Happy New Year! As I’m battling the crud from holiday travels (a story for another day)… I’ve been thinking about New Years resolutions and goals. And for the first time in YEARS… I’m NOT setting income goals for the year. Every January I used to pick a number... chase it like my golden doodle doing backyard zoomies... and then (assuming I caught it) just pick a BIGGER number the next year. Groundbreaking stuff, I know. But this year I'm trying something different... I'm setting ASSET GOALS instead. Not "how much MONEY can I make?" But "How many things can I OWN… that make money WITHOUT me doing more work?" It sounds like the same question... I promise you it’s not. Revenue goals were useful, but kept me on the treadmill. Hit the number? Great — now I’d get run FASTER next year to hit a bigger number. Asset goals are more like... collecting little money-printing machines and letting them hum in the background while I go touch grass and play with my kids. That’s why in 2026... My goal is to license out tiny AI tools to another 10-20 people as fast as possible. Microinfluencers. Folks with audiences. People who can actually USE what I've already built. They get a tool that helps their people. I get another revenue stream. I do as close to zero extra work as possible. (My favorite amount of work.) It's the easiest way I know for rockstars to stack royalty income with AI in 2026. And that's the mindset shift I'm challenging you with this year... Control assets. Don't chase revenue. Thanks to AI, this is getting EASIER than ever to do. Even for non-technical people who can barely spell AI. Here's to a 2026 full of collected assets and minimal chasing. In Your Corner, Jason PS — If you're not sure what counts as an "asset"... think: anything that can make money while you sleep, vacation, or binge Netflix. Courses, templates, tools, licenses. Stuff that works without you showing up every time.

So let's say you've got a tool idea — or you've already built something rough. Maybe it took a weekend, maybe you're still figuring out the technical stuff. Either way, you've got SOMETHING. Now what? This is the part I got wrong for a LOOOOOONG time. I used to pitch people on ideas. "Hey, I think we could build something cool together. What if we made a tool that does X for your audience?" And I'd get the polite nod — the "sounds interesting, let me think about it" — and then nothing would happen. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was going on. When you pitch an idea, you're asking someone to imagine something that doesn't exist, believe it'll work, and trust that you'll actually build it. That's a lot of mental effort to ask from someone who doesn't know you. But when you show up with something already built — even a rough prototype — it's a completely different conversation. It's like the difference between asking someone if they wanna start a band together versus inviting them to jam with your band that's already got a gig next Friday. One is you asking them to take a leap of faith, and the other is just an invitation to join something that's already moving. Here's why this matters for royalty deals… When you build the tool first, you're not asking for permission or trying to convince them — you're offering something that already exists. "This does the thing. It works. You want to put your name on it and split the revenue, or should I take it to someone else?" And if they pass? You tweak it for the next creator's audience and offer it again, or you clone it and approach someone in a different niche. The tool stays yours either way. Now — I get that building something without knowing if anyone will want it feels risky. But... With today's AI and $20/month, you can spin up a working prototype in a few hours. I just got a check for $300 this weekend for something I built 6 months ago. And it continues to pay me every month.

Everyone's telling you to build an audience first. What if that's the slowest possible way to do it? If you listened to most gurus' advice, you'd grind for YEARS — posting content, building lists, hoping someone shows up. As a guy whose last Facebook post was 4 months ago... that advice sounds like a special kind of torture. Which is why I was just telling Rockstar Phil about a 23-year-old named Connor. Connor doesn't build audiences. He finds them. He looks for influencers with engaged followers, studies what their people actually want, then builds a simple AI tool specifically for that crowd. One of his tools does $45k/month. Even if he gave the influencer the lion's share... That's still over $10k/month on ONE tool. And because it doesn't take too much to build these thanks to AI... He's doing this with SEVERAL tools right now. Here's what most people overlook though... Connor didn't invent anything new. He didn't have some genius original idea. He took EXISTING frameworks — stuff already proven to work — and built tools around them for audiences that already existed. And I'm not talking about building the next Instagram. It could be as simple as a calculator. Something you could put together in a weekend. You can't scroll Instagram for 30 seconds these days without stumbling on an influencer with a huge audience and NO IDEA how to monetize it these days. Tomorrow, I'll give you a quick rundown of how my 9-year-old daughter made THREE of these tools in an afternoon over the weekend. In this with ya, Jason

Yesterday I talked about how a 23-year-old partnered with an influencer to build an AI tool doing $45k/month. Today I want to show you how braindead simple building this stuff actually is. I recorded a quick video creating a working AI tool from scratch in under ten minutes. I can’t code. I just told the thing what I wanted and it built it. (Actually, I just got even lazier and just clicked 2-3 buttons.) My 9-year-old daughter made THREE of these in an afternoon last weekend. She just described what she wanted (including one that showed her what she’d look like with different hairstyles), and walked away with working apps. ===> Watch the walkthrough below (9-minute video) 👇👇👇 It doesn’t have to be perfect. You just need something you can actually SHOW someone and say, “I built this for your audience. Want to take a look?” FUNWORK: Go to aistudio.google.com, build something in 5-10 minutes, and drop DONE in the comments. I’ve got a special bonus for the action-takers. :-) In this with ya, Jason PS — If you’re stuck on what to build, just click “I’m feeling lucky” to get your juices flowing. PPS — The image here is a trippy, Salvador Dali-style picture my "dream analysis" tool made from my made-up fever dream. I told it I was going to take a math test when I got ran over by a turtle and all my teeth feel out. Pretty beautiful way to capture it, amirite?

Looking for a partner to monetize it via a clean revenue-share. You handle offer + ops.I bring distribution. Maybe someone would be interested...