online retail ? Just write it in the comments. I thank you very much for watching and

7:09would say, see you in the next video.