No hate to AI skool communities, I think the owners are doing a great job at running them but here are a few things that I’ve noticed: 1. Creators have built these communities as a funnel to sell courses, or hire talent. Disguised as a highly resourceful and professional place for networking. 2. If you are a beginner who wants to learn AI, this is the perfect place to start. 3. If you’re an agency owner looking for solid leads, this isn’t the right place (more about that later). 4. Most communities are full of scammers where they will spam on your posts for engagement and then try to fish you. 5. It is a deadly bubble where your aspirations will be brought up & when you enter the market you’ll have to face harsh realities. Let me explain: How it all began? Creators made these communities years ago promising to teach people how AI works and how they can start their own AI Agencies. Nothing wrong with that. If you’re new to the technical world, you will learn a lot here. This is why you’ll find a LOT of learners. Now that right there is the problem itself. These communities have also been marketed as good places to find business owners and leads, but the type of content which they have consumed before joining the community is a bit misleading. They have an expectation of getting an AI solution cheap and quick & when you add in beginners to the mix, they are going to promise the same. Don’t get me wrong, some businesses just need a simple voice agent or a chat bot which are easily implemented (that too using other saas apps, where the developer has to do absolutely nothing). But I’ve had a lot of leads where people expected to build scalable systems with thousands of concurrent users, like: reception & admin system for a network of 9000 restaurants, a huge community based matching system for tutors and students all over UK, AI cold call assistant with real time feedback and a huge CRM. Now guess what was the budget range of these projects? $0-$3000 :)

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I get it, AI has made it easier to build software, but it’s not as if you can magically do months worth of coding in days or even weeks. Sales reps and business owners have VERY UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS! Here’s the pattern I’ve discovered: There are a bunch of creators who have hyped people up, saying you do not need to have coding knowledge to build AI systems. Is it true? No. Unless your job is to build small demos/MVPs or content on AI. You might be able to sell your “product” by showing your leads the automation you built on n8n but when it’s time to deploy it into the real world, it’ll fail on day 1. Here’s a recent case study from one of my leads: They needed a WhatsApp reservation and admin system for a network of ~9000 restaurants. So they did what most people feel is the logical solution, hire developers. The developers that they had, built a WhatsApp bot using n8n. They showed it to the client, it worked fine. Because obviously it’s a simple chatbot so you can’t really do much with it except talk. Can you jailbreak it? Piece of cake. Does it have any logical awareness? No. Is it anywhere close to a usable demo? Not at all. So they start reaching out to people who can actually build the system. That’s where I come into picture. They tell me, they already have a system built “halfway” and need me to finish it in the next 3 days (that too for free lmfao, I’ll get to this part later). My CTO sits with their developer and sees the system they had. Surprise! The system is just an n8n template copy pasted with vibe coding done all over (the guy didn’t even remove the ChatGPT comments in the code). So I tell them, that this cannot be done within 3 days. Your system is pretty much useless, we’ll have to build everything from scratch. We can give you a small demo in the next 12 days, but that requires a certain upfront payment so that we can start working. That’s where he paused and told “he’ll talk to his partners”. Apparently all of their budget was already allocated to marketing, they hired a lot of sales people and could only allocate the budget for “API Token costs”.

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