BREAKING: Claude can now map out your retirement better than most people charging $3,000 ever will.
Here are 6 prompts to figure out exactly when and how you can retire.
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A guy offered me $1,000 to follow him around for a day and tell him where to implement AI in his business.
I didn't take the deal (because this is not scalable at all) but it did make one thing clear:
business owners are desperate for AI guidance.
What they don't need is a developer or an "AI automation" agency.
They need someone who can simply tell them where AI fits into their existing workflows.
I turned this into a product called the AI Assessment.
I sell them for $999.
Here's the exact system you can copy:
THE OFFER
$999 for a custom AI report. 3-7 specific tool recommendations tailored to their workflows.
Guarantee: 5 hours returned per week minimum, or 100% refund.
Sounds aggressive but it's really not.
Average ROI I've delivered is 6+ hours/week saved for ~$40/month in tools.
STEP 1: THE 45-MIN INTERVIEW
Google Meet call recorded with Fathom.
Questions I ask:
-Walk me through a typical day
-What tasks do you hate but can't delegate?
-Where are you the bottleneck?
-What do you wish you could automate but haven't figured out?
Goal: surface their pain in their own words. Not what they think they should automate, but what actually eats their time.
STEP 2: FEED THE TRANSCRIPT TO CLAUDE
I've built multiple Skills that chain together for this step but if you're just starting out a simple prompt will still work:
"Analyze this transcript of a business owner describing their workflows. Identify the top 5-7 areas where off-the-shelf AI tools could save them significant time. For each, recommend specific tools and estimate weekly time savings."
Claude catches patterns you'd miss. Connects pain points across the whole conversation.
I review, add my own picks, cut anything that feels like a stretch.
STEP 3: BUILD THE REPORT IN GAMMA
Structure:
-Executive summary (their top 3 opportunities)
-Impact/Effort matrix (focus on quick wins)
-3-7 tool recommendations with implementation details
-4-day quick wins plan
-What comes after quick wins (preview of upsells)
-Financial impact
-Next steps
Looks like a $5K consulting deliverable but only takes me 5 minutes from template.
STEP 4: THE 30-MIN REVIEW CALL
This is where trust gets built and upsells happen.
Screen-share and walk them through each recommendation. Gauge their appetite for help.
About 40-60% want help implementing. That's where the real money lives.
THE UPSELL LADDER
Process Optimization: $3-5,000
No-code automation (Zapier/Make): $1-3,000
Custom GPTs: $3,000+
Custom AI Skills: $3-5,000
Full agent implementation: $5-10,000 + $1K/mo retainer
Real example: business brokerage owner gets 400 emails every time he lists a new business. Every email asks the same 4 or 5 questions.
For $3,000 I built him a custom GPT trained on each listing's marketing package that he can send to potential buyers.
Eliminated 95% of his email workload per listing.
WHY THIS WORKS
Business owners don't need another AI course. They don't need to learn prompt engineering. They don't need a developer.
They need someone to look at their specific situation and tell them exactly what to do.
What we're selling here is clarity.
HOW TO START
1) Know the tools. Spend a month using Claude, ChatGPT, Fathom, Gamma, Zapier.
2) Do 2-3 free assessments to build your process and get testimonials.
3) Start charging. $499. Then $749. Then $999. Raise every 3-4 clients until people say no.
4) Build your upsell menu (where the real money is made)
Go out and make it happen.
@andruyeung I’d absolutely love to join! I’m in NYC for fintech week. Can you DM the details? I’m in founder building in Fraud Agentic Applications space.
@businessbarista You know, it’s great you’re giving a home to TECHNICAL founders. Others who are not so technical but are in the middle need a platform too!
Added a flight recorder to https://t.co/6TyHKaj8lb
So now I can replay those human flights of real players later on as kinda "ghost" players (like in race games)
Because I also have AI players now but they suck and are kinda boring and not as fun as real humans flying around
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I also built a full resource repo to go alongside the video — curated video tutorials, the best skill libraries, plugin directories, MCP server guides, written docs, community links, and a starter https://t.co/00cPLRz1gJ template you can copy-paste into your first project today.
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