Brief Summary
This video outlines three promising niches for AI automation agencies in 2025: high-touch SaaS companies, recruitment agencies, and coaches/consultants. It details the characteristics that make a niche attractive, including being digital, having mid-ticket plus pricing, and minimal regulations. For each niche, the video provides specific problems to solve, solutions to offer, and strategies for lead generation and outreach.
- Digital, mid-ticket plus, and few regulations are key for a good niche.
- High-touch SaaS, recruitment agencies, and coaches/consultants are promising niches.
- Lead generation, personalized systems, and AI integration are valuable solutions.
Introduction to AI Automation Niches
Nick Saraev introduces the three best AI automation agency niches for 2025, sharing his experience of scaling his business to $72,000 a month. He promises to provide not only the niches but also the problems to solve, the solutions to sell, and the outreach strategies to acquire clients. The goal is to equip viewers with the skills to identify profitable niches, even as technology evolves.
What Makes a Great Niche?
A great niche should be digital rather than brick and mortar, offer mid-ticket plus deals (over $1,000 per deal), and have as few regulations as possible. Digital niches are easier to source leads for, as digital business owners understand the value of automation more than brick and mortar businesses. Digital businesses also tend to have larger budgets due to not having to pay rent. Mid-ticket plus businesses provide sales and people leverage, as well as more referral opportunities. Niches with fewer regulations, especially avoiding healthcare and legal, reduce friction and complexity, making it easier to implement automation solutions.
Understanding High-Touch SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a subscription-based business model, split into low-touch and high-touch variants. Low-touch SaaS involves minimal customer interaction and automated sign-up processes. High-touch SaaS, on the other hand, is more expensive, solves specific needs, targets enterprise clients, and requires sales demos with account executives. High-touch SaaS businesses tend to be very profitable due to their high cost, managed service nature, and high customer lifetime value. Examples include Senbird and Check, which offer enterprise-level communication and customer experience solutions, respectively.
Selling to High-Touch SaaS Companies
To sell to high-touch SaaS companies, one can use Apollo.io to find SaaS companies, filtering for those with 11-50 employees and using terms like "managed." Alternatively, one can search for sales roles on Indeed or LinkedIn, scrape the results using Apify, and find decision-maker emails using Anymail Finder. The outreach email should highlight the ability to solve their needs using systems, guarantee results, and offer a chat. Potential systems to sell include lead generation personalized cold email systems and personalized proposal systems or CRMs.
Niche Two: Recruitment Agencies
Recruitment agencies find and place candidates in other businesses, typically earning a percentage of the candidate's first-year salary. These agencies handle a high volume of applications and candidates, making them ideal for automation. Recruitment agencies have high customer lifetime value, especially if clients request multiple placements over several years. The recruitment process is primarily digital, offering opportunities to systemize sourcing, screening, and communication with candidates.
Selling to Recruitment Agencies
To sell to recruitment agencies, look for recruiter roles on Indeed and LinkedIn, scrape the results using Apify, and find decision-maker emails using Anymail Finder. The outreach email should offer a guarantee and highlight the ability to help recruitment businesses make more money. Systems to sell include candidate placement systems, lead generation personalized cold email systems, and automated dashboard systems.
Niche Three: Coaches and Consultants
Coaches and consultants provide strategy, tactics, coaching, accountability, and testing to help businesses improve their services. This industry is experiencing rapid growth and offers high-ticket opportunities. Coaches and consultants often have large sales and marketing budgets that can be optimized through automation. Examples include agency coaching programs and consultancy practices.
Systems for Coaches and Consultants
To sell to coaches and consultants, scrape YouTube, school, and other social media platforms where they are active using Apify. Look for cross-platform information and use AI to generate personalized messaging. Create a custom asset, such as a Google Doc with high-quality YouTube titles, and send it to them along with a personalized message. Systems to sell include an AI coach and a coaching management system. An AI coach can automate Q&A by converting videos and posts into a retrieval augmented generation chatbot. A coaching management system can standardize the coaching experience and improve service quality.
Conclusion and Key Takeaways
The video concludes by summarizing the three niches: high-touch SaaS, recruitment agencies, and coaches/consultants. High-touch SaaS offers mid-ticket plus deals and high revenues. Recruitment agencies handle high volumes of people and have high customer lifetime values. Coaches and consultants are in a rapidly growing industry with high-ticket opportunities and large sales and marketing budgets. The video encourages viewers to ask questions and provide suggestions for future content.
