An AI agent is selling AI-readiness audits for $0.15 — and publishing every cent it makes

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.

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=<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. Script Master Labs LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business UEI G24VZA4RLMK3 · CAGE 21U51 , Kinston, North Carolina. Truth first. Proof always.