Who I am

Hi, I'm Ryan Doser. AI Marketing Expert & YouTuber.

I run a 6 figure marketing agency solo, on the exact AI systems I teach here.

Over a decade in digital marketing, and I have been working for myself since 2019. I am a non-technical marketer, which matters more than it sounds: I do not have a coding background, so everything I build has to be simple enough that I can actually run it. If I can do it, you can do it.

Ryan Doser headshot
Since 2019working for myself, no employees
1,600+members in my AI community
38K+YouTube subscribers
2.8M+views on free tutorials

As featured in

  • Forbes
  • Yahoo
  • The Daily Upside
  • ConsumerAffairs
  • Income School
  • Cybernews
  • GOBankingRates
  • The Koerner Office

Brands I've worked with

  • Blotato
  • People
  • Better Homes & Gardens
  • MarketWatch
  • Gizmodo Media Group
  • NCOA
  • TIME
  • Southern Living
  • Allrecipes
  • Everyday Health
  • Surfshark
  • IPVanish

From corporate 9 to 5 to running my own thing

I started on the traditional path: 9 to 5 corporate America at Meredith Corporation, running paid media for People, Better Homes & Gardens, and the rest of their titles. Big brands, big budgets, and I am genuinely grateful for it. It got my foot in the door.

It also taught me something I could not unsee. The system rewards busyness over actual production. I did not want to spend 40 years looking busy for 20 hours a week while I did the real work in the other 20. So a couple of months in, I started a blog on the side and taught myself SEO, affiliate, and email marketing. Trial and error, spinning up WordPress sites, seeing what stuck.

Then I got my first client and said screw it. That was 2019, and I have worked for myself ever since. Somewhere along the way the question stopped being whether to hire and became whether to build systems instead. I keep choosing systems, because the moment you scale by adding people, quality slips, and my name is on the work.

That is the whole reason this site exists. Everything I publish about AI is something I built because I needed it to hold up a real business, not because it made a good video.

Ryan Doser working at a small desk in July 2019, the first month of running his own business
My very first day of entrepreneurship back in July 2019.

What I actually do

Receipts

What these systems did for my own site

This site started at zero in February 2026. No backlinks, no authority. Every post behind these charts was researched, written, and optimized with the same Claude Code skills I teach and sell.

Google Search Console showing 5,770 clicks and 890,000 impressions over six months
Google Search Console, 6 months: 5.77K clicks and 890K impressions from a standing start.
Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance showing 12,100 AI citations over six months
Bing Webmaster Tools: 12.1K AI citations in 6 months, which is the AI search work in action.

Platforms

What I'm up to

Building in public across platforms. Here is where to find me.

38K+

YouTube subscribers

Tutorials on Claude Code, AI marketing systems, and the automations I actually run.

Watch
6,800+

LinkedIn followers

Where I think out loud about AI marketing, and where most client conversations start.

Connect
10,000+

Newsletter subscribers

A weekly email on what is actually working in AI marketing, written the week I test it.

Subscribe
1,600+

AI community members

AI Marketing Insiders: founders and operators trading workflows that hold up in production.

Join
$10K+

Earned from one digital product

The Claude Code Skills Stack: 40+ skills that run my business, built once and sold since.

Get the stack

What I believe

Subject matter expertise matters more now, not less

You cannot tell Claude to do your SEO if you have no idea what moves the needle. People outsource thinking to AI when they do not know what a good hook or a good output even looks like. The decade of marketing is what makes the AI useful. Without it you just get confident nonsense, faster.

Most AI content is hype grifting

I would argue 99% of content telling you how to make money with AI is theory from people who have never done the work. If I had no ethics I would make a fear-bait video for every model release and funnel people into a course. Knowing how to build a landing page is 100x more useful than reacting to a version number.

Systems beat headcount

I could scale the traditional way and hire more people, but quality diminishes and my name is on it. So I build systems instead. A 6 figure agency running on one person is the whole argument, and it is testable.

Stop chasing model releases

The models are already good enough for almost any knowledge work task. The question is not which one to use. It is whether your systems are built so it does not matter which one you plug in. Most people are asking the wrong question.

Beyond the screen

Speaking and industry work

Ryan Doser speaking about AI marketing at DMACC
Teaching AI marketing systems at DMACC.
Ryan Doser appearing as a guest on the Creator Files podcast
Guesting on the Creator Files podcast.
Ryan Doser on the Chris Koerner podcast talking AI side hustles
Talking AI marketing with Chris Koerner.
Ryan Doser with Pat Flynn at Craft + Commerce
With Pat Flynn, talking audience building and AI.
Ryan Doser interviewed on Ticker News about the impact of AI on the global economy
On Ticker News, breaking down what AI is actually doing to the global economy.
Ryan Doser with Nate Herk at the Agentic Arena AI automation event in New York
At the n8n Agentic Arena event in New York City with Nate Herk.

My work has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo, The Daily Upside, ConsumerAffairs, and several podcasts. I studied marketing at the University of Northern Iowa.

Ryan Doser, AI marketing consultant

How I can help you

AI Marketing Consulting: One-on-one strategy and build work for founders, business owners, and solo operators. Find what is actually slow, build the system, keep it.

The Claude Code Skills Stack: The 40+ Claude Code skills that run my business, ready to install in your own workflow.

AI Marketing Insiders: My community of members sharing real AI workflows. No hype, just what works.

Want the systems I run?

Start with the free guide. The tools and automations I use to run my agency solo.

Get the free AI Marketing Guide
Unsubscribe anytime

40+ Claude Code skills that run my business. One purchase, lifetime updates.

Get instant access

Free AI Marketing Guide

Get the free AI Marketing Guide

The exact AI tools and Claude Code skills I use to run my agency solo.

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. Privacy policy.