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For founders and business owners

Yes, you can join. Here’s the honest version.

Same program, same $7,500, one time. But your path is different. You probably won’t start a one-industry agency. You’ll put AI agents to work in the business you already run, or put a young adult in the seat.

Dennis Yu with two local service business owners in their office
Dennis Yu with local service business owners

The hard part

The honest truth about time

Many founders are learning this and setting up AI agents for their companies. The ones who win protect the time. The ones who don’t, mean well, and fall behind.

Be honest with yourself. If you’ll really do it, start today. Talking to Claude isn’t hard. If you won’t, think about who in your business or your life already makes videos, lives on social media or talks to ChatGPT on walks. That person may be your builder.

Pick one

Four ways to bring AI into your business

Most common

1. Put your son or daughter in the seat

They go through the program and your business is their first client. You pay once and read their weekly report.

Parent path
The Gordon Ramsay model

2. Train someone on your team

An employee who steps up goes through the program. Anthony Hilb runs his companies this way: his name on the door, his standards in the kitchen, a trained operator running the restaurant.

Watch Anthony explain it
If you’ll protect the time

3. Do it yourself

You join like everyone else: weekly calls, weekly report, videos you record yourself. You set up agents for your own company instead of building an agency.

Take the founder fit check
Done for you

4. Hire a builder for your industry

No motivated son or daughter, and no time? Hire one of our builders who already serves your industry, through Local Service Spotlight.

See Local Service Spotlight services

What you'll set up

AI agents that do the repeat work

  • Turn one video into an article, short clips and posts, every time
  • An agent that finds and organizes positive mentions of you and your company
  • Google Business Profile, reviews and Local Services Ads
  • Dollar a Day ads on your best-performing videos
  • A Google Knowledge Panel for you as the founder. How we claim one

I kept seeing your videos on social media, so when I went online to look for an HVAC contractor and your company name popped up it felt like the obvious choice. Since I already knew your name and face I felt much more comfortable going through with such a big decision.

Tom CorbettHVAC contractor, sharing what a homeowner told him · Text message, Aug 2026

Why we make everyone record videos: people hire the name and face they already know.

Founders

Owners who use the method

Some went through coaching. Some took the training into their own company. All of them say so in their own words.

Founder
David Carroll and Dennis Yu talking at DOPE Marketing

David Carroll

Founder & CEO, DOPE Marketing

David served prison time from 21 to 25. When he started working with Dennis, Dennis put him in the back end of the Ashley Furniture account: data analysis, research, running ads.

DOPE Marketing lists three straight Inc. 5000 rankings, 2024 to 2026

Dennis and I started working together and he unlocked the doors.
YouTube

Watch: How David Carroll built DOPE MarketingNov 2025 thedavidcarroll.com

Brad Strawbridge

Founder & CEO, Capital City Roofing

Brad runs Capital City Roofing in Atlanta and licenses its system to other roofers. He sits on national roofing boards, and he's tough on marketing and tech vendors. He still tells his home-service friends to work with Dennis.

Scaled Capital City Roofing to $10 million in its second year, using AI and community

Our builder George Paladichuk says he grew NaiL the same way Brad grew his roofing company: relationships and reputation.

For all my home services connections. If you're looking for a marketing-seo-ai expert, Dennis Yu is the real deal.
Facebook, Mar 2026

Video, Mar 2026 bradstrawbridge.com

Anthony Hilb

Owner, Anthony's Lawn Care and Landscaping (Bloomington, Indiana)

Anthony started in 2011 with a minivan, a push mower and a toolbox. He runs his companies on what he calls the Gordon Ramsay model: his name on the door, his standards in the kitchen, and a trained operator running the restaurant.

Now leads about 70 people across four businesses in Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina

He co-wrote the book Mow Money with Ethan Murphy, one of our builders.

Video, Oct 2026 anthonyhilb.com

Founder
Caleb Guilliams and Dennis Yu standing together at an event

Caleb Guilliams

Founder & CEO, BetterWealth

Caleb started BetterWealth at 21. It's also where Jack Wendt got his start: Jack interned for Caleb as a teenager, after the two met in Denver.

BetterWealth is licensed in all 50 states and has placed more than $2.1 billion in protection

I am literally on the stage at Traffic and Conversion because Dennis has given me opportunities to not only learn from him, but… actually travel and get speaking opportunities to speak in front of hundreds of people.
YouTube, May 2026

Watch: Caleb Guilliams on how Dennis opened doors to speak at Traffic & ConversionMay 2026 betterwealth.com/about

Ross Franklin

Owner, Pure Green franchise

Ross took the training himself and applied it inside his franchise.

Credits the training as a key factor in Pure Green's growth

Guys, I've learned so much from Dennis Yu and all of his training courses, and I've applied that to Pure Green franchise. And that's a key factor in our success and our continuous improvement to get better in marketing, SEO, and just continuing to grow the business.
YouTube, Oct 2026

Video, Oct 2026

Coaching and consulting with Dennis for years… It's changed my life.

Mark LackEntrepreneur and business coach · Facebook video

…thank you for leveling up my skills and knowledge when it comes the Dennis Yu methodology of marketing! It's amazing how much I learned from you over 4 days…

Harry GoldFounder, Overdrive Interactive · LinkedIn, Apr 2026

Dennis, over and over, just extended his time, his knowledge, created more opportunity for me than anyone that I've met.

David CarrollFounder & CEO, DOPE Marketing · YouTube

These are individual stories with sources you can check. They are not typical or promised results. What you get depends on the work you put in.

Lighthouses

Home-service giants who know our work

Respected names in home services. Exact words are marked as quotes. Appearances say only what happened, with a link.

In his wordsWhy most contractors pay the bland tax, with Dan Antonelli · Oct 2025

It's just amazing seeing the stuff that you're building … I love what you do.

Dan AntonelliFounder & President, KickCharge Creative · He says it at 35:58
AppearanceDennis Yu on The Home Service Expert with Tommy Mello · Feb 2020

Tommy had Dennis on his show to teach the Why Story formula: how to get customers to know, like and trust you.

Tommy MelloFounder, A1 Garage Door Service · host, The Home Service Expert · The Home Service Expert, Ep. 112
Appearance

Jason runs Power Crew and the Operations Mastery Lab. Dennis joined his workshop for home-service operators near Broomfield, Colorado, in August 2026, then hiked Mt Bierstadt with him.

Jason AmatoHome Services Hall of Fame inductee · jasongamato.com · Dennis's write-up

Founder criteria

  • You’ll block time on your calendar every week, and keep it
  • You’ll record videos yourself. Your face is the asset.
  • You’ll follow the system before you change it
  • You’ll send the weekly report like every builder
  • You see $7,500 as an investment, not a gamble

Not a fit if…

  • You want someone to do it all for you (see option 4)
  • You’ll hand it to an assistant and disappear
  • You want a sales call before you decide
  • You plan to start “when things calm down”

Know which path fits?

Take the founder fit check. Two minutes, no sales call.