Hello everyone, has anyone here joined AIS+? I’d love to hear about your experience—would you mind sharing it with us?

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

Hey AIS Community! Some of you may have seen the video Nate did on Anthropic's new Claude Routines. I've done a kind of follow up, adding what I think nobody's covering: how we as AI Automation Agencies can leverage this powerful (and it really IS powerful...) tool... In the video below, I explain how we can use routines for our clients, and how to really ramp up the agentic flow in the cloud, fully on Anthropic's servers - specifically how to chain them. If you haven't got time to watch it now, click the video and bookmark it for later - but honestly, I think this is the smartest opportunity for Agency owners right now to monetise Claude in mid-ticket businesses. Let me know in the comments if you agree...

So you've joined the community and you're asking yourself. Where should I start? n8n or Claude? How do I even make money? All valid questions. I've been in automation since 2016. My boss taught me how to code with Python. That opened the door to where I am today, helping businesses solve problems with n8n and Claude. I'll share my own journey from zero clients to retainers. When I first started in 2016, I made a commitment to code for an hour a day. That's all I did. With time I started building apps and solving my own problems. That didn't bring clients at the start. Rather I got clients by bragging to everyone about what I was doing. It was never condescending. It was excitement. I couldn't believe what I was building and wanted everyone to know. Because trust me. When I shared my algo-trading Python code with my friends, they gave zero shit. All I got was "okay, cool." However working at an ecom company was the break I needed. I started automating my work and my colleagues took notice. After a while they started asking for help with different tasks. That's how I got my first in-house programming work. They told other people about this, and that's how I landed a $7k deal. I could share more, but the gist is this. Commit to a tool. Keep doing it for a long time. Tell people about what you're doing. Help people for free. With time, you'll find someone who wants to pay you.

It's an odd question, because I never struggle with this. So I had to figure out why. This is not the conventional approach. Most devs write down the entire system before building. I don't. What I do is walk through every single step as if it's happening live. Let's say I'm building a WhatsApp lead nurturing system. First, leads have to enter n8n from the CRM. But on what rules? We don't want all leads to enter the flow. So we set up rules based on why they should enter. Then we figure out when and how they should receive a message. We don't want to send messages during holidays, weekends, or late at night. So we block those times out. Then we decide how many messages to send. When do we stop the automation? What if someone responds? What if someone asks us to stop? Yeah, it's a lot to think through. But if you skip this step, you'll miss things. The first time I built a lead nurturing system, I didn't think about holidays at all. Once a client flagged it, I added it to every build by default. Experience fills in the gaps. Writing it down and thinking through every step makes building easier. It also helps to understand the full process from start to finish. If you can't explain what's supposed to happen between A and B, you can't build it. If you can, building it is 10x easier