Made $11k from first client in 2 months

I recently was approached by a client through Youtube who ran a pretty big ecom business for vacuums. He does marketing in Indonesia but now is looking at India as his next market.

He mainly runs ads and has multiple employees who aid him in the ad creation, management, and analyzing process. He asked me if I could find winning ads of competitors, duplicate them with AI, and then run them at scale with Meta ads.

He wanted this all done with AI automation. So from ad discovery to creation to delivery, fully AI handled. Holy shoobang.

To be honest, I did not know if it was possible. I experimented with various video generation models including Veo 3, Wan 2.2, Sora 2, and more. Sora 2 had the best results by far. It generated pretty versatile videos where the character did not have 6 hands or 5 legs coming out.

This was the hardest part though. I mean I spent nearly 4 weeks on just this part alone. I had promised the client I would be done in 3 weeks but it ended up taking me 6 weeks total. Again, a large part of that was the AI video generation. The amount of trial and error was crazy even with the top AI models. I even spent $500 of my own wallet for just trial and error (rip but it was a necessary business expense).

With the ai model chosen (sora 2) I used n8n to build the entire video duplication and creation system from scratch. After that I used more n8n nodes to publish the ads as Meta ads to run for advertising campaigns. Tracking the ads was pretty easy with api access as you can directly see their analytics (clicks, impressions, ctr, etc.).

Honestly speaking i haven't had such a hard project in a while and I was truly just at the mercy of AI. If the video was garbage, not much I could do. There are just so many limitations still and people who have not tried building out these automation systems themselves do not realize that. Hopefully this sheds more light on what people think is "easy, just ask AI to do it…" lol