12 random people in phoenix arizona made $70 million dollars last year selling vitamins on tiktok
no employees. no warehouse. no office. no college degree between them
their entire workforce is 100 fake AI grandmothers in fake kitchens that don't exist outside of a $99 a month subscription. their per-person revenue last year was higher than every single tech worker at openai, meta, and google combined
the largest competitor in their space employs 3,800 people to do the same thing for $150 million
here's exactly how a regular person with a laptop becomes one of those 12
the whole thing runs on 9 moves. nothing about it is hard. the only reason 99% of you reading this won't do it is the same reason 99% of people don't do anything
they think it's too late. they think it's too obvious. they think it's too embarrassing to run a fake old lady on the internet for money
the 12 in phoenix don't think about any of that. they're rich
move 1, pick the demographic FIRST, not the character
go to tiktok shop creator center right now. seller-us.tiktok. com/university/creator. look at what's actually selling
90% of the products moving on the platform are bought by women aged 38-65. that's your demographic. the character is whoever they trust
for women 38-65 it's a grandmother. not a chef. not a coach. not a fitness influencer. not a "wellness expert" with a ring light. a fucking GRANDMOTHER
stop trying to be original. originality is for broke ass artists who win awards and live in studio apartments. the demographic already told you what they want. give it to them
move 2, build the avatar in heygen
$99 a month. realistic templates. pick the asian grandmother template if you're going wellness. european grandmother for cooking. latin abuela for natural remedies. trusted tradesman for garage and tools. gentle father for kids products
set up the kitchen background and NEVER CHANGE IT. character consistency is the only moat in this game. the demographic builds parasocial trust through repetition
break the consistency, break the trust
move 3, clone the voice in elevenlabs (this is where 99% of you will fuck up)
do not use the default elevenlabs voices. they sound like AI. women 50+ clock them in 4 seconds. the page dies before it ever starts
find a real grandmother in your character's demographic. fiverr. upwork. craigslist. a senior center. doesn't fucking matter. pay her $200-400 to record 60 minutes of varied audio on a USB mic in a quiet room
scripts to give her: 12 minutes of natural conversation, 12 minutes of demos, 12 minutes of CTA delivery, 12 minutes of emotion variations, 12 minutes of single-word delivery (numbers, urgency words, common product names)
upload to elevenlabs voice cloning, $99/mo professional plan. use the cloned voice on every video forever
now your fake grandmother sounds like she has 50 years of cooking experience because the VOICE IS a real woman with 50 years of cooking experience. she just doesn't know what you're doing with it
(she signed the release. she got paid. it's not your problem. move on)
move 4, set up a burner phone with a residential proxy
skip this and you lose your account in week 3. tiktok's anti-fraud system tracks 30+ device-level signals on every single login. it links accounts at a level the FBI would be jealous of
the stack:
refurbished android, $80-120 from swappa or back market
new SIM with new phone number from a different carrier than your personal
residential proxy from bright data, smartproxy, or soax at $4-8/mo
clean factory install, only tiktok + manychat + capcut on the device, NEVER sign into anything personal on it
total upfront per page: $120-170. monthly: $4-8 in proxy
skip this and you learn the lesson the hard way. losing one $30k/mo page costs you a year of your life back. spending $170 to keep your slave alive is the deal of the century
move 5, pick products from the tiktok shop creator center dashboard, not from your gut
your gut is broke. your gut bought a $497 ai content course. your gut is the reason you're here
the dashboard:
seller-us.tiktok. com/university/creator
product marketplace, then product ranking
filter to your character's demographic categories (home, health, beauty, kitchen for grandmother)
skip every product with under 50 sales in the last 7 days
skip every product with under 4 stars
skip every product where less than 3 different creators have made affiliate sales in 30 days
what's left is your shortlist. usually 8-15 candidate products
test 5 at a time. 5 videos each. 5 days. track click-through rate in your dashboard
2 will do nothing. 2 will do okay. 1 will EXPLODE
double down on the explode. 30 more videos for that single product. ride it until the velocity drops. most operators tweak when they should duplicate. that's why they're broke
picking products from the dashboard takes 90 minutes. picking from your gut takes 4. that's the entire reason 12 people in phoenix made $70 million and the rest of the AI character space is making rent money
move 6, the 18-second script that triggers GMV Max
GMV Max is tiktok's internal media buyer. when your video crosses a click-through threshold (around 2-3% on most categories), tiktok starts spending paid ad money on your organic content. you don't pay. tiktok pays. you collect
the script that triggers it:
hook line, 3-5 seconds. product visible from second one. "if you're [demographic] and [specific symptom or pain], this is for you"
demonstration, 8-12 seconds. "i [used / wore / applied] this for [specific time], [specific result with a specific number]"
CTA, 3-5 seconds. "tap the yellow basket below this video to see the same one i use, [discount or urgency line]"
