Newsletter: The $118K-a-month guy sells to robots (and 9 other plays you can steal)


Rank in every AI engine, gaslight Meta into better leads, and build a sellable app in 13 minutes.

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Hey Guys,

One guy. One social media tool. Stuck at $20K a month for a year and a half. Then he changed who he was selling to (not humans), and 3 months later he's clearing $118,000 a month. The kicker? The thing that unlocked it took him about a minute to build.

I'll get to him. But this edition is stacked, so let me give you the map first.


TL;DR

Today's 10 videos all circle the same idea: AI just moved the goalposts, and the people winning are the ones repositioning fast. You'll see how to train Claude to write blogs that rank in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok (and actually sell), how to spin up a $500/month AI voice-agent service for real estate agents in 5 minutes, and the exact playbook one founder used to sell his SaaS to AI agents instead of people. Then there's a free local 11 Labs alternative, a no-code premium WordPress build, a sneaky Google autosuggest branding trick, a Meta lead-form filter that feeds the algorithm only buyers, a 13-minute build-and-sell-an-app workflow, a reframe on why your "competitive" niche probably isn't, and a live-survey lead magnet that positions you as the industry's go-to voice.


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1. Train Claude To Write Blogs That Rank In Every AI Engine (And Sell)

Brendan Gillen got his coffee brand named as the "best coffee concentrate in Australia" inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Bing, Grok, and Google. Same brand, every engine. He did it by teaching Claude one repeatable skill.

What you'll discover:

  • How to wire up Claude with connectors (Shopify, image gen, Semrush/Ahrefs) so it researches your real products and posts them straight to your store.
  • The installable "blog writer" skill that runs the research, comparison tables, internal links, and SEO checklist for you, then drafts the full post.
  • How to set a scheduled task so Claude writes and drafts a fresh blog every Monday on autopilot.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfxsqedfDEw


2. The 5-Minute AI Voice Agent That Pays You $500/Month Per Client

Don Bassler lays out a recurring-income service aimed at real estate agents who lose deals every time a lead calls and nobody picks up. You build the AI phone agent that answers, qualifies, and books showings. They pay you monthly.

What you'll discover:

  • How to mine Zillow's "find an agent" directory for free prospects, then send a hyper-personalized Loom that leads with value (the "don't delete this text" hook).
  • The copy-paste ChatGPT prompt that turns any property listing into a clean, structured voice-agent script with no emojis.
  • The free-trial-to-paying-client close: show them the booked showing, then offer to keep it running at $297/month.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnMpJR_Vas


3. How One Founder Hit $118K/Month By Selling To AI Agents, Not Humans

Posters were stuck at $21K/month for 18 months. Then "Never" repositioned the whole product around AI agents and grew to $118K/month in roughly 3 months, solo. The churn is 14.6% (brutal), but agents do so much work for the user that they stick around anyway.

What you'll discover:

  • The build order that makes any product agent-ready: public API → CLI (published on npm) → skill.md on GitHub → MCP. Tell Claude, "Build me a skill from my API," and you're most of the way there.
  • Why open-source became his moat instead of his weakness (6 million Docker downloads feeding free word-of-mouth).
  • The X "article" growth hack that took a guy with 200 followers to 7.2 million views: ride the biggest current trend, then pay or partner with creators to quote-repost with short video clips.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOp280ZAxhg


4. The Free, Local 11 Labs Alternative You Actually Own

Better Stack tested Voice Box, an open-source local voice studio (think Ollama, but for voice). It clones voices, generates speech, does system-wide dictation, and talks back through your coding agents. No credits, no character limits, runs on your machine.

What you'll discover:

  • The three-step flow: clone a voice from a short recording, type a line and generate it locally, then dictate straight into your editor with a global hotkey.
  • Why the desktop app beats the Docker route (30 minutes of containers vs a fast install).
  • The agent integration: Claude Code or Cursor can speak results back to you via the MCP server, plus the honest trade-offs (Windows GPU quirks and long-form consistency still trail 11 Labs).

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL_PDX_BVxw


5. Build A Premium WordPress Site With No Code Using Google AI Studio

WPDev builds an animated, fully responsive anime-style landing page almost entirely with AI, then makes it editable inside the WordPress block editor. No themed wrestling, no hand-coding.

