If I had to start one AI side hustle in 2026, this would be it.
A local newsletter that pulls $2K /month run entirely by a team of 4 AI agents. The founder (Lucas Walter) has never written a single edition.
This is a copy/paste-able system that could by applied to any city in the world.
Here's the agent setup👇
→ A Growth Engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subreddit, and event calendar at 6am daily. It also manages all the Facebook ads for the subscriber growth
→ A Content Director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice every week
→ A Sales Director handles every inbound advertiser — email back-and-forth, package pitching, AI-generated ad creative
→ A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him
Results from Lucas's newsletter, 'Spokane Pulse':
- 7,400 subscribers
- 47.5% open rate (industry avg 20–30%)
- ~11% click-through rate
- $2K/month in ad revenue and growing
- Under 4 hours/week of human-in-the-loop
Now imagine running this same system for YOUR city.
I linked to Spokane Pulse in the comments so you can check it out for yourself.
Like & Comment "Newsletter" and I'll send you the full course that gives you the playbook the exact agent setup as a one-click import.
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