Wyatt Roderick

A.I is no longer the future, it is the now.

being cheap after you've made >6-7figs is just as dumb as being broke and spending everything saw an ig video which explains it pretty well so basically what he's saying is once you make some money = invest in your dream car & dream watch etc because if you constantly work but never reward yourself you're stuck "imagine leveling up in a video game but never upgrade your character" "it will be impossible to pass the next level, impossible to beat the next boss" but if you buy that new watch/car, doors will open which you didnt know about just pls dont buy an m4 like all these fortnite kids

@spacexbt This is my video, thanks for the support bro! @wyattroderick_ on IG.

A roofing company near me does $2M a year. They have one guy answering phones. He works 9 to 5. Monday through Friday. Every call that comes in after hours goes to voicemail. Every call that comes in while he’s on another line goes to voicemail. A new roof costs $15,000 on average. They are not losing customers because they do bad work. They do great work. They are losing customers because a homeowner called at 6pm on a Thursday, got voicemail, and called the next company on Google. That is not a roofing problem. That is a phone problem. An AI voice agent answers every call. At 6pm. At 11pm. On weekends. It books the estimate, collects the information, and hands it off in the morning like nothing happened. The roofing company does not need to understand how it works. They just need to stop missing calls. Most of them do not even know this exists yet.

Most people chasing AI money are pitching Fortune 500 companies already drowning in vendors. Meanwhile the HVAC guy running a $2M business still has a voicemail box that fills up on weekends. That’s not a technology problem. Nobody built the bridge between the tool and the person who needs it most. That gap is the business.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.. An A.I agency.

Everyone’s watching Nvidia. Nobody’s watching the roofing company that missed 14 calls last Tuesday because the owner was on a ladder. That’s where the real money is right now. I’m 18. I sell AI to local businesses. And the most surprising thing I’ve learned isn’t about the technology — it’s that these businesses are printing money with a hole in the bucket and don’t even know it. The average trades company generates $800K–$2M a year. A single missed call is a $3,000–$8,000 job gone. They’re losing that every single week. The gap isn’t technological. It’s awareness. These business owners are focused on the job in front of them. They’re not on X debating AI. They’re not watching demos. They don’t know this exists. That’s the opportunity. Not chasing Fortune 500 contracts. Not competing with McKinsey. Main Street. Unsexy. Enormous.

Most people chasing AI money are building apps for Silicon Valley. I’m 18. I went the other direction. There are 33 million small businesses in America. Most of them still answer their phones manually. Some don’t answer at all — especially after 5pm. That missed call is a missed customer. A roofing company getting 3 calls a night after hours and answering zero of them isn’t a technology problem. It’s a math problem. An AI voice agent answers every call. Books the appointment. Follows up. The business owner doesn’t know what a large language model is. He doesn’t care. He cares that his phone is covered while he’s at his kid’s baseball game. Nobody is fighting over this customer. The big tech firms aren’t knocking on his door. The consulting companies aren’t flying out to meet him. That’s the whole point.

Everyone is fighting over Fortune 500 AI contracts. Meanwhile, the plumber down the street is still writing estimates by hand, missing calls while he's on a roof, and losing $3,000 jobs to whoever picks up the phone first. The gap between what AI can do and what local businesses are actually using is enormous. That's not a tech problem. That's a distribution problem. And right now, almost nobody is solving it. I'm 18. I sell AI to local businesses. The market is basically untouched.

Everyone is fighting over who builds the next AI model. Meanwhile, the plumber down the street is losing $4,000 a month because nobody answers his phone after 5pm. That gap between what AI can do and what local businesses actually have — that's not a technology problem. It's an awareness problem. And awareness problems are the easiest businesses in the world to build. I'm 18. I figured that out before most people with MBAs did.

Most people think starting an AI business requires a computer science degree and a Silicon Valley zip code. I grew up fixing fences and chopping wood before sunrise. Nobody handed me a roadmap. But here’s what farm life teaches you that no MBA does: → You figure out what’s broken, fast — or the whole operation suffers → You don’t wait for perfect conditions to plant → You solve problems with whatever’s in the barn That’s exactly what AI consulting for local businesses is. The HVAC guy doesn’t need a pitch deck about machine learning. He needs someone who can walk in, spot the leak in his follow-up process, and patch it with a tool that runs while he sleeps. That’s the job. And the people who come from backgrounds like mine - where you learned to do the work, not just talk about it - are quietly cleaning up in this space. No credentials required. Just a willingness to figure it out. If you’re sitting on the fence wondering if this is for you - it probably is.

