AI Creator Curation #3

Land 1,000+ subscribers from one creator share, unlock $1,500-$3,000/year from readers you already have, and turn one article into 11 pieces

Dec 27, 2025

Howdy, Wealth Gang🤠

Christmas hits, panic creeps in.

Instead of chilling beside the fireplace with a cup of hot cocoa, watching Kevin Home Alone, substack creators freak out because their growth goes flat while their holiday stomach becomes rounder and rounder.

I’m writing this from Bangkok, exploring the city while I watch my Substack subs stack up because I spent the last few months building systems that run without me.

That’s the shift I want for you before 2025 wraps.

This episode breaks down four frameworks:

How to get creators with 1M+ followers to share your work and send you thousands of qualified subscribers overnight,
How Substack’s new sponsorship feature lets you monetize your 2,000 free subscribers at $25-50 per thousand readers without paywalling a single post,
How to find which of your Substack Notes brought 80% of your subscribers so you can repost the winners and stop guessing what works
How one creator built an AI system that transforms every article into 11 platform-specific posts automatically while he focuses on deep work.

AI Creator Curation — Episode 3.

Let’s roll! :D

How I Got Dan Koe to Share My Content (And Built a €3-4K/Month Business From It)

Noah Vincent freelanced for €1,500 per month—all the downsides of entrepreneurship and employment, none of the upside.

His YouTube videos pulled 20 views.

Then Dan Koe launched Kortex, a second-brain tool. Noah noticed people loved it but couldn’t figure out how to use it.

So he recorded simple Loom tutorials—how to take notes with Zettelkasten, organize workspaces, build systems inside Kortex. He posted them in the private Kortex Discord with no sales pitch, just value.

Dan Koe himself (1.5 million followers) watched the tutorials and shared one on his Instagram story.

Then he reached out privately and set up a partnership resharing Noah’s YouTube videos through community posts.

This drove massive traffic to Noah’s channel, which funneled into his email list through a free lead magnet (templates and SOPs).

The funnel: YouTube tutorial → free templates → email list → paid course.

May 2025: Noah launched his first course. €4,000 in sales. Since then, he’s pulled €1,500-€3,000 per month.

How You Can Use This

Most creators chase virality on ultra-competitive platforms—X, LinkedIn, Substack Notes—posting into the void, hoping the algorithm notices.

The shortcut: find private communities where your target audience hangs out and drop massive value with zero sales pitch.

Free Skool communities in your niche: Answer questions with your unique methods.
Discord servers around tools your audience uses: Drop tutorials, share frameworks, solve real problems.
Substack partnerships: Connect with creators 1-2 steps ahead (a few hundred subscribers), pitch guest articles or recommendation swaps. The recommendation system sits massively underused.

P.S. My DMs are open :)

Takeaway

✓ Join three communities this week where your target audience hangs out, drop value with zero CTA, and watch qualified readers flood in instead of chasing them on crowded platforms.

How to Prepare For Substack Offering Sponsorships

Substack just announced they’re testing a sponsorship program with select creators.

This is massive because it monetizes free subscribers without paywalling a single post.

The pilot details: You set your own prices. You control where sponsored content appears. You keep 100% of revenue during the pilot (won’t last—expect Substack’s standard 10% cut later).

Mack Collier breaks down the math.

Average rates: $25-50 CPM (cost per thousand subscribers).

2,500 subscribers = $62.50-$125 per sponsored issue 5,000 subscribers = $125-$250 per sponsored issue

The catch: you need at least 2,500 subscribers to land sponsorships sporadically, 5,000+ to run them monthly.

Mack’s timeline: sponsorships roll out to all creators as early as January, definitely by May 2026.

How You Can Use This

If you’re under 2,500 subscribers, don’t chase sponsorships yet. Focus on growth.

But calculate your potential revenue so you know what you’re building toward.

Take your subscriber count × $0.025 to $0.05 = revenue per sponsored post.

Examples: 1,000 subscribers → $25-$50 per post 3,000 subscribers → $75-$150 per post 10,000 subscribers → $250-$500 per post

One sponsored post per month at 5,000 subscribers = $1,500-$3,000 extra per year. Not life-changing, but it stacks on top of paid subscriptions and courses.

Takeaway

✓ Calculate your potential sponsorship revenue today, then map a 90-day plan to hit the next threshold that unlocks consistent sponsor interest.

How to Check Your Notes Performance

Most creators post Substack Notes blind, guessing which ones actually bring subscribers.

Karen Cherry shows you exactly which Notes work so you can stop guessing and double down on winners.

