He earns $5k building agents

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Andrew Warner and Nick Vasilescu break down how to build, sell, deploy, and retain $5,000-a-month AI agent clients using tools like Orgo and Hermes Agent.

Andrew Warner sits down with Nick Vasilescu to unpack his playbook for building AI agents for businesses and turning them into recurring $5,000-a-month services. Nick explains how he finds customers through warm contacts and content, identifies high-value repetitive workflows, gets an agent running within 24 hours, and delivers the first automation within seven days. They walk through the stack behind these deployments, including Orgo, Hermes Agent, Agent Mail, Agent Phone, Honcho, Obsidian, Composio, and iMessage, while showing how agents can operate cloud computers, access business tools, communicate with customers, and automate real business processes. They also discuss customer retention, weekly outcome reviews, security, and continuously adding useful capabilities as businesses discover new ways to use their agents.

Links featured:

- Orgo — https://orgo.ai/
- Hermes Agent — https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/
- Agent Mail — https://www.agentmail.to/
- Agent Phone — https://agentphone.ai/
- Honcho — https://honcho.dev/
- Obsidian — https://obsidian.md/
- Composio — https://composio.dev/
- vidIQ MCP — https://vidiq.com/mcp/
- Granola — https://www.granola.ai/
- Zapier SDK — https://zapier.com/sdk

00:00 - Selling AI Agents: How Nick gets businesses to pay $5,000 a month for AI agent services.
00:28 - Orgo: Give AI agents cloud computers they can operate like a human.
01:58 - First Customers: How Nick made $7K in his first month building AI agents.
03:32 - The $5K Offer: Package unlimited agents, automations, and support into a simple monthly retainer.
05:04 - Insurance Automation: Use Hermes Agent to transfer customer data between insurance platforms.
06:14 - Hermes Agent: The agent harness Nick uses for reliable business deployments.
07:14 - Agent Mail: Give agents their own email inboxes through an API.
08:43 - Agent Phone: Give AI agents iMessage capabilities without installing local software.
10:03 - Agent Payments: Explore how AI agents can make purchases and why agent payments are still early.
11:09 - Honcho: Give Hermes Agent a dedicated memory layer for persistent facts.
11:50 - Obsidian: Use a visual knowledge base for long-running projects and connected information.
13:24 - Slack, Telegram & iMessage: Choose the right interface for company-wide or personal AI agents.
14:42 - Finding Customers: Start with the people already in your phone and turn warm contacts into leads.
15:41 - Finding the "First Itch": Identify repetitive, valuable problems that can be automated quickly.
17:21 - Content Marketing: Show what your agents are building to attract customers and build trust.
19:36 - Fast Fulfillment: Get the first agent running within 24 hours and the first automation within seven days.
20:36 - Orgo Templates: Spin up cloud computers with Hermes Agent and other tools pre-installed.
23:20 - iMessage Agents: Let customers interact directly with an AI agent inside a group chat.
24:32 - vidIQ MCP: Analyze top-performing YouTube videos and generate better thumbnail ideas.
25:10 - Customer Retention: Prove the measurable outcomes your agents deliver every week.
26:20 - Composio: Connect agents to business tools while managing authentication and permissions.

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