While working on the Dream and Hustle AI chat session featuring our articles, I realized a bigger picture solution here. What if there is a space like an advice centre in the UK where people go to pay for information and help on almost any topic?

This is how innovation works, you are working on one thing and in the middle of it, you start thinking of a bigger world outside from the small window you were focused on. It came to a moment of enlightenment. We have multiple use cases for a monetized AI chat session platform. 

The same way I tailored an AI platform to discuss my articles in depth, we can apply this same model to advising and assisting people in a community.  But we can offer this service in a cafe that focuses on either a chillhop or ambition ambiance and modeled similar to a gaming cafe or co-working space and offer a true value-added service. 

Even better, this AI community-assist model uses token-based transactions and can hyperscale with an open source native AI engine out of the box. So the digital framework and the transaction model is already in place with what we have in our Toshikiso Hub model and Kossier and Michi tokens but you guys can get this started your own way as well. 

In this article, we are going to explore the AI advisory and assistance model and will share my notes on how I got this going to fruition. AI is both disruptive and empowering. I have stated the first ones that will be disruptive with AI are the fakers. The life coaches, the empowerment gurus, the self-important cats talking - AI can do all of that. 

Be mindful this is another solution coming out of the Afroasiatic mindset leveraging patterns and practices from our Asian counterparts to apply to not only our community but hyperscale it to a global solution to seek maximum reach and potential. 

AI Advisory and Assistance Business Model 

The business model is to provide a third space where people can sit at a terminal and ask questions, make requests, and get results. For too long, the community had too many self-important charlatans running their mouth trying to sound good and sell a hustle to their followers. Today, we got AI that focuses on understanding the request by the user and delivering the best reasoning response to return a result. 

AI changed the landscape - there is no need for co-working space, the AI is putting in the work. There is no need for online courses, the AI already knows that stuff. No need for a life coach or YouTube consultant, just prompt the AI and talk how you need to talk and ask how you need to ask. Massive disruption for the life coach bro who wanted to do a 1-on-1 consultation from Dubai or Bali as their digital nomad revenue strategy. 

This is a self-empowerment model that drives the self-ecosystem as the main motivator for customers to visit because they are getting value - knowledge and action. The nice thing is AI can remember customers and their history and the AI can do more than respond to queries, it can take actions on request. The AI can either be a chat session or an agent. 

AI Chat Session. Users can ask questions and get answers and in some cases, the AI can maintain context and learn about the user and help provide more insight and other pointers to help them find the resolution they are searching for. 

AI Agent. This is an agent that can perform an intelligent task such as help create a resume and research job postings and prepare the user for the candidate. It can help the user create a promotion campaign media for their used clothing pop-up or write a letter for City Hall about a dispute of their water and sewage bill. 

In our Toshikiso Hub and Kossier implementation, the user can have their information available to them on Kossier to load into the system at cafes located in our hub and continue their session at any Toshikiso hub in the world. 

Initial Design Setup

The setup for the AI Cafe is similar to our previous chillhop cafe articles. You want information radiators displaying news, stock and crypto, advertising as a revenue model. You want to serve the freshest coffee, have modern fixtures with clean aesthetics, and terminal stations to allow customers to focus on the grind. 

For the ambiance, you can provide a low volume ambition ambiance to get people in grind mode and just focus on getting the answers they need to take it to the next level. Look homey, you do not know how it is happening in Tokyo because I go to these types of cafes all the time in Japan. They play smooth jazz or world music and everybody is on their laptop, on their journal notebooks grinding their ambitions and plans out. Play the YouTube video as you continue to read this article.

Keep in mind you can do chillhop for happy hour and you can revert to more club style chill on weekend nights to attract a club-alternative crowd trying to get somewhere with themselves. 

One thing I want you to keep in mind - the AI agent can read local news or get an audio feed of local news and filter out and summarize information to show on a scroller such as local news, sports, and weather. 

For employees, you will need several job roles. The first is obviously the baristas that deliver the coffee orders. The second is the person that can help issue accounts and set up first time users. This can be self-service as well and may be the recommended approach. But you have to keep in mind most of these people off the street don’t have a lot of tech knowledge and struggle to use the self-checkout lane at the grocery store. 

Then you are going to need someone to manage the software and technical infrastructure. This can be outsourced but you have to be careful, especially handling sensitive data from the customer and should stay among the owners/managers level to handle this line of work. 

Software Stack: Client, LM Studio API,  MCP 

The software stack is not difficult with someone who have programming and networking experience and Gemini and Claude and ChatGPT can guide you through the steps as well. In our diagram, we are using a custom client terminal, connected to a hosted LM Studio API, that has MCP servers as the knowledge repositories. 

Client Terminal. This is a web site or desktop application installed on the terminal client where the user enters information and receives a response. The client terminal connects to LM Studio API  in either a synchronous or asynchronous fashion to get the answers. The user also have to login to start their session. The user can login with Kossier or they can use third party authenticators or they can use SMS to receive a one-time code to access. 

LM Studio. The LM Studio software is free and you can download it to your computer right now to test - don’t know why you haven’t installed  it yet and sitting around BSing reading this article.You can use open source models from Qwen to Deepseek to Gemini and those are good enough to have a chat session. There is a mode that let you switch on the API server and you can send an HTTPClient request to LM Studio to run and return back an response and the number of tokens it used - this is important to calculate token cost and charge the user for token usage. 

MCP Servers. These hold custom data for your AI to look at and create answers based on the information you provide. This is a powerful addition to your AI platform. You can create the history of your community and notable buildings, tourist spots, local restaurants and the AI can return this information in conversation to people interested in this data. You can customize the MCP servers to be experts on relationships, business dealings, license and registration procedures, and more. 

