🚀 How to start your own AI agency – a short but smart guide
Here’s a detailed and informed breakdown of the “How to Start Your AI Agency” guide, with add-ons, examples, and strategic advice:
1. 💡 Basis: Sell not AI, but results
Businesses don’t need AI on their own. It does:
- 💰 more profit
- ⏱ time saving
- 🧩 Reducing costs for people, errors, routine
❌ Not “we have GPT-4”, but ✅ “we have reduced our processing time from 40 minutes to 4 minutes”.
AI is technology, and businesses need pain solved. You’re not selling a “bot”, you’re selling efficiency.
2. 🎯 Find your niche – and dig deep
Forget “one-size-fits-all” assistants and chatbots for everyone.
✅ Make a highly specialized agent:
- Daily report generator for retailers
- Collector and parser of tenders
- CRM filling assistant
- AI concierge for hotel reservations via WhatsApp
💡 Why a narrow niche is a plus:
- Fewer competitors
- Faster implementation
- Clear result → higher trust
- More is paid for a specific result rather than “general intelligence”
🟩 Boring niches = money:
- Logistics
- Accounting
- Databases
- Daily reports
- HR, recruiting
- Financial spreadsheets
3. 🛠 Tools: how to get started without code
Minimum stack:
- n8n – visual automation
- Supabase – database
- OpenAI API – the core of AI logic
📦 Extras:
- LangChain / LlamaIndex – work with documents
- Whisper – audio processing
- Pinecone / Weaviate – vector bases
- Telegram API / WhatsApp Business API – interface for communication
💡 You can create a full AI agent without programming, just on a bunch of these tools.
4. 🧠 Where to get ideas: don’t make it up
Don’t just sit there and make stuff up out of your head. This works:
✅ Communicate with businesses:
- What tasks take you 3-4 hours a day?
- What do you manually do all the time?
- Where are the errors due to human error?
✅ Analyze agency websites (marketing, design, logistics) – look for templated, repetitive actions.
✅ Freelance Exchanges:
- Read orders → see what you can automate → make a solution → sell as a product.
5. 🌍 Where to get clients: going out into the world
📣 Exit Strategy:
- Do short case studies with a demonstration of benefit (not a “bot” but a result)
- Put it on YouTube Shorts, Telegram, TikTok.
- Don’t write “creating AI agents” – write “reducing costs through automation”
✉️ Cold mailings (but clever!):
- Find a business → research → understand the problem → send an email with an idea + screenshot/demo
- Use autoplatforms: Instantly, Lemlist, Smartlead
💼 Networking:
- Business owner chats, SaaS communities
- Hackathons and AI conferences
- Business breakfasts and offline events
💬 The main rule
You’re not selling AI. You’re helping businesses earn more and spend less.
You don’t look for partners – you become the one being sought.
🧭 A brief plan of action (if done wisely):
- Pick a boring but money-making niche
- Understand the 3-5 real problems with it
- Create an AI agent on no-code tools
- Make a case and launch the content
- Automate the cold outreach
- Get feedback and improve the solution
- Collect 3+ cases – start selling as a product
✨ Example:
An agent for travel agents who:
- collects requests from WhatsApp
- processes them
- picks a hotel from the database
- sends a PDF or text offer to the customer
- saves to CRM
🔧 n8n + OpenAI + Google Sheets + Telegram API
💰 Benefit: minus 1 employee for routine work
Noor, here is an adapted and detailed guide to creating an AI agency specifically for umrah, hajj and tourism in Mecca, Medina and Jeddah. This is a niche where you are already an expert, and AI agents can radically simplify, speed up and improve services for pilgrims and tour operators.
🕋 How to create an AI agency for Umrah, Hajj and tourism in Hijaz
1. 💡 Main principle
❌ Not “AI,” not “bot.”
✅ Yes: “We automate intake, visa issuance, hotel selection and save the agency 50% of time and budget”.
You’re not selling technology, you’re selling an off-the-shelf solution that:
- reduces the workload of employees
- speeds up communication with pilgrims
- helps agencies earn more with less money
2. 🎯 AI agent options for your niche
✅ Agent 1: Autoresponder for WhatsApp / Telegram / chat site
Functions:
- Accepts applications for umrah/hajj 24/7
- Asking questions: country, dates, number of people
- Offers hotels, visas, tours on a base basis
- Sends a PDF with an offer or payment link
Platform: WhatsApp Business API + GPT + Google Sheets / Airtable
✅ Agent 2: AI concierge for hotels in Mecca and Medina
Functions:
- Answers questions about hotels (proximity to Haram, food, elevators, transportation, etc.)
- Helps to find a hotel by filters (price, location, stars, date)
- Can book itself via API or transfer data to the manager
This kind of agent takes 90% of the routine questions from clients off your hands.
✅ Agent 3: Tour and Logistics Automation
Functions:
- Creating a customized tour schedule: Medina → Mecca → Jeddah
- Distribution of hotels, buses, airline tickets
- Notifications to clients about shipments, transfers, check-in
Example: pilgrim enters dates → bot picks and compiles logistics based on your templates
✅ Agent 4: AI for travel agencies (B2B)
Functions:
- Processing of applications from subagents
- Selection of visas, hotels, tickets
- Reporting on requests
- Check availability and confirm reservations
- Automatic invoicing
3. 🛠 What to use – without programming
Here’s a real working stack that doesn’t require code:
| Assignment | Tool |
|---|---|
| Chat interface | Telegram Bot / WhatsApp API |
| Brain (AI responses). | OpenAI GPT-4 / Claude |
| Database | Airtable / Supabase / Google Sheets |
| Logic automation | n8n (or Make / Zapier) |
| PDF / invoices / print | Google Docs API / Documint |
| Audio Recognition | Whisper (if voice requests) |
4. Where to get ideas – straight from the field
You’re in a unique position: you interact with tour operators, pilgrims, and hoteliers every day. Just start with them:
- What pisses them off the most about the hajj/umrah process?
- Where’s the dumbest routine?
- Where are they losing money due to mistakes, forgotten applications, correspondence?
Every such problem is your new idea for an AI agent.
5. 📣 How to sell
Your target audience:
- Tour operators (Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Indonesia, India, Pakistan)
- Visa agencies
- Hotels in Mecca and Medina
- Transportation companies
Where to advertise:
- Telegram channel + case studies (like: “how we accelerated visa issuance by 30%”)
- YouTube and Shorts video demos
- Russian-speaking hajj groups
- Exhibitions such as Umrah+ Connect, MITT, Expo Hajj
6. 💰 Examples of monetization
- Subscription for AI agent (from $100 per month for agencies)
- Turnkey development ($500-$5000 per system)
- White Label for travel agencies (their logo + your system)
- Automation Agency for Saudi Hotels (make upsell to your current contacts)
🎯 Conclusion
You are in a unique position: you live in Mecca, you know the market inside out, you speak Arabic and Russian, and you already work in tourism.
🧠 If you add AI agents to your business, you will:
- the first to do so in Russian and Arabic in Hajj tourism
- a solutions provider for the entire industry
💬 I’ll help you if you need it:
- Dialogue scripts for AI
- Creating MVP on n8n
- WhatsApp integration
- Cases, templates, marketing
Author: NewHaj
NewHaj for Hajj and Umrah Tourism in Saudi Arabia Hotels, Transfers, Aviatickets