AI business ideas you can build with ChatGPT

Write and publish short weekly posts, such as offers, news and seasonal updates, on the Google listings of local businesses that set theirs up once and stopped. The business owner pays you a monthly fee. The hard part: landing clients through cold outreach and keeping each client's posts fresh and specific week after week.

Write and design short free guides and checklists that coaches and consultants give away in exchange for email signups. The coaches pay you a one-time fee for each finished guide. The hard part: finding coaches who will pay for a guide when they could try making one themselves, and standing out from many other freelancers offering the same thing.

Founders, coaches, consultants and executives who know they should post on LinkedIn pay you a monthly fee to write their posts. You interview them, draft the posts with ChatGPT so they sound like the client, and the client approves each one. The hard part: making the posts sound enough like each client that they stop rewriting them, while finding new clients through one-to-one outreach.

Pet owners upload a photo of their pet and order it as a portrait poster, canvas or framed print, often as a gift. The store runs on Shopify and Etsy, and a print-on-demand supplier prints and ships each order. The hard part: getting steady sales outside the November and December gift season once paid ads stop bringing in buyers.

A monthly tool that keeps asking AI assistants the questions buyers ask and reports whether a business's brand gets recommended. Small brands pay to see whether they are being left out of AI answers. The hard part: standing out from similar trackers and showing brands what to do with the results.