Jon Cheney
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Cheney predicts his AI agency will reach $1M monthly revenue by December
“We will absolutely be at ten million. We'll, we'll, we'll be at one million a month by December for sure.”
Cheney: AI implementation business grew from $1M to $4.5M ARR in nine months
“We're sitting at about four and a half million in annual recurring. And by the way, for reference sake, I hit a million. Let's see, we're in April. So I hit a million in September. What is that? Eight, nine months. So I went one to four in nine months.”
Cheney: The AI implementation agency averages $17,000 per month per client
“Our average customer at this point is 17,000. But monthly.”
Cheney: Closed first $15,000/month fractional Chief AI Officer contract in one day
“I said, yeah, we've got this fractional chief AI officer model. It's about the same price. It's 15 grand a month. And but then you get me ongoing. And so, yeah, we'll do some trainings. You won't get as much training in this first one, but I'll help you build …”
Cheney: Franklin Covey reached out after discovering his firm via ChatGPT
“I had Franklin Covey reach out to me the other day, and they said, hey we'd love to work with you. We need, you know, we need some help on this stuff. I was like, awesome. How'd you find us? And they said, ChatGPT.”
Cheney: General AI Proficiency Institute website is built and hosted entirely on Replit
“That site is completely designed in Replit. It is hosted by Replit. Like I, I'm using nothing else outside of that to make that happen.”
Cheney: The $4.5M AI software agency founder does not know how to code
“It's for people like me, by the way, I don't know how to code, right?”
Cheney: Workers can vibe code throwaway tools in 30 minutes for six-hour tasks
“Like you might have a task that was going to take you six hours, but instead you could take 30 minutes and vibe code a tool that will do that task for you. And you may never use that piece of software again, right?”
Cheney: First AI training customer was a $15,000 contract closed on LinkedIn
“And eventually, you know, that, that same day had a CEO, local CEO that I didn't know really well, but we kind of had crossed paths a couple of times. So it was, I would call it a, Lukewarm lead. And I said, hey, I want to help your company figure out, you kno…”
Cheney: Early funnel sold AI certifications to high-scoring test takers
“So they would land on the site. They would take this free test and instead of charging them three 99 or something, they just said, all you gotta do is put your email address in and I'll tell you your score. Ok. And then, depending on their score, it would, the…”
Cheney: Replit could one-shot a full application architecture proposal today
“The very first thing, at least back then today, if I gave it to rep, what I think it could actually one shot it, but back then this was, you know, probably about 18 months ago, maybe even a little bit longer than that.”
Cheney: Ukrainian dev agency quoted $105,000 to build travel app
“And it was literally the same day I had received this proposal from this dev shop in Ukraine for a 105,000 dollars. They had actually sent over, we'd already done some architecture discussions and they'd sent over a PDF with a proposal about here's how we're g…”
Cheney scaled his AI agency to $110,000 per month solo before hiring
“At one point we hit the million dollars and by we, I mean, me, I hit this million dollars. And it was fun. It was fun. It was, you know, that was about 80,090 thousand a month. And it was actually, I got to a 110,000 a month. So it's a little bit over that mil…”