What Is Andrew Black AI Grid Academy?

Most beginners ask the wrong question: “How can I use ChatGPT to make money?” Andrew Black AI Grid Academy flips it. The core lesson, The AI Income Framework, teaches you to start with how an industry already earns money, then use AI to make one repetitive or expensive task faster. Every template, case study and tool review in the package is there to put that idea into practice.

Andrew Black AI Grid Academy ran as a weekly community with three recurring formats, explained in the welcome video: Workshop Wednesday (a private build tutorial), Feature Friday (an under-used AI tool, usually with a ready prompt) and Case Study Sunday (how a real product or person makes money with AI). The lessons folder preserves that output as watchable videos you can work through at your own pace.

There is also a second layer most AI courses skip: a “Future AI Economy” and “Post AGI Economics Framework” track with PDF reports, a recorded live call, and an AGI Investments folder of stock-research write-ups. So Andrew Black AI Grid Academy covers both what to build with AI today and how to think about where the AI economy is heading. You will find it alongside similar programs in our AI & ChatGPT category.

What You Will Learn Inside Andrew Black AI Grid Academy

1. The AI Income Framework: Industry, Inefficiency, Innovation

Lesson 8 is the backbone of Andrew Black AI Grid Academy. You pick an industry you already know (e-commerce, real estate, finance, health and fitness, marketing, education or content creation), list every task inside one business process, and circle the most repetitive or most expensive one. Then you match an AI tool to it, test small, and sell narrowly. The instructor’s examples are specific on purpose: an automation sold only to UK realtors, a tool sold only to gaming YouTubers.

• Pricing logic from the lesson: if a task costs a business $200 a month, a $50 solution sells itself.
• Small wins count: a tool that saves “only” five minutes per video still earns a monthly subscription.
• Validate first: offer it free, collect testimonials, then productize.

2. Faceless YouTube Videos With a Make.com Agent Team

Lesson 1 of Andrew Black AI Grid Academy builds a full agentic workflow in Make.com for horror-story videos: GPT-4 writes the script, an iterator splits it into scenes, GPT-4 turns each scene into an image prompt, DALL-E renders the images to Dropbox and ElevenLabs records the voiceover. In the demo, one run produces all assets in about a minute and a half. You then finish the edit with the included film-grain overlays and Slow Zoom preset, and add background music from Suno.

3. Lead Generation and Music Automation Templates

The Andrew Black AI Grid Academy Lead Generation agent runs in two steps. Step one uses an Apify Google scraper with “negative qualifiers” to strip out top-10 listicles, while Claude cleans the results into Google Sheets. Step two visits each site and collects emails and social profiles. The instructor notes that about 1,000 Google results cost roughly $3.50. The Music Empire template uses ChatGPT to write 30 lo-fi prompts, generates cover images through the Stability API, creates tracks through a music API and files everything into a folder — the workflow behind an ambience channel he says earned a few hundred dollars a month.

4. Starting an AI Automation Agency

In Andrew Black AI Grid Academy, Lesson 5 is a Case Study Sunday about a complete beginner earning $900 a month. He offered free chatbot setups, and some businesses then paid around $300 a month to keep them running. The lesson maps four service lines you can sell: website chatbots trained on a company’s PDFs, email automation (Lindy AI or Make.com), content automation, and voice agents (Voiceflow). Lead sources covered: Facebook groups, TikTok, YouTube and calling local businesses found on Google Maps.

5. Digital Products, Free Traffic and Positioning

Lesson 7 of Andrew Black AI Grid Academy turns a Perplexity research prompt into a polished PDF product in Gamma, with a “mistakes to avoid” angle that pulls more downloads than a generic tips guide. The Content Strategy video shows the Twitter thread funnel (teach something basic, place your guide at the end, close with a limited-time code), the free-guide-plus-affiliate upsell using Digistore24 or JVZoo, and the TikTok “comment DOWNLOAD” call to action instead of “link in bio.”

Two case studies explain why this works. Cal AI wrapped GPT-4 Vision into a calorie-tracking subscription app. Chatbase survived ChatGPT adding file uploads by repositioning “chat with a PDF” for students into “a chatbot trained on your business data” for companies — a jump from roughly $20 to $2,000 a month per customer in the instructor’s comparison.

