How to Get Paid for AI Tools Without an Audience 💰

Jay Beckham

20d • General Discussion 💬

Howdy AIS Rockstars. 🤖

I gotta confess something that took me WAY too long to figure out.

For years, I thought the skill was building with AI.

I'd lose entire weekends to it. Tweaking agents, chasing whatever shiny new tool was FINALLY gonna change everything.

I had a folder full of stuff I built.

And almost none of it made a dime.

Here's the part that stung…

The building was never the hard part.

Me, you, a 14-year-old with Claude and a free Saturday can now build just about anything. AI got sooo good that "I built a tool" stopped being impressive. It's the price of admission now, not the prize.

So if everybody can build…

what's actually worth anything?

Eyeballs! 👀

The RIGHT ones.

And it's getting in front of eyeballs that no one wants to talk about, because it smells like "selling," and most builders would rather build for another six months than send one scary outreach message.

(I see it in every community I'm in. There's ALWAYS somebody asking "okay, but how do I actually sell this thing?")

After realizing my “Projects” folder was getting bigger and bigger…

I stopped trying to build for the sake of building.

...and I started partnering with people who already HAD the eyeballs!

Here's my playbook 👇

I find an expert. Somebody who already teaches the thing, already has a room full of people hanging on their every word.

Then I take what they already teach…

...and I turn it into a AI tools that makes them look like a HERO to their audience!

They don't have to learn to build. I don't have to learn to sell.

They just hand it to the people who already love them and we split the revenue.

That's how CreatorFinder did $19K before it ever officially "launched."

I lived the other version of this for way too long…

I was the guy with a hard drive full of brilliant tools and a checking account that didn't agree. Smartest builder in the room, quietly broke. And the worst part wasn't the money. It was looking like a guy who could make anything except a sale.

That's the real trap. It was never "can I build it."

It's "will anyone ever see it."

So when I've got a tool I'm proud of and it's just not making money…

it's almost never the tool.

It's that I let it sit in my own garage instead of putting it in somebody else's parade.

I'll get into HOW I find the right partners (and what makes a tool one they'll actually want to push) over the next few posts.

But I'm curious first 👇

What's something cool you’re working on right now?

Drop it below. I might spot a distribution play hiding in there you can't see from the inside.

Let's go,

Jay

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