$23,000 a Month in Retainers, No Courses Sold: My Real Numbers Working With AI

Why I am sharing my numbers

On this blog, other people's numbers get read with a magnifying glass: I have corrected inflated statistics, headlines with fine print, and even my own drafts. So it was only a matter of time before the same standard pointed inward. Today I am opening my books.

The reason is simple: the internet is full of people teaching how to "make money with AI" who do not invoice with AI. They teach gym theory without ever lifting the weight. I believe in the opposite order: execute first, teach after. These are my real numbers, today.

The numbers

Recurring

$23,000

a month in retainers: consulting, advisory and ongoing development

Per project

~$35,000

average setup for a white-label platform, 100% custom built

Retainers invoiced by BBR Tek, just one of my companies. The rest of the group is a separate story.

Two clarifications, the kind I always demand from other people's numbers. First: the $23,000 is contracted recurring revenue, not one good month. Anyone can invoice a spike; the hard part is getting paid every month because the service sustains the client's business. Second: this is the perimeter of a single company. These retainers are invoiced by BBR Tek, my software house; they do not include the retail businesses of Bell N Desk and Nova Ignis, and my educational community, CryptoManji, is free and will remain free.

Where it comes from: full B2B, large communities

A while ago I made a decision that multiplied everything: stop chasing small clients and focus entirely on B2B, on clients with large communities and real users.

The typical $35,000 project is a complete setup: a white-label platform under the client's brand, 100% customized for their community, with their courses, memberships, livestreams and payments running. The client does not buy software: they buy their own ecosystem, turnkey. And after the setup comes the retainer: advisory, ongoing development and optimization month after month, because a living platform never stops growing.

The setup (~$35K, once)

White-label platform under the client's brand
Full customization to their community's flow
Migration, payments and production launch
Training for the client's team

The retainer (monthly)

Strategic and product advisory
Ongoing feature development
AI-driven optimization of the operation
Technical decision support for the client

The structure: setup once, monthly relationship after

AI's role: why the margins work

Here is the secret that is not a secret: I can deliver implementations of this size without an army of developers because my operation runs on AI. Code is drafted with AI and audited before every deployment, research takes minutes, and my team concentrates on judgment: architecture, decisions and the client relationship.

Without AI, a $35,000 setup would cost twice as much to deliver and take three times as long. With well-directed AI, the margin exists and the client gets it faster. AI is not my product: it is my cost advantage.

What this is NOT

It is not passive income: it is real service, with deliverables, demanding clients and intense weeks. It is not course selling: this income comes from executing for companies, and my CryptoManji community's education is free and always will be. And it is not a secret you can buy: it is a ladder anyone can climb with years of work. First the skill, then the services, then your own systems, and finally the authority that makes clients arrive on their own.

The replicable part

If you want to build something like this, order matters

Solve expensive problems, not cheap ones. One $35,000 problem for a company with a large community is worth more than a thousand $50 problems. B2B with real users pays for outcomes, not hours.

Charge setup plus retainer. The project pays for the start; the monthly relationship builds the business. A service without recurrence is a job in disguise.

Use AI as a margin lever, not a talking point. Every hour AI saves you on mechanical work is margin you keep or speed your client receives. That is where this decade is won.

Method by Chiragx

And this experience is where the workshop comes from

Everything you just read is the raw material of what I am going to teach: I am preparing an in-person workshop where I take this experience from real B2B implementations to business owners and teams who want to execute with AI, not collect courses. Guided practice on your own operation, the method I use with clients who pay these figures, and limited seats by design.

The date is not open yet, but the waitlist gets priority on the first seats: join the list here (the workshop will be held in Spanish). And if what you need is a direct corporate implementation, let's talk.