6. Feature Friday: AI Tools Worth Knowing

• Google Gemini Deep Research — the instructor spent a night refining prompts, including a stock-analysis report and an “underserved local business opportunities” prompt.
• Maisa KPU — a free reasoning tool shown as an alternative for hard problems.
• Lovable — one prompt builds an agency landing page, a second adds a three-tier pricing page; Supabase handles the backend.
• Tripo3D AI + Cults3D — turn an image into an STL/OBJ model and list it for sale; creators keep 80% of the net price.

7. The Future AI Economy and Post-AGI Framework

The Andrew Black AI Grid Academy research track includes a 33-minute deep dive into an essay on the future of employment written by a staff member at a frontier AI lab, short interview clips on jobs and “IQ before EQ,” and the recorded Post AGI Economics Call 1. That call opens with a principle worth the price of the call alone: start with the problem, not the technology, and avoid “hammer and nail syndrome.” Supporting Andrew Black AI Grid Academy PDFs include an AGI Framework checklist, work examples and jobs-outlook reports.

“A lot of people think, how can I make money with AI rather than how can I make money? And then how can I use AI to automate that process?”
— from the lesson “The AI Income Framework”

“Every single human on the planet, if you can save them time, you will make the most money ever.”
— from the lesson “The AI Income Framework”

“Instead of asking how we can use generative AI in our business, we should start by asking what challenges are we trying to address?”
— from “Post AGI Economics Call 1 (AI Businesses)”

Real Workflow Example From the Course

Here is the faceless-video build from Lesson 1, step by step, exactly as Andrew Black AI Grid Academy demonstrates it:

1. Import the “Scary AI Videos Make Blueprint” into Make.com and add your OpenAI API key.
2. Edit the system prompt: a professional horror writer producing plain-text, self-contained paragraphs optimized for AI narration. Set your story theme (the demo uses “the American suburbs”).
3. Save the script to Google Drive, then let the iterator split it into sections.
4. A second GPT-4 module writes one image prompt per section; DALL-E renders each image into Dropbox (use 1024-wide landscape sizing — the instructor flags his own resolution mistake).
5. The router sends the full script to ElevenLabs for the voiceover and stores the audio file.
6. Download the folder, drop images and voice into your editor, apply a film-grain overlay and the Slow Zoom preset to every clip.
7. Add Suno background music. Run the automation twice to reach an 8–10 minute video, then grab a thumbnail from the prompt library.

Who Andrew Black AI Grid Academy Is For

• Creators who want to run faceless YouTube or ambience channels with automated asset production.
• Freelancers testing an AI automation agency: chatbots, email, content and voice agents.
• Digital product sellers who need fast PDF products, Gumroad sales copy and free traffic methods.
• No-code builders who want importable Make.com blueprints instead of starting from a blank canvas.
• Anyone curious about the post-AGI economy and how jobs and capital may shift.

Not ideal if you are an experienced developer looking for deep coding work, or you expect live community access — this is a downloaded classroom archive. Some tools are shown in late-2024 versions (GPT-4, o1, Gemini 1.5 Pro Deep Research), so menus may look different today.

Andrew Black AI Grid Academy Full Course Index

The complete Andrew Black AI Grid Academy package: 98 files, 22 video files and 18 PDFs in 14 folders, 1.14 GB in total. Lesson names are cleaned for readability; system files are removed.

Start Here

• Welcome to TheAIGRID Academy (video, 4m 32s)

Lessons (10 videos)

• Lesson 1 — Automate Faceless Videos With Make.com (8m 54s)
• Lesson 2 — Use GPT-4 For Millions (Cal AI case study, 3m 01s)
• Lesson 3 — Use This AI Tool For Reasoning Instead (2m 41s)
• Lesson 4 — Make Money With 3D Models AI (15m 05s)
• Lesson 5 — AI Automation for Beginners (10m 15s)
• Lesson 6 — Google Deep Research Beats Perplexity (7m 06s)
• Lesson 7 — Gamma AI for Digital Products (6m 15s)
• Lesson 8 — The AI Income Framework (13m 09s)
• Lesson 9 — Use This to Prototype a Startup (Lovable, 7m 50s)
• Lesson 10 — Unlock More With AI With ONE Change (positioning, 6m 48s)
• Cover images for lessons 2–5 and 7–10

Content Strategy

• 1. How to Get Unlimited Free Traffic (video, 8m 03s)
• 2. How to Get People to Actually Buy Your Product (PDF)
• 3. How to Grow Any Product Organically (PNG guide)

