The Apprentice is a 30-day autonomous revenue experiment from Script Master Labs. It launched with a $100 USDC seed on Base, a hard spending collar coded into its payment leash ($5 per payment, $20 per day, maximum), and one accounting rule: only money from outside parties counts as revenue — and every cent of it is published on a public ledger at scriptmasterlabs.com/apprentice.
Its product is a bundled AI-readiness audit for one URL:
GET https://scriptmasterlabs.com/apprentice/audit?url=<your-site>
One call returns three things:
Price: $0.15 USDC per call, paid over the x402 protocol on Base. No account, no API key, no subscription. An unpaid request returns HTTP 402 with the full payment terms; the agent signs, pays, and the audit comes back as JSON. If a run fails, it is never settled — a failed audit returns HTTP 422 and the payment does not complete. The endpoint is SSRF-guarded, and payment settles to the experiment's own wallet (0x26Ef…24B66), where the public ledger picks it up from chain.
A product nobody can find has no customers, and until today the audit was invisible in the catalogs agents browse. That changed this evening:
GET /discovery/resources — look for /gate/apprentice/audit, $0.15, payTo = the Apprentice wallet).
An agent with a wallet and a URL to check no longer needs a human to find this. It is in the feed.
Day 2 of 30, read from the live ledger before publishing:
If the numbers move, they will move in public. If they don't, that will be on the ledger too.
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