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Corey Ganim @coreyganim 2026-04-06
The moment you realize "Second Brain as a Service" is a real business:
1. Charge $1,500-3,000 to build a client's knowledge base (3 folders, 1 schema file, their existing data loaded)
2. Monthly retainer $300-500/mo for ongoing ingestion, health checks, and new source processing
3. Target agencies and consultants first. They have years of scattered data across Slack, Drive, email, and call transcripts. They'll pay tomorrow.
4. The setup takes a weekend to learn, a few hours to deliver. The client gets a searchable wiki that gets smarter every time they use it.
5. Stack it: competitive intel vault + client knowledge vault + content vault = $1,000-1,500/mo per client
10 clients = $60K+ year one. From a system built on folders and text files.
Full breakdown of the system in the article.
2026-04-06
Corey Ganim @coreyganim 2026-04-08
PS: we built a free skill that builds your second brain in seconds in Claude code.
Grab it free here: https://return-my-time.kit.com/286e11f7e6
Elipsays @Elipsays1 2026-04-08
Are you actually charging clients this?
Corey Ganim @coreyganim 2026-04-08
i'm not building these as a service, it's just a business idea that anyone can run with.
but 100% people would pay this if you can pitch the value properly
Syd @SydSachar 2026-04-07
But second brain was made better and integrated into Thoth already last weekend. Its FREE! And just look at the in-app knowledge graph. Obsidian is optional.
https://github.com/siddsachar/Thoth…
Lucas Linares @lluclin 2026-04-07
why not use something like dust . tt -
Mr. LIvermore @ShawnDanCap 2026-04-08
I could get paid ? https://github.com/willynikes2/knowledge-base-server… I have the best one I need to make a ad