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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.”
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…”
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'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.”
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 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…”
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: 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: 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: The AI implementation agency averages $17,000 per month per client
“Our average customer at this point is 17,000. But monthly.”
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: 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…”