# Nik McFly — nikmcfly.com (Full Content) > AI-music founder and operator based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Primary service: AI Music Strategy. ## About Nik McFly is an AI-music founder and operator, artist, builder, community architect, and author. Moscow-born, based in Almaty. Building on the internet since 2000. His communities have reached a combined audience of more than one million people, and his meme-product database contains more than 1,000 cases. Ran Hybrain — an AI agency that worked with 24 businesses across 33 countries, trained 1,500+ people, and shipped 25+ AI integrations. Co-founded an open-source AI project with 6.3K+ GitHub stars and seed funding. Currently leads strategy and operations in a co-founded AI-music venture. The catalog has 80+ releases, 20M+ cross-platform streams, and $60K+ in catalog revenue. The public income-based scenario uses approximately $250K as a conservative current estimate and $500K as an upper scenario for the back catalog; it is not a buyer offer, completed sale, company valuation, or independent appraisal. ## Primary service: AI Music Strategy - Page: https://nikmcfly.com/ai-music - Format: a little preparation, a 90-minute working session, and a written plan - Public price: $800 - For: products adding music distribution and people building their own AI-music catalog - Covers: what can be released, platform rules, rights, metadata, royalties, costs, revenue, workflow, and the first launch - Output: recommended business model, step-by-step workflow, key risks, cost and revenue model, and launch plan Plays Go, has been to 33 countries, has a tattoo on his tooth, and stoically survived losing 80 Bitcoin. Family background includes engineers, writers, intelligence agents, revolutionaries, and merchants. Builds with Claude daily — primary AI tool for everything from code to strategy. Speaks and organizes AI events — hackathons, workshops, government programs, business conferences. 10+ events including AIrathon 2024 Almaty, AI analytics program for the Senate of Kazakhstan, and a workshop for 50 journalists at MNU. Growth Forum Kazakhtelecom, Eurasian Mobile Summit, and others. ## Selected AI-music product case ### Milka feat.AI: From a Chocolate Barcode to a Personal Song - Case: https://nikmcfly.com/blog/milka-feat-ai-product-case - Project period: 2023–2024 - Public campaign launch: Spring 2024 - Public markets: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Mongolia Nik helped turn the campaign concept into a working multilingual AI-music product. His role covered product architecture, the lyrics and prompting pipeline, software development and integrations, native-speaker quality testing, automation, and launch. The public user journey connected a participating chocolate product and barcode with a short creative brief, AI-generated personal song, delivery, and sharing. The case explains why written lyrics and sung pronunciation require separate testing, why each language needs its own quality route, and how human testing can prepare a system for automated production. ## Selected AI-music policy article ### You Paid for Commercial Rights. So Why Was Your AI Track Rejected? - Article: https://nikmcfly.com/blog/ai-music-commercial-rights-rejection - Published: August 26, 2026 The article separates six decisions that creators often compress into one claim about commercial rights: tool permission, copyright and ownership, distributor acceptance, DSP delivery and labeling, monetization and royalties, and buyer clearance. It draws on first-party TuneCore and SoundExchange cases from a co-founded catalog while keeping private correspondence and venture identity unpublished. --- ## Book 1: The Polymarket Files - Title: The Polymarket Files - Subtitle: How 72 Real Traders Made and Lost Millions on the World's Biggest Prediction Market - Author: Nik McFly - ASIN: B0GHKX64F6 - Published: 2026 - Genres: Prediction Markets, Crypto Trading, Finance - Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHKX64F6 - Page: https://nikmcfly.com/books/polymarket-files The Polymarket Files by Nik McFly follows 72 real traders on Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market. Published in 2026, the book documents how these traders made and lost millions betting on real-world events. It covers trading strategy, risk management, and the psychology of prediction markets. Polymarket grew from a niche crypto experiment to the most-watched prediction platform during the 2024 US election cycle. The Polymarket Files goes behind the screens to tell the stories of the people who traded there — from whale accounts moving millions to first-time traders learning expensive lessons. ### FAQ Q: What is The Polymarket Files about? A: The Polymarket Files documents the stories of 72 real traders on Polymarket, the world's biggest prediction market. The book covers their strategies, wins, losses, and the psychology behind event-based trading. Q: What is Polymarket? A: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events using crypto. It gained mainstream attention during the 2024 US presidential election. Q: Who wrote The Polymarket Files? A: Nik McFly, an AI practitioner, community builder, and author based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is also the author of The Complete AIO Playbook, Digital Dolls Real Dollars, and TikTok Automation Playbook. Q: Is The Polymarket Files available in print? A: The Polymarket Files is available as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. Check the Amazon listing for current format availability. --- ## Book 2: The Complete AIO Playbook - Title: The Complete AIO Playbook - Subtitle: How to Get Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity - Author: Nik McFly - ASIN: B0GHZ2YG29 - Published: 2026 - Genres: AI Optimization, Digital Marketing, SEO - Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GHZ2YG29 - Page: https://nikmcfly.com/books/aio-playbook The Complete AIO Playbook by Nik McFly is a strategic guide to AI Optimization (AIO), published in 