What you'll discover:

  • The asset pipeline: a Behance reference broken down by ChatGPT, characters from Gemini, and backgrounds from Midjourney, assembled in Google AI Studio.
  • How to feed AI Studio the reference image plus the ChatGPT breakdown, then iterate prompts until it matches (custom assets go in the public folder).
  • The handoff to WordPress via Antigravity: rebuild sections as native Gutenberg blocks, paste into a custom HTML block, then "convert to blocks" so anyone can edit text, colors, and fonts.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgA7Tvw2ZY


6. Take Over Page One With A Google Autosuggest Branding Play

SEO Jesus shows how to shape your funnel before someone finishes typing. Type "link building agency" into Google, and his brand appears in the autosuggest. That's a pattern interrupt that turns a generic search into a branded one he fully controls.

What you'll discover:

  • Why a branded autosuggest result sparks curiosity ("what's that?") and sends people to a page-one ecosystem you own: site, YouTube, articles, reviews.
  • The knock-on benefits: real human clicks trigger search volume in keyword tools, feed Google's knowledge graph, and seed "people also ask" boxes.
  • The data behind it: Cyrus Shepard's study found 32% of Helpful Content Update winners had high branded search volume relative to overall traffic.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkzqVIlGoU


7. Gaslight Meta's Algorithm Into Sending Only Leads That Buy

Samuel Darby flips the usual lead-form advice. Instead of throttling volume for quality, he opens the floodgates and filters hard inside the form, so only qualified people opt in and the algorithm learns to find more like them.

What you'll discover:

  • The volume-then-filter setup: turn on CBO, set form type to "more volume," then use conditional logic to screen for intent and budget (a "no" closes the form).
  • The 5-minute weekly habit of marking leads qualified/converted/not qualified in Lead Center to feed Meta cleaner signals.
  • When the Conversions API is worth it (big budgets, lots of back-end data) via a GoHighLevel/Lead Connector CRM connection, and when it won't move the needle.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-3Y4kJOTkA


8. Build And Sell An App In 13 Minutes (No Coding)

Stacy La walks through her full workflow: use Claude to find real problems people are begging to solve, then vibe-code one into a sellable subscription app. She points to builders like Joseph, whose vibe-coded Super Demo reportedly makes $200K/month.

What you'll discover:

  • The research prompt that searches "I wish there was an app for," filtered to forums and the last 90 days, surfaces proven demand.
  • The two follow-up prompts: sort ideas into health/wealth/relationships, then turn your pick into a ready-to-paste vibe-coding prompt.
  • Why she builds in Horizons (affordable, free first-year domain, built-in Stripe subscriptions) and how short-form AI UGC video drives traffic to the finished app.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTVJliJC0lU


9. Your Niche Isn't Competitive, You're Reading The SERP wrong.

Edward Sturm makes the case that bottom-of-funnel SEO (where there's real buying intent) is still a blue ocean, even as AI overviews gut informational traffic (click-through for informational keywords dropped from 0.076 to 0.039).

What you'll discover:

  • Why keyword difficulty scores lie: open the actual SERP and check whether competitors are even optimizing (most aren't).
  • The relevance ranking factors people undervalue: keyword in the page title, URL slug, H1, and first sentence, then stop before you keyword stuff.
  • How to use keyword variants ("enterprise SEO expert," "technical SEO consultant for large companies") to rank for more terms with less effort.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je_uqvZsUwI


10. The Live Survey That Generates Leads And Makes You The Authority

Daniel Priestley shows how a "live survey" works like a poll on steroids: 10 to 30 designed questions where people answer, then instantly see how their peers responded. They hand you their data and email to get the results, and you become the person collating the industry's thinking.

What you'll discover:

  • The landing-page structure: a trend hook ("Discover what entrepreneurs think of AI in 2026"), the questions preview, your bio, and a CTA promising it takes 1 to 3 minutes.
  • The results page that benchmarks each answer against peers with pie/bar charts, then drops in your content and a next-step CTA.
  • How to turn the data into a PDF report, press release, and social campaign, creating a self-completing loop that elevates you to thought leader.

🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izkICRoSA1Y


Your move

You don't need all 10 today. Pick the one that maps to where you're actually stuck (traffic, leads, a product to sell) and run it before Sunday. Momentum beats a full to-do list every time.

Talk soon,

- Tony

P.S. A few of these plays ride trends that are hot right now: selling to AI agents and the X article hack work because those topics are peaking on X today. Trends cool fast. If you're going to test the agent angle, this is the window, not next quarter.

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