Insight
Cheney: Software is almost worthless because anyone can build it with AI
“Software is almost useless. It's almost worthless now because anybody can create it.”
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Cheney: Founders have a five-year window to start AI implementation businesses
“I had somebody asked me the other day, how many more years do you think this type of business could be launched and started? And my answer was five.”
Opinion
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.”
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Cheney: Replit has handled every software development task thrown at it
“I feel like it's a little bit more accessible to developers, and that's why I just built my processes on top of Replit, and so I'm just so dang good with Replit. I've never run into something that Replit couldn't do, and I've never felt the need to go try othe…”
Insight
Jon Cheney: AI adoption requires embedded partners, not just training
“Companies really need not just some training and education and show them what to do. They need somebody that is embedded into their company that is following up regularly and becoming part of that company.”
Insight
Cheney: Plan with Claude before coding in Replit to save expensive tokens
“A lot of people, they'll go directly to Replit and just say, I have an idea. I want to start building it. That's a great way to waste a lot of tokens that are more expensive, right? Go to chat GPT first, go to Claude, whatever you want, pick your LLM of choice…”
Insight
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?”
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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.”
Opinion
Cheney: Every Company Needs an Executive in Charge of AI
“I believe that every company, every single company should have somebody in charge of AI. I don't care if it's, you know, director of AI implementation or a chief AI officer. Somebody needs to be in charge of AI and their job is to go around and keep people acc…”
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Cheney's eight-year-old son built a Roblox clone using Replit in one day
“My eight-year-old made his own version of Roblox and built 20 games inside of it, and he did that in a day with Replit.”
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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.”
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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…”
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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…”
Disclosure
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?”
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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.”
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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 …”
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Cheney: The AI implementation agency averages $17,000 per month per client
“Our average customer at this point is 17,000. But monthly.”
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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.”
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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…”
Disclosure
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…”
