Building a Fully Automated Business - Just to See If I Can

First of all welcome to my first ever blog. Honestly, I never really expected to write about what I do professionally, but lately I’ve been getting so much energy from building tools, apps, and automations with AI that I can’t not share it anymore.

In this first post, I want to talk about a project I’m currently working on: building a fully automated business — including customer outreach — completely hands-off.

The goal? Not to create some kind of passive income machine that’ll pay my rent for the next ten years. Honestly, if I can make one sale and learn a ton about automations, Python, marketing, and systems, I’ll call it a win.

I’ll be sharing progress in future blog posts, but here’s the idea in a nutshell:

The Problem I Noticed

Every now and then I come across local business websites that... just look rough.

• No SSL
• Bad mobile design
• Fonts that scream 2008

You know the type.

And it blows my mind a bit. Because in 2025, website builders and templates are everywhere. But still here we are. So I figured: what if I try to fix it? Automatically?

Here’s What I’m Building

1. Scrape websites of local businesses in specific categories: building contractors, hairdressers, plumbers, driving schools you name it.
2. Analyze the site using AI and assign it a score based on a template I’ve built (more on that in another post).
3. If the score’s bad, fetch the site’s HTML, grab the color scheme and content, and generate a new design using AI.
4. Deploy that new site to a demo URL like:
5. Send a cold email (gently) to the business with a preview of their “upgraded” site.
6. Pitch: they can get this site for €99 (including hosting). I’ll send a PDF manual with instructions for updating nameservers, etc.

Why This Might Not Work (and Why That’s Fine)

There are tons of reasons this might flop:

• Emails might land in spam
• People might think it’s a scam
• Maybe nobody wants a website at all

But that’s not the point.

The point is to build something real, see if it’s possible, and learn. If I make one sale, that’s already a success. If not, I’ll still have leveled up across the board — and maybe even open-sourced the thing or turned it into a tiny SaaS.

Just imagine: type a niche and location, press go, connect Stripe — and that’s it. What a time to be alive.

Thanks for reading — and if you want updates, follow me on X: @markooms