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Brooke Wright - AI Strategist + Educator · YouTube

How to Make Money With Claude, Step by Step

One AI educator's exact four-stream sequence, from 158 followers to a solo multi six-figure business.

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1 months ago
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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Knowing an AI tool better than the person in front of you is a sellable skill on its own, and it turns into a business through a fixed order: workshops first, then consulting, then content, then membership last.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…
  • You already know Claude reasonably well and want to turn that knowledge into paid workshops or consulting.
  • You're a service provider, coach, or freelancer weighing whether to add an AI-education income stream.
  • You want a sequence to follow instead of guessing whether to start with content, a course, or a membership.
  • You're stuck undercharging for expertise-based work and want a concrete pricing anchor.
SKIP IF…
  • You're looking for Claude prompting tips or feature tutorials — this is a business-model breakdown, not a product walkthrough.
  • You already have an established audience and monetization stack in place.
TL;DR

The full version, fast.

The video argues that an AI-education business is four income streams, not one, and they only work if built in order: free-then-paid workshops to build proof, one-on-one consulting for fast cash, content that documents everything you're doing, and a membership last, only once an audience already exists and is asking for it. The suggested starting sequence is a two-week window to pick one narrow problem, a workshop by week four, a first paying client by month two, and steady content from month three on. The three mistakes to skip: charging too little too long, ignoring proven viral hook formats, and offering people too many ways to work with you instead of one clear path.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:0002:11

01 · The path nobody talks about

Cold open and credibility: 60K+ followers in about a year, multi six-figure solo business, started with 158 followers.

02:1103:32

02 · The AI opportunity (the gap in the market)

Everyone knows they should use AI but doesn't know where to start; the only qualification to teach it is knowing the tool better than the person in front of you.

03:3206:32

03 · The 4 income streams that stack

Workshops and speaking, consulting, content, and membership, explained in the order they should be built.

06:3210:23

04 · The execution roadmap (start from zero)

Week-by-week plan: pick one problem, run a free workshop, land a first client, keep repeating and posting content on one platform.

10:2311:07

05 · Scaling + consistency (the compound effect)

Twelve months of posting before anything worked, then exponential growth once it did.

11:0714:27

06 · The mistakes I made (so you can skip them)

Three mistakes: waited too long to charge properly, didn't copy proven viral formats sooner, tried to give people too many offers at once.

14:2715:54

07 · The full ungatekept path (recap)

Five-step recap: one problem, free workshop, first client, document into content, then build a membership.

15:5416:25

08 · Come build with us

Pitch for the Wright Mode membership community.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • An AI-education business breaks into four stacking income streams: workshops and speaking, consulting, content, and membership, in that order.
  • The only qualification needed to teach AI professionally is knowing the tool better than the person sitting across from you.
  • A single 60-90 minute consulting session teaching someone to use Claude in their specific business is worth a minimum of $500.
  • Consulting isn't the scalable income stream, but it's the fastest path to real cash when you're starting from zero.
  • A membership should be built last, after trust and an audience already exist, not launched to create them.
  • Running a membership takes roughly the same effort at 5 members as it does at 50, so volume is what makes it pay well.
  • The suggested first move is narrowing to one specific problem for one type of person, not five things at once.
  • A free workshop converts better than cold content because 45 minutes of live interaction builds trust faster than dozens of reels could.
  • It took twelve months of consistent posting before content started compounding into real reach.
  • Charging too little for too long is a common early mistake; price signals value even before results are proven.
  • Copying proven, currently-working viral hook formats mattered more to growth than posting frequency alone.
  • Giving prospects one clear offer converts better than giving them five options to choose from.
  • Every workshop insight, client win, and new thing learned in the tool becomes content, which is what makes the loop compound.
Takeaway

Build the four income streams in order, not all at once.

WHAT TO LEARN

An AI-education business is four stacking income streams, not one, and building them out of order is what stalls people before they start.

