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Strategic Finance · AI Implementation
For The Real Oshow
Diagnosed by a CPABuilt with AIDelivered in 7 days

208 episodes.
50K subs.
Let's cash it in.

You asked about AI for the show. Here's the truth: AI tools are everywhere. What's rare is knowing which one actually pays for itself. I'm a CPA who builds AI systems. First I find where the money is inside what you've already built. Then we build the machine that collects it, plus the feedback loop that makes every episode sharper than the last.

PREPARED FOR ZACHARY OWINGS · THE REAL OSHOW · 2026
Sound familiar?

The show is built.
The money machine isn't.

  • Ideas pile up faster than they ship. Scaling and organizing them, your words, takes a system, not more hustle.
  • Every episode takes real work: record, edit, clip, post, across every platform. Right now there's no machine making sure any of that work pays you.
  • The standard advice is "grow the audience first, monetize later." For a show like yours, that's backwards, and I can prove it.

Exhibit A: someone registered therealoshow.com in May 2022, the month the show launched. Four years later it's still a parking page. If that was you: right instinct, no system to execute it. That gap between idea and execution? That's the exact thing we fix.

The part nobody tells podcasters

There are only 4 ways
a show makes money.

Every dollar any podcast has ever earned came through one of these four doors. I ranked them for the Oshow across every platform you're on (YouTube, Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Amazon, TikTok), using 2026 industry rates and your public footprint. Your real Money Map sharpens these with your actual numbers. The order will surprise you:

Your #1 payday
#1Get paid for who you are
Brands and organizers pay hosts of established shows to appear, advise, and speak. A 50K-subscriber sports & culture platform is a credential that opens doors most creators can't touch, and ex-athlete credibility layers cleanly on top. What's missing is a system finding the right buyers and sending pitches on your behalf.
Speaking gigsEvent appearancesPanels & podcast tradesBrand advisoryCorporate trainingsLicensing & courses
The math, checkableBooking fees for hosts of established creator shows run $1,000–$3,500 per appearance. A working outreach system landing 2–3 bookings/mo → $2,000–10,500. Ex-pro playing careers lift the ceiling further.
Untapped$2,000–8,000/mo
Fastest to first dollar
#2Get paid per fan action
Brands pay a bounty every time a fan acts (signs up, buys, subscribes) through your link or code. It pays on audience match, not size, and a sports & culture audience is exactly who these brands want. Plus, you can turn it on this week, with the categories that fit your values.
Sports gear & apparelSupplementsFantasy & DFSTicket platformsStreaming & mediaPromo codesSportsbook (optional)
The math, checkableCreator affiliate programs pay 8–15% commission on gear & apparel, $50–$150 per DFS or streaming signup, and higher CPAs on categories you may or may not want in the mix. At your reach, 15–30 fan actions/month from clips, show notes and pinned links → $1,500–5,000. Category mix is your call; the system works either way.
Untapped$1,500–5,000/mo
#3Get paid by superfans
Your most loyal 1–2% will pay for more access and belonging, but only once there's somewhere to pay. At 50K subs, this is real money. It just needs the infrastructure built first, which takes 3–6 months.
MembershipsPaid communityMerchLive eventsPaid newsletter
The math, checkableCreator-economy benchmark: 0.5–1.5% of engaged fans convert at $5–10/mo. At your scale, 250–750 paid supporters → $1,250–7,500/mo potential. Realistic year-one is the lower half of that range.
Build toward$500–2,500/mo
#4Get paid per view (ads & sponsors)
The one everybody chases. You're actually close to the threshold where sponsors start buying, but this door still pays purely on volume, so it grows exactly as fast as reach does, no faster.
YouTube ad revenueSpotify & Apple adsHost-read sponsorsBrand integrationsNetwork deals
The math, checkableYouTube AdSense at sports/culture RPMs of $3–5 per 1,000 views across your monthly video reach → $100–300/mo already live. Host-read sponsors typically engage at 5–10K downloads/episode; you're in that zone on YouTube, and the audio side scales next. Real sponsor money kicks in as audio catches up.
Live but modest$100–500/mo

Read that again: your two biggest paydays (#1 and #2) don't need a bigger audience. They need a system. You could realistically be making $3,500–13,000/month from the show within 90 days, without shipping a single extra episode. That's what the ranking is for: so we build the machine where the money actually is, not where the industry assumes it should be.

