Selling Solutions, Services and Jobs as a MIFY Expert

Of the five earning routes on MIFY, this is the one that pays first. It is also the one people skip, because building a product feels more like a business than doing work for somebody who asked.

That instinct is backwards. Services pay soonest, and — more valuable — they tell you what people will actually pay for, which is the input every other route needs and none of them supply on their own.

Three things you can sell, and how they differ

	What it is	Paid	Scales?
Services	Your time and expertise, listed	Per engagement, via escrow	No
Jobs	Bidding on posted work	Per engagement, via escrow	No
Solutions & templates	A packaged workflow, sold repeatedly	Per sale or subscription	Yes

The sequence that works: take services and jobs first, notice which problem keeps recurring, then package that as a solution. Building a solution before you have watched somebody struggle is how good workflows end up with no buyers.

Services: listing what you do

You create a listing describing a professional service. The categories that map onto real demand:

• AI workflow consulting — someone knows they should automate something and does not know what.
• Custom workflow development — they know exactly what, and need it built.
• Platform migration — moving from Flowise, Dify, Langflow or n8n. The platform supports importing from all four, which turns a rebuild into a conversion.
• Training and onboarding — teaching a team to run what you built.
• Content generation setup — configuring image, video and text pipelines.

Migration is the underrated one. It has a clear trigger, a defined finish line, and a client who has already decided — three properties most consulting work lacks.

Jobs: bidding on posted work

Organisations post jobs; you submit a proposal with approach and pricing, negotiate scope, and get paid through escrow.

What separates proposals that win:

• Restate the problem before proposing a solution. Most proposals open with capability. The one that opens by describing the client’s situation more clearly than they did is the one that gets read.
• Name what you will not do. Scope you exclude explicitly is scope you do not argue about later, and it reads as experience rather than reluctance.
• Propose the smallest version that proves it works. A two-week first phase with a demonstrable output beats a three-month plan, because it asks the client to risk less on somebody they have not worked with.
• Say what happens when the AI is wrong. Every buyer is quietly worried about this. Answering it unprompted — an approval gate, a confidence threshold, a fallback path — separates you from everyone who did not.

Escrow: what it changes

Work is paid through escrow — funds are held, the work is delivered, the buyer verifies, funds release.

Two practical consequences:

• You can work with strangers. The usual freelance risk of a client who vanishes at invoice time is removed structurally rather than by judgement.
• Deliverables have to be verifiable. Escrow releases against something the buyer can check. So define delivery concretely — “the workflow runs on your data and produces X” — rather than “consulting”. Vague deliverables are where escrow disputes come from.

Solutions: packaging a workflow to sell repeatedly

This is the route with software economics: build once, sell many, margin on every subsequent sale. And it has software’s difficulty — you find out whether anybody wanted it after you built it.

What makes a solution sell:

• It solves a named problem for a named kind of buyer. “RAG over documents” is a capability. “Answers a property manager’s tenant questions from their lease documents” is a product. Same workflow underneath.
• It survives real input. Templates demonstrate on clean data. Products handle the scan, the wrong format, the out-of-scope question, the empty field. This is most of the actual work — see templates.
• It has an approval gate where one is warranted. The single most effective objection-remover for a commercial buyer.
• It is versioned. Buyers depend on it. A bad change must be one restore away.
• Its description is written the way the buyer searches. People search for their problem, never for your architecture.

Pricing. One-off or subscription. Subscription fits anything you will keep updating as models change — which, given how fast providers move, is most things. One-off fits a self-contained artefact the buyer will own and run themselves.

The workflow-as-API advantage

Every published workflow is automatically exposed as a stable HTTP endpoint with an OpenAPI description, plus an MCP tool and an A2A agent.

This is the most commercially useful property of the platform, and it is worth building your offer around: your client does not have to adopt MIFY. They do not need an account, they do not need to learn a canvas, they do not need to be sold on a vendor. They call an endpoint and get a result.

That removes the hardest part of selling automation to a small business — “we’d have to learn another system” — and it means the platform is your workshop rather than a dependency you have to talk anybody into.

What to charge

No table here, because rates vary by market more than anything else. But the structural advice holds:

• Quote fixed price against a defined deliverable, not hourly. Your advantage is that the work takes hours where it used to take weeks; billing hourly converts your advantage into a pay cut.
• Price against the value of the problem, not the time of the build. A workflow that saves someone two days a month is worth a multiple of what it costs you to make.
• Charge for the unhappy paths explicitly. They are most of the work and clients do not know they exist. Naming them in the quote is how you get paid for them and how you look like you have done this before.

Getting the first one

The hardest engagement is the first, and the answer is the same as client video work on TJP: stop describing and start showing.

Build one working thing for a business you would like to work with, using their real public information, and send it. It costs you an afternoon, especially with free provider keys — see BYOK. In this category, the sample is the pitch.

Where this leads

Services teach you the market. What you do with that is the actual decision:

• The recurring problem becomes a solution you sell repeatedly.
• The missing integration becomes a plugin, which compounds better than anything else here.
• The content operation you built for a client becomes a franchise site of your own.
• The whole thing, once it earns, becomes a sellable asset.

And if what you actually want is a salary rather than clients, this work is also the qualification — see turning an operation into hireable evidence and the AIEH job board.

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