01The path nobody talks about
  • Nobody needs a massive audience to start; knowing a tool better than the person in front of you is a sellable qualification on its own.
03The 4 income streams that stack
  • Free workshops come first because they build trust and proof faster than cold content does, then paid workshops and speaking follow once that proof exists.
  • One-on-one consulting is the fastest path to real cash early on: a single 60-90 minute session teaching someone your tool in their specific business is worth a minimum of $500.
  • Content is the compounding layer underneath everything else: every workshop insight and client win becomes a piece of content, and the payoff can take twelve months to show up.
  • A membership is the last stream to build, after trust and an audience already exist and are asking for it, not the first thing launched to try to create them.
06The mistakes I made (so you can skip them)
  • Underpricing early is a common, avoidable mistake: price signals the value of the work even before results are proven.
  • One clear offer converts better than five options; overwhelming a prospect with choices is a common way to lose a sale entirely.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Repurposing tool
Software (e.g. Blotato) that takes one piece of content created on a primary platform and automatically reformats and posts it across every other social channel.
Custom instructions
A Claude setting that lets a user pre-load standing context or preferences so the model applies them automatically in every new conversation, without re-explaining each time.
Connectors
Claude features that link the assistant to outside apps and data sources so it can pull in or act on information beyond the chat itself.
Resources

Things they pointed at.

