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Paid AI Business Audits

Paid AI business audits for people in your existing network

Video published Jul 21, 2026 by Chris Koerner

Startup cost: Very low startup cost (our estimate; the video doesn’t give figures)

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Chris Koerner · 3 Overlooked AI Businesses I'd Start TODAY (& How to Find More) ↗

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What It Is

Offering paid AI audits to small business owners in your existing personal network, recording an informal voice-memo conversation about their business pain points, then feeding that recording into an AI chat tool to generate a diagnostic report, which is sold as a standalone PDF and used as a foot-in-the-door for higher-ticket AI implementation work afterward.

The Pitch

The guest argues this doesn't require any AI or business expertise to start, just access to business owners you already know, since roughly 1 in 10 adults owns a business, most people's existing network already includes several. He walks through the exact process: record a casual conversation about a friend's business problems on a phone's voice memo app, upload it to an AI chat tool asking it to identify opportunities for AI to help, then sell the resulting 5 to 20 page report for hundreds to low thousands of dollars, using it as the opening move toward selling actual implementation work afterward.

Who It’s Best For

Someone with an existing personal or professional network that includes small business owners, willing to have informal conversations before formal sales pitches.

The Truth (as we see it)

This is presented live in a podcast brainstorm, and while the guest says he knows people doing this actively, no client results or account verification are shown. The core mechanic, using a casual recorded conversation as raw material for an AI-generated business diagnostic, is a genuinely low-cost, low-skill way to create a sellable first deliverable, though the leap from a report to being paid for implementation work assumes real follow-through skill the video doesn't cover in depth.

Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.

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