How I’d Build a 1-Person AI Web Design Agency from Scratch | Gautam Khorana | #41

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The Agency Giants Podcast - Episode 41 (Gautam Khorana)
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Today's guest runs a web design agency with 100+ developers!

But if he started today? One man. No team. Just AI

Gautam Khorana, the co-founder of Seahawk Media, shares with us:

• The $60 a month AI tool he’d give any broke founder to start making money tomorrow

• Why “pinch and zoom” websites are the easiest clients you’ll ever find

• How he builds recurring revenue with maintenance plans from $49 to $600/mo

• Why he thinks AEO is massively overhyped (spicy one, this)

• Programmatic SEO, crawl budgets & why going slow wins

Trust me, if you run an agency & you’re not utilising a single AI tool we mention in this episode... this is your wake-up call!

Gautam's IG: https://www.instagram.com/gautamkhorana/
Seahawk Media: https://seahawkmedia.com/
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00:00 From Family Jewellery Business to a 100-Dev WordPress Agency
05:33 Inbound Leads, Merging Agencies & Choosing a Co-Founder
09:09 Running a Global Remote Team: Hiring & Accountability
12:13 Host List: Fixing Hosting's Customer Acquisition Problem
20:00 Will AI Kill WordPress? Vercel, Netlify & Headless
24:38 How Seahawk Uses AI: WP Maintain & Headless WordPress
28:25 Why Developers Resist AI (And What It's Costing Them)
37:30 White Label Growth, AI Builders & the Maintenance Layer
41:21 AI Workflow Pro Tips: Audits, Planning & Design
45:18 Building MRR: Maintenance Plans & Automated Support
48:33 Investor Fallout, Self-Hosting & the Falling Cost of AI
54:20 Staying Focused on WordPress & the Long-Term Vision
1:00:48 Why WordPress Won & How the Web Will Evolve
1:11:12 Starting Today: The One-Man Web Agency
1:22:12 Quickfire: AEO Hype, Programmatic SEO & Crawl Budgets