Greg Isenberg — The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)

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Nick agreed to personally set up your Hermes agent on Orgo in a 15 min call: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/orgo_ai

I sit down with Nick from Orgo to break down exactly how to run a one-person AI agent business that can realistically clear a few million dollars a year. Nick walks through the offer, the verticals worth chasing, the full software stack, and the live setup of an agent that manages other agents. We focus on tactics over theory, with specific tools, pricing, and the playbook for landing customers as a solopreneur. By the end, anyone with solid AI fluency will have a clear path from offer design to fulfillment.

Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 02:54 – Designing the AI Agent Business Offer 06:38– Selling an AI Employee, Not an Agent 07:26 – Industries to Target (and Two to Avoid) 14:54 – Content Is Overpowered and How to Get Customers 17:51 – The Customer-Facing Tool Stack 20:49 – Building Agents Stack 25:51 – Model Picks: GPT 5.5, GLM 5.1, Kimmy, Opus 4.7 27:08 – Nick’s Stack 28:14 – Why Obsidian Is the Second Brain Layer 30:22 – Live Walkthrough: Spinning Up a Cloud Computer in Orgo 33:53 – Cloud Computers vs. Mac Minis 38:37 – Building Agents and Structuring Workspaces for Customers 43:56 – Watchdogs, Observability, and Reliability 45:28 – Closing Thoughts on the Solopreneur Era

Key Points

• Sell unlimited agents, unlimited usage, and unlimited support to remove friction; most customers actually use one to three agents.
• Avoid healthcare and finance to start; focus on legacy verticals like marketing, law, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale, and real estate.
• OpenClaw agents go for around 5K a month; Hermes agents can go for 10K a month.
• The full stack: Granola, Trello, Loom, Superhuman, Asana, Codex, Hermes, Orgo, Composio, Agent Mail, and Obsidian.
• GPT 5.5 is the recommended default model for tool calling; GLM 5.1 and Kimmy work for lighter tasks; Opus 4.7 fits long-horizon coding.
• Use agents to set up other agents — pair Cloud Code or Codex with

Key Insights

People are charging $5,000 a month per customer to build and manage agents for them. This is a startup idea I wish more people would do. The customer doesn’t touch tokens or models or any infrastructure. They just get a digital employee that knows their business and it gets better every single week. In this episode, Nick from Orgo breaks down exactly how to build this business, the tools, [music] the stacks, how to onboard a customer in 30 days, in app and how to actually sell to busy executives, agencies, and law firms. We also share the full implementation playbook, Hermes, Claude Code, memory layers, skills, all of it. This type of episode isn’t shared anywhere on the internet. This is the alpha that people keep for themselves. I’m giving it to you for free. Enjoy the episode and I can’t wait to see what you build. >> [music] >> I couldn’t be more excited to have Nick from Orgo back on the pod. Nick, by the end of this episode, what are people going to get out of it? Craig, everyone’s going to learn not only how to run a solopreneur agent business, but every every gap, everything that they’re going to do wrong from the beginning. I’m going to save them all the time from having to learn from my from from from those mistakes that I made along the way and at the end of this video, you’re going to know what what offer to bring to the market, how to get customers, how to fulfill, what’s the stack for the agents that you’re going to build out, and yeah, I’m excited to just dive right in. So, So, Nick, this isn’t going to just be like a pie in the sky, I want a billion-dollar idea here. This is how you can take advantage of AI agents to build a business that maybe does a few million dollars a year, but not just not just the idea, right? You’re going to actually share all the tactics from A to Z, so that by the end of this episode, someone could obviously like and comment and subscribe, but you know, uh go go and start one of these businesses, right? Exactly. And like, I think the big thing is for everyone who’s watching the pod, you’re probably already affluent with AI, and you don’t give yourself enough credit. And the amazing thing is like 99% of the world has, you know, there’s like many people are so behind on AI, and you you may not realize how valuable your skill set is. Like, oh, if you can set up Claude code, if you can set up Hermes agent, if you can set up open claw, that’s a very valuable skill that a lot of businesses don’t have time for, and you can monetize that. So. All right, I’m intrigued. Let’s go. All right. So, let me start by I’ll share my screen. Okay, so let’s just dive right in. Let’s go into the offer. So, um when you’re starting a one-person agent business, you need to have you need to remove all the friction for your customers. Um they don’t want to think about tokens. They don’t want to think about computer infrastructure, security, you know, breaking it when it it, you know, fixing it when it breaks. They they just want it to work. And so, the biggest thing is you need to create abundance in your offer. And what I have found in in my own personal uh success with this is offering unlimited agents, unlimited usage, unlimited monitoring, support, security, ongoing changes, etc. And the key here is you might flinch, cuz you’re like, well, how how how do how’s that even feasibly possible? Well, the way to do this is to realize the point it’s not that the customer’s going to actually need unlimited agents. They’re they’re not going to need unlimited tokens. But they might they might think they do and in reality they might think they need five agents, 10 agents, 100 agents. When really one, two, maybe three agents goes such a far away and you can get a lot of juice for squeeze out of just properly taking the time to set, you know, one or two of these up. And that’s where your, you know, that’s how you’re going to essentially like control your costs. You’re not spending too much money on tokens and

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Chapters

• 00:00 — Intro
• 02:54 — Designing the AI Agent Business Offer
• 06:38 — Selling an AI Employee, Not an Agent
• 07:26 — Industries to Target (and Two to Avoid)
• 14:54 — Content Is Overpowered and How to Get Customers
• 17:51 — The Customer-Facing Tool Stack
• 20:49 — Building Agents Stack
• 25:51 — Model Picks: GPT 5.5, GLM 5.1, Kimmy, Opus 4.7
• 27:08 — Nick’s Stack
• 28:14 — Why Obsidian Is the Second Brain Layer
• 30:22 — Live Walkthrough: Spinning Up a Cloud Computer in Orgo
• 33:53 — Cloud Computers vs. Mac Minis
• 38:37 — Building Agents and Structuring Workspaces for Customers
• 43:56 — Watchdogs, Observability, and Reliability
• 45:28 — Closing Thoughts on the Solopreneur Era