Is it worth starting an A automation agency in 2025?

#210 · Scaling an automation agency past $300K/m: how?

Is it worth starting an A automation agency in 2025?

Yeah, for sure. I would pivot a bit and brand yourself more as an AI consultant or strategic consultant who uses no-code tools rather than necessarily an AI automation agency. If you think about it, many people don't realize that as a beginner, most of your work as an agency owner is actually just freelancing—being a consultant, sole proprietor, independent contractor. So I would start there, providing services as an individual, and worry about building an agency that provides services later. Because actually doing the thing, getting good at the business, then building the business, hiring, managing, tracking time, payroll—those are two fundamentally different things. Get good at delivering business insights and knowledge, then building systems, and afterwards you can worry about scaling and hiring people.

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Nick, I'm 18 and live in a country where small and medium‑sized businesses are far behind with AI and automation; they don't know Zapier or Make. Is it smart to build an automation agency here now to make money during the lag period and level up systems thinking before the window closes?

He says yes, it's smart to start an automation agency now to capture the lag, but you should focus on delivering strategic outcomes and consulting rather than just selling tools. You can still make money with tools, but the real value is in helping clients achieve business results. He also notes that if you're not making $10k/month yet, focus on reaching that income first, and that many traditional businesses (web design, clay pottery) still thrive, so it's not all black‑and‑white.

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Is the market still open for newcomers to AI automation agencies, or is it saturated? As someone with an ML background considering whether to go all in on an agency or pursue AI engineer roles, what path would you recommend?

The market is never simply open or closed; it's always a matter of degree of difficulty. With your strong technical background, AI engineering involves building systems from scratch, while an AI agency uses existing systems and stitches them together at a higher level of abstraction—letting you launch faster and deliver value quicker, but you won't use all your ML skills. The trade‑off is that you'll also need to learn business ownership, which brings risk and downside; I went broke for most of my early adulthood learning that lesson. Your family’s advice to take a safe job comes from a place of protection, and over the next year or two they might be right, especially since software engineering roles are being deprecated. However, the top demand remains for people with real AI/ML engineering experience. If I were you, I’d use that experience to build your own model—perhaps a transformer—and create a few portfolio pieces (e.g., a nano‑GPT‑style project) to apply for AI/ML engineering jobs. In your spare time, learn no‑code basics with my tutorials so you can fall back on building with Make or NADN if job hunting stalls.

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Is it realistic to earn $30–$40k/month with an AI automation business, and how will automation saturation in tier‑1 countries by 2026 affect agency scaling?

Regarding earning $30–$40k/month with an AI automation business: it's entirely possible and up to you, but it's uncommon and not necessarily realistic for everyone—it depends on your skill level, consistency, and ambition. I can't give a precise success rate, but the model is working now and should continue for at least a few months; I'll evolve Maker School with the business model, though I don't plan to make it solely an AI automation community. On automation saturation in tier‑1 countries by 2026: it will make things harder but not a zero‑to‑one shift; agencies targeting $50–$150k/month will feel the impact, while larger businesses ($10M–$100M revenue) will be affected less. I'm not familiar with the EI audit; it sounds like a business model being sold, and while it could be added to the curriculum if it's cool, it seems more like someone trying to sell you a framework.

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Rage Sheshvel says uh in your recent video you mentioned AI may not be that use a automations may not be that useful in 2026 2027. What skill sets should we master to survive and thrive in the automation and agency space during that time?

To survive and thrive in the automation and agency space in 2026‑2027, master business skills: learn to communicate business needs and requirements, speak in consulting terms, understand core consulting concepts like driver trees and a four‑step framework, grasp foundational business principles (revenue, cost, profit, valuations, risk conceptualization akin to an 80/20 view of a business degree), and then get in front of customers to practice selling and communicating—exactly what Maker School teaches.

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