🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

• 💰️ Monetization Insight: Turn Reading Notes Into Revenue Assets

• 🔧 Workflow Builder: Build AI Toolkits That Sell in Hours

• 💡 Today’s Prompt: Steal Proven Wins, Rebuild Them With AI

• 📰 One Big Story: AI Is Rebuilding Pharma From the Inside Out

• 🤖 Cool Tech: Why Devs Are Ditching DeepSeek's Platform

• 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: Early Movers Win: Cuban on AI Wealth Creation

• 🖼️ Which Image Is Real? AI or not? Take your best guess.

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
 How AI Turned My Reading Habit into a Revenue Engine

I used to highlight books, save articles, and tell myself I’d revisit them later—but I rarely did. Then I started feeding those notes, Kindle highlights, and blog links into ChatGPT, asking it to extract monetizable insights. Suddenly, reading became a strategic content pipeline.

Now every book or article fuels lead magnets, tweets, blog posts, and even product ideas. Tools like Guidde help me turn those ideas into slick video SOPs in minutes, while Apollo.io lets me instantly find the right people to send them to. I’ve turned a casual habit into a repeatable system for building authority, growing my list, and generating sales conversations.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Passive consumption becomes active creation: AI turns highlights into high-performing content

• Compounding leverage: One article can fuel multiple formats—social, blog, product, email

• You’re already reading—AI just helps you monetize it more effectively

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🔧 Workflow Builder
Create $27 AI Toolkits in One Hour (No Expertise Required)

Goal: Create and sell AI-powered niche toolkits for $9-27 each, generating $800-2,500/month in passive income.

Steps:

1. Choose Your Profitable Niche Use ChatGPT with this RTCE prompt: "Role: Market research analyst. Task: Identify 10 niches that struggle with workflows and would pay $15+ for curated AI solutions. Context: Need niches with active communities and willingness to buy productivity tools. Examples: Real estate agents, Etsy sellers, fitness coaches, YouTubers, consultants." Pick niche with highest pain and purchasing power.

2. Research Niche Pain Points Use Grok deep search: "Role: Industry analyst. Task: Research top 15 daily challenges facing [your niche]. Context: Need pain points for AI toolkit creation. Examples: Lead generation, content creation, client management, administrative tasks." Validate in Facebook groups and Reddit.

3. Curate AI Solutions Use ChatGPT to create 10 specific AI prompts solving biggest problems, research 5 essential tools, design 1 daily workflow tying everything together. Focus on practical, copy-paste solutions saving time immediately.

4. Build Professional Toolkit Create clean Notion document or PDF with organized sections: AI Prompts Library, Essential Tools List, Daily Workflow Guide, Quick Start Checklist. Use Canva for professional formatting and branded design.

5. Set Up Sales Platform Use Smartli to generate compelling, SEO-optimized product descriptions highlighting time savings and problem-solving benefits. List on Gumroad with optimized descriptions, price at $9-27, create bundle options. Include preview screenshots.

6. Launch Marketing Campaign Use Blotato to create engaging social posts showcasing toolkit benefits. Share 2-3 free prompts in relevant Facebook groups, LinkedIn communities, Reddit forums where your niche congregates.

7. Scale with Bundles Create 2-3 additional toolkits following same process, bundle into $57 "Niche AI Vault." Use GetResponse to build email lists from free samples and promote bundle upgrades.

8. Optimize and Expand Track performance, gather feedback for improvements. Create seasonal updates, advanced versions, complementary products like video tutorials for higher-ticket offerings.

Estimated Time: 1-2 hours per toolkit, 30 minutes weekly marketing

Revenue Potential: $800-2,500/month with 5-10 active toolkits selling 15-25 copies monthly

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Steal What Works: Turn Case Studies into AI Playbooks

This prompt helps you turn any proven business case study into a personalized, step-by-step AI action plan for your own niche, goal, and team size. Instead of starting from scratch or guessing what might work, you’re modeling real success and adapting it with precision. It’s ideal for solopreneurs, creators, and lean operators who want to move fast, cut costs, and replicate results using AI—without needing a big budget or technical background.

👉 Use the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask:
You're an AI strategist. Analyze a business success case study and give me a step-by-step plan to replicate the results in my industry using AI.

Context & Purpose:
I want to model a proven success story and apply it to my business using AI to save time, cut costs, and grow faster—without needing a big team or technical background.