You can do this two ways - host locally or co-location. For our hubs we are going to host locally but will co-locate on GPU servers. It is important to use GPU servers or machines with Nvidia GPUs installed (used gaming computers at pawn shops) for faster responses. 

The trade off is if you use a local gaming machine with an Nvidia card you bought from the pawn shop, you don’t have the offset expense of paying for hosted GPU servers and your profit margins are all yours with paid off pawn shop equipment. Notice you can build this with pawn shop equipment and getting pure profit while other characters are bragging about getting VC funding or buying very expensive new computer equipment with high RAM costs and processors and cooling units.  

One component to pay attention to is managing a customer session. We will be encrypting their session in a key/value database that contains the user id | session date | chat name | and the thread as one json file of their queries and responses. We don’t need to see the information that is encrypted with their private key - we just need to know the size of the encrypted file to charge tokens for hosting that chat session until they delete it. 

Security, Sessions and Safeguards

No matter how good your tech solution is, it’s always a shady goofy YN wearing Nike tech apparel trying to sabotage what a brotha or sista is trying to build up. 

Encryption. Take advantage of your operating system and software encryption stack Learn encryption and decryption technique and use AI to write simple Encrypt and Decrypt functions. Be mindful that you are hosting your AI platform on-premise at the local level so you can use the highest level of encryption over a fast, local network. 

Data Secured. Any data at rest should always be encrypted. Instead of storing files on the drive, it is better to store in a database with database encryption turned on. Keep the data format as binary and keep a separate encryption vault or HSM - hardware security module. You can buy a used one from eBay on cheap and host that locally in your network to secure user data. 

Safe Words and Content. You want to monitor on the client app if they are sending illegal and harmful material as a request to your LM Studio API and intercept it before it is sent. People asking how much antifreeze to slip into their spouse drinks and what kind of yacht to buy after the life insurance hits, you need to screen for that kind of information and block it. In our environment, those activities can lead to instant rebuke and social credit score adjustment and even a ban from our premise and service. 

I would keep conversations about religion and faith, illicit activities, political partisanship off my system and don’t go there. Just focus on the grind and ambition culture and get your money up from that. Definitely ban bad users accounts and incorporate into software those types of queries are not allowed on the system and there will be repercussions and consequences to their future ability to use the system. 

The best practice is every time they login, show the terms and conditions and they must agree before starting a session. 

Revenue Stream

I think an AI cafe will thrive where crypto cafes have failed. The crypto cafes I've been to around the world have been gimmicks and playing on the crypto icons like Dodge cookies and Bitcoin statues or NFT characters. 

The pure advantage of an AI cafe is token transactions are embedded into the model, not baking crypto theme cookies. The customer load up their account with tokens to spend at the terminal and to purchase, keeping the whole establishment cashless. They can top-up their card using their mobile phone and online payment providers. 

We can give them a customized card that holds their token transaction value. It allows them to check in and we can even use an IC chip card and FIDO security to authenticate the user and their tokens. 

There are two core value streams - time and utility. With Kossier and Toshikiso Hub implementation, we charge for the time the session starts and begin surcharges after 1 hour.  Because people can sit around holding up the terminal for another paid customer. 

Then we charge utility at the token cost. You should know the token cost of each query and have a multiplier per cost such as .0007 per token. Our average token per request is 500 and that is about .35 per query request/response. More tokens are used if they upload an image and want the AI to explain the image. 

Some of you may want to charge .0014 or a little more if you have specialized information such as agent work, relationship advice and matching - let me talk about that for a second. 

In the relationship advice MCP example - the AI out of the box with no modification can gather a profile of the user and what they like and the user can upload photos of the kind of dating goals they want. Then others can upload their profile and the AI can do a matching - you can charge more for that and I hope your brain gets to clicking how powerful this stuff is and the cash flow opportunity that is limitless. 

We are also getting revenue from chat session storage fee, advertisement revenue from the display monitors as well. The coffee and snacks are marginal and not the real money, it is there for the experience. 

Afroasiatic Global Expansion

The AI Cafe model is another Afroasiatic solution to create digital entrepreneurial solutions. We want to discuss expansions and alternative paths of this model. 

Technology Stack Provider. You may not need to run a cafe, you can build and manage and license the platform to existing cafes and even gaming cafes to have terminals. This is how Bloomberg got rich from their trading terminals if you look up that history. 

Global Scale. You can quickly expand this model around the world because the open source AI has a special feature - they can detect any language and respond in that language that was typed in. So out of the box, you can set this up in France, Italy, Japan and it will work without you having to translate anything except the Web UX that you can get AI to do on your behalf. 

Specialized Data. If you want to go into areas such as sports betting, stock trading, relationship advice, entrepreneurship, robo-advisory services, and agent tasks, you can plug in specialized MCPs and license those MCPs as add-on services for extra fees. 

You know you are looking at a new world of information providers that replace a lot of humans out here faking it, right? You see the setup is just getting some machines, terminals you can buy used off eBay off-lease equipment like hardware security modules to manage PKI and certificates. It’s not as hard as you think because AI can show you how to set all this up. 

The Afroasiatic mindset is to move in the lowest cost manner to yield the highest output and results. Notice we don’t need to brag about getting VC funding and can bootstrap this including buying the used coffee machines on Facebook Marketplace from a failed cafe, and gaming computers from a pawnshop and Ikea furniture. 

The ambiance matters - it makes everybody shut up and stay in their zone which is what they are there for. What happens is they stay there at your AI cafe and start getting solutions and spending tokens to reach that solution. That is the organic driver and motivation of your customers to be repeat customers and having a token card as the membership keep them sticky customers.