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Practical how‑tos for runningan agency on your own.
How to research a business before you pitch, check a site before you hand it over and decide whose name each account goes in. Each one works with the tools you already have, and every article lists its sources and when they were checked.
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Work with your AI agent
What is Claude Cowork, and does a one-person AI agency need it?
Claude Cowork lets Claude work on files in a folder you choose. What it does, how it differs from Claude Code, and whether a one-person AI agency needs it.
Run the agency
Deposits for a one-person AI agency: when to ask and what to say
Should a one-person AI agency ask for a deposit before building a website? When to ask, how much to think about, what to say, and what a deposit protects.
Work with your AI agent
Claude Code for client websites: what to decide before the first prompt
Can Claude Code build a website for a client? Yes, if you decide the brief, rules, review and ownership first. AI agents for client work start with this list.
Win and deliver websites
How to write a website proposal a local business reads to the end
A website proposal template for a one-person AI agency: what to include, in what order, and how to write the price so a local business owner reads to the end.
Run the agency
What a one-person AI agency should track each week
Six lists a solo AI agency owner can check every week, from promises and money owed to renewals and costs, so nothing waits in your head.
Win and deliver websites
How to research a local business before you pitch a website
Before a one-person AI agency pitches a website, find three facts: what the business does, how customers find it, what they say. The rest becomes a question.
Work with your AI agent
Claude Code skills and plugins: what a one-person AI agency needs to know
What Claude Code skills and plugins are, how they differ, how a one-person AI agency can use them for client work, and what to check before you install one.
Notes from the team
Why we think an agency should be built around its agent, not inside a platform
The Volant team's case for a one-person AI agency built around its agent, and for keeping the client records with the owner.
Win and deliver websites
How to plan January outreach to local businesses without spamming anyone
How a solo AI agency can find local businesses that need a website and contact them in January without spamming: a small patch, a short list, one honest note.
Run the agency
The five records a one-person AI agency can't run without
The five client records every one-person AI agency should keep: who the client is, what you agreed, their accounts, the money and the history.
Services, honestly
SSL certificates are getting shorter: what it means for your care plans
Let's Encrypt is moving to 45-day SSL certificates by 2028. What changes, the dates, and what to check and write into your website care plans now.
Win and deliver websites
How much should you charge for a small business website?
How a one-person AI agency works out what to charge a local business for a website: scope first, then time and costs, then a quote read in two minutes.
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Ideas your agent can turninto client work.
Services a one-person AI agency can sell, and how to win the clients who buy them. By email, for people who run their agency on their own.
- Services to sell. Work your agent can do for local businesses, with the method behind it.
- Pricing and pitching. Ways to price a service and the words to pitch it, ready to reuse.
- New in Volant. What changed in the app and how to use it in your agency.
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