Rates: Libsyn Ads 2026 · MillionPodcasts CPM data · DraftKings partner program · creator-economy benchmarks
Where the AI comes in

You stay the talent.
The machine does the rest.

Once we know your #1 door, we build the AI system that knocks on it around the clock. While you keep your day job and keep making the show you love:

The foundation

Your home base: a real site on a domain you own

Here's the thing about door #1: before anyone books you, they Google you. Right now that search ends at a parking page, and the deal dies right there. We stand up your digital business card: who you are, best clips, the numbers across every platform, one booking button. Every fan, brand and event funnels through one front door you own.

For door #1

The booking machine

AI finds the brands, events and shows that pay creator-hosts to appear. Writes the pitch in your voice, sends it, follows up, and drops real inquiries into your inbox. You just take the calls and cash the checks.

For door #2

The affiliate autopilot

AI turns every episode into show notes, clips and posts that quietly route your audience to the gear, apparel and lifestyle affiliate partnerships you already qualify for. The content you're already making starts selling while you sleep. Category mix stays your call.

The multiplier. For every door

The feedback loop

After every episode, AI runs the debrief: which thumbnails earned the click, the exact second viewers dropped off, what worked for competing shows that week, then hands you the adjustments before you record the next one. No more guessing why one episode popped and another didn't. A tight feedback loop is what turns weekly output into a compounding system.

The offer · one-time
Step 1 · Find the money

The Oshow Money Map

One week. Your show's numbers, your four doors ranked with real math, and the exact AI system to build first. Here's everything you walk away with:

01 Your show's money map $2,500
  • A live dashboard of the Oshow as a business: every revenue door sized in dollars, with the gap between where you are and where you could be
  • Access stays live for the full engagement; share with anyone you want
  • Something you can screen-share with sponsors, partners and management on demand
02 Your #1 money unlock, engineered $2,000
  • The exact AI system for your biggest door. What it does, what it costs to run, what it returns monthly
  • Built on frontier AI (the same models behind Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini), and you're never locked in to a vendor or to me
03 All four doors, ranked for you $1,000
  • Where AI pays you the most per hour of effort, so you never waste a weekend on the wrong project again
  • A sequenced 90-day order of operations
04 30-day game plan + video walkthrough $500
  • Step-by-step, so you can execute it yourself, or hand it to anyone
  • I walk you through the whole thing on video, yours to keep
B1 Strategy call after delivery $500
  • 30 minutes, once you've digested it, so we can decide the build together
B2 Plug-and-play automation blueprint $1,500
  • The ready-to-build spec for your first AI system that you can hand to any builder, or let me build it
All of it, stacked$8,000
Your investment
$1,997 one-time
↳ Delivered within 7 days of kickoff. Every dollar credits toward the build (see below).
What actually lands in your inbox on day 7
Live dashboard web app
Your revenue doors as a live visual in the IQ Finance app, sized in dollars, with the current-vs-potential gap by door. Access stays live for the full engagement; share with anyone you want.
Money Map deck PDF
Executive summary, the four-door ranking with full math and sources, opportunity sizing per door, and a sponsor-ready one-pager. Yours to share.
#1 AI-system spec PDF
Architecture, prompt structure, monthly run cost estimate, and the weekly-review workflow to keep it tuned. Model-agnostic; deployable on any modern AI stack.
30-day action plan PDF
Week-by-week tasks with owners, tool list, decision points, budget guardrails. Executable solo or hand to a VA.
Video walkthrough Recorded
I walk you through the dashboard, the ranking, the AI spec, and the 30-day plan. Yours to keep and share with a partner or team.
Bonus: strategy call 30 min
Once you've digested it, one live call to decide whether we build together, and if so, what to build first. No pressure, no upsell script.
Bonus: build spec for AI workflow
The build spec for your first AI workflow: prompts, tools, sequencing, and cost. Hand it to any builder, or I build it as the next step.
How your $1,997 works
You never pay twice for the same thing
1
Pay $1,997 once. Full Money Map delivered in 7 days.
2
If you want it built for you, the Revenue Engine install is $4,997 fixed. Your home base live on a domain you own, plus both AI systems, done, tested, running.
3
Your full $1,997 comes off that price, so the build nets to $3,000. The map is effectively free the moment we build. And if we never build? You keep everything anyway.
Ready when you are

Let's build your
money engine.

Four years of episodes, reps, and credibility. That asset is already built. Now it deserves a machine that works as hard as you do. Let's find where the money is, then build the engine that collects it.

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