🔵 4 AI Business Models For 2026

Gusten Sun

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These 4 AI business models are huge right now.

And the old models are struggling.

(check image below)

"Done for you" and his 2 sibblings are silently wondering what's happening in the market...

Your offers in 2026 won't just be about the levels of access to you.

Done for you (DFY), done with you (DWY), and do it yourself (DIY).

You have to look beyond that old mindset.

AI created a whole new market.

DWAI.

"Done With AI"

This is 1 model, not 3 different ones.

AI can and will continue to master more and more of the manual labor economy.

So now the "levels" become more about:

- How many AI solutions that can do this FOR them

- How VALUABLE are those solutions for them

- And how much support do they get from you (your time)

Make sense?

You're no longer selling "hard work" or effort.

You're going back to what business should've always been about:

Getting paid for solving problems.

Doesn't matter if it's you or AI.

The question is who's better.

And there's no human on this planet that can process millions of data points in seconds, and keep up with the quality of AI.

And who's faster?

If you can create an AI solution that gets them results in seconds, why would they pay more to wait 1-2 weeks?

If AI is good (and it is), everyone's going to want DWAI.

Done asap, with AI.

The "gap" and where you're coming in is connecting the dots between the power of AI and implementation of niche-specific solutions.

Let's dive into the 4 models:

- Vibe Coding: Create a MVP saas that helps a specific person get a specific outcome. The more stickier the better, as people pay recurring revenue for recurring value. AI builds 99% of your Saas, and you can hire a dev to "complete" the back-end for you to get over the finish line (or ask AI how to do it).

- Vibe Services: What used to take you months or years to learn, you can now learn in a weekend, and what you spent weeks creating, can now be created for you with AI Agents. (think AI voice, AI funnels, AI workflows etc). Businesses spend lots of money getting help with AI.

- AI-Powered Products: Digital Products and Group Coaching Programs are still around in the AI era, but only if you focus on more than "information". Add community, connection, and calls to hang out live and have FUN together.

- AI-Trained Licensing: Sell access to your knowledge, frameworks AND agents built and trained on your specific insights, so your customers and clients get a specific result with the AI agentic system you've built (think Custom GPT's, but on steroids with your own dashboard etc)

And this is just touching the surface.

I need to start filming more YT videos to go deeper with ya'll.

This making sense tho?

Anyone else seeing this market shift, or is it just me?

Anyways, talk more tomorrow.

Going to sleep, it's late in Finland.

Gnight!

Much love,

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