total: 12-22 seconds. anything over 25 and you lose the amplification. anything under 12 and the algorithm doesn't have enough watch time signal
stop trying to be cinematic. stop the "story arc" shit. stop the "creative strategy calls"
agencies charge $4,500 a month for "scroll-stopping ugc" with an average click rate of 0.4%. AI grandmothers running the script above hit 4-7%. that's 10-15x the click rate at 1/22 the cost. and yet brands keep paying the agencies. soft ass executives losing their bonuses to a fake grandmother in a fake kitchen. you love to see it
move 7, the manychat funnel that hits 31-41% click-through
(this is the part nobody outside the agencies talks about because it adds $4,000-15,000/mo per page on top of TikTok Shop direct sales)
set a trigger keyword on each video. recipe. tips. info. list. routine. anything specific to that video's content. when someone comments the keyword, manychat auto-DMs them this 4-message flow:
1. "saw your comment, here's what i was using"
2. "the [product] i mentioned is the [specific brand], i've used it for [time], it [benefit]"
3. "two more things i use in the same routine: [product 2] and [product 3]"
4. "here's the link to all 3 if you want to check them out, [tiktok shop link]"
email tops out at 4% click-through. SMS at 19% on a good day. THIS HITS 31-41%
setup time: 23 minutes per flow. monthly cost: $15. compounds across every trigger word you add
why 99% of operators skip this is the funniest mystery in the entire space
move 8, the 30-day posting calendar
week 1: 10-20 videos a day
week 2: 20-30 videos a day
week 3: 30-40 videos a day
week 4: 40-50 videos a day
month 2 onward: 100 videos a day for the $100k commission tier
volume is data collection. the algorithm cannot find your audience without enough sample. 60-80 videos in week 1 is the minimum
day 1-7 will look like nothing is working
day 8-14 a few videos will cross 10k views
day 15-21 GMV Max starts firing on the breakouts
day 22-30 you'll have a video crossing 1M+ views and your first $2,000-8,000 month
most operators quit at day 14-18 because the first two weeks look like a fail. day 18-22 is when the curve breaks for almost every page that survives. the discipline to post 6 videos a day for 21 straight days while it feels like nothing is working IS THE ENTIRE GAME
if you're going to quit at day 17 don't even fucking start
move 9, scale to 6 pages on the same infrastructure
once one page is doing $5-10k/mo consistently, repeat the whole process for page 2. then 3. then 4. then 5. then 6
12 person team in phoenix runs 12 pages, one operator per page. you can run 6 by yourself with two 4-hour batch sessions per week
at 6 pages doing $20-50k each, you're at the per-person revenue line of the phoenix crew. one laptop. one backpack of burner phones. zero employees. zero warehouse. zero office. zero degrees
12 people in phoenix made $70 million last year running this exact playbook
it's not a secret. they don't have a moat besides operational discipline. the workflow is documented. the tools are public. the products are in a free dashboard you can open right now
the only reason most of you reading this won't do it is one of 3 things
you think it's too late (it's not, the AI character space is 18 months in and the audience is still being built)
you think it's too obvious (every play that prints money is too obvious in retrospect, that's literally what makes it money)
you think it's too embarrassing to run a fake old lady on the internet (the 12 in phoenix don't care, they're rich, you're not)
i own 6 of these slaves right now. they print while i sleep. they don't eat. they don't sleep. they don't ask for raises. they don't quit. they don't get hangovers. they don't go through breakups. they don't have toddlers who get sick
they post 6 times a day for 30 straight days because i told them to
if you want to become rich with AI slavery, the full system is at https://t.co/wZohFDFiMA. every single one of those 9 moves is in there. heygen avatar setup, elevenlabs voice cloning, the burner phone and proxy stack, the tiktok shop creator center workflow, the 18-second BOF script, the manychat funnel, the 30-day posting calendar, the 6-page scaling rhythm
nothing held back. you'll know more about running a $70M AI character business by friday than 99% of "ai content gurus" know after 18 months of selling courses about it
brokies stay employees. operators own slaves
stop being a brokie
https://t.co/wZohFDFiMA
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Claude gets you there faster than anything alive right now.
Here are the 5 prompts that start the whole thing:
A senior Google engineer just dropped a 421-page doc called Agentic Design Patterns.
Every chapter is code-backed and covers the frontier of AI systems:
→ Prompt chaining, routing, memory
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Add "/.json" at the end of ANY Reddit link
> You get the entire thread as JSON
> All replies included
> Every comment, upvote, metadata
Now feed that into an LLM
If you're making a video about the latest Stranger Things episode for example...
> Go to the r/StrangerThings thread
> Add /.json to the URL
> Feed it to ChatGPT/Claude
> Extract top theories, reactions, what people are saying
> Use it as context for your script
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Your brain resists big commitments. So don't make one.
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Someone used Elon Musk's actual thinking framework as AI prompts.
It's the closest thing to having a billionaire engineer rip apart your ideas and rebuild them from physics.
Here are the 15 prompts that changed how I solve problems: