#2305 I earned $500k when AI replaced my managers
Startup Stories - Mixergy
Andrew Warner
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Chandler Bolt is the founder and CEO of SelfPublishing.com, an education company that helps entrepreneurs and experts write, publish, and market books. Over the past decade, the company has helped publish more than 7,000 books and grown into an eight-figure business. Today, Chandler is focused on using AI tools like Lovable to build internal systems that improve sales, operations, and management at scale.
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| 0:00.0 | I run an eight figure a year company and we just added half a million dollars in sales to |
| 0:05.1 | self-publishing.com last month and it's all because of this tool that I'm about to show you. |
| 0:10.0 | Look at this. You can actually see individual salespeople getting better. |
| 0:14.8 | This is live. Literally as we speak, there's calls coming in here. We can see the team as a |
| 0:20.0 | whole. It's pretty crazy. We're replaced managers at the company with AI starting with sales management. People watch this video, they're gonna add a bunch of revenue to their business. Presented by Zapier, the AI Automation Company. Chandler, this hub is what you all built using Lovable. What am I looking at over here? So this is pretty crazy. So this is, if you think about what does a sales manager do, |
| 0:41.3 | they give good feedback to sales reps based on individual calls. What's the problem with that, though? |
| 0:47.3 | They can only review a couple calls per week, maybe per rep. Well now we have every sales call that happens in the business being |
| 0:56.1 | automatically graded based on this rubric. We got quoted. I want to say it was 12 grand to build |
| 1:02.3 | it and six grand a month to maintain it. We built this in less than a month. Ourselves using |
| 1:09.4 | the prompts on about a show. I'm lovable and lovable is such an tool. I mean, we're going to show the screen. It's so babyish that I hadn't even showed it. Let's click in one of them. Tab number two, you've got us clicking into like one person. So this is actually Matt on our team. The prospect's name is here. We've got, you know, this was an 83 out of 100. This is a great call. And so if you think about what makes a good sales call, this might be different for your business. We've got the whole skill and rubric and everything on how you can actually create this for yourself. But for us, this is kind of what it looks like. So do you have a good first two minutes? Well, Matt had a nine out of ten. Framing an expectation setting for the call, this was a six out of ten, incitent and enthusiasm, nine out of ten, and it keeps going. You can see throughout the whole call, because it's easy to just say, did you make the sale or not? And so if you made the sale, it was a good call. If you didn't, it was a bad call. No, everybody who's in sales know that that's not how it works. You need the full kind of sandwich here. So this grades everything. What's this down here? Here's the, so this is the summary. He opened with a beautiful morning here in Nashville, it rift on Colorado, blah, blah, blah. It was fun and personal, not transactional. Do you know what they could have done better based on this? And we're going to talk about how people can build it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And so it says right here at the end. And so it says, hey, to reach an eight, Matthew would add a phrase like, and if all that makes sense, we can go ahead and get you started and schedule with a coach at the end of our call today |
| 2:37.1 | directly into the opening frame. |
| 2:39.4 | Dude, this is way better than a sales manager. |
| 2:41.8 | I mean, the details, less personal. |
| 2:44.6 | All of this is actually in HubSpot, in our CRM, but it's just pulling it in in a way that's far more helpful for our team. |
| 2:53.6 | Okay. |
| 2:54.6 | So it's kind of becoming more and more of a hub for sales success. It started as, oh, how |
| 3:00.7 | do we just give them feedback on calls? Now we're saying, oh, if we can get them living in |
| 3:05.9 | this, well then what's all the things that they |
| 3:07.6 | need to do their job? |
| 3:09.2 | Well, obviously, they need to process orders. |
| 3:11.3 | So we've got everything linked up in here for them. |
| 3:14.4 | They probably want to know what the script is so that they can then go look at, you know, |
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