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.
AI will create ads, films, and music videos much faster and for far less money—no production or audio teams needed, as the AI handles scripting and auto‑fixes everything. The output comes from natural‑language prompting; those who know how to prompt the models will do best, though that skill will fade as models become better at prompting themselves. You can definitely earn $10k/month with this right now, maybe for a couple of years. I’m still a beginner in AI automation agencies, but I know some basics and have built a few automations. Your next step is to get in front of paying customers, articulate their needs and problems, and show how your solution helps. There’s no other path—it’s messy, like entering a gladiatorial arena with tigers; you have to win your first fight to earn praise. Start by signing up on Upwork or freelancer.com, treat yourself as a low‑paid API endpoint, gain experience and money, then move to cold email, ads, or other channels to build a sustainable method.
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.
No — it's not an automation agency making $3 million a year, it's a combination of income sources in general. My number one income source right now is actually my community, Maker School, where I teach people how to do this. You can see exactly how much it's making totally transparently through the Skool Games money category. I also own another community called Make Money with Make. I want to clarify this because I've seen a lot of people misrepresent my numbers — someone from a big company recently interviewed me and said 'wow, you're making $120,000 a month from your automation agency,' and I had to correct them, because that's just not accurate.
I don't promise people $170K/month — that's the info product and coaching space, which isn't what I teach. I teach the AI automation agency business model, which I scaled to about $72,000/month a year and a half ago, and since then I've been teaching people the rungs on the ladder up to that same number — not more than I ever actually achieved with that business myself. I moved into info products and coaching alongside it for the same reason I always talk about: if pressing one button pays you $1 and another pays $2, you press the $2 button. A lot of coaches shift entirely into coaching and consulting once they find that $2 button and never touch the underlying business again — I don't think that's optimal, because you lose touch with the thing you're teaching, and if you can't execute it anymore your coaching offer goes stale. I think I'm one of the few people who still actually does the thing I teach while also teaching it. I get the skepticism about coaching offers in general — I have it too. For the fuller breakdown of short-term revenue versus long-term scalability trade-offs behind this, I made a video specifically on it: 'Info products versus agencies in 2025.'