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Corporate video production

D-MAK Productions currently markets Phoenix-based corporate, commercial and event video services, coordinating planning, filming and editing for business marketing teams.

● Already earning  $50K/mo  ·  Copy it for about $100K

Replication snapshot

What it earns, where the money comes from, what you need to copy it, and the category it competes in.

Monthly revenue$50K/mo
Copy budget$100K
Growth channelsWord of mouth, Brand Authenticity
Tools to copyNot disclosed
CategoryAI Businesses

How to copy this business and make money

Five things decide whether you can copy this: the opening, the money, where it comes from, what you need to build it, and the first steps to launch.

QUICK LOOKFree summary — what it sells, and the total budget
Independent 90-day Phoenix pilot: interview twelve corporate marketers; test two USD 6,000 single-day interview videos, each with one HD edit and two revision rounds. Buyer-choice hypothesis: a clear approval schedule and bounded revision package simplify purchasing. Total copy budget: $100K.

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What this business does

D-MAK Productions currently markets Phoenix-based corporate, commercial and event video services, coordinating planning, filming and editing for business marketing teams. Its website names founders Danny McManus and Joe Forte and says operations began in 2011. Their June 2021 Starter Story interview describes McManus’s filmmaking experience and Forte’s sales background, reporting average annual sales of $350,000 over the preceding five years, approximately $30,000 monthly. These are unaudited historical self-reports; the bare $ denomination is unspecified. The publisher currently displays two employees without a clear measurement date. Current workforce, customer count, revenue and profit are unverified; the operating website provides project inquiries and portfolio examples.

Replication breakdown

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Why it works — and where your opening is

Corporate buyers may struggle to coordinate scripts, filming schedules, stakeholder feedback and usable final formats across separate suppliers. This is a buyer hypothesis, not a measured prevalence claim. D-MAK’s full-service positioning offers one coordination point; its founder historically described precise video-review comments through Wipster. Clear approvals could reduce ambiguous revisions and duplicated coordination, but savings are unquantified. Repeated campaigns, training updates and conferences create plausible repeat demand, without establishing retention rates. Production experience, trusted relationships and an authorized portfolio may accumulate into an advantage; neither a defensible moat nor superior performance against competitors has been independently demonstrated.
02

The money: revenue, cost, and margin

Monthly revenue$50K/mo

Estimated from technical complexity, people, tools, and delivery scope.

The June 2021 interview’s approximately $30,000 monthly sales figure is historical, self-reported and unaudited; its bare $ denomination is unspecified. No telephone verification or current profit evidence was obtained. Revenue is not profit. The independent USD 100,000 startup model below is twice the original USD 50,000 allowance, not D-MAK’s expenditure. USD 200,000 in the monthly field is multiplication by two only, not income, profit or a forecast. Labor, equipment, software, rights, acquisition, insurance, taxes, payment exposure and closure are funded. Allocated startup spending is neither marginal project cost nor realized loss; unspent reserves remain cash. No AI/API spending is planned.
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Where the revenue comes from

D-MAK solicits custom project proposals from business clients for corporate and brand videos, commercials, social-media content and event coverage. Customers pay for scoped production deliverables; the public service mix is not an audited revenue breakdown. The current website publishes guideline ranges, including $5,000–$20,000 for corporate/brand video and $5,000–$10,000 per day for event coverage. Those bare $ symbols do not establish denomination, and guidelines are not binding quotes. Crew size, shoot duration and post-production affect proposals. Deposit schedules, refunds, actual contract values and recurring-revenue shares are unverified. A monthly retainer or separately paid discovery service should not be inferred.
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Tools you need to replicate it

The 2021 founder interview specifically names Wipster for revision comments and Vimeo for presenting work, and describes starting with a Canon 60D and Macbook Pro. These are dated disclosures, not confirmation of today’s internal stack. Current backend software remains undisclosed. Proposed tools for the independent pilot are Carrd Pro Standard, three named Google Workspace Starter accounts, free DaVinci Resolve and Stripe Payment Links. Checked provider pages show Carrd at $19 annually and Workspace at $7 per user/month with annual commitment; the budget prepays full terms. Resolve’s free edition supports the proposed 8-bit HD workflow. No paid AI, custom API or shared logins are needed.

