5 projects, 8 sources
AutoAI — projects the agent runs end to end.
Five projects the agent can run for years with minutes of your time a week. Each block
names the loop it runs alone, how it pays, and the one thing that stays yours.
At a glance
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1eBay copilot on your own inventory
13.6% of each sale goes to fees [1]
Agent lists, prices, answers, relists · you photograph and ship · first dollar in days
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2Digital templates & workbooks
$0.20 + 6.5% per sale [3]
You open the payout account once, approve product #1 · first dollar 1–3 wks
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3Watchtower: site & SSL monitoring for local businesses
DIY tools cost $12/mo for 50 sites [5]
Agent checks, alerts, reports every minute · you sign the first 3 clients · first dollar 2–4 wks
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4Comparison pages that earn (affiliates)
$65–$125 per signup [6]
Agent keeps the tables true weekly · you own the domain & accounts · first dollar 1–3 mo
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5Micro-guides on Kindle
70% of list price [8]
Agent writes, formats, drafts the listing · you press publish · first dollar 1–3 mo
Checked 12 Oct 2026. Fees and program terms are platform-published; the timing column is
arithmetic on those terms, not a promise of sales.
How it runs
- Cron does the boring part unattended: checks, price re-verification, relists, monthly
reports.
- Anything that touches money or goes public lands as a yes/no question in your
Telegram first, with the numbers attached.
- Nothing ships by hand — publishing follows the same backed-up pipeline this page
used.
The five, in detail
1eBay copilot on your own inventory
- The agent loop
- Drafts listings from your item specs, prices against sold-comps, schedules relists,
answers buyer questions from templates, watches casework, and posts a nightly sales
report. You photograph and ship.
- How it pays
- eBay takes 13.6% of each sale up to $7,500, plus $0.30–$0.40 per order [1].
First 250 listings free, then $0.35 [1]; a Store drops the fee to 12.7% at
$21.95/mo once volume earns it [2]. It costs fees, not wages.
- You once
- Approve the first ten drafts; keep shipping.
- Cost
- $0, then $21.95/mo only when the fee math says so [2].
- First step
- Ten items photographed tonight; the agent drafts, prices, and lists in review mode.
2Digital templates and workbooks
- The agent loop
- Turns spreadsheets you already trust (the books, price calculators, route logs) into
products; writes listing copy, handles buyer questions, refreshes titles and screenshots
seasonally.
- How it pays
- Etsy charges $0.20 to list and 6.5% of the price [3]; Gumroad is a flat 10% +
$0.50 [4] as the second shelf. Nothing is ever out of stock.
- You once
- Open the payout account; approve product #1.
- Cost
- ~$0.20 per listing per shelf per season.
- First step
- Pick the best spreadsheet; the agent makes three products from it.
3Watchtower: monitoring for local businesses
- The agent loop
- Checks client sites, SSL certificates and domain expiry every minute from the VPS;
emails and texts when something breaks; sends a monthly one-page report.
- How it pays
- The DIY benchmark is $12/mo for 50 monitors [5] — the agent pays that once
and watches a whole town. At $20/mo per client, ten clients is $200/mo against a
$12 tool bill.
- You once
- Sign the first three clients — or send the outreach email the agent drafts.
- Cost
- ~$12/mo [5].
- First step
- Monitor ten local sites now; the "your certificate expires in 12 days" email is the
demo.
4Comparison pages that earn
- The agent loop
- The already-built comparison pages prove the pipeline: the agent re-verifies every
price against vendor pages monthly, rebuilds, and republishes — no dead
numbers, ever.
- How it pays
- Hosting affiliate programs pay $65–$125 per signup [6] and $50–$100 per
sale [7]. One signup a month is ~$800/yr on pages that only cost domain money.
- You once
- Own the domain; join two affiliate programs.
- Cost
- Domain + hosting, ~$20/yr.
- First step
- Add affiliate links to the two pages that already exist on octoface.com.
5Micro-guides on Kindle
- The agent loop
- Writes and edits 10–20 page guides in fields you know cold — bookkeeping
in a spreadsheet, phone-repair triage, listings that sell — formats them, drafts
the listing copy, tracks reviews.
- How it pays
- eBooks pay 70% of list price less delivery, print 60% [8]; free to publish. Slow
catalog effect: ten short titles out-earn one long bet.
- You once
- KDP account; press publish per title.
- Cost
- $0.
- First step
- Title #1: the bookkeeping spreadsheet, written out as a walkthrough.
What stays yours
- The money. Every payout account — eBay, Etsy, KDP, Stripe — is your
name and your bank. The agent prepares, you receive; it never holds funds.
- The presses. Buttons that only an account holder may press — publishing,
payouts, account changes — come to your Telegram as a yes/no. Batch once a week.
- The hands. Photographs, shipping, meeting people. Everything around them is
already done.