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Can I earn $100,000 per month without running an agency?

An agency is just one of many scalable business models, but it’s generally harder to scale an agency to $250k a month compared to SaaS or e‑commerce. It’s relatively easy to hit $10k a month with an agency—one 10k client or a couple of 5k clients can be secured in 30 days, even by a complete beginner. Building a SaaS product that generates $10k recurring revenue in 30 days is far more difficult, as is scaling e‑commerce to the same level because of thin margins and higher workload. Agencies tend to cap out sooner, whereas SaaS and e‑commerce have longer growth curves. For total beginners, starting with a service‑based business is advisable because you lack the technical skill to create a SaaS product and need to learn how to identify and solve business problems first.

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Aren't you really just making $500K/month teaching people how to make money, disguising it as running an AI agency?

No, I don't make $500K a month just teaching people how to make money — I actually have a real AI agency, called Left Click, that you can go look at. I also have a SaaS startup called Clarvo that we've done pretty well with. The $500K/month figure includes real revenue from actually running these businesses, not just from teaching.

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I struggle to launch my AI/SaaS ideas despite confidence in building them; I get stuck between starting a SaaS or an AI agency and doubt my ability to create valuable products.

The feeling you describe is akrasia — knowing what to do but not doing it because the required activation energy feels too high. To overcome this, consider the two business models you mentioned. A SaaS model is highly scalable but requires product‑market fit and can take years to generate revenue, during which you burn runway with no income. An agency model, by contrast, lets you earn money quickly (e.g., $20k in the first month) but is hard to scale and lacks predictable recurring revenue. I recommend a blended approach: start with an agency to generate early cash flow and runway, use that revenue to fund your SaaS development, and then gradually shift from manual implementations to a SaaS product. This path takes longer to reach the same scalability as a pure SaaS, but it yields far more money in the early years and gives you proven business‑owner credibility, which makes raising funds or reinvesting easier.

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Where have you found the biggest difference to be between making $10,000 a month and $100,000 a month?

$10,000/month is achievable through sheer tenacity, consistency, and caveman-style intellect. $100,000/month, at least for a service business, is not achievable that way — you actually have to learn how to do business: hiring, building productized systems that run without you, etc. (You can hit $100K/month as an affiliate or in e-commerce too, but that path needs more inputs like startup capital and inventory.) I focus on service businesses specifically because they have the lowest barrier to entry and made the biggest impact on my own life, but scaling one past $10K/month by brute force alone doesn't work — you have to actually learn to run a business.

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