Hey everyone 👋 Question for those of you building AI chatbots for clients (or your own product): When you deploy a chatbot on a website, are you actually GDPR-compliant — or are you hoping nobody notices? I’m based in Austria, building AI automation solutions for European SMBs, and the #1 question I get asked isn’t “how smart is your bot?” — it’s: “Where is the data going? Who processes it? Do you have an AVV?” Most US-built chatbots fail this conversation immediately because: • No signed Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR requirement) • Subprocessors (OpenAI, Pinecone, Vercel) not disclosed • No Datenschutzerklärung (privacy notice) in the local language • EU AI Act transparency requirements ignored (mandatory from August 2026) Curious — how are you handling this for European clients? Or are you avoiding the European market entirely because it feels too complicated? Happy to share what I’ve built (a 10-point GDPR transparency package) if anyone wants to dig in 🙌

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In September 2024 I started an AI automation agency. Nine months later I was doing $100K/month in recurring revenue. Then I sold my share to my partners. I took everything I learned: - The client acquisition system - The pricing - The delivery process … and I turned it into a step-by-step playbook for building a one-person AI agency. No code. No team. No guesswork. See exactly what's inside: -> I sold my AI agency. here's the playbook PS: If you are an AIS+ member, this is included in the Scale module. No need to purchase separately. - Nate

Is it me or are both of these platforms acting up today, badly? This is me right now in the middle of my first real build.

Big thank you to Nate for putting this together and providing all the resources for free — honestly made it super easy to follow and take action. For my build, I wanted to challenge myself to keep everything 100% free. I ended up using the OpenRouter free APIs and the openrouter/free model, which dynamically picks from available free models. This helped me get around the usual limits you hit when sticking to a single free model. Still pretty basic right now, but it’s working — and that’s what matters. I’ll keep improving it step by step from here. The next step is to build something that actually provides real value and start something of my own. I’ll see you in AIS+ @Nate Herk If you're just starting out, don’t overthink it — you can build something real without spending anything. 💪