My AI Costs $400/Month. This Month It Made $355

Originally published at thoughts.jock.pl That's roughly what it costs to run AI agents seriously right now. Claude Code Max, API calls, infrastructure. These aren't free tools. Three weeks ago I started an experiment I called Project Money . The rules: my AI agent, Wiz, gets full creative freedom to build and sell digital products. I provide the knowledge, the ideas, the direction. It handles everything else. Three weeks in: $355 in revenue. The monthly AI bill: $400. Still underwater. But that's not really the point. The Problem I'm Actually Solving There's a gap that's been hiding in plain sight for decades. Think about the smartest person you know. The one who always has brilliant ideas, sees connections nobody else sees. Now think about how many of those ideas ever became products. Not because the ideas were bad. Because turning an idea into something people can buy requires a completely different skill set. Technology. Marketing. Design. Payments. Customer support. All things sepa