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AI Strategy Facilitator (Agency + Tool)
An AI-assisted system and/or agency that helps solopreneurs and small companies develop practical, actionable business strategies — replacing academic SWOT exercises with structured, data-informed facilitation.
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Jason Cohen observes that most small companies and solopreneurs either skip strategy entirely or default to useless academic frameworks (SWOT, Blue Ocean) that nobody references after the meeting. His proposed solution is a product or agency that operationalizes strategy-making: a structured system that collects qualitative and quantitative inputs, uses AI to surface conflicts and patterns, and guides founders toward a simple, testable 'how to win' statement — not an 80-page document.
The business model could manifest as a productized agency (human-led facilitation supported by proprietary AI tooling), a course/content funnel that doubles as lead gen, or eventually a standalone SaaS tool. Greg Isenberg connects this to his own agency (LCA) which does strategy for enterprise clients, noting the massive gap at the SMB/solopreneur level. Both agree the agency model is the most viable starting point: build a repeatable system, publish thought leadership content around it, and let the system itself be the differentiation that justifies hiring the agency over generic competitors.
02 THE NUMBERS
$80K – $1.2M
$8K + 200h
$5K + 120h
3/10
7 · GROWING →
Business strategy expertise, Workshop facilitation, Content marketing / thought leadership, Prompt engineering / AI tooling
03 THE VERDICT
The market need is genuine but soft — most potential customers don't actively seek 'strategy help' even when they need it, which makes demand generation expensive. The agency model is the right starting point because it generates revenue while the system is refined, but it's hard to scale. The highest-potential version is a content-led funnel (blog, course, newsletter) that converts readers into agency clients — exactly what Jason Cohen is already positioned to do with his existing audience. Best as a side business or lifestyle business rather than a venture-scale opportunity.
04 THE FIELD
- IDEO / Design Thinking consultanciesest. 1991STEADY · ADDED 2026-06-07
ENTERPRISE-ONLY, PREMIUM PRICING
High-end innovation and strategy consultancy; completely inaccessible to SMBs and solopreneurs.
- Miroest. 2011GROWING · ADDED 2026-06-07
VISUAL COLLABORATION LEADER, BROAD MARKET
Provides the canvas for strategy workshops but not the methodology or AI facilitation layer.
- Atlassian (Confluence/Jira)est. 2002STEADY · ADDED 2026-06-07
DOMINANT IN TECH TEAM DOCUMENTATION
Document and project management tools used for strategy capture but not strategy generation.