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Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: how a 20 year old video editor at $10K a month can get to $1M in five years, how to scale LinkedIn outreach past the 400 connection limit, the simple offer of selling creator deals to brands, why lead gen for personal injury firms is hard, and how to crack short form content. He also talks about testing an always-on voice agent in his headphones, a comment that said "you can't do that in Europe", and his channel stats. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B-k15KSVVTQ Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: how to use your commute with AI (he answers 22 Maker School posts by voice on a 12 minute walk), why market saturation is a gradient and not a yes or no, how he came up with his Fable 5.2 prompts, how to win on Upwork with no reviews and why you should apply in the first hour, what to do when a lead sees a different sender name, how he gets 60 hours of work done in a day with AI agents, and how to start an AI business with a full-time job and a family. He ends with his channel stats. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YWC3_iEMor8 Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: whether to start a new channel when you switch to AI content, if aesthetic clinics are a good niche, what to do while Claude works for 20 to 30 minutes (fast mode and a chief of staff agent), a sales job versus an AI agency while studying, where Skool is going, whether to sell leads or speed to lead first and how to handle a missed guarantee, and how to go from broke to $10k with AI. He ends with plans to rename his media business and a look at his stats. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3CFLT1G9aI Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: how much of his day is not productive, how a broke beginner can fund a first AI agency with a simple job, whether cold email is dead, how to pick a niche from a past career, how to write an Upwork proposal that stands out, where AI goes in the next ten years, API credits versus a Claude plan, what to do with YouTube scripts, and how to set warm leads. He ends with his plan to double his Instagram output. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2LkWN7TVX_4 Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers questions on deploying agents into client businesses with Claude routines or neoclouds like Modal, how to pitch a nonprofit's funder without risking the relationship, and why cold outreach needs a reputable domain, a curated Google results page and filled-out LinkedIn and X profiles. He covers standing out on Upwork with outcome-based portfolio titles ("generated $14,000 for a $5M/year supplier") and properly sized cover photos, and recommends The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. He also advises a $10-15K/month video editor to use AI to double output, and explains local model use cases and his two-Spark DeepSeek cluster, where batching queries raises throughput.Then: a missed upload of the Stacked recording, his X account reaching 10,500 followers, and 1,163,000 YouTube views in 48 hours.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hCSjAU4cMxcJoin Maker School: https://www.skool.com/makerschoolCheck out Clairvo: https://clairvo.ioInstagram: https://instagram.com/nick_saraevBlog: https://nicksaraev.com

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: how he would start a YouTube channel to land AI consulting deals, how to stand out when hundreds of agencies pitch the same leads, how to read cold email reply rates, whether to send Loom videos by email or social media, and what a big real estate merger means for small AI agencies. He ends with his YouTube growth, a $1,758 ad revenue day, and the $38 first monetized day that started it. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qwd5gb2GAio Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: whether AI second brains are overhyped, Hormozi on happiness, what to do when you sell a client an API that does not exist, how to answer "how is your offer different?", speed-to-lead guarantees, a member who quit his job after six clients, and how to build an AI autoresponder for cold email replies. He ends with channel stats and his plan for the day. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4HCE7kEdv64 Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick shows his new office, then answers viewer questions on running an AI business: where to spend a marketing budget, whether to translate cold emails, if you need a registered business before your first client, why you can't outsource client acquisition, and whether to still start a business if AGI is coming. He ends with channel stats. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LmlLEdXvyiI Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers viewer questions on running an AI business: how to charge more when AI apps get cheaper, why 200 Upwork proposals got only 2 replies, how often to follow up a lead, running AI agents in Linear, leaked API keys, and whether to skip university. He also shares a Stacked podcast update and Maker School numbers. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-GKICdrNFRQ Join Maker School & get client #1: https://www.skool.com/makerschool

Nick answers subscriber questions on whether to run ads for AI consulting (treat it as R&D, with roughly 80% exploitation and 20% exploration), which jobs will survive AI, and whether to build with Make.com or Python scripts via Claude Code. He reads out the cold email template he would send now, built around a $45K result and a $20K-in-90-days offer sent across email, LinkedIn, X and Instagram, and explains why shared-event copy works best. He also covers Outlook spam, pricing a $400-500 content offer by testing 10 prices over 100 calls, applying to Upwork jobs with 50 proposals anyway, and replying to "no thanks."Then: his AI assistant's 500 ms response time, the main channel gaining 20,000 subscribers in a few days on the way to 600K, and Maker School going viral.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4GP6VD1PkFIJoin Maker School: https://www.skool.com/makerschoolCheck out Clairvo: https://clairvo.ioInstagram: https://instagram.com/nick_saraevBlog: https://nicksaraev.com