Inputs You Provide:
• Case Study Overview (paste summary or link)
• Your Industry (e.g. coaching, ecommerce, SaaS)
• Business Type & Size (e.g. solo creator, 5-person team)
• Primary Goal to Replicate (e.g. grow sales, reduce churn)
• AI Skill Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
• Budget & Time Constraints (if any)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Break down what made the case study work
• Translate the strategy into core principles
• Tailor it to my business, size, and goals
• Recommend specific AI tools for each step
• Use a clear, step-by-step blueprint format
• Keep the tone confident, practical, and non-technical

Perfect Output:
A personalized AI-powered strategy that mirrors a real business win—delivered as a clean action plan I can execute with minimal time, tech, or team.

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📰 One Big Story
AI-Engineered Drugs Are Heading to Human Testing

Google isn’t just investing in AI to power search—it’s going after the entire pharmaceutical industry. Its DeepMind spinout, Isomorphic Labs, just announced it’s preparing for its first human trials of AI-designed drugs. After the breakthrough success of AlphaFold—which predicts protein structures—Isomorphic is now using AI to design entirely new medicines for cancer, immunology, and more.

This isn’t about speeding up clinical trials. It’s about redesigning drug discovery from the ground up. With $600M raised, partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly, and a massive new team blending AI researchers with pharma veterans, Isomorphic is building a system that could collapse timelines, reduce costs, and radically increase the success rate of new drugs.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Isomorphic Labs is preparing AI-designed drugs for human trials

• The tech builds on AlphaFold’s ability to model protein + molecule interactions

• Google is turning drug development into an AI-powered design problem

My Take:
This is the most exciting thing happening in biotech. If Isomorphic can compress a decade of R&D into a few months, we're entering a new era of programmable medicine—and whoever owns that pipeline will dominate one of the world’s most profitable industries.

👉 Read the full article

🤖 Cool Tech
The DeepSeek Drop-Off: Fast Growth, Faster Fade

China’s DeepSeek R1 shook the AI world when it dropped 150+ days ago—matching OpenAI-level reasoning and undercutting token pricing by 90%. It was cheap, fast, and suddenly everywhere. But now? Their own traffic is falling off a cliff.

Turns out, when you prioritize compute over user experience, you lose control of distribution. While DeepSeek’s actual model (especially R1 and V3) is still gaining traction on third-party platforms, their own hosted service is getting wrecked by latency, small context windows, and an overall sluggish feel. You’re waiting 20–25 seconds for the first token—and even budget-conscious devs don’t have time for that.

Here’s what’s really happening: DeepSeek isn’t trying to win with UX. They’re playing the long game—hoarding compute, pushing everything open-source, and trying to leapfrog to AGI. They’re not here to serve chat users. They’re here to control the future.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• DeepSeek’s model is strong—but their web experience is losing users fast

• Third-party hosts now deliver faster, better DeepSeek experiences than DeepSeek itself

• Token economics isn’t just about price—it’s about latency, memory, and use case fit

👉️ Read the full article

🌎️ AI Market Pulse
Mark Cuban: AI Will Create the World's First Trillionaire

Mark Cuban predicts AI will create the world's first trillionaire—potentially "just one dude in a basement"—because we're still in the "preseason" of AI capabilities. While companies like Chipotle use AI to cut hiring time by 75%, Cuban emphasizes this is only the beginning of what's possible. He compares AI adoption to early internet and smartphone days when people said "I don't need that" before these technologies became essential. Cuban argues the wealth won't come from casual AI use, but from discovering yet-unknown ways to harness AI that solve massive problems.

Why this matters for your income: Cuban's "preseason" insight means early movers have unprecedented advantages over those waiting for mainstream adoption. The trillion-dollar opportunity comes from being the bridge that helps businesses implement AI transformations while most competitors are still experimenting. Smart entrepreneurs are positioning themselves now as AI implementation specialists rather than waiting for the technology to mature.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• "Preseason" advantage compounds fastest: Early adoption creates competitive moats before AI becomes commoditized

• Implementation beats experimentation: Systematic AI application to real business problems creates wealth, not casual tool usage

• Bridge-building captures value: Helping others harness AI effectively represents the biggest wealth-generation opportunity

👉️ Read the full article here

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

The last edition’s results—65% were right!

Did you vote in the poll from July 5th? The top image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?

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