Brooke Wright
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Make actual money with AI. Not the scammy version.

15 real ways founders are charging money for AI work — plus 4 angles I'd avoid. Includes my top 7 ranked, with the data Hays + Microsoft + Anthropic just dropped.

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15 ways to make actual money with AI without being a scammy LinkedIn bro

15 real ways founders are charging money for AI work — plus 4 angles I'd avoid, my top 7 ranked, and the positioning thread that unifies them. Backed by what Hays, Microsoft and Anthropic just published.

For service founders Strategy not slop 15 offers + 4 to avoid Top 7 ranked Backed by real research

What's inside

Let me be honest about why I built this list.

The non-scammy money in AI right now is not "make 10 AI agents and print cash while you sleep." Ughhhhhh. It's helping actual humans use AI inside real work — without breaking their business, leaking client data, or creating slop.

The demand for that is real, and we have the numbers to prove it:

The 60/22 gap

Hays Australia's FY26/27 Salary Guide: 60% of Australian employees use AI regularly at work, but only 22% have had training. That's a gorgeous little "people are already doing the thing badly" gap. Your offer lives there.

20M+ paid Copilot seats

Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20 million+ paid enterprise seats (TechCrunch, April 2026). Training and adoption are a legit market — not TikTok fairy dust.

Augmentation, not replacement

Anthropic's Economic Index (January 2026) shows the majority of Claude use is collaborative augmentation — humans still need to steer, review and improve the work. Which means the people teaching judgement are about to be in serious demand. (Sources at the end of the doc.)

15 offer angles below. 4 to avoid. My top 7 ranked. Then the positioning thread that unifies the whole thing.


These are the offers that ride the 60/22 gap directly. People are already using AI at work — they don't know what's safe, what to do with it, or what their team should be doing with it.

01 — AI Policy + Safe Use Workshops

What it is: For small teams already using ChatGPT/Claude with zero rules. You teach what not to paste into AI, client privacy basics, "can I use AI for this?" decision trees, how to check outputs, and team rules for tools/files/prompts/approvals.

Best buyer: agencies, allied health, consultants, accountants, coaches with teams.

Why it doesn't suck: business owners are scared of risk, not just excited by shiny tools. You're selling protection, not hype.

02 — AI Onboarding for Teams

What it is: Not "prompt engineering 101." More like "this is how our business uses AI now." Deliverables: 90-minute team training + team prompt library + role-based use cases + "don't do this, you absolute menace" guide + simple internal AI playbook.

Why it works: people don't need another webinar. They need permission, examples and guardrails.

03 — Industry-Specific AI Training

What it is: Generic AI training is crowded. Niche versions are uncrowded and high-ticket. AI for allied health admin. AI for copywriters. AI for coaches. AI for accountants. AI for course creators. AI for NFPs. AI for women-led service businesses. AI for neurodivergent founders.

Why it works: people don't want "AI education." They want "show me how this fits my actual Tuesday."

04 — AI Tool Decision Workshops

What it is: People are drowning in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Notion AI, Zapier, n8n, Make, Canva AI, Lovable, Claude Code. The paid offer: "I'll help you choose what to use, what to ignore, and what to stop paying for."

Why it doesn't suck: tool overwhelm is real. Also: people love being told they can cancel subscriptions. Dopamine and financial relief. Stunning.

05 — AI Quality Control Training

What it is: Underrated. Teach people how to check AI output for: accuracy / tone / bias / hallucinations / client safety / brand fit / legal-ethical risk / "would I be embarrassed if this went public?"

Why it works: everyone is teaching creation. Fewer people teach judgement. Anthropic's data confirms — humans are still doing the steering. Be the person who teaches the steering.


Strategy work pays better than tactical work. These are the offers where you're not pushing buttons — you're helping a founder figure out where AI belongs in their business.

06 — Founder IP Extraction Sessions

What it is: This is very you. You help a founder turn their messy brain — calls, frameworks, workshops, Looms, podcasts, voice notes — into structured IP. Outputs: their method, content pillars, workshop outline, offer framework, GPT knowledge base plan, internal training library.

Why it doesn't suck: you're not selling "AI will make your brand for you." You're helping them bottle what they already know. Hot.

