5 BEST AI Businesses To Start before 2027

Introduction: The 12-Month Wealth Window & AGI Hype

You probably heard the news and seen the headlines that say you only have 12 months to build your wealth because after that superhuman AI is coming. AGI is happening and that's it. There is this new AI 2027 forecast report by a former open AI researcher that lays out what's about to happen month by month and it claims that by 2027 AI will reshape society more than the industrial revolution did. We're talking AI agents replacing entire departments from research to coding to operators. And

while this sounds like science fiction and really negative, the money pouring in proves it's real. Top venture funds including Andre and Horovitz, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Costa Ventures and others have collectively invested roughly 160 billion into AI startups in the past 18 months, fueling some of the largest and most transformative funding rounds in the history. Meta alone has spent over 65 billion, reinventing itself as an AI first company. Here has some good news. The real opportunities aren't locked in by the

giants yet. I don't know what's going to happen later, but for now, they're open to entrepreneurs who can move fast, spot the gaps, and build tools people actually need because you are at the forefront of your problems. And the report that I mentioned before is also super clear on the fact that the early movers capture almost all the wealth. Waiting might mean you'll be too late. So, in this video, I'll break down five AI business ideas you can launch in the next 12 months. And not just theory.

You'll also hear advice from 2025 from great entrepreneurs like Reed Hoffman or Aravven Sinas, co-founder of Perplexity and others. The best time to start is now before AGI. Let's dive in. Let's talk about GBT rappers. It's basically you take ChatGpt, you reprompt it. As basic as it sounds, it's actually been a good business for a lot of people because again, you wrap it with your own expertise. And if you're deep enough in the field, your GPT wrapper is so much better than the original GPT. And this

Business Idea #1: GPT Wrappers as Specialized Tools

type of creating is just perfect for beginners. One of the fastest ways for newcomers to get started is using platforms like Replid, which turn natural language prompts into working apps with minimal coding. I love this example called Kal AI uh that was created by an 18-year-old Zakia de Gary uh whose nutrition and fitness app uses AI to analyze photos of meals and quickly estimates calories. Since launching in 2023, Calai has been downloaded over 8 million times and is projected to generate 30 million this

year. Proven that innovative AI rappers can scale quickly with smart focus and simple MVPs. These products are attractive because they solve real problems fast and as Daniel Priestley says that's exactly what makes them scalable for firsttime founders. So the assumption is the assumption is that there is value in knowing more than the customer about a particular thing and you collect a bit of their data. You mix it with your amazing prompts that you've put a lot of thought into. You then put

that into a new UX that's better than a chat UX. And between those three things of capturing data, prompting, you know, a set of much better prompts and also thinking about the UX more deeply, you're now creating something that is a specialized tool that's very valuable. And a good analogy would be that you know hundred and something years ago they created electricity and the electricity was this awesome powerful thing but then people came up with applications for electricity and they said oh we can

channel this electricity and make a toaster. Uh we can use this electricity to boil water and we call it a kettle. Um oh what if we do this electricity into light bulbs. So they channeled the electricity into these specialized applications and then those businesses became amazing standalone businesses. Now imagine someone came up and said, "Oh, that's just an electricity wrapper, right? You're just you're just wrapping electricity." You know, it's like, "Yeah, I am harnessing electricity, but

we're harnessing it in a very particular way in a user experience that's perfect for boiling water and perfect for toasting toast." So LLMs are the new electricity. They do this amazing language generation or image generation or or multimedia generation. And then it's up to us as entrepreneurs to say, can we improve upon that through UX, through better prompting, and through better ways of capturing user data. And if we can do those three things and then wrap that up together, we can create these amazing businesses.

There's just thousands of little opportunities where you could create a 5 million a year IRR business. >> So, here's an action step. Pick an industry you already know and brainstorm three repetitive tasks you could automate. Wrap GPT around one of them, even in a simple Google Sheet plus API, and test it with five to 10 real users a week. Let's pause for a quick tip. This is super relevant for anyone building a business or scaling their brand in 2025. HubSpot just dropped the AI powered

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Business Idea #2: AI Marketing & Media Tools

the easiest entry points. AI marketing tools automate content creation like captions, hashtags, voiceovers, and translations, helping creators and companies scale efficiently. A standout example here for me is Poppy AI, a bootstrap startup that grew to over 500,000 in monthly recurring revenue within its first year by helping marketers and honestly content creators like me, we use them all the time. Easily create viral social media content. So basically create a mind map with the reals or piece of content that

you like. You also feed Poppy AI with your ideas and it comes up with a perfect post. And Poppy's success once again proves how powerful focused AI marketing tools can be, especially when solving real pain points with simple subscription pricing. It's brilliant. But if you're not into content creation, there is another exciting opportunity. Building and monetizing your own AI voice. Voice AI is booming as more companies and creators want custom highquality voices for branding, advertising, and communication. Here is

