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Ben Hawksworth

Private AI Assistant for Experts

Private AI assistant built for a solo expert (consultant, solicitor, advisor)

Video published Aug 12, 2026 by Ben Hawksworth

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

Source video

Ben Hawksworth · 7 AI Businesses You Can Start This Weekend (Just Claude) ↗

One of 7 gigs covered in this video

What It Is

Build a private AI assistant for a solo professional, a consultant, solicitor, or financial advisor, by loading their past proposals, FAQs, and other documents into a Claude Project, then instructing it to answer questions and draft new proposals only in that person's own voice and only from their own material.

The Pitch

Hawksworth demonstrates the entire build in a couple of minutes: start a Claude project, drag in roughly 20 past proposals and FAQs, and give it a single instruction to answer only from the documents provided and ask a clarifying question if the answer isn't there. He suggests charging around £1,500 to build it and £300 a month to maintain it as their workflow grows, framing the value as multiplying the expert's own existing knowledge rather than replacing them.

Who It’s Best For

Someone comfortable working with solo professionals who already have a body of past work, proposals, FAQs, case files, to draw from, since the tool is only as good as the material it's trained on.

The Truth (as we see it)

The pricing (£1,500 build, £300/month) is the presenter's own suggested figure, not a documented sale. The underlying build process itself, a Claude Project scoped to a specific person's documents with a narrow instruction, is simple enough to verify and replicate directly.

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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