Dan Martell

And look, I've done the research for you.

So here are the highest margin AI business models for 2026.

The lowest one is AI services around 70% margin.

Again, you can Google or search on AI any one of these.

The next level up is AI consulting around 80% margins.

Then we go to AI digital products around 90% margins.

And then the one that I'm in and I love is AI software, a little bit more complicated to do.

And they have around 95% margins where I spent personally 93% of my time all week building these companies.

If I had to get rich with AI this year, here's what I would do.

First, I would start with an AI service or consulting.

That way it gets me in the conversation with the customers.

I learn the AI to automate, but then I would try to productize it into a light software that takes the workflow that I've documented and systematized and packages it into a software that other people can buy without me even talking to them.

That's how we get to 95% margin.

So now we've got a boring market figured out and a high margin model so you can make some profit.

Step number four, create a high cashflow offer.

Most people sell AI, truth is nobody wants AI.

A business wants customers, a business wants productivity, a business wants to reduce its costs.

It doesn't care if that's AI or fricking a thousand people, as long as what they're paying and what they're getting, there's an ROI.

Just so we're clear, margin is the profit potential, cashflow is how the money flows through the business.

For example, if I sell you a thousand dollar solution that you buy from me,