AI SEO Content Service Workflow for $10k MRR

1. Pick one boring service before the week is over (AI-powered SEO content for local businesses). Not "AI consulting." Not "prompt engineering." A service that produces a clear deliverable a non-technical owner already pays for every month. 2. Build a one-page offer site with Claude this weekend. One headline. One promise. One price. $1,500/month for 20 SEO-optimized articles per month. You're selling output, not access to a tool. 3. Pick your niche before Sunday (chiropractors, dentists, or HVAC companies). Owners with real revenue, real margins, and zero time to write blog posts themselves. Boring niches pay the fastest. 4. Find 100 prospects on Google Maps that same week. Search your niche in 5 cities. Pull the businesses ranking on page 2 and 3 with thin or outdated blogs. These are the ones who know SEO matters but never get around to it. 5. Send 25 personalized Looms before Friday. Pull up their actual website. Show the missing keywords. Show one article you'd write for them this month. No mass emails. You're trading volume for response rate at this stage. 6. Land your first client within 30 days. Charge $1,500/month minimum. Most people undercharge AI work because they think it's "just ChatGPT." It's not. You're replacing a $5k/month agency that delivers half the volume. 7. Use Claude as the production engine. One prompt chain for keyword research, one for outlines, one for drafts, one for editing. You're not writing articles. You're running a workflow that produces 20 of them a month in a few hours. 8. Reinvest the first client's payment straight into outreach. A VA on OnlineJobs to send Looms, a paid lead list from Apollo, better demo videos. Early on, you're not paying yourself. You're buying client two through five. 9. Build your delivery as the clients come in. Notion dashboard per client. Slack channel for communication. A monthly report showing rankings and traffic. You don't need all of it at client one (just have it set up before client three). 10. Hit $5k MRR, and you'll start to see the system click. Clients that renew, outreach that converts, a niche where every owner knows three other owners. That's your foundation. Everything compounds from here. 11. Hire your first editor at $7k MRR. Someone who handles the final review pass on Claude's drafts while you focus on sales calls and client management. Pay them per article. Train them on your style guide. 12. Add a second service once delivery is steady. AI-powered local landing pages for the same clients. Same niche, more revenue per client, zero new acquisition cost. One client at $2,500/month beats two clients at $1,500. 13. Cross $10k MRR when you hit 6 to 8 clients on retainer (exactly the math that works). One offer. One niche. One delivery system repeated 8 times. You're not running an agency. You're running a content factory. Tools to use: Claude (core production engine), Notion (client dashboards + SOPs), Loom (cold outreach + monthly reports), Apollo (prospect lists), Slack (client communication), Stripe (billing), OnlineJobs (VA for outreach). Total monthly cost: Under $250.