I own AI-native agencies and invest in software (8-figure portfolio).
For eight years I also mentored agency owners. More than 4,600 agencies went through Affluent Academy, and together they've generated over $200m in revenue.
In 2026 I closed the Academy to focus on building, so I have no course to sell you.
This channel is where I build in public: the AI systems I run my companies on, the software I invest in, and the latest on how agencies scale.
Retreats for established agencies: agencyaccession.com
Podcast: Agency Giants (#1 worldwide)
Business enquiries: jordanplatten.com
Jordan Platten
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!
Watch now 👇
https://youtu.be/Iw9q1as0Hzk
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Jordan Platten
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!
Watch now 👇
https://youtu.be/Iw9q1as0Hzk
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Jordan Platten
I've spent 8 years & millions of dollars testing every way there is to get clients.
It's made me well over $10M in revenue.
So I put the top strategies on a tier list, from "unfair" right down to "avoid."
Watch the full breakdown here 👇
https://youtu.be/SgeJoDWc_9U
I ranked them on the only two things that actually matter:
• What a client costs you to get
• How quickly it makes you money
Here's what surprised people most.
The channel almost every business relies on didn't even make the top half.
And the 4 strategies at the very top? They're the cheapest ones on the whole board. Some are basically free.
So why isn't everyone doing them?
Because they're uncomfortable. That's it. That's the only reason.
There's no secret AI tool being kept from you.
The best ways to get clients aren't hidden. Most people just skip them because they'd rather stay sat behind a laptop.
In the video, I cover:
• The 4 strategies I put in "unfair" (and why they work)
• My one rule before you spend a penny on paid
• The real conversion numbers for every channel
Pick one from the top tier. Give it 90 days, not a week!
Trust me, you'll be ahead of most of your competitors.
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Jordan Platten
I've spent 8 years & millions of dollars testing every way there is to get clients.
It's made me well over $10M in revenue.
So I put the top strategies on a tier list, from "unfair" right down to "avoid."
Watch the full breakdown here 👇
https://youtu.be/SgeJoDWc_9U
I ranked them on the only two things that actually matter:
• What a client costs you to get
• How quickly it makes you money
Here's what surprised people most.
The channel almost every business relies on didn't even make the top half.
And the 4 strategies at the very top? They're the cheapest ones on the whole board. Some are basically free.
So why isn't everyone doing them?
Because they're uncomfortable. That's it. That's the only reason.
There's no secret AI tool being kept from you.
The best ways to get clients aren't hidden. Most people just skip them because they'd rather stay sat behind a laptop.
In the video, I cover:
• The 4 strategies I put in "unfair" (and why they work)
• My one rule before you spend a penny on paid
• The real conversion numbers for every channel
Pick one from the top tier. Give it 90 days, not a week!
Trust me, you'll be ahead of most of your competitors.
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Jordan Platten
"We had a client worth £1 million, & we sacked them." 🔥
This week on Agency Giants, I sat down with Kelly, founder of KVA.
She started the agency in the back bedroom of a tiny flat, on maternity leave, with £100 in the bank.
Over a decade later, KVA is one of the UK's top digital transformation agencies & one of the 50 Most Inspiring Places to Work in the UK.
But it's not been a smooth ride. Trust me.
Almost overnight, revenue dropped from £300K a month to £20K. She was losing £100K+ a month & had no choice but to pivot.
So she rebuilt the agency around a fully agentic AI workforce, trained by her senior team, & cut her prices in half.
Full episode 👉 https://youtu.be/s1n9Zm1dq_4
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why Kelly thinks the agency model as we know it is dead
• How she replicated every role in the agency with AI agents (& why the ones you buy online aren't fit for purpose)
If you're still celebrating headcount, you need to listen to this one.
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Jordan Platten
"We had a client worth £1 million, & we sacked them." 🔥
This week on Agency Giants, I sat down with Kelly, founder of KVA.
She started the agency in the back bedroom of a tiny flat, on maternity leave, with £100 in the bank.
Over a decade later, KVA is one of the UK's top digital transformation agencies & one of the 50 Most Inspiring Places to Work in the UK.
But it's not been a smooth ride. Trust me.
Almost overnight, revenue dropped from £300K a month to £20K. She was losing £100K+ a month & had no choice but to pivot.
So she rebuilt the agency around a fully agentic AI workforce, trained by her senior team, & cut her prices in half.
Full episode 👉 https://youtu.be/s1n9Zm1dq_4
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why Kelly thinks the agency model as we know it is dead
• How she replicated every role in the agency with AI agents (& why the ones you buy online aren't fit for purpose)
If you're still celebrating headcount, you need to listen to this one.
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Jordan Platten
Last week I hosted 40 agency founders in Portugal.
It was our seventh Agency Mastermind, on a private estate outside Lisbon. Guests ranged from $30k/month to $1.5M/month.
📹 https://youtu.be/_qYxrd1xzlI
Everyone had to bring one thing with them: the single biggest constraint in their agency.
We collected them before anyone flew in, built the sessions around the answers, and spent the final day working through them in the room until everyone had a plan.
Here's 3 nuggets i've been reflecting on since:
1. Every agency is now a technology company
AI is pushing the price of the work down. The agencies keeping their margin are the ones building internal systems instead of adding headcount.
2. Nobody cares about you (until you make them)
Will Pérez, lead filmmaker to Steven Bartlett, showed us they drip feed real stories into every piece of content they put out to build trust.
3. In-person is magic for making deals
At dinner, I watched an agency make $50k+ in deals with another attendee. That's more than 8 times the cost of their ticket.
We're hosting our next event in Cape Town in Q1 (15th-18th Feb).
If you're a great agency and you want to be amongst the best, we'd love to see you there!
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Jordan Platten
If you want to go far, go together. 🔑
Last week we brought 40 agencies together for a mastermind in Portugal.
📹 https://youtu.be/_qYxrd1xzlI
It never fails to amaze me how much can be achieved when great people get in a room.
If you want to accelerate your growth, we’d love to see you at our next event in Cape Town!
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Jordan Platten
How We Create 100s of Ads a Day With AI 🤖
Creating a winning ad used to take a strategy team hours.
Now we do it in 15 minutes with a few prompts.
My agency creates over 1,000 ads a month, & the ads we've made have generated more than £200M for the businesses we run them for.
In my latest YouTube video, I share the exact system behind them.
📹 Watch now: https://youtu.be/GDqAF2M-PCo
You'll get our 9 proven ad frameworks & the exact prompts we use with GPT-6 Astra + Higgsfield to build entire ad batches in one go.
I even show you a 3D Blender ad we generated with just one prompt!
That's a five-figure ad, done in a day.
All the resources are free in the description. Go and make something that sells!
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Jordan Platten
How We Create 100s of Ads a Day With AI 🤖
Creating a winning ad used to take a strategy team hours.
Now we do it in 15 minutes with a few prompts.
My agency creates over 1,000 ads a month, & the ads we've made have generated more than £200M for the businesses we run them for.
In my latest YouTube video, I share the exact system behind them.
📹 Watch now: https://youtu.be/GDqAF2M-PCo
You'll get our 9 proven ad frameworks & the exact prompts we use with GPT-6 Astra + Higgsfield to build entire ad batches in one go.
I even show you a 3D Blender ad we generated with just one prompt!
That's a five-figure ad, done in a day.
All the resources are free in the description. Go and make something that sells!
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