The Writing Long Game

The Writing Long Game

How I Built An AI Bot That Makes $5,000 Per Year

Part 1 - How To Make Your Own AI Bot And Monetize It On Substack

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Tom Kuegler
Nov 18, 2025
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It took me 40 hours to build The NoteSmith—an AI bot that gives feedback on Substack Notes in seconds.

When I launched it last February, 200 people tried it out, multiple Notes it rewrote went viral, and dozens became paid subscribers to my publication to get more monthly credits for it.

In one week, I added $5,000 in annualized revenue to my publication.

People LOVED this AI bot. It was actually insightful, and rewrote Notes that dazzled people.

And the best thing was, it wasn’t adding any extra work to my plate. People could use these tools whenever they wanted. I cloned myself with AI.

Today, I’ll start showing you how I did it.

Making AI tools is one of the best ways to exponentially increase your revenue on Substack, simply because they’re new, helpful, and nobody’s offering them.

My story is proof of that.

Nobody’s using AI to clone their expertise partly because of the huge bias against AI among many Substackers.

That’s your opportunity.

This will be Part 1 of a 5-Part series on How To Make Your Own AI Bot And Monetize It On Substack. I’ll need a couple posts to really get in depth with it. Here’s the first part.

Oh, and I was planning on making this a $300+ online course, but I’m sick of making courses, so paid subscribers will get it for $20/month, or $160/year.

Here’s the roadmap:

  • Part 1: Six ways to find a $1,000+ AI bot idea

  • Part 2: How to train your AI bot and write its prompt

  • Part 3: How to create a working version of your AI bot that people can use

  • Part 4: How to tweak your bot’s prompt to perfect its outputs

  • Part 5: How to launch your AI bot to your Substack audience, and start making $$$ with it

It’s more of a beginner’s course. In the future we’ll cover more advanced AI bot building. But for now, this is what you get.

Paid subscribers, enjoy this tutorial!
Free subscribers, you can upgrade or I’ll catch you next time. ❤️

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