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Phone calls used to forward to their cell phones — and nobody was answering.

Then he turned on an AI employee named Sophia. The first week, he found people calling at 9pm to talk about building a website. Full conversations. Nobody had ever left a voicemail before, because nobody was ever going to.

Today that same AI employee runs across nearly 200 local business clients — answering phones, qualifying leads, and booking appointments. In this episode he opens up the actual prompt, the guardrails, and the automation stack behind it.

Including one lead his human sales team would have deleted on sight. Sophia worked it over email for weeks with zero human involvement, and closed a retainer. The client's words: "your sales team's incredible."

→ The exact prompt formula he trained his whole team on: Role, Context, Outcome

→ How he takes one base prompt and deploys it across ~200 clients without rewriting it

→ The hard constraints he never lets an AI agent break (no pricing guarantees, no fake integrations, no claiming AI replaces staff)

→ His five lead-intent tiers and how the agent decides to nurture vs. send the booking link

→ How he names and personalizes each agent so clients feel it's theirs

→ The 3-call onboarding that gets a nervous client comfortable enough to flip it on

→ Why he does zero outbound — and how a fishing lodge that needed Russian and Chinese translation turned into a PPC and social retainer

→ What to deploy first if you have one client and one afternoon

If you sell to local businesses, this is the lowest-barrier offer on the table right now. It costs nothing to spin up, it trains itself on the client's own website, and it opens the door to everything else you sell.

LinkedIn: ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/klintrudolph/

X: https://x.com/klintr

Website: https://thexcitegroup.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

Learn the exact business model he uses to sell AI to local businesses, starting with a $999 assessment anyone can deliver this week (no code, no audience, no AI expertise required).

If you run an agency or want to start an AI side business in 2026, this is the full step-by-step: how to land clients, what to charge, the offer ladder that scales from a $999 assessment to a $1,500/month retainer to high-value AI agents — and the exact scripts Corey uses to close each one.

You'll learn how a $30/month AI agent generated an extra $11,000/month for a wedding-venue client, why speed-to-lead is the highest-ROI AI offer you can sell, the AOA framework (Audit, Optimize, Automate) Corey runs on every client, and the word-for-word cold pitch that sells an AI agent to any local service business.

Whether you're a marketing agency, a freelancer, or a complete beginner looking to make money with AI, this is a complete blueprint you can copy today.

How to start an AI services business with no audience, no capital, and no coding

The $999 AI assessment offer and how to sell it

How to price and deliver a $1,500/month AI consulting retainer

How to build and sell speed-to-lead AI agents to local businesses

The exact frameworks, scripts, and upsells behind a done-with-you AI business

Corey Ganim spent nine years building a $16M e-commerce business before pivoting to AI services. He now helps non-technical business owners implement AI — and teaches others how to do the same.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/

Work: https://returnmytime.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

Guest: Corey Ganim

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esrXYBZa4Ns&t=1s

Enmanuel Diaz sold websites for $2,000 and one in ten people said yes. Then he found a firearms training company with 500+ five-star reviews, a packed calendar, and a homemade GoDaddy site ranked #1 on Google — and realized they didn't need a better website. They needed a system.

He blew up his own model. Now local businesses pay him $250 a month for custom software that used to cost $50,000–$100,000 and take a coding team months. Nine out of ten say yes. His churn is under 2%. There are no contracts and no build fees, and his pricing is public.

In this episode he opens his actual client dashboards and walks through the 5 systems he sells to local businesses, then builds one live on camera using AI — from a blank screen to a working homepage.

→ The automatic rebooking engine that took one client from 1 booking per customer to 4–5

→ The booking + CRM system he built for a bridal boutique in under 7 days

→ The revenue dashboard that shows a client exactly how much money their website made ($1,100 in 19 days on a $450/month site)

→ Why he hides his client's prices — and why sales went up

→ How he prices a $100,000 build at $250/month and still profits

→ Why he gives clients the files and lets them cancel any time

→ The exact prompt he uses to build a client homepage with AI

If you run an agency, sell websites, or sell anything to local businesses, this is a working playbook for turning one-time website projects into recurring revenue.

About the guest

Enmanuel Diaz builds custom software and websites for local businesses on a monthly subscription model at iCreateYourSite.com.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enmanuel-diaz

Website: https://icreateyoursite.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.