5 (Real) AI Agent Business Ideas For 2025
Monetizing AI in 2025
5 Realistic Opportunities You Can't Miss
It's been over three years since the AI revolution began, and only recently has AI truly transitioned from hype to tangible utility. You now have the power to build intricate AI agent workflows, train custom AI models, and even prototype code like a small development team. The potential is vast, but so is the learning curve. This creates a unique opportunity for you to capitalize on your AI skills.
In this article, we'll explore five realistic ways you can monetize your AI expertise, tools, and agents in 2025. These are actionable ideas with genuine potential, broken down to help you understand how to implement them.
- 1. Selling AI Agent Workflows AI agents are poised to revolutionize how manual tasks are handled, often surpassing the capabilities of traditional SaaS software. Early adopters are already seizing this opportunity, opening doors for significant business ventures. The most sophisticated tool for building AI agents currently is NN. Think of NN as an automation tool, similar to Zapier or Make, but with a powerful AI agent integration. You can construct complex workflows and integrations with any tool possessing an API. It boasts one of the market's best AI agent implementations, allowing you to create sophisticated agentic workflows using models from OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, and more. This is where the business opportunity arises. These workflows are complex and often time-consuming to develop. While numerous tutorials exist, many businesses, especially smaller ones, would gladly pay for pre-built, complex workflows that can be integrated directly into their operations. There are two primary ways to monetize this: **Selling Workflow Templates:** If you've dedicated hours to creating a valuable workflow in NN, you can offer it to others. Simply export the finished workflow file from NN and sell access to it for a one-time fee. Use a basic website with a payment system like Stripe to deliver the workflow file via email after purchase. This is a proven model, similar to selling Notion, Figma, or Webflow templates. **Selling Access to Workflow Runs:** Within NN, you can expose your workflow through a webhook. This allows your workflow to be triggered by another NN workflow or an external system. Users can call your workflow through NN's API, receiving the final result without needing to understand the workflow's intricacies. After purchase, provide them with the webhook URL, enabling them to use your workflow as a tool within their AI agents, simply calling it as they would any other API. To protect your workflow and ensure only paying users have access, NN allows you to add authentication directly to the webhook node that triggers it. Since this method runs the workflow on your NN account, consuming tokens and resources, consider offering access as a subscription or on a per-call basis rather than a one-time purchase.
- 2. Selling Knowledge-Based AI Chatbots While selling AI agents is a relatively new opportunity, selling knowledge remains a timeless concept. You can sell information products, paid courses, coaching, masterclasses, and more. AI simply offers a new format and medium to deliver this knowledge. Think about knowledge-based AI chatbots. For example, imagine learning Facebook paid ads. You could learn independently or rely on an expert. You might join Ben Heath Media's masterclasses or buy the Maker Ads guide. But imagine gaining access to a chatbot, like ChatGPT, specifically trained on knowledge from your favorite author on the subject. You could ask the chatbot specific questions and receive expert guidance tailored to your situation. This could be offered as a standalone product or as a complement to a paid course. If you are an expert, you can offer this specialized AI chatbot to your audience. Here's how:
- 1. Use a tool like EightBase to create and manage the chatbot and its knowledge base.
- 2. Create and manage your knowledge base with public sources (websites, YouTube videos), uploaded documents (PDFs), or EightBase's rich FAQ editor. This allows for easy creation, management, and updating of a large knowledge base.
- 3. Train the AI chatbot on this data and place it behind a paywall on your website for paying users. **Important:** Avoid giving your knowledge base to a custom GPT in a system prompt. It's easy to trick the AI into revealing the system prompt. Large language models also perform poorly with large contexts. EightBase actively queries specific data for each message using a technology called RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), eliminating the need for a system prompt. EightBase also allows you to inspect conversations, see retrieved knowledge, and correct it for future accuracy.
- 3. Selling Access to a Custom AI Model Consider training or fine-tuning your own AI model and providing API access to it. You likely know that open-source models like FLUX, Stable Diffusion, and DeepSeek are available for download on Hugging Face. You can specialize these models through fine-tuning. For instance, you could fine-tune FLUX (an image generation model) to produce images tailored for a 3D software like Blender. Another option is to fine-tune DeepSeek to respond in a specific way or format. This fine-tuned version of an open-source model is called a LoRA model. Creating a high-quality LoRA model often requires significant experimentation, tweaking, tuning, and specialized expertise. If you possess this knowledge and have successfully trained a valuable LoRA model, you can charge users for its use. The best way to do this is to use a platform called Replicate. With Replicate, you can deploy, fine-tune, and run AI models at scale. You can perform fine-tuning directly on Replicate or upload your LoRA models and expose them through Replicate's API. Similar to NN, you can charge users for API access. You can provide a direct API key to Replicate's API or create your own proxy API. Both methods allow users to run your LoRA model without dealing with complex infrastructure or GPU hardware scaling.
- 4. Vibe Coding for Rapid Prototyping "Vibe coding" means using tools like Cursor or Windser to generate code based on a general concept or "vibe." This approach has led to interesting projects, especially small indie games created with 3JS and Cursor. Peter Levels was among the first, generating thousands of dollars in ad revenue in just a few days. While some advocate for "vibing" everything, a structured, intentional approach generally yields better outcomes. However, "vibing" is excellent for prototyping and testing new ideas. You can Vibe code a simple product, design quick ads, and gauge interest. If something resonates, you can transition from vibing to a more intentional development approach.
- 5. Offering AI Automation Agency Services Some businesses prefer hiring experts to set everything up for them. They understand the importance of AI and automation for gaining a competitive edge and future-proofing their operations but lack the knowledge to implement it themselves. This is where you can start an AI automation agency, offering implementation services. Although AI automation agencies weren't taken very seriously a few years ago, that has changed. If you can set up complex automations, fine-tune models, and enjoy direct client work, consider offering your expertise as an AI consultant or through your own AI automation agency. The next two years will create new opportunities beyond traditional SaaS models. These are just five ideas for turning AI into an offer. Another often overlooked area is using AI for internal operations to run a more lean and efficient startup.