Using AI to plan, build, launch, and grow a profitable business | Dabble.AI #1

How close are we to seeing fully autonomous business models?

The purpose of The Dabble.AI Project is to document a process for planning, building, launching, and scaling, a profitable AI-run businesses that can be managed from anywhere, by a single person, with a minimal time and capital investments.

Lisbon, Portugal - November 5, 2021

Hi, I’m Steve Tingiris, welcome to the Dabble.AI project. I’ll be the guy behind all the posts and the photographer of all the photos you’ll see here. My goals for this project are simple. I want to figure out how to leverage AI to create and grow a profitable business. I want do that using only AI tools - by myself - without any employees or contractors. It believe it can be done. But I haven’t done it yet. I know a lot about AI and starting profitable companies. So I feel as qualified as I could be. Making this happen is also personal to me.

My current company Dabble Lab helps large enterprises leverage AI to automate the things that it no longer make sense for people to do. This obviously has an impact on the lives of the those whose jobs get automated. But ironically, there is a strong likelihood that the type of work we do (writing code, training ML models, etc) will soon be eliminated as well. However, I don’t see that as a bad thing. Because I believe AI has far more potential for lifting people up than pushing them out. That’s what I’m trying to prove here.

I’m committed to getting one or more profitable businesses up and running and documenting the process. I’m also committed to creating a roadmap for anyone else interested in doing something similar. Hopefully that will include my team members at Dabble Lab, along with friends and family members. Assuming I can figure this out of course.

I’m borderline obsessive about documenting things. So, you’ll have access to plenty of details - if you want them. But I’ll use my posts here mostly as progress updates. All of the details will be available on GitHub at: https://github.com/dabbleai. I might also publish some video tutorials.

I’ve been thinking about this project for some time - since the release of my book Exploring GPT-3 in 2021. Yes, that was a plug. But not in hopes you’ll buy the book. It’s super outdated now. So, unless you’re into GPT history, don’t buy it. The book plug is more about establishing credibility. There is a ton of “get rich quick with AI” stuff out there. This isn’t one of those. I don’t have things figure out yet. I just have a decent amount of experience and clear objectives.

Objectives

1. My primary objective is to figure out how to leverage AI to plan, build, launch, and grow a profitable company, that has only one employee - me.

2. I want to do this without spending a lot of time or money. I'm not sure how much time or money I'll spend. But I'm going to try to spend as little as possible.

3. I also want to create a blueprint or at least a general roadmap that others could benefit from.

I've been doing a lot of research, planning, and dabbling over the past few months. Now I have a general idea about how I'm going to approach this. But that’s as far as I am at the moment. I have not even decided on a business model. I'm going to use AI to help me with that. I'll share more about the general approach I’m going to take tomorrow.

Also, as I move forward I'll provide regular updates on my progress. Including:

• What I'm doing

• The tools I’m using

• How much time I'm spending

• How much money I'm spending

• What's working

• What's not working

• My profits and losses

I hope you'll subscribe and join me as I try to figure this out.