Building An AI-Startup In 2025? Don't Miss These Hot 22 Ideas. Or Live In Regret Forever. (#3)
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Source: Greg Isenberg’s LinkedIn post, Edited for brevity and context (@greg Isenberg)
AI agent that turns customer testimonials into multiple formats - social proof, case studies, sales decks. marketing teams need this daily. (est: $300/month).
AI agent that turns product demo calls into instant microsites. sales teams record hundreds of calls but waste the content. (est: $200 per site, scales to thousands).
Fitness AI builds perfect workouts by watching your form through a phone camera. Adjusts in real-time like a personal trainer.(est: $30/month
Directory of enterprise AI budgets and buying cycles. sellers need signals. charge $1k/month for qualified leads. (Lovely!)
AI detecting wasted compute across cloud providers. companies overspending $100k/year. charge 20% of savings. (win-win for all)
Tool turning customer support chats into custom AI agents. Companies waste $50k/month answering the same questions. one agent saves 80% of support costs.
Agent monitoring competitor API changes and costs, product teams are missing price hikes. (est: $2k/month per company).
Tool finding abandoned AI/saas side projects under $100k ARR. acquirers want cheap assets. charge for deal flow. You could also buy some of these yourself. Build media business around it.
AI turns sales calls into beautiful microsites. teams recreating the same demos. saves 20 hours per rep weekly.
Marketplace for AI implementation specialists. startups need fast deployment (est: 20% placement fee).
Agent streamlining multi-AI workflow approvals. teams losing track of spending. (est:$1k/month per team.)
Marketplace for custom AI prompt libraries. companies redoing the same work. (est: platform makes $25k/month.)
Tool detecting AI security compliance gaps. companies missing risks. charge per audit.
AI turning product feedback into feature specs. PMs misinterpreting user needs. $2k/month per team.
Agent monitoring when teams duplicate workflows across tools. companies running the same process in Notion, Linear, and Asana. (est:$2k/month to consolidate.)
Agent converting YouTube tutorials into interactive courses. creators leaving money on the table. (model: charge per conversion or split the revenue with them.)
The marketplace for AI-ready datasets by industry. companies starting from scratch. (est:25% platform fee).
Tool finding duplicates AI spending across departments. enterprises wasting $200k/year. (model: charge % of savings.)
AI that analyzes GitHub repos for acquisition signals. investors need early deals. (est:$5k/month per fund.)
Directory of companies still using legacy chatbots. sellers need upgrade targets. charge for leads.
Agent turning Figma files into full web apps. designers need quick deploys. charge per site.
Marketplace for AI model evaluators. companies need bias checks. (est: platform makes $20k/month)
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Startups Have a Hard Time Attracting Talent. No One Had Heard Of Us. So We Rented a Bar To Hire Over Beer. And This Happened
True story.
It was March 2000. I was running a startup and we built telecom software in Bangalore and Dallas, TX. We had a contract with Motorola to build a satellite gateway simulator.
Our business development guy (yours truly) went overboard and pitched for a few more things that came with steep delivery schedules. I had over-committed in my excitement to sign the deal.
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