How to Make Money With AI: From Research to Act in One Loop

Most people trying to make money with AI are collecting the right information but building nothing with it. This article is about the step that changes that: turning what you learn about your space into a decision framework, a digital mentor, or an autonomous system that keeps itself current. It includes a live build using Perplexity and NotebookLM, and a full loop connecting four AI tools into one working income asset.

For the longest time, I collected. Strategies. Creator playbooks. Income models that looked like they could work. Every time I found someone building an audience, selling a course, or licensing an AI system, I saved what they were doing. Felt like I was getting closer.

Most people trying to make money with AI are doing the same thing.

AI accelerated the collecting. Retrieval, synthesis, summarization: what used to take hours now takes minutes. The research session of this program is entirely about running these tasks with AI.

But here is what nobody warned me about: the collecting habit survived. And collecting, by itself, does not earn.

Worse: once we had the data, we looked at the output, we read it, we nodded, we closed the tab. No decision made. No offer improved. No product launched. Then nothing happened.

The next time a similar question came up, we went the same route again. Same work, repeated from scratch, every time.

This article is about what comes after that. Not the collecting. The converting. Taking what you learn about how people make money with AI and turning it into something that keeps working: a decision, a digital mentor, an autonomous system that monitors what is working in your space while you build.

The Practical AI Builder Program is a live cohort for people who are already using AI but want to build real systems that fit their work. This is the session recap for Month of May. If you want access to the full video, slides, and live-build outputs, they are in the Build to Launch member resources.

What’s inside:

• What the real bottleneck is after you get research results back
• 3 routes for turning research results into action
• 6 ways people make money with AI (and yours is no different)
• The full live build:
• How to retrieve the best research output
• How to hire your digital mentor (I hired Alex Hormozi)
• How to build your tracking skill
• How to build your autonomous system
• The complete loop connecting all 4 tools
• Live updates from the session: what people shipped, and questions from the group
• What to do after reading this
• Session timeline with timestamps

🎁 The full video, slides, and live-build outputs from this session are included in the Build to Launch member resources.

The collecting is the easy part now. What follows is the converting.