Most “business advice” on AI is noise. But if you’re building an AI-powered service, consulting business, or agency, the real bottleneck isn’t the tech...

It’s positioning, pricing, and selling outcomes.

Alan Weiss—author of *7-Figure Consulting* and the guy who’s been teaching value-based fees for decades—joins me to lay down the fundamentals that actually compound in an AI economy: how to stop selling time, how to package expertise, how to qualify clients fast, and how to build a business where your best work doesn’t get commoditized.

We get into: - Why AI makes *outcomes* more valuable and *hours* less valuable - How to price when your delivery gets faster (and better) with AI - The difference between “deliverables” and “value” (and why clients pay for one, not the other) - Retainers, renewals, and building revenue that compounds - How to avoid becoming the cheapest prompt engineer on the internet

If you sell your brain for money—and you want to keep winning as AI reshapes the market—this episode is for you.

Check out Alan: - AlanWeiss.com - *The Seven-Figure Consultant*: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Figure-Consultant-Alan-Weiss/dp/1394376235 - Alan’s No Normal® Newsletter: https://alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/the-no-normal-newsletter/

👇 Question for you: As AI gets better, what’s the hardest part of staying valuable—pricing, differentiation, or lead flow?

— Chapters: 0:00 Stop selling hours 0:18 Intro: Alan Weiss on AI, consulting, and value 1:27 What consulting really is 2:35 Who is actually a consultant? 4:51 The case for value-based pricing 7:27 The mistake people make with buyers 10:08 Never discount like this 14:09 Peter Drucker and why old strategy breaks now 18:08 Alan’s answer to “What’s your hourly rate?” 20:19 How he wrote 50+ books 22:07 Should you go out on your own? 23:23 Sponsor: Zapier 25:46 Why solo consultants win 30:17 AI is being massively underused 36:02 The real danger of AI 37:58 What schools get wrong 42:14 Why education stays broken 44:23 Sponsor: Finding Your Best 45:18 The right metrics actually matter 49:41 High-tech, high-touch 51:16 Trust and relationships in the AI era 57:02 Agentic AI: powerful and dangerous 1:00:43 The future of consulting 1:02:47 How to handle slow bureaucracies 1:06:44 Alan Weiss’s best resources 1:08:22 Outro -

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