Sounds Too Simple, But One Client Pays $15K/Month
Chris Koerner talks with college students James Larson, Brenden Parker and Carter Wirig, who run Certified AI Partners and landed a $30 million construction company at $15,000 a month by texting contacts for advice.
The gist
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They texted hundreds of phone contacts asking for advice on helping $10 million to $50 million businesses with AI, which landed their first big client.
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After a $1,000 assessment with employee surveys and calls, they pitched retainers at $10,000, $15,000 and $25,000 a month, and the client chose $15,000.
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Their working demo cut the company's storm well job proposals from about an hour each to roughly five minutes, which they say shocked the executives.
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Once their contacts ran out, they connected with about 20 CEOs or COOs a day on LinkedIn and always booked the next call before hanging up.
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James says to learn Claude, Claude Code or Codex plus MCPs and APIs, and uses Railway for hosting agents and Composio to merge many MCPs.
"Yeah, I would say for you need to be on Claude for sure. I would say preferably Claude Code or Codex, and honestly the 80/20 of it is you need to know how to use those tools and how to connect like MCPs and APIs."
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See all on the Claude page"You need to be on Claude for sure. I would say preferably Claude Code or Codex, and honestly the 80/20 of it is you need to know how to use those tools and how to connect like MCPs and APIs."
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See all on the Claude Code page"I would say preferably Claude Code or Codex, and honestly the 80/20 of it is you need to know how to use those tools and how to connect like MCPs and APIs."
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See all on the Codex page"One that I really like is Railway. It's super easy to connect to and basically what it does is it hosts things. So you can host your website, you can host custom apps or agents that you build on it, and it also has a database to store information. So essentially you could spin..."
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See all on the Railway page"Another tool that I've really been loving is called Composio, and it solves the problem of MCPs. So you can connect any number of MCPs to Composio and then it's one single MCP to your Claude. And so like I have five Gmails connected to my one Composio and it's one MCP for Claude."
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See all on the Composio pageWhat they recommend · 5 picks
"One that I really like is Railway. It's super easy to connect to and basically what it does is it hosts things. So you can host your website, you can host custom apps or agents ..."
"Another tool that I've really been loving is called Composio, and it solves the problem of MCPs. So you can connect any number of MCPs to Composio and then it's one single MCP t..."
"Yeah, I would say for you need to be on Claude for sure. I would say preferably Claude Code or Codex, and honestly the 80/20 of it is you need to know how to use those tools and..."
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