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Andrea Marchiotto

Built 30+ AI Systems | Author | ex-Amazon, Philips, Unilever | Founder, BlackCube Labs

Cohort 1

C1 - Jan 2025

July Cohort

Founding price $497 until May 3, rises to $797 after. Only 30 spots.

Cohort 1 - Founding Round

Navigating the AI Landscape:
Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups

A blueprint for high-paying jobs, as recommended by the CEO of Gumroad (and with some extra tips from me). Read the article on Medium for free (and without the need to get into their subscription plan).

Landing a $200/hour job: a step-by-step guide

Can advanced prompting assist you in developing a strategic plan to generate $1 million in revenue for your company within 6 to 12 months? After some testing, I identified a prompt with a promising starting point. You can get it for free.

[Advanced Prompting] Business strategy to generate $1M+ within 6 to 12 months

I've partnered with WONDR to provide FREE 1:1 30 minutes coaching or mentoring sessions aimed at transforming the way you approach growth and innovation. How does it work?You pay nothing to start connecting with a community of peers and practitioners. WONDR is free for the first 30 days, and you can cancel anytime. This means you can receive a mentoring session for free and then cancel if you decide not to continue.

Free 30 min. 1:1 Coaching / Mentoring Session

Navigate the complex world of artificial intelligence with ease using our comprehensive AI Glossary. This handy resource demystifies AI jargon, providing clear and concise definitions for key terms and concepts. Whether you're an AI novice or a seasoned tech professional, our glossary will help you understand and communicate about AI more effectively.

AI Glossary

Build the operating system for your AI consultancy, real systems, real clients, no code. From niche to first paying client in 4 to 6 weeks.

Founder @ BC Labs | Author | AI Builder

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CEO BlackCube Labs | Built 30 AI systems | Author | ex-Amazon, Philips, Unilever

Every week, another founder buys another AI tool. Most never see ROI. Not because the tools are wrong, because the system around them doesn't exist yet.I built BlackCube Labs from scratch: 30+ AI systems, a $7K to $9K/month client contract, 600+ media placements through my own AI PR service, and a community of 630+ founders, zero paid ads, zero outside capital.I learned the hard way: the technology almost never fails. The operating system around it does.This cohort is the operating system. Not a course on tools. A live build of your consultancy's core infrastructure: your niche, your offer, your automation stack, your client acquisition loop, and your first paying client playbook.In 15 seats. With someone who does this for a living.

The gap isn't tools. It's the operating system around them.

Define your defensible niche and offer stack

Build your AI operating system — no code required

Acquire your first (or next) client using AI-powered outreach

Launch a productized service in your consultancy

Deploy your own AI virtual assistant for client delivery

Build authority that generates inbound demand

You don't need to be an expert, but you should have used at least one AI tool for a real task, writing, research, or planning

Basic familiarity with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar)

You should arrive with at least a rough idea of who you want to serve and what problem you'd help them solve. Perfect is not required.

A working niche hypothesis

We'll use Make.com for automation exercises in Sessions 3 and 5. Create a free account before the course starts.

Access to Make.com (free tier is fine)

You have real skills, in marketing, ops, product... and you know AI is changing what's possible. You need structure, not more inspiration.

You're already getting paid for your time, but you're capped. You want to move from one-off projects to a repeatable, automated practice.

You don't need a coding bootcamp. You need a business and systems layer: how to package, sell, deliver, and scale without a team behind you.

Stop resetting revenue to zero — the AI subscription transition playbook

The 5-stage transition model: Build to Expand

A 9-part OS for AI services founders and practitioners who want to stop resetting revenue to zero after every delivery.

AI Venture Lead, Founder @ BlackCube Labs

AI Delivery-to-Subscription Framework - Convert One-Off Builds into Recurring Revenue

A 5-tool operating system for AI leads and founders — A fair pricing

Tool 03 preview: the AI Use Case Scoring Matrix

A 5-tool operating system for founders and AI leads to assess maturity, score use cases, coordinate roadmaps, and more.

AI Portfolio Coordination Framework: Prioritize, Stage & Scale AI Across Your Business 

The 4 AI Intervention Types — A Field Reference Card

Process Selection Rubric — Pick the Right Process First

The SIPOC-to-AI method I use in every client engagement. Map your flow, find automation targets, design the future state

AI Workflow Blueprint: Map Any Process, Then Automate It

Which problem do we solve next, and how do we know we are solving the right one?

This framework provides AI Product Managers a repeatable process to test hypotheses before committing resources.

Product Teardown & Opportunity Analysis - AI PM Working Framework

What We Can Cover: Topic Areas & Session Formats

Who This Is For — And What You'll Walk Away With

60m working session on your AI strategy, workflow design, or automation roadmap. Come with a problem; leave with a plan.

1:1 AI Strategy Session — From Ambiguity to Execution-Ready Direction

Most founders are still running their startups manually. That ends today. 

AI Systems Builder for Founders.

Built 30+ AI Systems | Author | ex-Amazon, Philips, Unilever | Founder, BC Labs

<blockquote>You've tried the AI tools. You've watched the demos. Maybe you've even built a few prompts that work some of the time.But your startup is still running on spreadsheets, Slack threads, and your own mental RAM. Every week, the same bottlenecks. Every month, the same ops debt.Here's what nobody tells you: the founders pulling ahead aren't using more AI tools, they're running systems. Connected, agentic workflows that handle intake, research, content, decision support, and knowledge capture without requiring you to babysit every step.That's what this workshop builds.In one day, you'll design and deploy your own AI-Powered Startup OS, a set of working agentic workflows tailored to your business. No code. No engineers. No fluff. Just a functional system you can run from Monday morning.I've built 30+ of these systems for real startups across Latin America, Europe, and North America, including an AI co-pilot for SMB operations, a deal vetting system for a venture fund, and a multi-channel content engine. I'm not teaching theory. I'm handing you the architecture I actually use.You won't leave with slides. You'll leave with a system.</blockquote>

Ship a working AI Startup OS in one day, agentic workflows that automate your ops, so you run your business instead of being run by it.

Design agentic workflows that run your startup ops without code

Build a multi-agent system that handles tasks while you focus on growth

Convert messy business knowledge into AI-powered SOPs and checklists

Automate founder-stage decisions: intake, vetting, and triage

Ship a 30-day AI scaling roadmap tailored to your startup

Prompt and architect AI systems that non-technical teams can actually use

You'll need an account set up to be ready to build. You can use this referral link: https://www.make.com/en/register?pc=blackcubelabs

Make.com Account

You'll want an account set up to be able to connect your data easily. You can use this referral link: https://airtable.com/invite/r/PpM354Ni

Airtable Account

Early-stage founders (pre-seed to Series A) who are doing everything manually and know AI should be helping, but don't know where to start.

Operators and startup team leads who've tried AI tools but never connected them into systems that reliably save time and reduce manual work.

Non-technical founders ready to automate key workflows, intake, research, ops, without engineers or a technical co-founder.

Andrea Marchiotto will make you an AI-first founder