Two ways to check Notes performance:

The hard way: Click “View stats” on each Note one by one.

The easy way: Pull up your dashboard and grab the full list showing which Notes brought the most subscribers.

Here’s how: Publication dashboard → Growth → New Subscribers → Source → Substack (click chevron) → Notes (click chevron)

This opens every Note you’ve posted, sorted by performance.

Filter by time period, see unique visitors, track exactly which Notes brought subscribers and which ones flopped.

How You Can Use This

Once you know which Notes perform best, do two things:

Repost your winners. Copy the top-performing Notes into a spreadsheet with the date you first posted them. A few months later, paste them into new Notes and hit publish. Most people won’t notice, and Substack serves up old Notes randomly anyway.
Spot patterns. Figure out which style brings subscribers. For Karen, it’s Notes with links to posts that have clear, actionable headlines. For you, it might be personal stories, frameworks, quick tips, or controversial takes.

Use this data to decide which Notes to double down on.

Takeaway

✓ Find your top 3 performing Notes this week, schedule reposts for January, and spot the pattern behind what actually brings subscribers so you stop posting blind.

I Built An AI Agent That Ended My Content Treadmill For Good

James Presbitero hit a problem most successful creators face: his content worked so well his calendar filled with clients, which killed the one thing that brought those clients—showing up consistently online.

He’d spend hours writing one deep article. It performed well, then vanished into the feed within hours. Meanwhile, he needed to show up everywhere—LinkedIn, Twitter, Substack, Medium.

So he built a system that transforms one article into eleven pieces of content automatically.

(Warning: it gets a little technical here)

The trigger: A Google Sheet. He drops an article link into a new row, the workflow fires.

The parser: Two nodes pull the content from the URL and clean it.

The branches: The workflow splits into four paths—Medium articles, LinkedIn carousels, LinkedIn posts, Substack Notes.

For each branch, the system loads high-performing examples (content he published that worked), then loads detailed prompts instructing the AI: read the examples, read the main content, analyze it, break it into specific points, create new platform-specific content.

The brain: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (accessed through OpenRouter). James uses Claude because it handles massive context windows and preserves his voice instead of flattening it into corporate speak.

The output: Content gets cleaned, labeled, and sent back to the Google Sheet. Each piece arrives formatted and ready to paste into the platform.

One article becomes:

Two Medium articles (300-500 words, different angles) One LinkedIn carousel (caption + slides) Four LinkedIn posts (varied formats and hooks) Four Substack Notes (digestible insights)

Total: eleven pieces from one article.

James built this using n8n, a no-code automation platform. Zero coding background but still figured it out over a weekend.

– Must have been a hard weekend for him :) –

How You Can Use This

You don’t need to build a full-fledged n8n workflow like James. Start simpler.

I built the Article-Into-Post GPT that transforms your articles into ready-to-send social posts in under 2 minutes. Drop your article link, get platform-specific posts instantly.

The key principle: your deep thinking happens once, distribution happens automatically.

If you want to go deeper on content repurposing systems, I broke down my complete framework here.

Takeaway

✓ Set up one repurposing system this week—my CustomGPT, James’s n8n workflow, or your own automated process. Turn your next article into at least five pieces without adding manual work.

Here’s What You Just Unlocked

You just grabbed four frameworks that completely reshape how you build your AI-powered personal brand before 2026:

Private community partnerships let you skip the brutal desert phase every creator faces—drop value where your target audience already gathers, earn shares from creators with millions of followers, land your first paying clients without posting into the void hoping to go viral.

Substack sponsorships open a new revenue channel to monetize the free subscribers you already have—$125-$250 per sponsored post at 5,000 subscribers adds $1,500-$3,000 per year on top of your existing income without paywalling a single post.

Notes performance tracking shows exactly which Notes brought 80% of your subscribers so you can repost winners, spot patterns that actually work, and stop wasting time on content that flops.

AI repurposing systems transform one deep article into eleven platform-specific pieces automatically, letting your effort compound across LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium, and Substack while you focus on the deep work only you can do.

If you want more curations like this, check out AI Creator Curation Episode 1 where I broke down how to transform YouTube videos into personal AI consultants, decode Substack’s algorithm, fix broken lead magnet funnels, use data to predict buyer behavior, and add rhythm to your writing with rhetorical patterns.

And AI Creator Curation Episode 2 where I covered how to structure content so AI models cite you and Google ranks you, build a 5-piece ecosystem where every piece feeds the next, write hooks that freeze thumbs mid-scroll, and diagnose exactly which part of your business chokes your growth.

I do the digging so you don’t have to. :)

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