Our Work

The proof, not a pitch.

Before AI Scale Zone ever existed, this already ran a real business. Here's exactly how.

The business

Cota Skincare is my own skincare brand, and the first place any of this ever ran. Before I built a business teaching other entrepreneurs to do this, I had to solve it for myself.

I started it in 2019 with no funding and no outside money, built on a 4-step routine inspired by my late brother Chevez, who everyone called "Cota." I filed the LLC myself at a local library. Everything from there was earned before it was spent.

$1M+
in sales, under 2 years
$5M+
generated during COVID
2019
founded, zero funding
337K
Instagram following
The Problem

Repetitive customer email work

Every business owner knows this one: the same kinds of questions, over and over, about products, orders, and what to buy. Answering them well takes real product knowledge. Answering them fast usually means a script that gets it wrong.

The Build

An agent, not a chatbot

I built and ran my own AI agent inside my own skincare brand before ever building this for anyone else. It's named Jessica, and it's connected to Cota's actual store and inbox, not a static script.

The Result

Still running today

Jessica handles real customer conversations, escalating only what actually needs a human. That's the same coordinator-and-specialist structure now offered to AI Scale Zone clients, proven first on a real business before it was ever sold to anyone else.

"My agent read a real customer email, found the exact product they meant in my own store without them naming it, explained it, and upsold the right add-on. No script. No human. That's not a chatbot answering questions. That's an agent that executes."
— Britni Ricard, founder of AI Scale Zone and Cota Skincare
Beyond customer service

Everything moving forward runs on this same system.

Jessica was the starting point. The same AI system now runs the day-to-day work behind Cota, not just email.

Website

Updates, design changes, and new product pages get built and shipped by the system, not a separate freelancer every time.

SEO

Pages are checked and optimized on an ongoing basis, not a one-time audit that goes stale.

Daily reporting

A real daily report on what's happening in the business, so nothing sits unnoticed.

Social content

Reels and graphics generated and queued using the same AI image and video tools built into AI Scale Zone.

Email marketing

Campaigns and automations that actually go out on schedule, not sit in a drafts folder.

Product management

New products get added and kept current without it falling on me to do it by hand.

Want this for your own business?

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