Everyone can use AI chatbots. Nobody knows China just dropped a free model that turns screenshots into working apps. That's your opening.
Screenshot-to-App Is Now a $200/Hour Skill
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 this week. It's a trillion-parameter beast that's open-source, free, and beats GPT-5.2 on coding benchmarks. Cool story. Here's how to make money from it.
The killer feature: you show it a picture of any app or website, and it builds a working version. Not a rough mockup. Functional code with animations, scroll effects, the works. In demos, it recreated entire websites from 30-second screen recordings.
Why this prints money: Small businesses have been paying $2,000-5,000 for custom landing pages. Most can't articulate what they want. But they can point at a competitor's site and say "like that, but for us." Now you can do that job in 2 hours instead of 2 weeks.
Monday morning steps:
1. Download via Ollama (free, runs on decent laptops) or use the API at kimi.com
2. Screenshot 10 local business websites that look dated
3. Email the owners: "I can rebuild your site to look like [successful competitor]. $500, done in 48 hours."
4. Use Kimi to generate the code, customize, deploy on Vercel
The freelancer who figures out this workflow first in every mid-size city will clean up. VCs are throwing money at AI app builders.
You can undercut them with Ollama and caffeine.
Claude Just Got Into Your Spreadsheets
Anthropic expanded Claude for Excel to Pro-tier users ($20/month) this week. Previously locked behind $200/month Enterprise plans.
Here's what it actually does: you open a sidebar in Excel, describe what you want in English, and Claude reads your entire workbook, understands relationships between tabs, and makes changes while preserving your formulas. It cites which cells it's referencing so you can check its work.
Real talk: This replaces about 80% of what you'd hire a spreadsheet consultant for. Debugging formulas? Done. "Why doesn't this pivot table work?" Answered. "Build me a DCF model from this data." Built.
Monday morning steps:
1. If you already pay for Claude Pro, install from the Microsoft Add-in store (search "Claude")
2. Ctrl+Alt+C opens the sidebar
3. Start with "analyze this workbook and tell me what's wrong" on your messiest spreadsheet
The $20/month pays for itself the first time you don't spend 3 hours debugging a nested VLOOKUP.
AI Anxiety Coaching Part 2
Last issue I mentioned the AI anxiety consulting goldmine. This week's data point: Logical Intelligence just raised funding with Yann LeCun (Meta's AI chief) joining the board.
Their pitch? An AI model called Kona that doesn't hallucinate because it uses "energy-based reasoning" instead of predicting the next word. Translation: it actually thinks through problems instead of confidently making stuff up.
Everyone's panicking about AI errors. The smart money is doing this: Position yourself as the person who knows which AI to use for which task. Kona for high-stakes analysis. GPT for creative work. Claude for coding. Kimi for visual stuff.
The skill isn't "using AI." It's knowing which AI to trust with what. That's a consulting practice.
Monday morning steps:
1. Build a decision tree: "If high-stakes and needs to be correct, use X. If creative, use Y."
2. Offer this as a service to professional firms freaking out about AI liability
3. Package it as "AI Selection Consulting" at $200/hour
🛠️ QUICK HITS
Apple + Gemini = Siri That Finally Works: iOS 26.4 drops mid-February with Google's Gemini powering Siri. It'll read your emails, texts, and calendar to answer questions like "what time is mom's flight?" without you copy-pasting context. iPhone 15 Pro or newer. If you build iOS shortcuts, start thinking about voice-first workflows.
xAI Raised $20 Billion: Elon's AI company is now valued higher than most countries' GDP. He's telling employees AGI could happen this year. I'm skeptical, but the infrastructure spending tells you where the smart money thinks this is going.
AlphaGenome Opens Genetic AI: DeepMind released an AI that reads a million DNA base pairs to predict disease risk. Research-only for now, but genetic health apps are about to get interesting. Someone's going to build the "23andMe but it actually tells you useful stuff" business.
The Real AI Trend: Capital is concentrating in customer service bots and coding tools. Climate tech and "undifferentiated vertical AI" (aka "ChatGPT wrapper #47,000") are getting killed. Build something specific or get ignored.
That's the edge for this week.
Screenshot something, build something, ship something.
Reply with what you're building. I read everything.