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Here’s how the team and I gave Lateral Frontiers, a bold VC firm investing in frontier tech, a fresh brand identity to match their future-forward vision.
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Got my first lead from an AI recommendation today 🥹
A founder asked ChatGPT who could build a brand like their competitor, it named us as, and the lead booked a call after a few minutes on our website.
Crazy how the website isn't even finished lol, I'm still making updates to it.
Been building agents for the studio quietly these past weeks.
Glad to see them doing solid work for me 💪🏽
So quick recap: I stopped posting about my 60 day AI side quest on day 4, life got busy but...
I didn't stop doing it, here is how it went in summary.
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And remember when I asked y'all which MacBook to get?
Bought it.
The side quest paid for it, lol.
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Back to X again 😂.
Same pattern, show up and disappear days later, but who knows maybe different ending this time (hopefully 😅).
What did i miss 👀?
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I said "Day 1 of showing up again" in August, then went quiet on day 4 of my 60-day AI side quest 🤣.
Life got busy, health took a drastic turn, but regardless, the side quest kept going though. So did studio work as well.
Later this weekend, I will share how it actually ended, plus the backlog I never posted. Not Day 1 again, just continuing 🙏🏽
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Came back online and saw everyone building games 😂, reminds me of when my girlfriend got her iPhone stolen and had to use an Android until she got a new one.
Date night was approaching, and that meant no iMessage games, so I built us a little library of games we could play together.
mypadi.games
I forgot to post an update for day 3 and 4.
So here’s what happened on both days of the AI Side Quest.
So first major decision has been made:
I’m building a productised AI service wrapped inside a plug and play agentic system for local businesses.
Let me explain.
I’ve also set the rules for the challenge:
1) My salary doesn’t count, obviously.
2) Existing studio revenue doesn’t count unless the challenge directly creates it.
3) Only new revenue generated within the 60 days counts.
4) Document and track revenue, expenses, profit, customers and time spent.
Because saying “I made $5,000 with AI” means very little if it cost $4,500, and 300+ hour.
It won't even be worth venturing into if thats the case.
Oh well, at least these rules will keep me from moving the goalposts halfway through.
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So first task is choosing what I am actually going to sell.
So I spent yesterday researching and listing possible ways to make money with AI.
AI agency
Automations
Digital products
Content systems
Small software tools
Productised services
Now, the software ideas were the most exciting, which is probably why I am avoiding them like a plague.
I need revenue, not another unfinished product.
Plans for today: do some final research, make a decision, narrow the market down and draft a plan of action.
Challenge update:
Revenue: £0
Customers: 0
Days: 2/60
Lets keep going.....🫡
Alright, here is the challenge.
For the next 60 days, I am giving myself a side quest:
Make as much additional income as I can using AI, my existing skills and every experience I have.
The plan basically is to publicly document what I build, how I sell it, what fails, what works, what I spend and how much I actually make.
Now, I am not starting from zero. I obviously have years of experience as a designer, plus running rvysion.co and building products in general, so hoping that gives me some edge.
Well, the challenge is seeing whether I can combine all that experience with AI to create a meaningful new income stream while still working full time and running a studio.
Plus I am genuinely curious whats possible with the help of AI and I also want to get a new macbook pro max, so it would be nice to fund my purchase with whatever I make from this quest.
Alright lets get it on.....Day 1/60.
The AI Side Quest begins.