A stem cell clinic in my city charges $3,500 per treatment. Fully booked most weeks. Waitlist for new patients. Doctor is the best in the area. Their front desk closes at 4pm. I called at 4:47 on a Thursday pretending to be a new patient. Voicemail. Called their top competitor across town. Someone picked up on the second ring, booked me for the following Monday. That clinic lost a $3,500 patient in the time it takes to microwave leftovers. The thing about medical spas and clinics is the math is brutal. These aren't $50 transactions. One missed new patient inquiry is thousands of dollars walking to whoever answered the phone. An AI voice agent handles every call. Books the consultation. Answers questions about treatments. Works at 4:47pm on a Thursday like it's 9am on a Monday. The technology isn't new. Hospital systems and big health networks have used versions of this for years. The stem cell clinic down the street just never had anyone show them it existed.

A plumber told me his biggest competitor isn’t the other plumber across town. It’s voicemail. People don’t leave messages anymore. They hang up and call the next result on Google. He’s been in business 22 years. Built his reputation on word of mouth. Has a 5-star rating. Loses to a voicemail box every single day. The crazy part - the solution costs less than what he loses on one missed job. Most of these guys are bleeding money through a hole they can’t see.

Most AI companies are racing to sell to Google. To Microsoft. To Fortune 500 boardrooms with 6-month procurement cycles and 12 people in the approval chain. Meanwhile the plumber down the street is running his entire business from a sticky note and a flip phone. No one is talking to him. No one is showing up with a solution. Not because the solution doesn’t exist — but because everyone chasing the big fish forgot the ocean is full of small ones. That’s the whole game right now. A guy who knows how to walk into a local business and say “your competitors are using this and you’re not” is going to make more money than half the people pitching Silicon Valley. The opportunity isn’t at the top. It’s hiding in plain sight on every Main Street in America.

A medical spa books 60% of its appointments after 6pm. The front desk leaves at 5. So every night, calls hit voicemail. Texts go unanswered. People book somewhere else by morning. The owner thinks she has a marketing problem. She actually has a response problem. An AI voice agent answers every call. Books the appointment. Collects the deposit. All while the owner sleeps. She didn’t hire anyone. She didn’t change her hours. She just stopped losing money she didn’t know she was losing.

An HVAC company runs 24/7 calls in the summer. AC breaks at 2am. Homeowner panics. They call the first company that picks up. If nobody answers, they move on. That’s a $4,000 job gone in 30 seconds. I set up an AI that answers every call, collects the info, and books the appointment while the owner is asleep. He woke up to 3 new jobs booked. Didn’t touch his phone once. Local businesses aren’t struggling because they’re bad at what they do. They’re struggling because the tools exist and nobody showed them.

Most roofing companies miss 30% of their calls. Not because they're bad at business. Because they're on a roof. Every missed call is a missed job. An AI voice agent answers 24/7, books the estimate, and sends a follow-up text -while the owner is still climbing down the ladder. Average roof in the U.S costs $9,200. Sell them this system for $10k, get them 1 job, pays for itself.

I talked to a roofing company last week. They were missing calls while up on roofs. No surprise there. Their hands are full. Literally. So leads were going to voicemail. And voicemail was going nowhere. We set up an AI that answers every call. Books the estimate. Sends a text confirmation. All before the homeowner even hangs up. The owner looked at me and said "why didn't I know this existed?" That's the thing. Most local business owners aren't against AI. They just don't know anyone who's shown them what it can do. That gap between what AI can do and what small businesses know about - that's the biggest opportunity I've ever seen.

A roofing company owner told me his biggest problem isn't getting leads. It's that his guys are on the roof all day and nobody follows up with the people who called. By the time they call back it's 6pm. The homeowner already booked someone else. He was spending $3K a month on Google Ads to generate leads he never even responded to in time. Now an AI texts every lead back in under 60 seconds. Asks for the address. Asks for photos of the damage. Books the estimate. All before the owner even comes down the ladder. He didn't need more leads. He needed to stop wasting the ones he already had. Nobody told him this was possible. He thought AI was for tech companies and big corporations. It's not. It's for the guy on the roof who can't get to his phone.

A plumber called me last week. He’s been in business 23 years. Still has someone answering his phones manually. Still losing jobs at 2am when no one picks up. I showed him a $300/month AI that answers calls, books jobs, and follows up with leads while he sleeps. He looked at me like I handed him a cheat code. That’s the market nobody is talking about. Not Fortune 500 companies. Not Silicon Valley startups. The plumber. The dentist. The roofer. Businesses that print money but run on 1995 operations. The gap between what AI can do and what local businesses are actually using is the biggest untapped opportunity right now.