One client, one year, and the floor under it.
An agency that installs AI agents for local businesses. We build it, you run it. One client is worth about $41K in its first year: the $8,000–$15,000 install plus $2,250 a month. Here is that year, one client at a time, printed conservative: zero compounding assumed.
Start with one client. Everything else repeats it.
Your client pays $8,000–$15,000 to install, then about $2,250 a month. Two costs come out: delivery, which the platform automates, and our 10% fee.
Delivery is 8%, not 40%, because the platform does the fulfillment. That margin is measured from our own operating history, not projected.
Representative dental practice: a front desk missing roughly a third of inbound calls at ~$1,100 per new patient. Different niches, different math, same shape. Walked through live on your call.
Year one, at three paces, against the floor.
Retainers stack: every client you sign keeps paying while you add the next. Here is twelve months of cash at three paces, install fees included, against the floor the guarantee holds.
For scale · the model vs. what has been recorded
At these figures, $3,000 a month of marketing signs about two clients a month: the pace one operator runs solo. It collects $627,000 in year-one cash and exits the year holding twenty-four retainers, a $648,000 run-rate walking into year two.
Now assume it goes slowly. The floor still pays.
Assume worse than one client a month: one every other month, six all year, every one at the low end of the install fee. You collect $135,750. That is under the floor, and it is the one case the written guarantee is built for.
A stalled year lands under $250,000, and the striped span is the guarantee paying the difference. That is the whole job of the floor.
Stalled-year math: ~1 client every other month at the $8,000 install fee plus monthly retainer, cash collected in twelve months. The guarantee makes up any shortfall to $250,000. Eligibility, measurement, and remedy terms live in the agreement.
You do not need the good year to be safe. That is what the floor is for.
Bring your questions. We’ll walk the math with your niche in it.
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