Reflecting on your journey to making your first significant revenue milestone, what was the one strategy or tool that flipped the switch for you? Share a short story or insight that others can learn from!

So I switched everything to local models. I swapped the frontier model for a Courier model from Jackson Oaks and now I’m running all the inference I want 24/7 with zero token costs. A lot of people ask how Courier actually works because it feels almost too good to be true. Here’s the real progression most people go through: 1. Start on the free tier just to test it 2. Move to Pro at $25/mo 3. Max out the monthly tokens and jump to the $100/mo tier 4. Hit the limit and choose your path: 4a. Buy your own Mac hardware and run Courier locally for unlimited tokens under your control 4b. Stay on Courier cloud and work with a verified provider (like me) for production-grade inference + a custom token limit Either way you’re on flat-rate AI usage instead of watching token costs climb every month. Token prices keep going up and a lot of the VC-backed plays are going to feel that pressure. If you own the inference layer, you don’t have to care. I’m all-in on this approach and honestly more excited about it than anything else right now. Anyone else here dealing with painful token bills on agents or other workflows? Have you looked at Courier yet? ghostcoded.com/courier

There are many misconceptions about starting and running an AI/automation/dev agency. What is one myth you believed before starting, and how did reality differ? Drop your thoughts below and let's debunk these myths together!

Being able to build is actually the least important part and here's why 1. If you dont have sales, you wont build anything 2. If you don't know how to market yourself then no one will know you can build anything 3. If you dont know how to manage a project, you wont do a good job a building anything 4. If you don't communicate well with your clients, they won't think you are building anything 5. If you don't organize your documents and cover yourself with proper policies then building anything will be a liability These are things people dont think of when they are just getting started out Especially in the age of AI, building is the least of your worries. Worry about these 5 things first and then get good at building, or find someone like Ghostcoded to white label and then you'll see some serious growth. What'd I miss?

Guys, I'm serious, the power of a demo is unreal! I had a meeting with a prospect monday. They didnt get me what i needed until an hour before my follow up call with them today. when i finally got to it, it was 30 min before the meeting and i gave it all to Ghostcode and in less than 30 min really i had a fully interactive demo ready for my meeting. Now this wasnt some gimicky demo that was on some random infra, no no. It was all on the exact infra that I would actually build the product on why do i do this? bc I'm that confident they are going to close and so when they do i literally just have Cursor then continue to cook on the exact features and requirements. the power of automating your process is nuts, literally so nuts! When the client *saw* the dashboard all ready to go and looking like exactly what they had wanted, they were blown away. Then with some talk about how I operate on payment, my warranty period, and the no mandatory retainer lock in, it was smooth sailing from there. The best part? This is literally going to help them so much and I cannot wait to build it out for them. We're going to be pulling in financial data from all sorts of locations like tik tok shop, amazon, shopify, and quickbooks all so they can see and own their own data. This will obviously lead to lots of ai implementations in the future etc But for now were focusing on data aggregation, refinement, display, manipulation, projection, and understanding. CEO was onboard all bc they could see and feel it before having to say yes. What's working for you? // oh and my 10 free beta spots for the Ghostsuite filled up all before I woke up this morning 😱 So if you weren't able to get on that short list, that's ok, at least you are here! What you should do is go checkout my flagship product that is already in production: Ghostsign If you started or are thinking of starting an ai agency, you need to be using Ghostsign as your ai first sow and proposal research, generator, and signature platform!