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A college counselor built a degree planning side business with AI

A community college counselor of 16 years turned her idea for paid degree planning into a working side business: The AI helped with the business plan, built and edited her website, including a later round where Work mode edited the live Squarespace site directly, found leads and shaped her replies to potential clients. She has her first client and a lot of leads.

How it works

  1. Think through the business plan with AI
  2. Build the website and modify it
  3. Work mode edits the live Squarespace site, mostly formatting
  4. Find leads
  5. Shape replies to potential clients
  6. First client signs up

Why it’s worth knowing

Sixteen years of advising turned into a business she owns, with the website edited inside her live Squarespace by the agent itself.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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