Office Hours: Answering Your AI-for-Business Questions (Free Q&A)
Liam Ottley hosts a free Q&A helping founders and business owners find practical ways to start or grow an AI business, from first dollar to recurring revenue.
The gist
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Starting costs are low but real: budget $100 to $200 for API access and tools, and offer free work first to build a portfolio.
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Upwork lets you skip cold outreach by finding clients already looking for specific AI work, so undercut prices early and apply consistently.
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Liam says learning to build yourself beats hiring developers, who tend to prefer startups or their own projects over agency work.
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Stable income comes from pairing a $5 to $10K setup fee with a $2 to $5K monthly retainer for ongoing AI system maintenance and updates.
Liam Ottley uses it
"When I think about AI projects, I'm always working with Claude and ChatGPT."
▶ Play at 34:31250 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Chris Koerner, and This Week in Startups.
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Liam Ottley recommends it
"If you are already good at this stuff — if you can just be good and fluent with using Claude Code or Codex or whatever coding model you want to use, you can create a lot of value for businesses and offer your services. Learn to build, learn to code, use Claude Code, use Codex,..."
▶ Play at 2:58108 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Peter Yang, and Claire Vo.
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Liam Ottley recommends it
"You need to be good at building. If you can just be good and fluent with using Claude Code or Codex or whatever coding model you want to use, you can create a lot of value for businesses."
▶ Play at 3:1997 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Claire Vo, and Dan Shipper.
See all on the Codex page
Liam Ottley recommends it
"Upwork is great. If you can get on there, put your prices low, position yourself well, put a nice profile picture. There's heaps of stuff online about how you can make the best, most optimized Upwork profile. If you keep grinding on there, you'll get your first project."
▶ Play at 5:4512 creators recommend it, including Ben Leavitt, Chris Koerner, and George Lampropoulos.
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"If you are already good at this stuff — if you can just be good and fluent with using Claude Code or Codex or whatever coding model you want to use, you can create a lot of valu..."
"You need to be good at building. If you can just be good and fluent with using Claude Code or Codex or whatever coding model you want to use, you can create a lot of value for b..."
"Upwork is great. If you can get on there, put your prices low, position yourself well, put a nice profile picture. There's heaps of stuff online about how you can make the best,..."
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