#829 “Scaling on Steroids” with AI Automation ft. Juan Montero
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Most founders are saving time with AI, but few are actually making money with it. In this episode, Juan Montero of Flowgrama reveals how bootstrappers can build practical AI agents and automations that actually drive revenue.
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CHAPTERS
(00:00:51) This Week’s Guest: Juan Montero of Flowgrama
(00:03:07) Discovering the Power of Automation
(00:06:32) How LLMs Changed the Game
(00:09:35) The Truth About AI and Job Security
(00:14:31) Understanding AI Agents vs. LLMs
(00:17:42) APIs: The Backbone of Automation
(00:19:29) The Founder’s AI Toolkit
(00:24:33) Making Money with Social Automation
(00:27:00) How to Avoid Getting Banned on LinkedIn
(00:35:38) Using AI Agents for Business Intelligence
(00:38:28) Building an HR Agent for Your Team
(00:45:44) The Future of CRM Is Custom-Built
(00:49:42) Founders Who Are Actually Making Money with AI
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Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've seen a lot of founders save money with AI, but I've yet to see a ton of examples of founders making money with AI. |
| 0:26.5 | Real quick before we dive in, if you click on your phone in the show notes, there is a survey link. |
| 0:32.0 | It is a two-minute survey simply to help us keep the show sharp and useful for you. |
| 0:34.3 | Let us know what's working and what's not. |
| 0:38.2 | We're going to select one person who responds to the survey and get on the phone with you for an hour, dig into your goals, plans, and systems, and do a little bit of what this |
| 0:43.2 | show is all about, which is helping you to start or grow a better location independent business. |
| 0:48.0 | So thanks for clicking on that survey. We really appreciate it. |
| 0:51.4 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I have a challenge for you |
| 0:56.0 | at the top. Listen to today's episode and tell me that you don't write down or think of at least |
| 1:03.7 | three. I wrote down 10 as I was first speaking with today's guest business ideas that could |
| 1:10.2 | change what you do internally or spark an entirely new |
| 1:14.5 | business for you. Today we're going to talk about AI and we're going to talk about it beyond the |
| 1:18.8 | influencers posting numbers. We're going to talk about it beyond the incredible AI, startups we've |
| 1:23.4 | seen making headlines and beyond just the toolkits that are blowing up and everybody's talking |
| 1:28.9 | about. Here is the question for us today. How many of us are actually making or saving real |
| 1:34.4 | money with AI workflows? Today's guest is one of those unique people who isn't just experimenting |
| 1:40.8 | or replacing his Google searches. He is executing. And for listeners of this show, |
| 1:45.8 | so we're going to show you exactly what he's doing. We're going to share with you five |
| 1:49.6 | implementations that he's done. So today's guest is Juan Montero. He is the founder of Flow Gramma. |
| 1:55.9 | You can find the link in the notes. He builds and sells practical AI solutions for bootstrap businesses, |
| 2:02.3 | a.k.a. Listeners of the TMBA pod. In this episode, he's pulling back the curtain to show |
| 2:07.0 | how he does it. So we're going to talk about his approach to building real world AI implementations. |
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