00:00toolClaude
23:20toolBlotato
00:00toolTella
Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:00
Nobody in the AI education space will actually tell you how they built their business.
contrarian cold open, immediate curiosity gapTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
05:19
You just need to know Claude better than the person sitting across from you. That's it. That's the entire qualification.
tight, quotable permission-giving linenewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
07:16
You're not selling your time, you're selling back hours of theirs.
reframes consulting pricing in one lineIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
17:09
It really does feel like nothing is working right up until the moment it does, so you just cannot quit.
compounding-effect payoff line after a concrete 12-month timelineTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
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Nobody in the AI education space will actually tell you how they built their business. Because if they did, you could do it too, and that terrifies them.
That cannot be me. So I am going to ungatekeep the exact path that I took from knowing AI really well to creating a multi 6 figure AI education business, solo, no team.
No investor, no cofounder, just me, Claude, chat GPT, and a sequence that almost nobody is talking about.
And I'm gonna be honest with you right now in a way that most people are not because the Internet is full of people making this sound easy to make money with AI. It's not necessarily easy, but it is simple.
And simple is something I can actually give you. If you don't know me, I'm Brooke. I own Rightmode.
I'm an AI educator, and I have an incredible community of women in my membership. I've trained over 50,000 business owners across my channels.
I've been on stages with Microsoft, HubSpot, and Canva, and I've grown my socials to over 60,000 followers across my channels in about a year, as well as making multi 6 figures with zero team.
And I started with nothing. I had a 158 followers last year.
All I had was the ability to learn AI and a willingness to show up before I felt ready. So here's the exact path in order because the order is everything.
And there is one thing I did at the very beginning that just felt like it was wrong, that I almost didn't do it. And that thing is actually the entire foundation of everything that I've built to the day that I built today.
So stay with me because if you skip this part, nothing else in the video is gonna work.
Okay. So first, let's talk about what is actually happening right now because the opportunity in AI education is genuinely unlike anything I have ever seen.
Everyone is hearing about Claude. Everyone is trying to figure it out. Business owners, founders, corporate teams, freelancers, they all know they should be using AI, but they don't know where to start.
Most of them have no idea. They're opening this stuff for the first time. And here's the gap.
99% of AI education content out there isn't speaking to these people.
Nobody is teaching it in plain English. Nobody is making it feel accessible for the woman running her service business who just wants to get back her time. Nobody is sitting down with the business owner and saying, here's exactly where AI fits in your business, not in theory right now.
And that gap is a business, a very profitable profitable business, and you don't need a massive audience.
I didn't have a massive audience when I started. You just need to know Claude better than the person sitting across from you. That's it.
That's the entire qualification. Okay. So let's talk about it, how this actually makes money.
Because AI education is not one income stream. It is four, and they stack. So income stream one, workshops and speaking.
This is where you start. Free workshops to build trust and proof, paid workshops once you have that proof, speaking gigs once people know your name.
I've been on stages with Microsoft, HubSpot, and Canva, and that didn't happen because I had a big audience. In fact, I had less than 2,000 followers at that time. It happened because I had a clear point of view.
I showed up consistently, and I became the person. And I became the person that everyone thought of when they thought, oh, AI education.
Income stream number two is AI consulting, and this is your fastest path to real money. One client, one sixty to ninety minute session, you showed them exactly how to use Claude in their specific business.
That is worth minimum $500 an hour, probably more, definitely more.
Because you're not selling your time, you're selling back hours of theirs. This is giving them a fast track to learning AI.
And income numbers, you get to show them where AI fits in their business, and they start to feel less overwhelmed. Income stream number three is content. So this is the long game that makes everything else compound.
Every workshop insight becomes a reel. Every client problem becomes a video. Every time you figure out something new in Claude, you share it.
Building public. 60,000 followers didn't happen overnight, but they happened because I showed up consistently in a very specific niche, Claude, and AI for women in business without the overwhelm.
That niche is mine because I claimed it. Income stream number four, membership, and this is where the business starts to scale, but I cannot stress this enough.
This is not where you start. You build this last after the trust is there, after the audience is there, after people are already asking, is there another way that I can continue to keep learning from you?
Right mode, my membership exists because my community and audience asked for it, not because I decided to launch it. That's the difference between a membership that thrives and one that dies within month three.
Because it takes the same amount of work to run a membership for five members as it does for 50. Mine is up to about 200, and it is the same amount of work.
But because I have the volume, it pays me very, very well now. It didn't at five members. That's for sure.
Okay. So here's the part that I'm actually ungatekeeping. This is the exact sequence I'd follow if I was starting from zero today.
So weeks one and two, pick one thing that you can do in Claude that saves a business owner time or makes them money. Not five things, just one thing. For me, it was AI systems for women founders drowning in admin, ops, content.
What's yours? I want you to write that down. Everything builds from that answer.
Now weeks three and four, I want you to run a workshop on that one thing. So it could even be how to set up your custom instructions and get connectors in Claude.
It doesn't have to be complicated. We're in a bubble, and there are so many people who don't even know that. I want you to post about it on LinkedIn, Instagram.
Reach out to people. Reach out to people that you know too. That is how I got my first people in my workshops.
I literally asked them to come. Then show up and teach everything. Hold nothing back.
Don't overwhelm them, but give loads of value. You want people to walk away with one to three tangible things, like setting up your custom instructions, getting your connectors set up.
That's it. Then afterwards, what I want you to do is follow-up with those people in an email asking then what I want you to do is at the end of the workshop, tell people how they can work with you, and then you're gonna follow-up in an email and say, hey.
This is how you can work with me if you want more of this. And I can guarantee you that someone will say yes. Like, can you help me set this up?
I wanna learn more from you. That person is your first client. Plus, you've built your email list from getting sign ups to that workshop.
Okay. So month two, I want you to run this workshop again. Keep it simple.
You can repeat this workshop. Get more people in. Do that same thing.
And while you're doing this, you can also let people know that you do consulting and that that is how they can work with you further. Consulting pays really, really well.
It's not necessarily scalable, but if you are trying to make money fast and you wanna be paid well, then consulting is an excellent choice.
And once you've started consulting, you can get client testimonials, case studies, and it's there then it's heaps easier to get more work.
Now while you're doing this, what I want you to do is just be posting content on socials. Pick one platform. Could be LinkedIn.
LinkedIn. Could be Instagram, TikTok. Doesn't matter where.
Just pick one and get good at that platform. That's what I did. For me, it was Instagram, but I used a tool called Blotato at that time with n eight n, now in Claude Code, to post it out to all of the other channels.
Again, this comes back to when someone thinks about learning AI, we want them to think about you. Okay.
So we're at month three. What I want you to do is document everything, every client win, everything you're building, and create content around that. Just stay consistent.
It doesn't matter which platform. I want you to pick some creators that you trust, steal their hooks and frameworks that are working, and then put your content behind it.
I was doing this for twelve months before anything actually started really working. And once I did, my business just grew exponentially.
I felt like I was speaking into the void for most of those twelve months, except I was still getting really good quality clients coming through from TikTok, from LinkedIn, from Instagram.
It's just it wasn't at the scale that it is now. I want you to trust that compound effect because here's what nobody will tell you about building an audience. It really does feel like nothing is working right up until the moment it does, so you just cannot quit.
And then it does all at once. I went from posting to nobody, essentially, to 60,000 followers and a multi 6 figure business, not because I went viral, but because I showed up up in the same corner of the Internet consistently for long enough that the right people found me.
And then when I did go viral, oh my gosh, everything just started working so much easily, so much more easily.
And here's the part that is actually ungatekeeping, what I'd do differently because I made mistakes, and I want you to skip them. So mistake number one, I waited too long to charge properly.
So I ran free workshops every six weeks, which were great for building my list and audience, but I undercharged myself because I wasn't backing myself.
I was charging, I think, $280 at the start, then I jumped up to 400 and then $1,200.
And I should have started charging consulting fees at that $1,200 rate when I first started. That is nowhere near my consulting rate now, but it was, like, a decent starting point. And this 100% came down to the fact that I didn't back myself.
If I was starting again, I would charge that rate sooner, not because the money matters more. I mean, that is nice to have, but it's it tells your client what you do has value.
So who we want to signal that value, and I can guarantee you, you do provide so much value. So mistake number two was that I didn't copy proven viral formats when creating content.
So I had people telling me to do this. Sabrina Romanov told me to do this.
And I took her advice of posting three times a day and not quitting, but I just there was this real mental block with that. As soon as I started using viral hooks and content strategies that actually work, everything got so much easier because my content started performing, and then my audience grew, which meant that things just got easier.
Yes. I had good offers set up, so people knew kind of where to go once they found me, but it's all well and good to have that set up. If no one can find you, you're not gonna make any money.
So use proven viral formats. In my membership, I actually have a tool where you can recreate content, talk about what you want, but use those proven viral strategies.
I'll drop the link to the membership below. Also being really clear about who I was talking to. So for me, I always end all of my videos with, like, follow me for more AI tips without the overwhelm because that's the whole thing.
I want this stuff to feel less overwhelming for people. Mistake number three would be trying to do too many things all at once. So I'm definitely guilty of this still.
But when you're first starting out, especially if you start with workshops, just give people one thing to do afterwards, as in one way to work with you.
If you have, like, five different ways for people to work with you, guess what? They're gonna be overwhelmed, and they're not gonna choose any of them. Give them one path.
You can downsell people behind the scenes later, but just give people one offer to go to.
That's it. So here's the full ungatekept path.
One, pick one thing, one problem, one person. Two, run a free workshop.
Let people experience you and learn about you. Do you know how much easier it is for someone to wanna buy from you after spending forty five minutes with you versus how many reels would they have to consume to get to know you that well?
Three, land your first paying client. Do that either through workshops or consulting. Number four, document everything, turn it into content.
Show up consistently. Do not quit. And then five, once you've got an audience, then you can build a membership.
Only once you have trust and audience. It's not that complicated, but it requires you to start before you feel ready.
It requires you to charge before you feel qualified, and it requires you to show up before anyone is watching. The AI education opportunity right now is insane.
It is real. I promise you. The gap in the market is real, and you, you already know Claude better than most business owners ever will, and you are more ready than you think you are.
The only question is whether you're going to do something with it. And if you want to build this alongside women who are doing exactly the same thing, come and join us in the Right Mode community.
It is my favorite place on the Internet. It's my AI implementation community for women founders.
We've got fortnightly live co co work q and a sessions with me. You get access to me.
Monthly live build with Brooke sessions. Every system, template, and resource I use to run a multi 6 figure business by myself is in there.
It's not a course that you buy and forget. It's the place where you actually build with AI and get support doing it.
So link is in the description. Come and find me in there. And if this has helped, please like and subscribe, and I will see you on the next video.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

