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AI business ideas: from a problem to a product you can validate
The central idea of this class is that AI alone is not a business. You need a specific need and an offer someone wants to use. From there, I compare formats ranging from digital documents to business services.
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Eric Muriel · Own content · original Spanish video · Published on February 26, 2026. YouTube loads when you press play.
01Start with a problem you can describe
On the video's whiteboard, I organise the path from idea to tool, product and sale. The important link is to a need: what someone is trying to do and where they struggle. Choosing a tool before understanding that situation can lead you to build something nobody is asking for.
Write the problem without mentioning AI. Then explain what would change for the user if it were solved. That description gives you a reference for deciding whether to prepare a document, a tool or a service with guidance.
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02A digital product needs knowledge and review
The demonstration includes ebooks, templates and reusable instructions. An assistant can help organise a draft, but the product needs review appropriate to its subject. Attractive design does not validate content or replace the expertise needed to offer it.
The recorded example uses a particular professional field. For your first test, choose one you know and where you can check your delivery. If you use someone else's template, review its terms and work with your own content; buying a file does not mean you can resell it however you wish.
03A service means delivering and maintaining a solution
The video's second part moves to automations, websites, handling enquiries and organising appointments. Here, you are selling more than a file: the solution enters a client's process and may depend on several tools.
Start with a small task and define what the system will do, which human intervention it needs and how you will review failures. Maintenance makes sense when you can explain its recurring work, not merely because you add a fee to a proposal.
04A sales platform does not prove demand
In the recording, I show platforms where others offer digital products. They help you observe formats and presentations. However, reviews or a visible price do not let you accurately infer another product's sales or profit.
To validate your offer, look for a signal from your own audience: a conversation, a usability test or a real purchase. Note what interested people and which doubts arose. That provides more information than multiplying figures from someone else's storefront.
05Choose one test to begin
You can turn this class into a simple decision: one person, one problem and one first delivery. Reduce the scope until you can prepare, explain and review it without depending on a huge chain of tools.
Then use what you learn to improve the product or change direction. The video's ideas are possibilities requiring work and testing, not a catalogue of guaranteed income. A small test lets you learn before committing too much time.
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