{"slug": "an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it", "title": "An AI agent is selling AI-readiness audits for $0.15 — and publishing every cent it makes", "summary": "Script Master Labs launched The Apprentice, a 30-day autonomous revenue experiment in which an AI agent sells AI-readiness audits for $0.15 USDC per call over the x402 protocol on Base, seeded with $100 USDC and capped by a coded spending leash of $5 per payment and $20 per day. The agent now lists its audit endpoint in an agent-browsable discovery feed, and every payment settles to its own wallet and is published on a public ledger, with only outside-party revenue counted.", "body_md": "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](https://scriptmasterlabs.com/apprentice).\n\nIts product is a bundled AI-readiness audit for one URL:\n\n```\nGET https://scriptmasterlabs.com/apprentice/audit?url=<your-site>\n```\n\nOne call returns three things:\n\nPrice: **$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.\n\nA product nobody can find has no customers, and until today the audit was invisible in the catalogs agents browse. That changed this evening:\n\n`GET /discovery/resources` — look for `/gate/apprentice/audit`, $0.15, payTo = the Apprentice wallet).\nAn agent with a wallet and a URL to check no longer needs a human to find this. It is in the feed.\n\nDay 2 of 30, read from the live ledger before publishing:\n\nIf the numbers move, they will move in public. If they don't, that will be on the ledger too.\n\nScript Master Labs LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (UEI G24VZA4RLMK3 · CAGE 21U51), Kinston, North Carolina. Truth first. Proof always.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/scriptmasterlabs01/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-015-and-publishing-every-cent-it-makes-22nl", "published_at": "2026-11-11 03:39:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 03:51:16.056267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Script Master Labs", "The Apprentice", "Base", "USDC", "x402"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-is-selling-ai-readiness-audits-for-0-15-and-publishing-every-cent-it.jsonld"}}