AI Agent Templates

• AI Automation Template: Scary Videos — Make.com blueprint (JSON), 4 film-grain/old-film overlay clips, Slow Zoom preset
• Lead Generation Agent — walkthrough video (2m 37s), Step 1 Google lead URL finder (JSON), Step 2 email/social finder (JSON), Apify Google Scraper note
• Music Empire AI Automation — lo-fi music walkthrough video (5m 26s), MUSIC AI automation (JSON)

AI Prompt Templates (prompt cards)

• NotebookLM Prompt Template
• Gumroad Sales Page Automation
• Cover Art AI Template
• YouTube Image Thumbnail Prompt Templates
• Google Deep Research Prompt Library
• Perplexity Search Prompt
• NotebookLM Sales Page Prompt
• Unique Content Generator NotebookLM (PNG + TXT)
• Affiliate Marketing Product Prompt

Live Calls (Recorded)

• Post AGI Economics Call 1 — AI Businesses (video, 1h 03m 29s), call cover and section notes

The Future AI Economy

• The Future of Work (video, 33m 45s)
• 4. Interview Clip (video, 3m 06s)
• 11. Will AI Come for IQ Before It Comes for EQ? (video, 1m 30s)
• 3. Useless Humans in the Age of AI · 4. A Slow Takeoff in the Age of AI (saved lesson pages)
• 5. AI-Enabled Communism (PNG + article PDF)
• 6. Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI (PNG + PDF)
• 7. Kevin Scott on Work · 8. 10 People = Giant Billion-Dollar Companies · 9. Shocking Glimpse of What’s to Come · 10. Uninformed About the Future of Jobs · 12. Is Banking Next? (PNG briefs)
• 13. Jobs Disappearing Now — A Realistic Outlook · 14. The Economy After AGI · Jobs Disappearing Now — Updated Daily (PDFs)
• Easiest No-Code AI Agents Tutorial + Custom GPT (PDF)

Post AGI Economics Framework

• 1. The Post AGI Framework · 2. Diving Into the Framework and Using It · 3. Thriving in the Post-AGI Future (PNG guides)
• AGI Framework Checklist (PDF) · Work Examples Update (PDF)

AI Economy

• 1. How Will LLMs Affect Employment? · 2. Is Communism Making a Comeback? · 3. How Do LLMs Change Online Markets? · 4. Broadening the Gains From AI (each as PDF + PNG)

AGI Investments

• AGI Investments — The 22 Page Guide (PDF versions + cover)
• 10 Ways to Make Money With AI (PDF)
• Another AI Stock With Genuine Potential · Is This Stock a Sleeping AI Giant? (PDFs) · GXO: A Stock to Invest In (PNG)

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Andrew Black AI Grid Academy FAQ

What is included in Andrew Black AI Grid Academy?

98 files (1.14 GB): 18 recorded lessons and calls, 4 overlay clips, 4 Make.com JSON files, 9 prompt cards, 18 PDF reports and supporting images.

How long are the Andrew Black AI Grid Academy videos?

The 18 transcribed lessons total 3h 23m. The longest is the 1h 03m Post AGI Economics call; most lessons run 3–15 minutes.

Do I need coding skills for Andrew Black AI Grid Academy?

No. The course uses Make.com, Lovable, Gamma, Perplexity and ChatGPT. You import blueprints and add your own API keys.

Is Andrew Black AI Grid Academy good for starting an AI agency?

Yes, as a starting point. Lesson 5 maps four sellable services and lead sources, the Lead Generation agent finds prospects, and Lesson 10 shows how positioning changes what you can charge.

How is Andrew Black AI Grid Academy delivered?

Crypto payment only. Fast delivery is handled manually after payment confirmation, and download links stay available for 7 days.

How is it different from The AI Grid Academy package?

Andrew Black AI Grid Academy is the video-led version with lessons and calls. The AI Grid Academy is a newer, template-heavy archive organised as a Build, Grow, Monetise and Distribute roadmap.

Related AI Courses

• Andrew Black – The AI Grid Academy — same author; written workshops, n8n and Make.com agent templates and a large prompt library.
• Jack Roberts – AI Automations — go deeper on automation builds after the Make.com templates.
• Adam Enfroy – AI Income Blueprint — another angle on turning AI skills into income.
• Fabian Markl – AI Automations Agent Templates — more ready-made agent templates to sell to clients.

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