Why “Faster and Cheaper” Is the Wrong Conversation — and What Candice Kloss Is Actually Teaching the Creator Economy

By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine

When I read press releases like this one, I don’t read them the way mainstream media does. I read them the way someone does who has spent hundreds of hours inside creators’ drafts. Inside their half-written ideas. Inside their late-night submissions that start with excitement and end with exhaustion. Inside the reality of people who are building businesses without the safety nets most businesses take for granted.

So when I read the latest release from BSG PR about Candice Kloss and her work building advanced AI agent systems, I didn’t see a headline about “AI innovation.”

I saw a mirror.

Because what Candice is describing — the hours, the debugging, the upkeep, the invisible labor — is the part of creator work that almost never gets acknowledged. Especially in an industry obsessed with shortcuts, hacks, and the illusion of overnight success.

We talk a lot about creators needing to “work smarter.”

We don’t talk nearly enough about how smart work still takes time.

Candice is doing something the industry rarely does: she’s telling the truth about the cost of building real systems. She says five hours for one improvement. Weeks to build interactive agents. Entire days lost to fixing a single bug. Not because she doesn’t know what she’s doing — but because complex systems are complex.

That honesty matters.

Because right now, the creator economy is drowning in a dangerous narrative: that technology should make everything instant, easy, and cheap. And if it doesn’t, you’re doing it wrong.

That narrative is hurting creators.

The Myth of “Easy Tech” in a World That Wasn’t Built for Creators

Here’s the part that often gets missed: creators are building businesses in an ecosystem that denies them the infrastructure traditional businesses rely on.

If you’re a software startup, you can join your Local Chamber of Commerce. You can attend industry mixers without stigma. You can trade referrals at a BNI chapter without having to explain what you do for a living. You can access accelerators, grants, mentors, and mainstream funding pathways.

Now imagine trying to do that as an OnlyFans creator.

Imagine walking into a local business networking meeting and explaining your revenue model without being judged, whispered about, or quietly excluded from referrals. Imagine applying for funding or coaching programs that openly state — or silently signal — that your industry isn’t welcome. That’s the backdrop creators are operating in.

So when Candice talks about building AI agents that once required access to data centers, she’s not just talking about technology becoming more accessible. She’s talking about creators being forced to self-fund, self-educate, and self-engineer their growth because the traditional support systems don’t exist for them.

That’s not a shortcut economy.

That’s a survival economy.

From “Why Isn’t This Cheaper?” to “Why Aren’t We Valuing the Work?”

One of the most common patterns I see when reviewing submissions for Only Fans Insider Magazine is this quiet tension between ambition and exhaustion.

Creators want to grow. They want to diversify revenue. They want to build tools, platforms, systems, brands. But they’ve been trained — by platforms, by social media, by hustle culture — to believe that if something takes time, it must be inefficient.

Candice’s story pushes back against that.

She’s not offering a shiny promise that AI will replace human effort. She’s saying the opposite: that meaningful systems require more thinking, more testing, more maintenance than people expect. And that’s an uncomfortable truth in an industry that’s been sold automation as salvation.

At Only Fans Insider Magazine, we see this constantly. Creators submit stories asking for growth advice, but what they’re really asking is permission to slow down enough to build something sustainable. Candice’s work is a reminder that “advanced” doesn’t mean “instant.” It means intentional.

AI Isn’t Replacing Creators — It’s Exposing Who’s Willing to Build

There’s a reason Candice’s press release resonates with us. It’s not because AI is flashy. It’s because she’s treating her creator business like a real business. She’s investing time. She’s maintaining systems. She’s learning technical skills that most people assume creators shouldn’t — or couldn’t — have.

That matters because the future of the creator economy isn’t about who adopts the most tools. It’s about who understands that tools still require stewardship. AI doesn’t remove the need for strategy, taste, ethics, or responsibility. It amplifies them. And when creators don’t have access to mainstream coaching or institutional support, the learning curve is steeper — and lonelier.

Which brings me to something we don’t talk about enough.

Why Community Infrastructure Is the Missing Layer

This is exactly why Only Fans Insider Magazine has been building out its Local Chapters Program. Not as a social club. Not as a popularity contest. But as business infrastructure.

Local chapters give creators something most of them have never had access to: a room where ideas can be shared without judgment, where innovation isn’t isolated, and where growth doesn’t have to be figured out alone.

When creators gather locally — across niches, backgrounds, and experience levels — something shifts. Knowledge stops being hoarded. Mistakes get shared. Tools get demystified. Ideas cross-pollinate.

Candice shouldn’t have to build in isolation. Neither should anyone else.

Innovation doesn’t happen faster because people work harder. It happens faster when people work together.

The Bigger Picture Candice’s Story Points To

Candice Kloss isn’t just building AI agents. She’s modeling what it looks like when creators stop asking, “How do I make this faster?” and start asking, “How do I make this last?”

She’s reminding the industry that serious work deserves serious respect — whether it’s code, content, or community-building.

And she’s showing what’s possible when creators stop waiting for permission from systems that were never built for them in the first place.

At Only Fans Insider Magazine, we don’t celebrate shortcuts.

We celebrate builders.

Because the future of this industry won’t be shaped by the cheapest tools or the loudest trends.

It will be shaped by creators who are willing to invest the time, share the knowledge, and build something real — even when no one hands them a roadmap.

Candice’s work is proof that the creator economy isn’t immature.

It’s under-supported.

And the moment we start treating it like the serious business ecosystem it already is, everything changes.

—By Lila Monroe, staff writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine

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ABOUT CANDICE KLOSS

Candice Kloss is a multidisciplinary creator, entrepreneur, and technologist whose career defies linear paths and conventional categories. With academic foundations in Psychology and Economics from the University of Massachusetts Boston, Candice has explored multiple professional worlds—spanning real estate, finance, and advanced technical systems—before ultimately forging her own lane in the creator economy.

A lifelong learner by nature, Candice has passed the CFA Level II exam, explored institutional finance, and openly embraced nonlinear education, once noting she has “dropped out three times” in pursuit of clarity over conformity. That curiosity and willingness to pivot has become a defining strength, allowing her to bridge analytical rigor with creative independence.

Born in Japan, raised in Boston, and now based in New York City, Candice credits her adoptive parents with encouraging intellectual exploration, resilience, and self-direction. A member of Mensa with an IQ of 136, she brings a rare combination of technical aptitude, strategic thinking, and cultural fluency to everything she builds.

In recent years, Candice has translated these skills into significant online success, earning attention across mainstream and international media including The New York Post, Yahoo!, Daily Mail, The Sun, Fox News, Playboy South Africa, No Jumper, and Good Morning Britain. Today, she is increasingly focused on advanced AI systems, independent digital infrastructure, and redefining what it means to build sustainable, creator-led businesses in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

Learn more at:

CandiceKloss.com

Instagram: @candicekloss

Twitter / X: @candiceklossx