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9/10 people I meet are still underestimating how much AI can change your business.
I’ve been using 7 AI tools that have helped me save me something like $400K in costs, and are the cornerstones behind my $1M/year online business.
Let me walk you through the workflow and exactly how I use them:
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Workflow One - AI Email Agent
Tools: Zapier + Claude
Saves: $1,200/month in virtual assistant costs
My inbox used to be a time sink: full of sponsorship requests, newsletter support, and podcast bookings.
Now AI takes the first pass at all of them.
Here’s how it works:
Every 2 minutes, Zapier checks my inbox for new emails
It sends the email content to Claude (Anthropic)
Claude uses a system prompt to categorize the message (e.g. sponsorship, podcast guest, PPP request)
Based on the category, it drafts a tailored response using my tone, brand, and preferred links
I either review and send or let it auto-send if it’s high confidence
This one workflow cut down >50% of my email load.
Even better: it’s fully modular.
I can update the Claude prompt, add filters, or expand the logic using Zapier’s AI co-pilot.
Instead of a VA at $1,200/month, I pay ~$25 for Zapier + Claude credits.
That’s $14,000+ saved annually, just on email.
Workflow Two - AI Prototyping
Tools: V0 + Claude
Saves: $5K–$10K per product idea
When I want to build a new product, I don’t hire a dev (first).
I open Claude and type:
“Act as a prompt engineer. Generate a prompt to build a $3/month invoice tool for freelancers. It should use clean UI, support tax calculations, and generate downloadable PDFs.”
Then I plug that prompt into 3 AI prototyping tools:
V0
Bolt
Lovable
All 3 generate a full functional frontend, with working buttons, forms, PDF generators, and more.
Then I:
Pick the best one
Give feedback (“make design more professional” or “add address input field”)
Watch the tool regenerate the UI in real time
What would’ve taken a frontend dev 2 weeks or $5,000 from a dev shop…
Now takes me 30 minutes and zero code.
Even if I end up not launching the product, I’ve prototyped and validated it without spending a dollar.
Workflow Three - AI Coding Agent for Backends
Tool: Cursor
Saves: $96K/year vs hiring a senior developer
Once the frontend is ready, I need the backend.
Enter Cursor, my coding copilot. It’s like VS Code with a built-in AI dev assistant.
Here’s what I do:
Download the prototype code from V0
Load it into Cursor
Start a conversation:
“Add Stripe payments”
“Fix this bug”
“Deploy this to localhost”
Every error or dependency issue I hit? I just paste it into the Cursor chat, and it walks me through fixing it
The key here isn’t that Cursor writes perfect code.
It’s that I don’t need to hire a backend engineer. I can ship real features without giving up equity or cash.
I’ve used Cursor to:
Add billing logic
Store invoice history
Build internal tools that would’ve cost $10K+
For solo founders or small teams, Cursor replaces the backend bottleneck.
Workflow Four - AI Ad Generator
Tools: Gemini + Veo 3
Saves: $10K–$20K per video campaign
When I was developing product ads at thredUP, we paid thousands for marketing videos.
Now I create high-quality video ads with a simple workflow:
Use Gemini to brainstorm 5 ad ideas and storyboards for my product
Choose the best one
Feed the storyboard into Veo 3, Google’s new AI video tool
Generate a 10–60 second ad, complete with visuals, animations, and sound
Once I have the draft, I can:
Iterate on each scene
Add calls to action
Experiment with viral openings or new product hooks
Instead of a creative agency charging $10K per video, I pay $20/month for Gemini and free access (for now) to Veo.
This workflow powers:
Landing page explainer videos
UGC-style TikToks
Pre-roll ads for YouTube
It’s changed my entire go-to-market playbook when I work with startups.
Workflow Five - AI Content Marketing Team
Tool: Lindy
Saves: $2,400/month in content ops
Lindy is like Zapier meets GPT but built for marketing.
Here’s how I use it:
Automatically turns podcast episodes into blog posts using Claude
Takes my LinkedIn posts and converts them into X threads
Schedules posts via Typefully
Updates my Substack drafts with episode summaries and CTAs
All of this used to be handled by two different freelancers. Now I use one, who is powered by this system.
I create once → it repurposes, formats, schedules, and even personalizes the tone per platform. The single freelancer edits it.
I used to spend $2.4K on the other freelancer.
Now I spend $50/month on Lindy.
This AI marketing system is what powers the flywheel behind all my content.
Workflow Six - AI Podcast Editor
Tools: Riverside AI + Opus Clips
Saves: $5,500/month
If you’ve ever tried producing a podcast, you know:
Editing takes 3–5x the recording time
Audio balancing is tedious
Clips are a full-time job
Riverside changed everything for me:
“Magic Episode” creates smart layouts and scene switches
“Tracks AI” cleans audio, removes filler, and improves voice quality
“Magic Clips” automatically finds 5–10 great clips with hooks and subtitles
I feed those into Opus Clips to further format them for virality
I do it all with $50/month in tools.
And the best part? This podcast now generates $18K/month in revenue - which I have re-invested into humans making edits after the AI.
But at the beginning, I could never have scaled it without these AI workflows.
Workflow Seven - AI Podcast Strategist
Tool: Claude Projects
Saves: $3,000/month in strategy, research, and outreach
This is the cherry on top.
Claude Projects lets me create a persistent, memory-rich copilot just for my podcast.
Here’s what it knows:
My podcast audience, goals, stats
My past guests and topics
My outreach tone, booking link, and interview length
With that context, I can ask Claude to:
Recommend guests (and rate them)
Draft cold outreach messages
Suggest angles, episode titles, and interview questions
Track topic trends and gaps
I even gave it examples of Dwarkesh and Lex Fridman podcasts for inspiration.
It’s like hiring a strategist, a booker, and a researcher, all rolled into one.
And it costs me $20/month instead of $3,000 (that’s literally what strategists cost, I’ve had them quote).
And that’s it for the AI tools behind my business!
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