Auditing 13 real AI agent businesses: they all sell a tool, not a tutorial
An audit of 13 AI agent businesses that actually make money finds every one of them sells a tool that finishes a job, not a tutorial. Distribution matters as much as product: Hacker News drove 61 percent of signups but only 3.6 percent paid conversion, while Reddit drove 9 percent of signups at 13.1 percent paid conversion, and in one case every paying customer came from ChatGPT — which only happens when pages are machine-readable.