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Introduction
Starting an AI agency can feel overwhelming: prospecting, follow-ups, demos, discovery calls, and then the part everyone underestimates, actually delivering the automation a client paid for. Ciela AI is the demo platform for AI agencies and AI consultants, and Client Accelerator wraps it in a 90-day coaching program to get you to your first client. This is what to expect in week one.
Set expectations up front: Ciela builds the demo. It does not source leads, does not send outreach on your behalf, and has no resellable agent library. What it gives you beyond the software is structure, two live coaching calls a week, a First-Close Pack, and templates and playbooks, so the parts you have to execute yourself have a clear starting point.
Day 1: Join and Attend Your First Coaching Call
Start at ciela.ai with Client Accelerator, $1,499 one-time or four interest-free payments via Klarna or Afterpay. Once you are in, you have access to the demo software (150 personalized demos a month to start) and the coaching cadence, two live group calls every week, one on outreach and one on sales and delivery. Attend your first call, get oriented, and settle on a single niche to target. Focus beats breadth for everything that follows this week.
Day 2: Pick a Niche and Build Your First Demo
With a niche settled, build your first demo. Point Ciela at a real prospect's website, ideally someone you already have some connection to or a warm reason to reach, and in a few minutes you get back a live, personalized AI agent: a voice or chat receptionist, missed-call text-back, or website chat, already speaking to that business's own details. If you are unsure which angle fits your niche, the included niche demo playbooks have demo angles and offer ideas organized by vertical.
Day 3: Line Up Your Outreach
Ciela does not send anything for you, so Day 3 is about deciding how the demo link actually reaches a prospect. If you already run outbound, cold email, LinkedIn, cold calling, that is your channel. If you do not yet, this is the day to pick one: a simple cold email sequence and a short list of prospects in your niche is enough to start. The niche playbooks include outreach hooks you can use as a starting point for the message itself.
Day 4 to 5: Send the Demo
Send the demo link to your list through whatever channel you chose. The message that tends to work best is short and concrete: "I built this for your business, take a look," with the link, rather than a long pitch. Because the demo already reflects the prospect's own business, it does more convincing than the message around it. Track replies and follow up personally, this part is on you, not automated.
Day 6: Book and Take the Call
As replies come in, book calls with anyone who engages. Keep the call goal simple: qualify rather than hard-pitch. What is their biggest operational bottleneck, are they using any automation today, and what would solving it be worth to them? You are walking in warmer than a cold pitch because the prospect has already tried something real. The First-Close Pack included in Client Accelerator has proposal, pricing, and objection-handling assets for this stage.
Day 7: Plan Delivery
If you closed a client this week, or when you do, delivery leans on the included n8n workflow templates, 200+ of them across 70+ niches, covering receptionist, missed-call, and chat-booking builds. Pick the template closest to what you sold, import it into your own n8n instance, and start adapting it to the client's tools. This is real build work, the templates give you a starting point, not a finished deploy.
Close out the week in your next coaching call: what worked in outreach, how the demo landed, and what to adjust for week two.
What Happens After Week One
The model compounds from here: build a demo per prospect, run it through your outreach, book the calls that engage, and deliver with a template once you close. Coaching continues twice a week for the full 90 days, and demo capacity is included throughout (upgradable to 400/mo or 750/mo if you need more volume). After the program, continuing on the demo software alone is optional at $129/month.
Getting Started Now
There is no free trial, which changes how you should treat week one: not a tire-kick, but a real first pass at landing a client. Pick your niche, build a demo, get it in front of someone, and take the call. That is the whole loop, and it is the same loop you will run for every client after this one.
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