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title: "Corey Ganim on Closing an $800 AI Pilot"
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summary: "Corey Ganim shares a case study of closing an $800 AI pilot with a 65-year-old custom home builder through a 15-minute assessment and in-person meeting, breaking down the exact process and tools used. The post includes detailed breakdowns of the mini assessment, bottleneck audit agent, and system prompts used to convert a cold prospect into a paying client."
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# Corey Ganim on Closing an $800 AI Pilot

Corey Ganim @coreyganim I just closed and fulfilled a real $800 AI pilot on camera. The client is a 65-year-old custom home builder whose gatekeeper turned me away at the door two weeks ago. He ignored two texts and never accepted the calendar invite. He still picked up, sat down with me, and paid by check on the spot. The whole thing took one 15 minute call and one in-person meeting. So I broke down the whole thing: → The 15 minute mini assessment that found the bottleneck (with the questions Claude wrote 90 seconds before I dialed) (you can get the full playbook I use to run the mini assessments (free) here: corey-ganim.kit.com/0cea7ca381 ) → The Bottleneck Audit agent (built with @ hyperagentapp ) that read the transcript and built the demo, sample PDFs included → Why I pitched one fix instead of three (and what the other two are for) → The exact NotebookLM system prompt and 3-question QA I hand to his team If you've ever wondered how to turn a cold door knock into a paid AI deal, this one breaks it all down. Check it out below: youtube.com/watch?v=xJXG40… (also available on the Build With AI podcast wherever you get your pods) 00:00 Paid partnership 12:23 PM · Sep 11, 2026 555 Views 1 1 16 13