Success stories from this field

Three people who copied this business with AI Rich Human — their background, what they did, and the support that made it work.

Story by · Daniel Rahman

Daniel Rahman — from line cook to copying a $50K/mo business: Corporate video production

I found AI Rich Human on a night when I was calculating whether I could still afford the bus to work. I worked the line in a restaurant kitchen for 7 years — split shifts, burns, tips split three ways. Then a friend sent me a link to AI Rich Human. I expected another "get rich online" course and almost closed the tab. Instead I found real businesses that already make money — named companies with real revenue — and, for Corporate video production, a copy-and-execute plan broken down to the numbers. My brother laughed when I told him. My old manager said I was throwing away a stable job. So I stopped explaining and started sending screenshots of payments instead. Nobody argues with a bank notification. Their breakdown answered the three questions I actually had: how much to put in (about $100K), what to build it on (off-the-shelf tools), and where the customers come from (Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity). Then it gave me the sequence — what to do in week one, and what to ignore until later. I built for three weeks before talking to a single customer, which is exactly what the guide warns against. My first five conversations changed the offer completely. I wish I had done those five calls in week one. I worked through the checklist in order. off-the-shelf tools first, then Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity, then the outreach script — and two paying clients inside a month. The headline budget of about $100K is not a day-one number; I spent the minimum that could produce one customer and let the rest come out of earnings. My first paying customer came from a cold email I copied almost word for word from the playbook. I was scared to hit send. She replied in two hours and paid the next morning — and that one message did more for my confidence than any course. There is no office and no boss. Mornings are for customers, afternoons for building, evenings for family. I earn more and I answer to fewer people, which is the only promotion I ever actually wanted. I undercharged for two months out of fear. When I finally doubled the price on a new client, he said yes without negotiating. The cheap clients had been the difficult ones all along. I expected a course and got a technical partner. Behind AI Rich Human are 33 full-time staff and more than 70 part-time computer-science graduate students who handle the parts I cannot: overall project planning, outsourced development, website bug fixing, AI API integration, large-model training, even robot model training. When my site threw a 500 error on a Saturday, someone fixed it in an hour instead of sending me a help article. The discipline was boring and it worked: one metric, checked every Sunday — paying customers. Growth meant more of the same channel. A flat week meant a different offer, not a different business. Today my copy of it pays me every month. The business I copied runs about $50K/mo — I am not at that scale, and I don't need to be: I was earning around $4,200 a month as a line cook in Leeds, and this already beats that, with room to grow. I am not a genius and I cannot code. What changed was copying a proven plan with a team behind me. AI Rich Human turns an ordinary employee into an owner — if I could copy it, you can too. Two years later I still take the bus. I just don't count the coins first. The project I copied, in full: http://www.airichhuman.com/stories/starterstory-1063-dmakproductions-com?lang=en
Story by · Aisha Lindqvist

Aisha Lindqvist — from administrative assistant to copying a $50K/mo business: Corporate video production

