By Godswill Akan
If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your interest in AI into a real business opportunity, becoming an AI automations consultant might just be your golden ticket. With the AI wave only growing stronger in 2025, more companies are eager to integrate AI into their operations, and they’re willing to pay good money for it.
Here are three powerful services you can start offering today to help businesses thrive with automation. Let’s break them down:
1. Building AI Chatbots Tailored to Businesses AI chatbots aren’t just a trend, they’re a necessity in today’s business world. Think of them as virtual assistants trained to understand and respond based on a company’s specific data.
Unlike ChatGPT, which is trained on general data from across the web, these custom bots are built to reflect company policies, procedures, and service-specific knowledge. For example, a chatbot for a dental clinic could handle appointment bookings, answer FAQs, and even provide pre-visit instructions, all 24/7. They’re also useful internally, especially for onboarding new employees who may feel shy about asking too many questions.
With a chatbot, they get instant answers, any time. I recommend a platform called Voiceflow for creating these bots quickly and effectively.
2. Creating Autonomous AI Agents
This goes a step beyond chatbots. Autonomous AI agents don’t just respond, they create.
Imagine an AI agent trained on a company’s past LinkedIn posts. Once it learns the voice, tone, and structure, it can generate new posts automatically, even pulling insights from current news stories.
Businesses can also train agents to draft sales letters, emails, or SOPs based on existing content.
My friend Helen told me a story about a client who had written thousands of high-converting video sales letters over the years. By feeding that content to an AI agent, the client now has a system that continues producing sales letters in his voice, style, and proven format.
3. Setting Up Automations Using APIs
This is where things get exciting, and highly valuable. APIs allow different software tools to talk to each other. As a consultant, you can build powerful workflows that automate repetitive tasks for businesses. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a developer, there are no-code tools like Zapier and Make (formerly Integromat) to help you.For example, you can build an automation that:
● Writes a blog post using ChatGPT every Thursday
● Automatically posts it to a company’s WordPress blog
That’s a weekly content system running on autopilot. Businesses often pay $200–$500 per blog post, so delivering consistent content with automation is a major value add.
Final Thoughts
These aren’t futuristic ideas, they’re real services businesses are already paying for in 2025. Whether it’s building AI chatbots, creating custom content-generating agents, or setting up time-saving automations, the demand is high, and the barrier to entry is surprisingly low.
If you’re willing to learn a few tools and understand how businesses operate, this could be your lane to build a thriving consulting practice this year
