The AI marketing services masterplan: sell agent-built funnels to boring local businesses
boringmarketer · x · 2026-10-10
A long-form piece arguing the best AI agent business right now isn't an app—it's building funnels for boring local businesses like roofers.
The market case: 36.2M US small businesses employ 45.9% of private-sector workers; plumbing and HVAC alone is 112,088 companies doing $297.6B a year ($2.66M each). The author walks through exactly how to start: which niches to pick, what to sell, how to find and pitch clients with agents, and how to build the work in days instead of weeks.
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