Brandon Meaux

Co-founded ScentAfilter, Ecom Brand that scaled $0→ $90k/mo in 4 months using AI for almost everything. AI tips, tricks, and business ideas.

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1/ 🧵 Feeling stuck? You're not alone. Let's talk about turning "zero days" into "nonzero days". A thread on small steps, gratitude, and self-improvement. 👇

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Nonprofits lose 60-70% of first-year donors every year. For a $1M org, that is $200K+ walking out the door. And they don't know until the check stops coming. I just broke down an AI side hustle where you predict which donors are about to lapse, 90 days early, using Claude and a spreadsheet. You charge $79-$199/mo. The free audit closes the deal because you're literally showing them money they're about to lose. 10 clients at $99/mo = ~$1K/mo recurring. No code. No fancy tools. Just donor data + AI pattern recognition.

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The money is the next step. You set them up with an AI voice agent that answers every call, day or night, and books the job. That’s the $1,000 offer. The free audit just gets you in the door.

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Businesses are spending $5,000+ a month on Google Ads and then letting half the calls go to voicemail. You can get paid to catch them doing it. A phone and one hour tonight is the whole setup. Here’s the audit:

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Write up exactly what happened in a one-page report. You don’t sell the report. You give it away free. It hands the owner proof they’re paying for leads and dropping them on the floor.

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Contractors are the worst at collecting money.

They finish a $15K job and then spend 3 months chasing the check. Not because they don't care. Because they got the job from a referral and don't want to torch the relationship.

So their cash flow bleeds while the client ghosts invoices.

I built an AI-powered payment follow-up system for these businesses. Automated reminder sequences at 7/14/30/60/90 days. Late payment phone scripts. Payment plan templates. Even lien notice prep.

Charges $500-$1,500 to set it up. $200-$500/mo to manage. Clients never churn because they get paid faster.

Not a sexy AI business. But it prints.

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I let Claude run my Facebook ads for 2 days.

Before: $10 CPA, 7 conversions
After: $5 CPA, 28 conversions

I just did what it told me to do.

Meta released a free tool called the Meta Ads MCP last week. It plugs your ad account directly into Claude. You can ask it things in plain English:

"Audit my entire ad account and rank what to fix"
"Is it time to scale this campaign or cut back?"
"How do my ads compare to industry benchmarks?"
"What's my opportunity score and how do I improve it?"

It pulled the data, told me to scale my CBO campaign by 15 to 25%, and asked permission before making the change. I said yes. It updated the budget. Done.

The wildest part: this is the official Meta connector. No third-party tool. No risk of getting your ad account banned for hooking AI into it. And it's free in open beta.
Setup takes minutes. No developer needed.

If you run Facebook ads for your business or for clients, your job just changed. The veterans will still beat it on edge cases. But if you're a business owner who's been overwhelmed by Ads Manager, this is the unlock.
Facebook ad agencies are cooked.

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Every claude code app looks like exact same.

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@danielfazio @andrehaykaljr We can’t stop coding tools that hella increase our operational capacity.

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@landforce Can’t go wrong with a good cast iron

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Most people have no idea there’s a government website with 20,000+ active auctions happening right now.

Impounded trucks. School district vans. Warehouses full of surplus equipment. Entire real estate lots.

Cities and counties just need this stuff gone, so it starts at $1.

The site is called GovDeals.
But here’s the problem, 99% of the listings are junk. Office chairs, broken printers, stuff nobody wants. The actual deals get buried and sell before most people even find them.

So I built a tool that scrapes every listing, runs it through a scoring algorithm based on profitability, and ranks them highest to lowest.

You open it up, filter by your area, and the top deals are right there. No digging through thousands of listings.

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The worst advice in 2026 for entrepreneurs with a 9-to-5:
"Quit your job and start an AI agency."

Here's what nobody's saying:
Your job isn't the problem. Your lack of systems is.
You already have income. You already have industry knowledge. You already have a network buying from you or paying you.

AI doesn't need to replace your career. It needs to run alongside it.

Use it to automate your follow-ups. Build a lead gen system that works while you're clocked in. Let AI handle your content, your outreach, your proposals. The stuff that eats your nights and weekends.

That's not a side hustle. That's an operating system for the business you already have sitting inside your 9-to-5 skills.

The people making real money with AI aren't quitting anything. They're plugging it into what's already working and scaling the gaps they couldn't fill alone.

Stop trying to become an AI founder.

Start using AI like a founder.

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FYI: There is an underground advantage on Facebook Marketplace that almost nobody is using.

The people making real money flipping aren't searching harder. They have tools that find underpriced listings before anyone else sees them.

So I built one. In one afternoon. Using AI. Zero coding experience.

Here's what it does:
- Scans Marketplace listings in real time
- Scores every deal based on price vs. actual market value
- Flags the best flips with estimated profit
- Filters by category, city, and deal quality
It found a $7,000 flip within minutes of going live.
The arbitrage on Marketplace isn't the product. It's speed. Whoever sees the deal first wins.

AI just made building that speed advantage free.

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"What if we could recommend HVAC technicians to our customers that buy our new Air Diffuser Pro product to install it for them?"

That was a question we had recently. Three years ago, that would have cost us tens of thousands of dollars and potentially a ton of wasted time dealing with unreliable development teams.

But today, our founder, who is not technically savvy by the way, created this himself in a few hours with Claude Code.

Have someone you know that we can add to the list? Send them our way!

Interested in learning how to do something like this for your business? Subscribe here and get an invite to the community: https://t.co/eeR0sOKPFA

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Traditional lead magnets are dead.

The new lead magnet is a custom-built tool that solves your client’s exact problem, spun up in minutes, not months.

One of our community members built a personalized ROI calculator for his prospects using Claude Code. Took him 11 minutes. No dev team. No Zapier duct tape. No templates.

His prospects don’t download it and forget about it. They use it every week. They share it with their team. They come back ready to buy.

This is the moat nobody’s talking about.
While your competitors are handing out the same recycled ebook, you’re giving prospects a tool so useful they feel stupid not hiring you.

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THIS GUY MADE A CLAUDE CODE SKILL THAT CLONES ANY WEBSITE IN ONE PROMPT

everyone tries to clone websites by taking screenshots and hoping for the best.

that gets you maybe halfway there.

there's a better way. Claude Code has a built-in Chrome MCP that goes straight to the source and pulls assets and code directly.

no more guessing fonts. no more eyeballing component sizes. no more trying to recreate animations from a screenshot.

here's what the skill does behind the scenes:

> opens Chrome MCP and navigates to the target website
> takes screenshots and extracts the foundation (fonts, colors, layout, global patterns)
> builds the clone's foundation from the collected data
> launches parallel agents to clone individual sections at the same time
> reviews all the agents' work, merges everything, and assembles the final clone

one prompt. fully cloned website.

AND it’s open source too.

https://t.co/Ds8mO0Fd5l

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The bride had been stressing about it for 3 weeks. 128 guests, divorced parents who can’t sit near each other, a friend group that had to stay together, and a great-aunt who’s hard of hearing.

The AI sorted all 14 tables with reasoning for every grouping. Flagged the conflicts. Even included an etiquette guide for the couple.

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Somebody just charged a bride $150 to do her seating chart.

It took her 5 minutes. She used AI.

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The bride cried. Not because of the seating chart, because someone finally took something off her plate.

Then the bride asked: “Can you do this for the rest of my wedding?”