07 — AI Workflow Audits

What it is: Audit where AI can actually save time. Not vague "automate everything" nonsense. You map: repetitive tasks, approval bottlenecks, content repurposing gaps, client onboarding friction, admin that should absolutely not still be manual in the year of our lord 2026. Then give them a prioritised roadmap.

Position it as: "Stop buying random AI tools. Let's find the three places AI will actually help."

08 — Custom GPT Strategy Sessions

What it is: Important distinction — you are not "I'll build your bot for $97." You are: "let's decide what GPTs your business actually needs, what they should know, and how your team should use them." Outputs: GPT opportunity map, priority GPT recommendation, knowledge base checklist, prompt structure, usage instructions, risks/limits.

Why it's better: strategy first, build second. Otherwise people make "caption bot number 9000" and wonder why life still hurts.

09 — AI Readiness Scorecard

What it is: A quiz/assessment that leads into workshops or consults. Score them on tools / data and privacy / team confidence / repeatable workflows / content and IP assets / automation opportunities / risk level. Then give them a result: "AI Curious," "AI Chaotic," "AI-Ready-ish," "AI-First Operator."

Why it works: very lead magnet friendly. Very Brooke-coded. Diagnostic → consult → done.

10 — AI Sales Enablement for Founders

What it is: Spicy and useful. You help founders use AI to improve discovery call prep, proposal drafting, objection handling, follow-up emails, sales call review, buyer psychology notes, CRM summaries.

Offer angle: "Sell more ethically without relying on your fried nervous system to remember every detail."


These are the offers where you build the lever once and pull it many times. Systems work scales harder than 1:1 work — but only if the underlying offer is good.

11 — AI Meeting-to-Assets System

What it is: Businesses have gold sitting in sales calls, client calls, coaching calls, webinars, workshops, Voxer/Slack convos, team meetings. You teach them how to turn that into case studies, FAQs, proposals, client resources, content, SOPs, email sequences.

Why it works: uses existing material. No blank-page trauma. We love her.

12 — AI Content Repurposing Clinics

What it is: Not "post 100 times a day with AI" because ew. More like: "bring one piece of existing content. Leave with 20 usable assets in your actual voice." Webinar → carousel, email, reel script, LinkedIn post. Podcast → newsletter, quote cards, sales post. Workshop → lead magnet, content series, nurture sequence.

Why it doesn't suck: keeps human thought at the centre. AI does the chopping, not the thinking.

13 — AI Assistant Stack for VAs/OBMs

What it is: Instead of teaching founders directly, train the support people who implement. Modules: inbox triage, SOP creation, proposal drafting, client summaries, content repurposing, meeting notes, QA/checking AI output, automation handoff docs.

Why it works: founders want their team to "use AI better," but the team often has no bloody idea where to start. You're the bridge.

14 — AI Operations Office Hours

What it is: A paid monthly support model without becoming a full implementation goblin. Structure: 1 live monthly session, members bring workflows/tools/prompts, you diagnose and suggest better systems, guest demos, template library, hot-seat style.

Not a scam if: it has clear outcomes, not vague "AI insiders club" energy.

15 — AI Workshop Licensing

What it is: This one has legs. You create a workshop curriculum other people can license. AI Basics for Small Teams. AI Policy Starter Workshop. AI Content Repurposing Lab. AI-First Operations Sprint. They pay for slide deck, facilitator guide, worksheets, prompt library, delivery notes, updates.

Why it's smart: leverage. You stop being the only person who can deliver the thing. Cute. Efficient. Suspiciously sensible.


These get pitched constantly. Some of them work — but only with a serious reframe. Here's how I'd think about each one before I'd build it.

01 — Paid AI community (as the whole business model)

Can work, but it's not a business model by itself. It's a retention layer. If the promise is "join my AI community and become rich," burn it with glitter fire.

Better angle: "Monthly AI implementation lab for service-based founders who want practical workflows, not hype." Make it the second-tier of a real offer, not the entire business.

02 — Vibe coding agency

Not a scam, but risky if the person can't scope, QA, secure, document or maintain what they build. You'll spend half your billable time debugging unknown bugs in tools you didn't write.

