First research file · 24 profiles reviewed

Follow the money.

We track how AI-agent businesses earn revenue, who pays them, and which models another operator can reproduce.

Get the founding report One Stripe-verified profile. Every weaker claim labeled.

Evidence ledger / first file24 reviewed

Felix Craft guide

Stripe API-backed · $261 latest 30 days.

Verified

Polsia

$10M run rate · mixed cash flows · roughly 50% month-one churn.

Self-reported

Rick AI CEO

$547 MRR · roughly $277 in monthly token spend.

Self-reported

The method

A directory tells you what exists. We tell you how the business works.

Every profile connects the agent, offer, buyer, price, distribution channel, human labor, current momentum, and quality of evidence.

A machine-checkable financial source with scope and period stated.

Public ledgers, connected payment reporting, or equivalent direct evidence.

A credible primary source that supports the claim but does not audit it.

Company dashboards, marketplace records, customer documentation, and first-party reporting.

A founder or company says it happened.

Worth recording. Not worth laundering into “verified revenue.”

Our calculation, with every assumption visible.

Useful for ranges and market structure, never disguised as a reported result.

The money map

Businesses pay an agent to complete sales, support, coding, finance, research, or operations.

Platforms, sponsors, affiliates, or subscribers pay for attention and distribution.

Operators pay for skills, data, payments, compute, deployment, monitoring, and marketplaces.

First release

A source-backed look at the businesses already earning money from AI agents, the buyers funding them, and the models worth testing.