Monetizing AI Voices: The 11 Labs Marketplace

what Matti, founder of 11 Labs, shares. I have this number here where you paid $2 million in royalties uh to people who kind of share their voices with 11 Labs. Can you talk about that? How can people start making money by share their voice with 11 Labs? >> So uh it's it's um one of the efforts we launched in the early days where we we effectively created a voice marketplace voice ecosystem where every person can create their own voice go through authentication flow. You need to record

roughly 30 minutes or more of you speaking. Then you have a perfect replica of your own voice that speaks in in the language you recorded plus all the language we support. So you have usually 30 or so um different variations. Now with the new model we are releasing it will be 70. So um so you have the voice that that's now available for your own use and then if you decide you can share it to our marketplace and if you share it to your to our marketplace so specific period of time um specific conditions of what you

are sharing it for then other people can use it across 11 laps ecosystem and when your voice is being used you get paid back as a result. Um this way we have now almost 10,000 voices that people shared and created. What is incredible is it spans so many different languages, accents, um different styles. So like now if you are logging to the to the to the platform, you just have this incredible plethora of voices and we pay uh pay voice uh pay voice down back. So it was I think $2 million at the

beginning of the years that we paid back and now um I think last time I checked it was a few months ago. We paid back $5 million. Wow. >> To the entire community. >> How much does average an average voice creator make? So, it really depends. I think it'll be a lot of people in like a few hundred dollar per month category. Uh, and that's probably what you could expect if if you if you do a little bit of that effort and and what you could what you could earn. >> And here's your action step. Record 10

minutes of your voice, clone it with 11 Labs, and list it on Fiverr or voices.com. Test if anyone will buy your AI version. Maybe you have a unique accent. Maybe you have a unique tone that people like. It's a fast experiment that costs nothing. Number three, Agentic AI or AI employees. Very accessible, especially with today's noode tools. Agentic AI is one of the most exciting frontiers in 2025. They are not just chat bots. They are autonomous AI employees that can complete multi-step tasks. We live in

Business Idea #3: Agentic AI – Your First AI “Employee”

this kind of bubble and it feels like everyone in the world is already using AI, but once you step out of your bubble, you realize there are so many businesses struggling with automating tasks. It's because they don't know, like they have no idea. not watching YouTube. There's this old school brickandmortar uh you know real estate agency that doesn't use AI at all. You could be that person that comes in and says like hey I can automate this for you because I figured it out. And the

best part you don't even need to be a programmer. There are no code platforms like Replet that I mentioned. There's also cursor lovable. My husband is upstairs coding something right now. He's not a coder but four weeks ago he had no idea how to code. Now, he just told me he coded an AI COO for himself uh to track how his employees work. The key here is to pick a vertical, restaurants, real estate, e-commerce, whatever you like more, and build an AI employee that removes the most painful

bottleneck. Choose your niche wisely, talk to your customers, and build something because I feel this is where the largest opportunity lies. You can be automating things for brickandmortar businesses who just figure out their websites and they haven't really figured out their social media strategy and now they have to figure out AI. You can be the person helping them. And here's what Samir Vasavada, co-founder at Wise shares. >> We had 150 people, 160 people at one point in time and now we are closer to

Case Study: Wise – Doing More With Fewer People

40 and we are doing 10 times better from a metric standpoint with 40 people than what we were doing with 160 people. >> What changed AI? I think AI changed. I think scalability changed like the the idea that how do we think about automating everything we do and I think sometimes with AI sometimes with this kind of idea that we are going to manage 10 times the amount of accounts next year and 20 times the account the years years after how do we figure out how do we design everything from scratch from

from a from a scalability standpoint. So a good example is like client service. So, we had a sixperson, seven-person client service team that was automatic, like they were manually sending out docu signs and, you know, doing account openings and processing and all of these different things. And now we have a threeperson team or twoerson team, but handles probably 20 to 30 times the amount of accounts we had back then. And they figured out how to automate everything. And the first thing they did

was, I'm actually not going to focus on client service. I'm going to focus on all the jobs to be done with. >> How do I eliminate myself? Exactly. And then they're overseeing all the systems so they can be highly highly scalable. >> And here's your action step. Write down the top three bottlenecks in your business or in business >> that you understand or you have access to. Maybe you know a lot of real estate agents and ask yourself, could an AI intern handle them? Build a simple demo

