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moneyMedium — Money Tent · Oct 22, 2026

Building AI agents for small businesses: $3,000/month on the side

A framework for earning ~$3,000/month building workflow-automation agents for SMBs: about 2 builds a month at ~$3,000 each with n8n, Relevance AI or the OpenAI API. The playbook: prototype, one week of internal QA, one week of real-world client testing, then measure hours saved and upsell the next build. Self-reported figures, unverified — but the sell-outcomes-not-AI framing is sound.

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