How I Will Get Rich with Vertical AI in 2025

This article outlines a detailed strategy for leveraging vertical AI to achieve significant financial success by 2025, specifically targeting Brazilian businesses. The core idea revolves around developing specialized AI solutions. The author emphasizes that while many are focused on basic chatbots and minor automations, the real opportunity lies in creating comprehensive, niche-specific AI systems designed to solve end-to-end problems for traditional businesses. This approach aims to transform and empower small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing them with advanced technological infrastructures that can replace up to 90% of operational tasks, thereby increasing efficiency and scalability without the need for extensive human resources. This strategy is being implemented by pivoting an existing business consulting firm, KCG Group, with current revenues of over R$350,000 per month, towards becoming an AI-native ecosystem provider. The goal is to save traditional businesses from an impending "extinction event" caused by the rise of AI full-stack companies, which integrate AI at their very foundation to offer highly disruptive and scalable services.

The Current Market Scenario: A Tale of Two Companies

The observable market, particularly in Brazil, presents two distinct business archetypes: large enterprises and small businesses. Understanding their operational structures and challenges is crucial for applying vertical AI effectively.

Large Enterprises

Large companies typically have a well-defined structure, divided into "back office" and "core business" functions. "Back office," or support areas, include Human Resources (HR), Finance, Marketing, Research and Development (R&D), Legal, Compliance, and Controllership. These areas do not directly contribute to the final product or service delivery but are essential for the company's operation. The "core business" involves the central operations that directly generate revenue, such as Sales, Production or Service Delivery, Logistics, and Product Development. Large companies benefit from established hierarchical structures, ample human resources (managers, directors, coordinators), and financial capacity to maintain these operations.

In large companies, we have managers, directors, coordinators, a whole hierarchical structure. We have people and we have money to hire these people to sustain this whole machine running, because people are expensive. It's that simple.

Small Businesses

Small businesses, on the other hand, share the same functional areas as large enterprises but operate under severe constraints. The Brazilian market alone accounts for approximately 9 million micro and small enterprises (MSEs), contributing 27% to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A small business is defined as having an annual revenue of up to R$5,000,000. The significant difference is the lack of specialized personnel and financial resources. Often, the entrepreneur is "trapped in operations," personally handling multiple roles from marketing and finance to sales and service delivery. This results in inefficiency and limits growth. The video identifies a critical segment within small businesses: those generating R$2,000,000 to R$5,000,000 in annual revenue. These businesses are past the survival stage but are struggling with scaling due to manual processes and lack of structure. They are estimated to lose at least R$20,000 monthly on uncontrolled expenses, inefficient solutions, and personnel issues.

The Rise of AI Full-Stack Companies

The speaker predicts the emergence of what he calls "AI full-stack companies" within the next three years. These are businesses founded with AI embedded at their core, not as an afterthought. For example, a law firm born with AI at its foundation would integrate AI into lead acquisition, client processing, and service delivery from day one. This contrasts sharply with traditional businesses that attempt to bolt on technology later.

These companies will be highly destructive. In fact, they will devastate the traditional market. Devastate.

This integration of AI from the ground up will create a devastating competitive advantage, allowing service-based businesses to scale in ways previously thought impossible. Traditionally, such businesses scale by hiring more people, which is costly and complex. With AI, they can scale through sophisticated tools and automation, leading to a "mass extinction of dinosaur entrepreneurs" who fail to adapt to these technological shifts.

The AI-Native Ecosystem Solution

In response to this impending market shift, the author created an "AI-Native ecosystem." This ecosystem is a comprehensive suite of AI solutions—platforms, agents, automations, and integrated processes—designed to resolve end-to-end problems for traditional businesses. This initiative is being implemented through the KCG Group, pivoting its existing business consulting services towards AI-driven solutions.

The primary focus areas for this ecosystem are sales and post-sales. Sales, encompassing lead generation and cash flow, is critical for immediate growth. Post-sales, which includes operation and customer support, focuses on client retention, quality delivery, and fostering positive word-of-mouth for sustained growth.

An example of such an AI infrastructure is the sales department setup, which includes:

Agents: Pricing agents, closer agents, SDR agents, pre-sales agents, lead qualification agents, integrated with channels like WhatsApp and Instagram.
Training: Comprehensive training programs for sales teams, closers, and post-contract execution.
Tools: Integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Power BI for metric analysis, and other essential tools for a functional AI-powered sales machine.
Content Resources: Ready-made sales scripts, prompts, tutorials, and automations.
Support: A dedicated team continuously monitoring metrics and fine-tuning the AI ecosystem for optimal performance.

The goal is to deliver significant ROI by increasing sales, improving lead qualification, and reducing churn. This is not about building simple chatbots but rather comprehensive infrastructures that solve problems from lead generation to contract closure. For SMEs, this means they can proportionally scale their services without hiring more people, potentially even streamlining their existing teams and making operations more efficient and scalable.

Call to Action and Program Details

The speaker encourages entrepreneurs to embrace this wave of AI transformation. For those looking to build their own AI ecosystems or transform existing businesses, the Acelera 360 business acceleration program is offered. This program provides guidance on ideation, ecosystem development, and market entry, leveraging the expertise of the speaker and his team. Traditional business owners, such as lawyers, dentists, marketing agencies, and infoproduct creators, are specifically invited to join, with a special message to indicate their desire to be "saved from extinction," which signals a different conversation about implementing the AI-native ecosystem within their operations.

KCG Group, a business consulting firm with approximately 25 employees and monthly revenues ranging from R$350,000 to R$400,000, is undergoing a complete pivot. It is merging its capabilities with Acelera 360 to form a single venture focused on empowering companies through AI solutions. The mission is to optimize processes, revolutionize operations and strategies, and ultimately prevent traditional businesses from succumbing to the disruptive force of AI full-stack companies.

The speaker emphasizes that this transformation is not a question of "if" it will happen, but "when." He believes the shift will occur within the next two to three years, leading to a mass extinction of businesses that fail to adopt advanced AI solutions.

Takeaways

Vertical AI Focus: The strategy centers on developing specialized AI solutions for specific industry niches, moving beyond generic chatbots to comprehensive systems.
Market Opportunity: A significant opportunity exists in empowering small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Brazil, which often lack the resources and structure of large corporations but represent a substantial portion of the national GDP.
Role of AI: AI can effectively replace 80-90% of operational tasks, allowing businesses to scale services efficiently without incurring massive personnel costs, thereby addressing a critical bottleneck for service-based companies.
AI Full-Stack Companies: The next 2-3 years will see the rise of businesses built with AI at their core, significantly disrupting traditional markets and potentially leading to the "extinction" of non-adaptive businesses.
Comprehensive Ecosystem: Success lies in creating end-to-end AI ecosystems that integrate agents, training, tools, scripts, and support tailored to transform key business areas like sales and post-sales.
Business Transformation: Existing traditional businesses must adopt AI to survive and thrive, moving from manual, inefficient processes to AI-native operations.