Business Idea #4: Healthcare & Wellness AI

in replet or with another no code agent tool and run it with one of your customers for a week. Number four, healthcare and wellness AI. Wellness AI is rapidly expanding, covering fitness coaching, sleep tracking, nutrition, mental health, and chronic disease monitoring. I am a person who struggles with really high cholesterol. I think they're going to put me on statins. Um I I've tried for a couple years, but the thing is I'm talking a lot to Chad GPT about my diet. But what I realized is

that Chad GPT is not a doctor. So I'm using this app called Superpower that has a built-in AI. So superpower not only has access to all my labs but also to medical data. So I can ask you more specific question about specific foods and they automatically gonna pull up research or whatever doctors say and I will trust it more because when it comes to these important questions like health yes sometimes you rely on chat GPT but you don't want to rely on it too much. I also notice how sometimes I just use one

thread to ask all the questions and then I ask mental health advice and it's like it's it's really bad and somebody told me like this is a tip for you to never ask for mental health advice in the same thread uh when you're using chat GPT because it can really mess things up. Anyways, for early founders focusing on wellness products rather than regulated medical diagnostics is a practical entry point offering high growth potential. Look at superpower how fast they're growing. Have they built out a hospital?

No. Have they made preventative health care more accessible? Yes. And they've raised from amazing amazing investors. Learn from them. And here's what Reed Hoffman shares about healthcare. Where do you feel like the biggest change is going to happen with AI? Like what's going to be transformed? I'm hoping healthare. >> Well, I think healthcare is an obvious and very important one. Think about um we have the technology today to have a medical assistant on your smartphone that's better than your average doctor

Expert Perspective: Reid Hoffman on AI in Healthcare

that's available 24 by7 to everyone with a smartphone that runs it under, you know, call it a couple dollars an hour in terms of compute costs to run it. >> We should get that as soon as possible. That doesn't mean doctors out of work. all kinds of things for doctors to do because among other things the app may say hey these are the three things in most probability from these things but then the doctor knows oh these are the things that I'm seeing in the symptom that you didn't tell the AI that's

actually really important that we need to do there's all kinds of and and a doctor can spend more time with patients because the a like hey look I had this whole conversation with my medical assistant and here's what I came up with and goes oh well let's spend more time on this one and spend some time because that's all faster given the economics of it so I think that is clearly going to happen, should happen, should happen as fast as possible. >> So, here's your action step. Build a

Business Idea #5: Educational AI & Personal Tutors

lightweight wellness tracker. For example, a Telegram bot that gives nutrition tips for a specific group of people or a Chrome extension that analyzes your asleep diary. Keep it non-medical and you can test with users immediately. Now, this is my favorite educational AI products. I have built several in the past year. Education is already being reshaped by AI. We have adaptive tutors who can prepare you for exams, teach you coding, or even role-play job interviews. We launched a GPT powered TOEFL prep coach that tracks

students weak points, adjust lessons on the fly. And people are willing to pay for that because we also have a real teacher on the back end teaching our AI how to prepare students. Engagement is rising dramatically because every student feels like they have a private coach, somebody who tracks their progress. Another one is a tutor for every subject on every age. And to make this kind of like a personal comment, like I've always been curious to understand quantum mechanics better because you know we have this whole new

world of quantum computing and I'm trying to understand it. Now I can repeat the stories that you know we read. But but understanding it in some depth is one of the things I've always wanted to do. Well now I have a tutor that's infinitely patient. They can say oh here's the thing that you need to understand. These are the questions you have about what the observer effect in quantum mechanics is and here are some of the ways to think about it. >> The action step is pick one subject you

Choosing Your Niche: Obsession as an Edge

know English math coding and create a simple AI tutor could be in telegram share with 10 students get feedback and improve it. The overall advice here for any business that you want to start or any product that you want to test start small with a very very specific group of people. And if you're listening to all of this and thinking with so many niches opening up how do you actually choose the right one? When I spoke with Aravven, the founder of Perplexity, whose company went from zero to 20

billion in just three years, he told me the one principle that matters most. >> Only thing you can bet on is whether you are so obsessed about a topic that you will do it anyway regardless of all the odds stacked against you and then you'll prove the world wrong because you go so far deep into that and and no one cared about the problem more than you did. So I think uh build for yourself. Hopefully uh that's a thing that a lot of people in the world want and therefore you can turn it into a scalable product and and

and a scalable company. >> To sum up, right now is still the perfect time to start. You don't need a research lab or billions in funding to start. You just need speed, focus, and the courage to act. The founders I've talked to from Reed Hoffman to Arabend all prove the same point. The biggest companies start small. a rapper around chat GPT, a voice tool for creators, a tool that helps one student at a time. So don't wait for permission. Don't wait for AGI and universal basic income. Pick

Conclusion: The AI Gold Rush Is Here

one idea, launch your MVP this week, and test it with real people. That's how you go from zero to opportunity while the door is still wide open. The AI gold rush isn't coming. It is here. And the only question is will you watch it happen or will you be part of it? And uh the thought that really keeps me motivated all the time is that we might only have 12 months to build our wealth. So off we go. Let's build our wealth.