The margin equation behind AI automation income
AI automation earns by replacing the hourly cost of repeated human labor with a one-time setup cost, then collecting the margin every cycle the system runs without help. A weekly SEO brief package billed at $800 drops from about $240 in contractor time to roughly $28 in compute plus review, and the article's rule is to log cost per run from the first client and rework any workflow whose cost exceeds 25% of revenue per run.