“I make $4.5 million implementing AI”
I first heard about this guy on the Joe Rogan show. He built a hot business on a simple concept: Companies hire him to embed AI usage and thinking in their businesses. Now he’s creating his own agent software (a customized version of NeoClaw) that he’s installing in companies.
Best of all: Jon Cheney says what he built at GenAIPI can be built by people listening to this episode. We break down how.
Jon Cheney is the founder of GenAIPI (General AI Proficiency Institute), an AI consulting and enablement company that helps businesses adopt AI through training, strategy, and implementation. He previously built and exited a venture-backed startup, then used AI tools to launch GenAIPI from scratch with just $400. Today, the company is at roughly $4.5M ARR and is evolving from fractional AI consulting into software-assisted AI infrastructure for clients.
Andrew Warner: How much money are you making?
Jon Cheney: We’re sitting at about four and a half million in annual recurring. I started this business with just $400 as a one man band. I was able to take it by myself with all of my AI tools to a million bucks. Let me just tell you exactly how to do this right? Everyone’s looking for, well, what do I do?
How do I do it? Here’s my process
Andrew Warner: presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. John, do you remember when you’d reached a million dollars in revenue?
Jon Cheney: I was like, man, I am. I, I took this to a million dollars by myself, and it was at that moment actually, I was like, okay, I actually, I, I, I have enough budget to bring some people on, and so I’m gonna do that and make my life a little bit easier.
And it kind of snuck up on me. When I first started the company, there were, um, some pathways that I kind of went down that didn’t work...
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