AI content business ideas

Use AI to gather and summarize what local outlets, event calendars, and city sites have already published about one city, and send it as a short daily email. Local businesses pay to sponsor it. The hard part: growing a local subscriber list and selling sponsor slots to local businesses one by one.

Use AI video tools to make short ad videos for online stores that run paid ads and need new ones every few weeks. These can be person-to-camera videos or animated styles like claymation. Stores pay per video or a monthly fee for a set number of new versions. The hard part: making ads that look good enough to beat a store's current ads, and landing the first stores before you have any results to show.

Run a service that notices each new episode of a coach's or consultant's podcast, writes up what was said and uses Claude to turn it into social posts, a newsletter section and a short video script. Everything lands in a shared Google Doc. Coaches pay a monthly fee. The hard part: writing an AI prompt that sounds like each client, which the poster puts at about four hours per new client, and finding coaches who will pay a high monthly fee.

Write up something you have done yourself, such as landing a remote sales job, as a step-by-step digital guide. Sell it as a download on Gumroad to people who want the same result. The hard part: getting the guide in front of buyers, which usually means posting about the topic regularly.

Write and publish a small number of genuinely useful books on Amazon KDP. Each book can earn from ebook sales, paperback sales, and Kindle Unlimited readers. The hard part: writing books people actually finish and getting them noticed among the flood of low-effort titles.

Offer a tool that turns a person's written scripts into short videos using their own face and voice. Founders, small online brand owners and people with day jobs who post educational videos pay monthly so they can keep posting. The hard part: making videos that look and sound enough like each customer that they will post them, and finding users one demo call at a time.