#2305 I earned $500k when AI replaced my managers

From Startup Stories - Mixergy by Andrew Warner

May 14, 2026

About this episode

Chandler Bolt discusses how he replaced his sales managers with AI, leading to significant sales growth.

Chandler Bolt realized that much of what his sales managers did at Selfpublishing.com can be done better by good AI. Within a month, he built a first version with spiked sales. Now he’s replacing all his managers. This is his guide to doing it well. Chandler Bolt is the founder and CEO of SelfPublishing.com, an education company that helps entrepreneurs and experts write, publish, and market books. Over the past decade, the company has helped publish more than 7,000 books and grown into an eight-figure business. Today, Chandler is focused on using AI tools like Lovable to build internal systems that improve sales, operations, and management at scale. Sponsored by Zapier More interviews -> https://mixergy.com/moreint Rate this interview -> https://mixergy.com/rateint

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Warner

Guest: Chandler Bolt

Topics covered

AI in business
sales management
entrepreneurship
automation
book publishing

Keywords

AI
sales
management
SelfPublishing.com
entrepreneur
automation
Lovable
Zapier

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SelfPublishing.com

Products: Lovable