Most people pick an AI income model based on what sounds exciting. That's why they stall. The right model isn't the most popular one. It's the one that matches where you actually are right now. So before you pick anything, run yourself through this. Start with how fast you need money. If you need income in the next 30 days, your two best options are SMMA and AAA. SMMA stands for Social Media Marketing Agency. You run content for businesses that don't have time to do it themselves. Your offer is simple: one monthly call with the client, you record it, feed it into Claude, and out comes 30 days of posts and carousels. You charge a monthly retainer. They get consistent content. You get recurring revenue from a process you build once and repeat. AAA stands for AI Automation Agency. You build workflows and automations inside client businesses. Connecting tools, eliminating manual tasks, building AI assistants that handle intake or reporting. Clients pay well because the pain is real. The catch is every client's system is different, which makes it hard to scale without a team. SMMA gets you to a paying client faster with a lower technical barrier. AAA has a higher per-client ceiling but requires more skill and more patience. Both are solid starting points. Neither is a long-term empire on its own. If you can wait 3 to 6 months, more models open up. AEO agencies help businesses show up in Google and AI search results. Vibe coding agencies help non-technical founders finish and ship the product they've been stuck on. Information products let you package what you know and sell it at near-zero marginal cost per customer. If you're playing a longer game and already have some income stability, communities and SaaS are worth building toward. A community at 200 members paying $50 a month is $10k MRR. SaaS is the highest leverage of all but the slowest path to first revenue. Not for someone who needs money now. Next question to ask yourself: do you want to sell your time or build an asset? Coaching, consulting, speaking, and agency work all sell your time. Some of it's repeatable. None of it fully disconnects from you. Courses, communities, and SaaS build assets. They take longer but the ceiling is different. Neither is wrong. But you have to know which game you're playing before you start.

Great Zoom tonight guys! Here's the instructional video I promised. Go kick some ass on social media! 💪 https://www.loom.com/share/f53b36efbb1f4ab88cb1f14d258862f8

No cost model using Gemini's new personalization settings. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyFZF3Jdt4T5EtvrSTYV-YnuFrKR33YYU7jIYgJFGtY/edit?usp=drivesdk

Plug these into Claude, and it'll become 10x more powerful. https://mcpservers.org/

The new Figure Helix robot is working autonomously for HOURS with zero human intervention.