An AI educator who went from 158 followers to a multi six-figure, solo AI-education business says almost nobody in that space explains how they actually built it, because if they did, you could do it too. So she lays out the exact sequence: which income stream to start with, which to build last, and the three mistakes she'd skip if she started over.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

03:36list

The 4 Income Streams That Stack

  1. Workshops and speaking
  2. AI consulting
  3. Content
  4. Membership

The four ways an AI-education business makes money, meant to be built in this order rather than launched all at once.

Steal forany expertise-based service business deciding what to monetize first
14:16list

The Ungatekept Path

  1. Pick one thing, one problem, one person
  2. Run a free workshop
  3. Land your first paying client
  4. Document everything, turn it into content
  5. Build a membership once trust and audience exist

The five-step sequence to go from zero to a stacked AI-education business, recapped near the end of the video.

Steal forsequencing any new expertise-based offer from scratch
11:11list

3 Mistakes to Skip

  1. Waited too long to charge properly
  2. Didn't copy proven viral content formats sooner
  3. Tried to give people too many ways to work with her at once

The three things she'd change if she were starting the business again today.

Steal forauditing pricing and offer structure on any new service business
CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK
15:46product
Come and join us in the Right Mode community.

Soft close after the full value-first roadmap: she pitches her own paid membership community only in the final chapter, after already delivering the complete free framework, matching the exact sequencing rule (audience/trust first) that the video itself teaches.

MENTIONED ON CAMERA
00:00toolClaude
23:20toolBlotato
00:00toolTella
Storyboard

Visual structure at a glance.

cold open
hookcold open00:00
the gap
promisethe gap02:11
4 streams
value4 streams03:32
roadmap
valueroadmap06:32
mistakes
valuemistakes11:07
CTA
ctaCTA15:54
Frame Gallery

Visual moments.

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