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Chapter 1
Days 1-5: Pick Your Real Problem
What problem keeps costing a real business time, money, or customers - and could you solve part of it with AI for less than $100?
That’s the question for these five days. You’re not hunting for a clever app idea or a trendy prompt. You’re looking for a painful, profitable problem that already exists. The $100 Problem Filter will help you test it before you spend money building anything.
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Day 1: Stop Chasing Ideas
Tip of the Day:
Start with people, not technology. AI is a tool. It can draft replies, organize information, summarize calls, create first versions, and handle repetitive work. But none of that matters if nobody cares about the result.
Look around your own work, neighborhood, or industry. A plumber may lose evenings writing estimates. A gym owner may struggle to follow up with trial members. A small business owner may answer the same customer questions all day. Those are not “AI ideas” yet. They’re real problems. That’s exactly where you want to begin.
Today's Action:
Write down 10 recurring problems you’ve seen customers or business owners deal with. Describe each problem in plain language, without mentioning AI.
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Day 2: Find the Pain That Has a Price
Tip of the Day:
A problem becomes a business opportunity when it has a cost. That cost might be lost sales, unpaid hours, missed appointments, slow service, or work that keeps getting pushed to the end of the day.
Use the first part of the $100 Problem Filter: D = Define the real need. Don’t write, “They need better marketing.” That’s too vague. Write, “They need to reply to new leads within an hour,” or “They spend four hours each week turning job notes into customer updates.” Specific problems are easier to solve and easier to sell.
Today's Action:
Circle three problems from yesterday and write beside each one what it costs in time, money, missed opportunities, or frustration.
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Day 3: Talk to the Person Who Feels It
Tip of the Day:
Research can help, but a short conversation often tells you more than an afternoon of guessing. Contact three people who might deal with one of your problems. They don’t need to be close friends. A former coworker, local owner, tradesperson, or business contact is enough.
Ask what happens now, how often it happens, and what they’ve already tried. Don’t pitch your solution yet. If you announce an AI service too early, people may politely encourage you without revealing whether they’d actually pay. Your job today is to listen for repeated words such as “every day,” “we keep putting it off,” or “that’s costing us.”
Today's Action:
Send three short messages asking for a 10-minute conversation about the problem you’re investigating.
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Day 4: Apply the $100 Problem Filter
Tip of the Day:
Now put your strongest problem through the rest of the $100 Problem Filter. Ask whether the customer feels the problem often, whether the outcome can be measured, whether you can reach the customer directly, and whether a simple AI-assisted service could improve the situation without expensive software.
Be honest. A problem can be annoying and still not be worth paying to fix. “It would be nice” is weak. “This causes five missed follow-ups every week” is stronger. You’re not trying to prove the entire business today. You’re checking whether the problem has enough weight to carry a small offer.
Today's Action:
Score your top three problems from 1 to 5 for frequency, cost, urgency, ease of reaching the customer, and fit for a simple AI solution.
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Day 5: Choose One Problem to Test
Tip of the Day:
Pick one problem - not three, not a menu of services, and definitely not “anything AI-related.” Choose the problem with the clearest cost and the easiest path to a real customer conversation.
Write a one-sentence problem statement using this format: “I help [specific type of customer] reduce [specific problem] by [clear result].” Keep the result grounded. “Reduce unanswered lead messages” is useful. “Transform their business with AI” is fog in a suit.
You don’t need perfect wording yet. You need a target. Once you have one, you can test whether people want help, shape a small offer, and use your $100 carefully instead of scattering it across tools you may never use.
Today's Action:
Choose your highest-scoring problem and write one clear problem statement, then send it to one person who experiences it and ask, “Is this a problem you’d pay to reduce?”
The right problem won’t always look exciting on paper. It will sound familiar to the person paying for the fix - and that’s the signal you need.
End of chapter one. 6 more chapters in the full book.
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What's inside: 7 chapters
- 1. Days 1-5: Pick Your Real Problem
- 2. Days 6-10: Build Your Offer Fast
- 3. Days 11-15: Create Assets Without Coding
- 4. Days 16-20: Find Customers Who Need You
- 5. Days 21-25: Automate Delivery and Replies
- 6. Days 26-28: Handle Objections and Close
- 7. Days 29-30: Reinvest Profits and Plan Next
About this book
"$100 AI Business Challenge" is a day challenge book by Zack Galloway with 7 chapters and approximately 6,440 words. A 30-day program to build an AI-enabled business with $100.
This book was created using Inkfluence AI, an AI-powered book generation platform that helps authors write, design, and publish complete books.
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A 30-day program to build an AI-enabled business with $100
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The book contains 7 chapters and approximately 6,440 words. Topics covered include Days 1-5: Pick Your Real Problem, Days 6-10: Build Your Offer Fast, Days 11-15: Create Assets Without Coding, Days 16-20: Find Customers Who Need You, and more.
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