New here - Is "AI Automation Agency" still worth exploring or already oversaturated?

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Hey guys,

I've been lurking for a few days and finally decided to post. I've been seeing AI automation everywhere lately — n8n, Zapier, Make, lead follow-ups, booking, email automation, etc.

I'm wondering if this is still worth getting into as a beginner, or if the market is already too crowded.

A few questions for anyone who's actually doing this:
  • Do you need coding skills, or can you start with n8n/Zapier and learn as you go?
  • How did you land your first client without just cold-spamming businesses?
  • What did your first 30–60 days actually look like?
My background is SMM/growth, so I'm considering adding automation to what I already do rather than starting completely from scratch.

Would love to hear what actually worked for you guys.
 
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Let's be honest - AI Automation Agency is the new Guru BS. It is what Clickbank and WaFo were in the earlier days.

It was ebooks before, it's courses now.

No small business is looking for AI automation and there's a whole gamut of quality issues with AI Automation.

Unless you're offering one AI service and doing it extremely well - AI outreach, embedding/training on chatbots etc. - then whole AI Agency system is bullshit.
 
AI Automation and AI generally is as wide as the ocean. It's inexhaustible. The fact that you have it everywhere, means it's working and more people are getting into it. The more people are getting into it, the more new niches are created with need for more hands to help handle them. You ought to have started since yesterday.
 
If I were you, I would open an account on Fiverr or Upwork and focus on the demand from clients; this direction is relevant and will always be relevant. Now, with the help of AI, it has become easier to automate tasks, etc.

Yes, the market is saturated, but you can definitely earn money.
 
No AI is not oversaturated and the domain with get even bigger when the AI capabilities increase so the demand will just go up with time . So AI agency will go higher than before growing.
 
AI automation is a bit saturated and Claude, Codex can do most of the week and people have created AI wrappers that do all the automations. But whenever there is a shift everyone flocks to the next thing. If I was starting out I would focus on social media marketing like the old days, but with current AI models you can create some serious stuff my g.
 
Your SMM background is actually a solid starting point adding automation to services you already understand could make the transition much easier
 
On the crowded question, it helps to split it in two. What's crowded is selling the idea of automation, so any cold message that opens with "I build AI automations" lands next to a hundred identical ones. What isn't crowded is being someone a business already trusts and automating something they're currently doing by hand.

That also answers your first client question, and the answer is sitting in your own post. You already have social media clients. Watch what they still do manually every week around the work you deliver, reporting, follow ups, onboarding, and fix one of those for one of them. You'll have a paid result to point at before anyone starting cold has had a first call.

On tooling, which platform you pick matters far less than knowing which manual step is actually costing them time. Start there and the tool choice follows.

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Floqal
 
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Let's be honest - AI Automation Agency is the new Guru BS. It is what Clickbank and WaFo were in the earlier days.

It was ebooks before, it's courses now.

No small business is looking for AI automation and there's a whole gamut of quality issues with AI Automation.

Unless you're offering one AI service and doing it extremely well - AI outreach, embedding/training on chatbots etc. - then whole AI Agency system is bullshit.
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Convincing people that they need AI automation isn’t easy. The big tech companies already have teams working on automating these processes internally. Unless you can niche down and focus on solving a very specific problem, the space is simply too broad.
 
If you are bold and determined, success is within reach in this field; however, developing an effective, viable business model requires thorough research and a solid foundation. Generic or simple concepts are already abundant, making competition fierce. You need to highlight the unique aspects and practical applications of the product you have created.
 
mydiem123 said:
Yeah, I think so too. Leveraging my existing SMM experience and adding automation seems like a much easier way to get started and find real problems worth solving.
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You already understand the problems businesses have so automation becomes a useful add on rather than something you’re trying to sell from scratch.
 
Still worth it IMO. You don’t need much coding to start with n8n/Zapier. With your SMM/dev background, focus on solving real problems and getting clients through referrals or communities. The market is crowded, but good automation still sells.
 
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