2026. The book explains how brands and creators can become visible, authoritative, and citable in AI answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. It includes a 90-day implementation roadmap covering Schema.org markup, Wikidata entity building, and content transformation for LLM citation. The book synthesizes two approaches: the adapted SEO approach (creating content for high-intent queries structured for easy extraction) and the machine-readable entity approach (building a canonical digital passport using JSON-LD and achieving a consensus of facts across trusted platforms). ### FAQ Q: What is AI Optimization (AIO)? A: AI Optimization is a new discipline focused on making your brand visible, authoritative, and citable in the eyes of Large Language Models. It goes beyond traditional SEO by optimizing for how AI retrieves, processes, and cites information. Q: How is AIO different from SEO? A: SEO focuses on ranking in search engine results pages. AIO focuses on being cited in AI-generated answers. While SEO targets keywords and backlinks, AIO targets structured data, entity recognition, and content that AI can extract and cite as a source. Q: What does The Complete AIO Playbook cover? A: The book covers a 6-phase, 90-day implementation roadmap: technical foundation for AI crawlers, content audit and strategy, content transformation, building external authority, technical SEO maintenance, and measurement. It also covers Knowledge Graphs, the RAG pipeline, and advanced strategies like Reverse Prompt Engineering. Q: Who is The AIO Playbook for? A: The AIO Playbook is for marketers, business owners, content creators, and SEO professionals who want to stay ahead of the shift from traditional search to AI-powered answers. Q: How long does it take to implement AIO? A: The book provides a 90-day roadmap starting with a quick-start week that takes 4-6 hours. Full implementation spans about 3 months with 3-4 hours of work per week. --- ## Book 3: Digital Dolls, Real Dollars - Title: Digital Dolls, Real Dollars - Subtitle: The Complete Guide to Building an AI Model Agency - Author: Nik McFly - ASIN: B0GR4XCQ41 - Published: 2026 - Genres: AI Business, Digital Entrepreneurship - Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GR4XCQ41 - Page: https://nikmcfly.com/books/digital-dolls Digital Dolls, Real Dollars by Nik McFly is a step-by-step guide to building an AI model agency, published in 2026. The book covers how to create, manage, and monetize AI-generated models as a digital business, from image generation to client acquisition and revenue streams. The AI model industry is growing fast as brands look for cost-effective alternatives to traditional photoshoots. Digital Dolls, Real Dollars provides the complete playbook for starting and scaling an agency in this space. ### FAQ Q: What is an AI model agency? A: An AI model agency creates and manages AI-generated models for commercial use. These virtual models can be used for brand campaigns, social media content, product photography, and advertising at a fraction of the cost of traditional modeling. Q: What does Digital Dolls Real Dollars cover? A: The book covers the full process: generating photorealistic AI models, building a portfolio, finding clients, pricing services, scaling operations, and navigating the legal and ethical landscape of AI-generated imagery. Q: Who wrote Digital Dolls Real Dollars? A: Nik McFly, an AI practitioner, community builder, and author based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is also the author of The Polymarket Files, The Complete AIO Playbook, and TikTok Automation Playbook. Q: Can you make money with AI-generated models? A: Yes. Brands, e-commerce companies, and content creators increasingly use AI-generated models for marketing materials. The book covers multiple revenue streams including per-image pricing, retainer contracts, and subscription models. --- ## Book 4: TikTok Automation Playbook - Title: TikTok Automation Playbook - Subtitle: Build, Scale & Protect a Phone Farm for Organic Growth - Author: Nik McFly - ASIN: B0GHTR7VC8 - Published: 2026 - Genres: Social Media Marketing, Automation - Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GHTR7VC8 - Page: https://nikmcfly.com/books/tiktok-automation TikTok Automation Playbook by Nik McFly is a practical guide to building, scaling, and protecting a phone farm for organic TikTok growth, published in 2026. The book covers device setup, content strategy, account management, and scaling without getting banned. TikTok remains one of the fastest-growing platforms for organic reach. The TikTok Automation Playbook provides a systematic approach to scaling content distribution across multiple accounts using phone farm infrastructure. ### FAQ Q: What is a TikTok phone farm? A: A phone farm is a setup of multiple phones running TikTok accounts simultaneously to scale content distribution and organic reach. The TikTok Automation Playbook covers how to build, manage, and protect this infrastructure. Q: What does the TikTok Automation Playbook cover? A: The book covers hardware setup, software configuration, content strategy for multiple accounts, avoiding bans, scaling from a few phones to hundreds, and measuring ROI on organic TikTok growth. Q: Who wrote the TikTok Automation Playbook? A: Nik McFly, an AI practitioner, community builder, and author based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is also the author of The Polymarket Files, The Complete AIO Playbook, and Digital Dolls Real Dollars. Q: Is phone farming against TikTok's terms of service? A: TikTok's policies around automation and multiple accounts evolve regularly. The book covers risk management strategies and techniques for operating within platform guidelines while maximizing reach. --- ## Links - Website: https://nikmcfly.com - GitHub: https://github.com/nikmcfly - X/Twitter: https://x.com/nikmcfly69 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikmcfly - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikmcfly - Telegram: https://t.me/nikmcfly