An AI social content agency · B2B · guest's college agency
Make brand TikToks with AI instead of paying college kids $500-1,000 a month
Ran 15 brands alone while in school; earned more than his later job
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What they did
Having been one of 25 hired college creators (30 videos in 30 days for $500-1,000/month, one full-time manager, weekly calls, little accountability), he judged the ROI poor and instead produced the same kind of content with AI for his agency's brands. Posting was the bottleneck: he used Android emulators (BlueStacks on Windows) from 2023, which TikTok's device fingerprinting now catches.
What happened
He ran content for 15 brands while in school and made more than he later did at Cosmos.
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Zuhair Lakhani - How to Make Viral Content 100% Using AI in 2025“And I just realized, from a time perspective, from a money perspective, it's not worth it, especially if it's content that I can recreate with AI.”
“So, I was working for 15 brands while in school, all using AI.”
“Like even when I worked at Cosmos, I was making more money when I was back in school doing the agency.”
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