my 3 AI income streams

(only one of them requires employees)

Everyone asks me the same question:

"Dez, how do you actually make money with AI?"

Most people think there's one answer.

Build an app. Sell a course. Day trade the hype.

No, no.

I make money with AI in 3 completely different ways.

Each one works on a different timeline. Each one carries different risk. Together, they compound.

Here's the full breakdown:

1. I own the companies building AI

I don't just use AI. I own a piece of the infrastructure.

My positions:

  • Micron (the memory chips every AI data center is starving for)

  • Nebius (AI cloud infrastructure, the picks and shovels play)

  • Meta (the biggest AI distribution machine on Earth)

  • SpaceX (private position, the compute is going to orbit eventually)

Here's the logic: even if my agency disappeared tomorrow, I still win when AI wins.

Think of it like owning shares in the electric company during the electricity boom. You don't need to invent the lightbulb. You just need to own the grid.

This is the slowest stream. It's also the one that requires zero hours per week.

(Not financial advice. Just what I actually own.)

2. I sell AI services to companies

This is the cash flow engine.

Before AI, the services we deliver would have cost a company 10x more.

A full content engine. Ad scripts. Lead qualification. Follow-up systems. That used to take a 15-person marketing department and $50K a month.

Now my agency delivers it with AI doing the heavy lifting, and humans doing the strategy.

The client pays a fraction of the old price. We keep healthy margins. Everybody wins.

That's the unlock most people miss: AI didn't kill services. It made them 10x more profitable to deliver.

3. I run businesses powered by AI

This is the endgame.

Omega is one of them (an AI chief of staff system). I have a few private ones too.

The common thread: tiny teams, real revenue.

Businesses that would have needed 30 employees in 2019 now run on a handful of people and a stack of AI systems.

Payroll stays small. Margins stay fat. Stress stays low.

Revenue up. Headcount flat.

That's not a startup. That's a machine.

The pattern

Stream 1 is ownership. Stream 2 is cash flow. Stream 3 is scale.

Most people pick one and pray.

I stacked all three, and each one feeds the next: the services fund the businesses, the businesses fund the investments, the investments buy me time.

Start with the one you can execute this month. For most people reading this, that's stream 2.

Companies are actively looking for someone to bring them AI. Right now. Today.

Be that person.

Talk soon,

Dez