How Did Kulwant Nagi Rebuild His Life with AI? The Untold Story

What happens when one of India’s best-known affiliate marketers vanishes for years, then comes back stronger with AI? 🤔

In this episode of Inside A Hustler’s Brain, I sat down with my friend Kulwant Nagi, founder of BloggingCage and a familiar name in the Indian blogging community for more than a decade. (The episode is in Hindi, so this post is your English summary.) 🔥

Kulwant talks openly about the break that took him away for years, why AI pulled him back, and the exact automations he’s running today. 🤖

📊 In this episode, we unpacked:

• 🤖 Why Kulwant moved from affiliate marketing into AI
• ⚙️ His Claude automation that posts daily AI news to LinkedIn
• 🖼️ How he makes images for free with ChatGPT and Claude
• 💔 The break that kept him away from 2020 to 2024
• 🔁 Will he return to affiliate marketing?
• 🎥 His favourite AI image and video tools
• 💸 What he spends on AI tools every month
• 🎯 His advice for anyone starting with AI

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🤖 Why Kulwant Moved Into AI: “It Was a Necessity”

Kulwant was doing great numbers in affiliate marketing. So why AI? “The biggest reason was necessity,” he laughs. Everything is AI-driven now, and “if you’re not equipping yourself with AI, you’re staying behind.” 🏃

He quotes a line he read years ago: “The formula of success is to find where people are going and be there first.” We both did that with blogging. We started when the world was just discovering it, and enjoyed the success. “Now it’s the time of AI, and here too we have to get there before others.” 🚀

⚙️ His Claude Automation for Daily AI News Posts

Everyone is talking about Claude, so Kulwant spent time with it and automated his data fetching. Here’s his workflow:

• 🕷️ Scrapers collect the day’s AI news automatically
• 📰 Claude gives him 10 hot titles for the day
• 👆 His only input: picking the topic he likes (“number two is good”)
• 🔍 Claude researches it, writes the post and creates the creative
• 📤 It then posts to his LinkedIn account automatically

Did it take long to learn? Not really. AI tools are smart now. If you know the process, like knowing you boil water before adding tea leaves, sugar and milk, you can guide AI to do it. “Once you know the procedure, you guide the AI to do the things.” ☕

For more on automation, read Ronnie Burt on AI automation at WordPress.com. 🔗

🖼️ How He Makes AI Images for (Almost) Free

Before, Kulwant had Replicate or OpenAI API keys connected to Claude, and every image cost him something, like 7 or 15 cents. 💸

Then he had an idea: “I’m already paying $20 for ChatGPT. Why not use that?” He integrated ChatGPT via Codex into Claude, so whenever Claude creates an image with GPT, it uses his ChatGPT subscription instead of the API. “It’s literally a free image for me right now.” 🎨

He also showed me his own tool, Magic Editor, where you bring your own API keys and test any model. It created a high-quality thumbnail for me in about 15–20 seconds. A designer would have needed far more time. 🤯

💔 The Break: Why Kulwant Disappeared (2020–2024)

Kulwant was ranking for big hosting and affiliate keywords, with reviews and coupons, and earning very well. Then suddenly he disappeared from blogging and SEO, and everyone was asking why. 🤷

“In 2020, something happened in life where I had to go into my inner world and see what I was doing, and whether I was even on the right track.” He realized he needed a break. Too many problems had piled up. Something had broken internally, though he didn’t want to reveal the details on camera. 💔

He took the break at the end of 2020, and it lasted a long time: three to four years. In 2024 he started again. Today he’s very active on social media, creating content, learning AI and teaching his audience. He’s launched AI training and now has students. 🌱

For his earlier story, read Kulwant Nagi’s success mantra. 🎙️

🔁 Will He Return to Affiliate Marketing?

“Once you get a taste of something, it stays in your mind.” Kulwant says he will do affiliate marketing again, but with a different method. 🔄

Last time, we both did it through SEO. “Now it’s the world of social media.” The plan: get creative, drive traffic from social media and sell programs with affiliate links. 📲

He doesn’t follow any specific AI creators. When he sees a reel that works, he saves it and studies how the creator breaks patterns and structures their content, so he’s learning from many creators at once. 🎬

For more on this shift, read Anil Agarwal on how AI is killing traditional SEO. 📉

🎥 Kulwant’s Favourite AI Image and Video Tools

• 🍌 Images: Nano Banana, and GPT’s latest image model, which he says has “changed the whole game” in the last couple of weeks, even turning basic ideas into polished results in thinking mode
• 🎬 Video: Kling is his personal favourite. He hasn’t tried Seedance yet, but from the reviews and creatives he’s seen, it could become his favourite
• ✂️ Shorts: tools that take a YouTube link, find the best moments, add captions and cuts, then schedule to Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn

He has only used US AI models so far, not Chinese ones like DeepSeek. 🇺🇸

Will AI replace professional video editors? Not soon, he thinks. That level of editing still needs a human mind, though with AI “you can’t say anything is impossible.” 🧠

💸 What Kulwant Spends on AI Tools Every Month

• 🤖 Claude Max: $100/month
• 🎞️ Higgsfield: an annual plan we both bought on Black Friday for around $800, roughly $70–90/month
• 💬 ChatGPT: $20/month
• 🖌️ Midjourney: the $10 plan

He doesn’t pay for separate content creation tools: “Claude is doing everything,” and with ChatGPT connected, images cost nothing extra. 💡

Why has he stopped showing up at events? “After kids, a lot changes.” He lives in Zirakpur with his wife and children, and a lot depends on him, so he has to calculate how many days he can be away. 👨‍👩‍👧

🎯 Kulwant’s Advice for Anyone Starting With AI

AI is already in its “necessity” phase. Kulwant compares it to computers 20 years ago: people in big companies who refused to learn them were replaced by a younger generation who could. Like Nokia, if you don’t upgrade, you become outdated. 📵

His advice: “Educate yourself as fast as you can.” The market will replace people quickly, and the ones who know how to use AI well will move ahead. 📚

The advantage today is that AI teaches you itself. Just ask it how to do something. You don’t even need advanced prompts; send a voice note saying what you want. “It’s all your willingness.” 💪

For more on AI and jobs, read Siddharth Ajmera on how AI automation is changing jobs. 💼

📝 Key Takeaways From the Kulwant Nagi Interview

• 🚀 Find where people are going and get there first
• ⚙️ Claude can run a full news-to-LinkedIn content pipeline
• 🖼️ Connecting ChatGPT to Claude can cut image costs to zero
• 💔 A break can be necessary; Kulwant came back after 3–4 years
• 📲 The next wave of affiliate marketing runs through social media
• 🧠 Know your process first, then guide AI to execute it
• 📚 Learn AI now, because the market won’t wait

❓ FAQs About Kulwant Nagi

Who is Kulwant Nagi?

Kulwant Nagi is an Indian affiliate marketer and blogger, the founder of BloggingCage, who now creates content and runs training about AI.

Why did Kulwant Nagi take a break?

In 2020, personal issues led him to step back and reassess his life. The break lasted three to four years, and he returned in 2024.

What AI tools does Kulwant Nagi use?

Claude Max, Higgsfield, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Nano Banana and Kling, plus his own Magic Editor tool.

How does Kulwant create AI images for free?

He connected his ChatGPT subscription to Claude through Codex, so Claude uses his $20 ChatGPT plan to create images instead of paid API keys.

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