Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of people claim that *starting* an AI agency in 2026 isn’t worth it, because the market is already overcrowded and it’s hard to deliver enough real value to the customers. Comments like these can be quite demotivating, which is a real shame. What are your thoughts on this?

What I did: Scraped my competition with Firecrawl. Found the best-designed agency in my niche and pulled their full design system — exact colors, font stack, type scale, spacing. Not a screenshot to eyeball. Actual tokens. The takeaway hurt a little: their site looks like it belongs to the industry they serve. Mine looks like a generic SaaS landing page. Same information, completely different visual language. That's the gap I'm closing. Simplified the backend instead of building one. I was about to spin up a database for a contact form. Stopped and asked what I actually needed. Ended up with zero databases, zero API keys, zero environment variables — the form posts to a hidden Google Form and lands in a Sheet. Free, and nothing new to maintain. Built reusable tooling. Screenshot and scraping scripts that live outside the project, so every future client site gets them for free. Challenges I ran into: - Screenshots kept coming out half-blank. Scroll-reveal animations never fired because the browser never scrolled. Had to script the scroll before capturing. - The simple solution uses an undocumented endpoint. It works, but it could break silently. Added email notifications as the tripwire. - My accounts are scattered. Half the infrastructure lives in places my tools couldn't reach. Spent real time just figuring out where things actually were. Biggest lesson: I sat down to fix the design and the most valuable thing I got was a scrape telling me why it felt off. Ill keep you guys posted on how this is going

Attached is the downloaded CSV file—a list of mechanics from my city. Second, what did I actually learn? That you really need a dedicated cheat sheet file, and a brand new .env file. It's starting to work really well. As for my test case idea: right now, using the most powerful model, I'm scraping a client's website—a small travel agency I want to consult for. I'm doing a complete business analysis: examining their three different websites, analyzing how their campaigns look, and comparing them with their main competitors. I'm applying this directly to a real-world case that I'll present in a few days. Thanks and see you around!

Hello everyone! I just joined the community and have almost no technical experience. I’m excited to start my AI automation journey but I’m not sure where to begin. Should I start with Nate’s recent YouTube videos or jump straight into the 7-Day AIS Challenge? Any advice on a good starting point would be really helpful. Thank you!

I DID MY FIRST AGENTIC WORKFLOW. I am really excited , i use canva for pics , KEI AI is on subscribtion, and google for search , but still happy that i did it. Still i have a long road before me , i don't have a logo or a brand kit yet ,but a win is a win even if is small .