Making money with AI agents
AI agents that run tasks on their own are a new way to earn: bots that run a business's office, agents that maintain a website, and even agents that pay for data per request. These are early, real examples from builders sharing what their agents do and earn.
4 cases · earnings are as each source states and are not guaranteed.
Selling data to AI agents per request
A data startup sells point-of-sale growth data for about 380 US consumer companies to AI agents that pay per request in stablecoins over x402, with no account or API key.
Five AI bots running a machine shop's office
A 49-year-old machine shop owner uses five Grok bots for quoting, sourcing, supply ordering and reporting so more hours go to the shop floor.
Per-app AI agents for a solo developer
A solo dev with several apps gives each one an agent that watches revenue and competitors, plus one that drafts posts and a weekly profit report.
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