These Founders Are Using AI to Build Lean Businesses With Millions in Revenue

Less overhead, more output, bigger margins.

AI is rewriting the rules of business. While the headlines focus on job cuts and industry disruption, founders are using AI to build leaner companies, slash costs, and scale faster. 

Ben Broca launched a company last December that already has 10,000 paying customers and is on track to bring in $10 million in revenue this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company has no employees and less overhead, thanks to AI. 

Broca isn’t the only founder using AI to build lean, highly profitable businesses. Here are founders using AI to build companies that generate significant revenue without a big team or bloated expenses, and their advice for doing the same. 

Use the lean model to scale more sustainably 

Justin Welsh helped build two companies valued

Justin Welsh helped build two companies valued at over $1 billion and raised more than $300 million in venture capital. By 33, he was a chief revenue officer, making more money than he ever imagined, but he burned out. He quit his high-paying job and started an online education company. 

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Since then, he’s built an audience of 1.5 million people across his social media accounts and a company that generates more than $2 million in annual revenue, with profit margins exceeding 90 percent, operating entirely without employees, outside VC funding, or traditional office space. 

Welsh is using AI to scale the business. “It’s just me and my wife, Jennifer. I do the creative work, and she edits the newsletter,” Welsh said. 

Welsh spends Mondays and Tuesdays writing and editing his newsletter, The Saturday Essay, to get it ready for his 200,000+ readers. On Wednesdays, he batches social media content. Thursdays and Fridays are spent on fun projects or interacting with readers

Source: www.inc.com