If you're selling AI consulting or AI implementation... you're making it harder than it needs to be. Here's what's actually working for our AI agency clients right now. Position yourself as a Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO). Why it works: 1. It's a title. People understand titles. "AI consultant" is vague. "Your part-time Chief AI Officer" is crystal clear. 2. Most industries haven't heard of it yet. Construction companies, logistics, manufacturing, transportation... these guys need AI desperately and have zero clue where to start. 3. There's no competition in these spaces. Everyone's fighting over marketing agencies and SaaS companies. Meanwhile, a machine shop owner who just took over dad's business? He's dying for someone to modernize his ops. The key: don't target companies that think they can DIY this. Target the ones where there's a 0% chance they figure it out alone. I think every company needs a fractional CAIO. The ones who don't know that yet... those are your best prospects. Hit the companies where AI still feels like magic, not a commodity. That's where the money is.

Open-sourced something (MIT) that might save you a boring week. Every time someone vibe-codes a prototype with Claude Code or Cursor, the demo works, then they hit the same wall: real auth, roles, and actually-secure data access. Most people end up hiding buttons in the UI and calling it security. One open DevTools and it's gone. So I built a Next.js + Supabase starter that handles that part properly: - Google OAuth, no passwords to store - Three roles out of the box: admin, manager, viewer - Security enforced at the database with RLS, not in the UI. The database refuses the write. That's the difference. - CSP and security headers preconfigured - CI/CD on every PR, one-click Vercel deploy It's the layer between "the prototype works" and "I can let real users in." link Free to fork. I'd genuinely like eyes on it, tell me what you'd change, what's missing, or where the security model could be tighter. PRs welcome. What do you normally reach for to handle this part?