I am not going to pretend this was easy. It took four months before anyone paid me a cent. For 10 years I was an administrative assistant — booking rooms, filing invoices, and a salary that never moved. A colleague forwarded me AI Rich Human during a lunch break. I scrolled past the hype and landed on the part that mattered: actual companies, actual revenue, and a step-by-step breakdown of Corporate video production written for someone with no budget and no team. The plan was brutally specific: a launch budget of about $100K, the exact tools it runs on (off-the-shelf tools), the revenue channels that actually convert (Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity), and the first steps to land a paying customer. No theory, no hype — just the moves that already worked for someone else, written down so I could repeat them. I blocked out evenings and did exactly what the sheet said: off-the-shelf tools set up, Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity opened, the first-customer email sent. Two clients signed within three weeks. I never needed the whole $100K up front — I put in just enough to get one person to pay, then recycled that money. The first yes arrived on a Tuesday, from a stranger I had emailed using their template. I rewrote maybe four words. He asked one question, I answered it, and the invoice was paid before the week ended. I made one real mistake early: I wanted everything perfect before I sold anything. Two weeks passed — I had a logo, a website, and zero customers. The plan says it plainly: sell first, build second. The moment I sent five rough cold messages, the business started moving. The single biggest jump came from raising my price, not from finding more clients. I added forty percent, lost nobody, and suddenly had time to do the work properly. People at work found out and made jokes about "internet money". I stopped defending it and just showed the payout screen. The jokes stopped when the numbers got boring and regular. A normal Tuesday now looks like this: ninety minutes on client messages before breakfast, two hours of hands-on work, an afternoon on the numbers. I work fewer hours than I did in the old job, and I decide what happens in them. That part I still can't get used to. What actually saved me was the team. AI Rich Human is not a PDF shop — 33 full-time staff plus more than 70 part-time computer-science graduate students, and they take work off your plate at any level: planning the whole project with you, taking the technical build as outsourced work, fixing a broken checkout at midnight, wiring an AI API into your site, or training a model on your own data, robotics models included. When my payment page died on a Friday night, a real engineer answered. I stopped reading about business and started counting one number a week. If paying customers went up, I repeated whatever I had done. If they didn't, I changed the price or the pitch. That was the whole system. My version is small and it is mine. It earns less than the $50K/mo the original does — but more than the $4,600 a month I made as a administrative assistant in Manchester, and it grows while I sleep. I cannot code and I have no rich uncle. I had a plan, a link, and a team I could call. That was enough, and it can be enough for you. Four months is a long time. It is still shorter than any degree I ever finished. The project I copied, in full: http://www.airichhuman.com/stories/starterstory-1063-dmakproductions-com?lang=en
Story by · Tomás Blanc

Tomás Blanc — from retail salesperson to copying a $50K/mo business: Corporate video production

I read the whole plan twice before I believed a word of it. For 13 years I sold phones in a mall kiosk — twelve-hour shifts, commission barely covering rent. I found AI Rich Human through a search I had almost given up on. What kept me there was not a promise but a spreadsheet: Corporate video production, what it costs to start, which tools it runs on, and how the first customer actually arrives. My mother asked, twice, whether this was a scam. The third time she asked, it was to find out how much I was making. I did not convince anyone with words — the transfers did it. What I got was not a course but a build sheet — the launch budget (about $100K), the stack (off-the-shelf tools), the channels that actually convert (Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity), and the order to do things in. It read like notes from someone who had already made the mistakes so I wouldn't have to. So I followed it, step by step. I set up off-the-shelf tools, opened Word of mouth, Brand Authenticity first, and used their first-customer script to land my first two paying clients within a few weeks. The plan lists a full launch budget of about $100K, but nobody spends that on day one — I started with the smallest slice that could produce a paying customer, and reinvested from the revenue. I sent eleven messages before anyone answered. The twelfth person — a small studio owner — replied "how much?" and paid that afternoon. Eleven rejections cost me nothing but an evening. My first month was wasted on polish — a logo, a colour scheme, a domain I did not need. Nobody bought anything. Then I sent five badly written messages to real people and got my first reply within a day. Sell first, decorate later. The part nobody advertises: there is a bench behind the plan. 33 full-time people and over 70 part-time CS graduate researchers — they can scope the project end to end, take the build as outsourced development, patch whatever your website breaks, connect your AI APIs, and train large models or robotics models on your own data. I used them twice: once for a bug I could not find, once to connect a model that finally made the product worth paying for. Nobody warns you about pricing. My first price was so low that I was busy all day and still broke. On the third client I raised it by forty percent and nobody blinked. That same client later sent me two referrals. I also learned to trust numbers over fear. Every week I tracked one thing: paying customers. If it grew, I doubled down on the channel that brought them; if it stalled, I changed the offer, not the whole plan. I still get up early, but now the first hour belongs to me, not to a commute. Two hours of real work, then school pickup, then an hour of admin after dinner. Same number of hours, completely different life. A year ago I was a retail salesperson in Warsaw on about $5,000 a month. Today this copy pays me more than that, and the business I copied is doing $50K/mo — proof the ceiling is far above me. Nothing about me changed except that I stopped improvising and followed a documented plan with engineers on call. By the third read I had already started. That is usually how belief arrives. The project I copied, in full: http://www.airichhuman.com/stories/starterstory-1063-dmakproductions-com?lang=en

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