These are paid seats, not tuition. You'll work beside me and our clients, and ship the work the same day.
- $3.5M booked in one month by NaiL
- 300 HVAC Quote customers in under a year
- $500K World Dunk Champion
Jobs are cooked.
Young adults tell me college is a scam and jobs are disappearing.
I agree that "jobs" are cooked.
The job titles of 2027 are founder and entrepreneur.
Every roofer, HVAC company, and plumber in America needs AI working in their business. Most of these owners are over 50. They've been burned by their last three agencies. They don't want to learn AI. They want a sharp young adult to do it for them.
OpenAI charges $10,000 a day to send one engineer into a company to deploy AI.
The local roofer can't pay that. But he needs the same help.
That's the opportunity.
Would you agree it's easier to get a client than a job?
Don't take my word for it. Google these guys.
I never have to tell anyone I do this work, because it's public. Neither do they.
Where these builders have built and worked
Cam Hazzard, 20
In August, Cam became the first World Dunk Champion in Shaq's DunkMan league on TNT and took home $500K. In the same months, without writing a single line of code, he built a Claude agent that finds every positive mention of a person online, scores it by authority, and updates their website automatically. When Cam won his group, his own agent captured the reaction.
George Paladichuk, college student
George flies middle seat on Spirit and eats Chipotle six times a week. He's broke, but not poor. His AI call center, NaiL, booked $3.5 million in jobs for over 100 roofing companies in one month. He has zero sales reps and makes zero cold calls. His clients see the revenue on the dashboard and sign up.
In his words: "No course, no mentor, no program will ever give you the magic answer. You have to be the one to act on it."
Marko Sipilä
At 21, Marko had dug out of $50,000 in debt to $45,000 a month in profit. He picked one niche, concrete coatings, and went from zero to over 50 clients. Then he built HVAC Quote and reached 300 paying software customers in under a year by filming at conferences and boosting the videos for a few dollars a day. We've run marathons and an Ironman together. I can text him at 2 am with an idea, and he's on it.
Dylan Haugen, 18
Pro athlete, co-founder, and my co-author on our book about Google Knowledge Panels. Dylan builds personal brand sites and teaches AI agents live on stage. That means a live demo, not PowerPoint. Can you actually cook, or do you just talk about how good steak is?
Jack Allard
Went from 0 to 11 clients for his agency. He's never prospected, cold-called, or sold. When you do great work and document it, the network sends you clients.
The hidden reason they succeed
They were A Players to begin with.
I don't care what you're excellent at. Basketball. Video games. Dunking.
I've watched over and over how excellence in one area carries into using AI to make the phone ring for contractors.
That's why I can't lower the bar, for the same reason you wouldn't lower standards for surgeons or pilots.
What you'll actually do
Direct agents
Give AI agents clear jobs, the right materials, and a finish line, the same way you'd manage a team. They're just from the planet of Anthropic instead of the Philippines. You talk to them in English, not Python.
Capture stories
Film vertical video on your phone. Interview business owners. We don't make up content. We collect real proof and let AI process it.
Ship assets
Build articles, clips, ads, audits, and personal brand websites that make good people easy to find on Google and ChatGPT.
Check your own work
Open the page on desktop and on mobile. Click the link. Fix what the first pass missed.
Report MAA every week
Metrics, Analysis, Action. What happened, why, and what's next. If you don't document it, I can't coach you, and we end up playing 20 questions.
Represent the team
Sit across from a business owner and explain what changed, why it matters, and what happens next.
About the travel
Travel isn't glamorous. It's often brutal, and it's totally worth it.
When George and I flew to Jacksonville, we watched the largest fence company in America, with $1 billion in sales, load eight crews at 6:45 in the morning. When we flew to Atlanta, we recorded a podcast with a roofer who went from zero to $10 million in two years.
In every city, we hit the Big 3:
- Conferences to build authority.
- Colleges to teach young adults.
- Clients to pay the bills.
Your laptop stays open on the plane so your agents keep working. You film everything on your phone. Some nights you'll be up at 1 am finishing a one-minute video you promised someone.
Sometimes there's golf, hiking, or a marathon. Those matter because that's where relationships get built. But the work still has to ship.
If you hate your boss and think this will let you travel the world working two hours a day, this isn't for you.
Don't apply if...
- You need constant hand-holding.
- You wait for someone to chase you down.
- You're not comfortable learning new tools.
- You jump between programs.
- You won't interview people on camera or on a podcast.
- You paste AI output back to me without thinking about it.
That last one matters. AI is only as good as your own understanding. Use it without thinking and you produce garbage at scale.
Will you be a garbage multiplier, an impact multiplier, or a technology denier?
You don't have to be a natural
English wasn't my first language. I was an introvert, scared to death of public speaking. I'd never have wanted to be on a podcast.
Here we are.
You don't need to be charismatic or polished. You need to be able to hold a thoughtful conversation and speak clearly, to people and to AI.
How to apply
There's no 400-question test.
The easiest way I've found to tell whether someone will succeed: can they make a one-minute video?
About anything. Something you built. Something hard you handled. Why you're ready for this seat.
That's not vanity. It shows you'll do something simple when asked. It shows you'll put yourself out there. And it shows whether you can explain your thinking clearly, which is exactly what you'll do all day with your agents.
Record one minute on your phone.
Don't overproduce it. Done is better than perfect.
Post it on YouTube.
Email the link to operations@localservicespotlight.com with "Travel AI Builder Application" as the subject line.
Do one practical task.
Strong applicants complete one content task and a round of feedback, so I can see how you take feedback and finish.
If you're not sure whether you want this, the answer is no.
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Not there yet?
That's fine. Most people aren't, and that's what the program is for.
Think of it like a university. They don't pay you to be a professor until you're qualified to teach.
In the AI Builder Program ($7,500, one time), you work on one real client, usually your parents' business or one I assign. You get weekly live coaching and a team of agents. Many get to professional-level work in under 8 weeks. Prove you can do it for one client, then repeat it.
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Founder, Dope Marketing
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