Answers first. Then apply.

$7,500, one time. It’s not a monthly fee.

Some people call $7,500 expensive and some call it cheap. For us it’s a small hurdle that shows you’re serious. It covers 12 months of coaching.

The Local Service Spotlight team runs the AI Builder Program. After you’re approved, you pay on our secure order page. Some older pages call it the AI Apprentice Program. It’s the same program.

Usually the parents make the investment and the son or daughter does the work. Some young adults pay their own way, which is great too.

No. The courses are free. You’re paying for results and the human coaching it takes to get them.

No. Take the fit check, send your one-minute video, and we’ll review it. Pay only after you’re approved, on our payment page.

If you already teach and practice this work in public, yes, you can apply for a paid seat. Send your one-minute YouTube video plus links to public articles and videos where you already do it. If you can’t show that yet, you take the program. In Dennis’s words: “We don’t pay people for the privilege of being taught, coached and mentored.” We’d love to find more builders like Jack Wendt, and pay them to co-found and run one of our agencies. See the hiring page.

A live coaching call every Thursday at 2 PM Pacific, a weekly Metrics, Analysis, Action report we review, about 140 courses, our checklists, access to the team’s AI accounts and the agents we’ve built, a builder group that’s online around the clock, and real client work. If you come in without a client, we’ll give you one.

Dennis Yu leads the program. Dylan Haugen is one of the coaches, and other team members join depending on the topic. Read Dylan’s own guide to what’s included.

They’re open office hours. Bring something you’ve already tried to solve. Often we show a new technique we found that week, or a builder shares one, so everybody learns together.

Metrics: what you worked on and the results. Analysis: what you learned. Action: what you’ll do next. It lets us find your bottlenecks and coach you without playing 20 questions.

You start with one, often a parent’s business. If you do good work, we may refer you more, because more businesses come to us than we can handle.

The $7,500 covers 12 months of coaching. But you don’t graduate because time passes. You graduate by proving it: your weekly reports show tracked phone calls for a live client at an acceptable cost per lead. In coach Dylan Haugen’s words, maybe it takes six weeks of testing and tuning, maybe twenty.

Plan on at least an hour a day, about five hours a week, to keep up and do the work for one business. Building an agency takes your full focus. That’s why young adults who can go all-in grow fastest, and why owners doing it on the side often struggle.

The work and the coaching are online. Some builders also travel with the team to conferences, colleges and client visits.

Self-driven problem solvers who can explain a problem in words, communicate and document their work, and handle ambiguity and risk. It’s built for people in the United States doing marketing for local service businesses.

People who wait to be chased, don’t document their work, or want a two-hour-a-day escape from a boss they hate. It’s not a hobby, and it’s not a way to convince you to become an entrepreneur.

No. We work in plain English, not Python. Cam Hazzard built his AI agents without writing code.

No. English wasn’t Dennis’s first language, and he was an introvert who was scared of public speaking. Caleb Guilliams now speaks at Traffic & Conversion and credits Dennis with the chance. These skills can be learned.

Age matters less than follow-through. Most builders are in their teens or twenties, and some are older. Founders and owners join too, on their own path.

A laptop that can run today’s AI tools, a phone for video, and the willingness to be on camera. Jeff Pebley started with only a school-issued Chromebook and no phone, and earned company tools by doing the work.

This isn’t one-on-one consulting with Dennis. He isn’t a freelancer for hire. You join a team: Dennis, Dylan Haugen, the other builders and the AI agents we use every day.

We don’t do sales calls or tours. Everything we’d say on a call is on this site and in the videos. If you’re serious, take the fit check and send the one-minute video. That’s the conversation.

Yes. Their stories link to their own sites. If someone’s situation looks like yours, reach out to them.

You can take the fit check together, but the one-minute video has to be theirs. It’s the test of whether they’ll follow through.

A weekly report with real numbers, a business that gets more calls, and a young adult who learns to manage AI agents, communicate with owners and finish what they start.

That’s the most common start. Give them real access and honest feedback, and judge them by the calls, not the hours.

Yes. Same program, same price. Your path is usually setting up AI agents inside your own company, not starting a one-industry agency. Read the founder path first. It’s honest about time.

Then put someone else in the seat: your son or daughter, an employee who steps up, or a builder who already serves your industry.

Take the fit check. Then record a one-minute video about anything, post it on YouTube and email the link to operations@localservicespotlight.com with the subject “AI Builder application”.

It shows you’ll do something simple without excuses, step out of your comfort zone and communicate clearly. That matters because more and more of your teammates will be AI agents, and you’ll direct them the same way.

Anything. A round of golf, a podcast you liked, an idea you had. Done is better than perfect. It doesn’t need editing.

We review it and get back to you. If you’re approved, you’ll pay the one-time $7,500 and start with one real client.