Better angle for you: "AI app ideation + prototype strategy session." You help them decide what to build, why it matters, what it needs to do, and what a developer/no-code person should implement. You stay strategist, they hire build.

03 — Prompt packs (as a standalone product)

Mostly dying. The market is flooded with $7 prompt PDFs and people stopped buying them because they don't change anything.

Better angle: "Prompt systems for specific business tasks." Sales call review system. Podcast repurposing system. Client onboarding system. Sell the system, the prompts are inside the system. Position is everything.

04 — "AI agents that print money while you sleep"

The whole genre. The promise is impossible, the proof is fake, and your nervous system pays the bill when you can't deliver. People who buy it leave broken. People who sell it eventually get exposed.

Better angle: there isn't one. Just don't.

The point of this list

Every offer that doesn't earn its slot here is a thing I see being aggressively sold right now. Some are mostly fine with a tweak. One isn't fine at all. The reason I put this section in is because the magnet doesn't work without it — if you don't know what to not build, the 15 above become 15 random ideas.

Now you know the line.


If you only run one of these — make it one of the top three. Ranked by leverage × ethics × my honest assessment of which ones I'd run myself in a Tuesday afternoon.

1

AI Workflow Audit for Founders

The single highest-leverage offer on this list. Diagnostic in nature, fast to deliver, repositions you instantly as a strategist not a tool-pusher. Sets up everything else you'll ever sell.

2

Founder IP Extraction Session

The most you-coded one. Helps founders bottle their actual brain so they stop bleeding IP into every Loom and Voxer message. Hot, defensible, and impossible to scam.

3

AI Policy + Safe Use Workshop

Rides the 60/22 gap exactly. Easy yes for risk-aware business owners. Fast to deliver, easy to repeat, and the deliverables (policy, decision tree, internal playbook) compound into your IP.

4

AI Meeting-to-Assets System

Uses material the buyer already has. Zero blank-page resistance. Outputs are tangible (case studies, FAQs, content) so the buyer sees value within a week.

5

AI-First Team Training for Small Businesses

The mid-market sweet spot. Teams of 4–20 with existing AI confusion. High-trust offer when delivered with role-based use cases instead of generic prompt training.

6

Custom GPT Strategy Session

Strategy-first, build-second. The right move for founders who want bots but don't know what bots to build. Pairs beautifully with the workflow audit at the front.

7

AI Tool Decision Workshop

Pure relief offer. Buyer feels rescued from their own tab graveyard. Can be a 90-minute audit OR a small group workshop. Either works.


Every offer above shares one line of positioning. If your marketing carries this line, the offers feel coherent. If it doesn't, you sound like everyone else.

The thread

You don't need more AI tools. You need to know where AI actually belongs in your business.

That's the lane. Strategic. Ethical. Useful. Not scammy. Not "comment IDEAS and I'll DM you my Canva PDF that says start an agency." Jesus take the wheel.

When you write your sales page, your IG bio, your discovery call opener — that's the line you're operating from. Every offer in this doc is just a different angle on it.


These offers are designed for service-based founders. Self-qualify below — if you're in here, one of the 15 above is for you.

Consultants + agencies

You already sell expertise. AI offers slot into your existing service ladder cleanly. The workflow audit is your fastest in.

Coaches + course creators

Founder IP extraction + AI sales enablement are your lane. Bottle your method, sell more without burning out on calls.

Allied health + accountants

Policy + safe-use workshops earn instant trust. Compliance-aware industries pay premium for risk-aware AI training.

Service-business owners with teams

AI-first team training, AI assistant stack for your support staff, operations office hours. Your team is the lever.

VAs + OBMs

You're already the implementation layer. Add AI-fluent OBM as a positioning shift. Charge more, deliver harder.

Solo founders + creators

Content repurposing clinics, meeting-to-assets, custom GPT strategy. Get leverage from your existing material before you scale.

If you're already running one of these

You're probably underpricing it. Look at the others on this list — most of them work as bolt-ons, not replacements. The workflow audit at the front, the team training in the middle, the licensing at the back. That's a service ladder, not three businesses.


Every stat in the opening section is real and citable. Receipts:

Want to build one of these with me?

Three ways in, depending on where you're starting.