A one-person home-buying business swapped $3,500 a month in outside help for a $100 AI

The business

131 Cash Home Buyers (St. Petersburg, Florida)

A home-buying business run by Alex Jandick, a real estate investor. He is the only employee.

The problem

Jandick paid contractors to help him. Marketing cost $2,500 a month. A bookkeeper cost almost $1,000 a month. That came to more than $3,500 a month.

The bot or tool

Claude, an AI assistant

Jandick now uses Claude to do his marketing and his bookkeeping. It costs him $100 a month.

A bot like it: Botkeeper Bookkeeping Helper

How they set it up

1. He spent about 2 weeks setting it up and getting it right.
2. He gives it the work his marketing contractor and bookkeeper used to do.
3. He checks what it gives back. "A human still has to verify the information and input the correct prompts," the station reports.

He says he works 25 to 30 hours a week, and Claude puts in about the same.

The result

• His cost went from more than $3,500 a month to $100 a month.
• He says he saves more than $41,000 a year. "That's my kids' college savings funds," he says.
• He let his contractors go. Since he's the only employee, no workers lost their jobs.
• "I have not found anything that is a better cost cutter than AI at this point," he says.

Hours saved

not stated

Money made or saved

More than $41,000 a year, he says

Source

St. Pete investor saves $41K a year by replacing contractors with AI

Tampa Bay 28 (local TV news), by Michael Paluska, August 19, 2026. The savings are the owner's own numbers. A person still has to check the AI's work.