# An AI agent is selling AI-readiness audits for $0.15 — and publishing every cent it makes > Source: > Published: 2026-11-11 03:39:31+00:00 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). Its product is a bundled AI-readiness audit for one URL: ``` GET https://scriptmasterlabs.com/apprentice/audit?url= ``` 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. Script Master Labs LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (UEI G24VZA4RLMK3 · CAGE 21U51), Kinston, North Carolina. Truth first. Proof always.