{"about":{"summary":"A directory of side businesses that real people say they run, each summarized in our words and linked to its public source.","notes":["Sources are public, first-person accounts: interviews, podcasts and community threads.","Cost, time and the other tags are machine estimates, each with a confidence score.","Income figures are the owner's own claim. We don't verify them."],"how_to_cite":"Link the idea page and its source. Call income figures the owner's unverified claim, and cost and time estimates."},"idea":{"slug":"fixed-price-workflow-automation-builds-for-small-firms-4ab290","title":"Fixed-price workflow automation builds for small firms","summary":"The operator replaces a repeated manual process with an automation built on off-the-shelf tools such as Zapier, Make or Asana, usually after a short diagnostic. It is charged as a one-off project, with a walkthrough video and a how-to-fix document handed over.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/fixed-price-workflow-automation-builds-for-small-firms-4ab290","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/fixed-price-workflow-automation-builds-for-small-firms-4ab290.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"services","label":"Services and freelancing","confidence":0.96},"earns_from":{"value":"fees","label":"Service fees","confidence":0.93},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"under-100","label":"Under $100","confidence":0.51},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.36},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.92},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.96}},"owner_reported":{"text":"Self-reported by Corey Ganim: charges $1,000 to $3,000 per build; one wedding-venue onboarding automation was about $1,500.","verified":false},"source":{"publication":"Corey Ganim (YouTube)","title":"7 AI services boomer businesses are BEGGING to buy","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lpvuue1GY4","person":"Corey Ganim","host":"Corey Ganim","date":"2026-08-10"},"owner_site":null}}