AI Money Labs

Income models

AI automation agency

「Taking the repetition nobody wants」

The duller the task and the more it costs the client to keep doing it, the more it is worth. Boring work pays.

Level 3

Find a client's repetitive work, automate it, and charge for the build plus upkeep. What you sell is not the tool but knowing the work.

Difficulty
4/5
To first revenue
A demo is buildable in one or two weeks. Time to a signed contract is not something we estimate.
Startup cost
₩50,000~500,000
Coding
some
Sales
a lot
Automation
4/5

We have zero cases with a verified earnings figure, so we do not invent a revenue range. What follows instead is arithmetic on published prices and official fee rates.

Where the money goes

One sale, start to finish — DELUXE

What the customer pays₩890,000

This is also the figure you report as revenue — not the amount that reaches your account.

The marketplace takes its cut
  • Service fee (16.4% / 9.4% / 4.4% 누진 구간)−₩132,660
  • Payment network fee (3.3%)−₩29,370
  • VAT on those fees (위 두 항목의 10%)−₩16,203
What lands in your account₩711,76780% of list
You remit VAT (registered business)

Output VAT ₩80,909 − input VAT on fees ₩16,203−₩64,706

Operating profit₩647,061

⚠️ Tool costs, your own labour and income tax have not been taken out yet. Individual (non-business) accounts handle VAT differently and cannot issue tax invoices at all.

The ceiling you cannot pass in a month

Published delivery days divided into the working month. Not what you can earn — the line you cannot cross alone.

TierList priceDaysMax/moRevenue ceilingOperating profit
STANDARD₩290,0003d6₩1,740,000₩1,239,036₩61,952/day
DELUXE₩890,00014d1₩890,000₩647,061₩32,353/day
PREMIUM₩1,900,00020d1₩1,900,000₩1,436,973₩71,849/day

↔ Swipe sideways

A higher tier does not raise the ceiling. DELUXE costs 3.1× what STANDARD does, but takes 4.7× as long, so the monthly ceiling ends up lower. What raises the ceiling is not the price — it is finishing the same job faster. That is the part AI actually does here.

What these numbers are, and are not

  • Nobody earned this. Not one listed case has a verified revenue figure.
  • List prices and delivery days come off the seller's page; fee rates come from the platform's own documentation.
  • “Max/mo” is division — 20 working days divided by the published delivery time. It does not mean orders arrive that steadily. In practice they do not.
  • Operating profit here is before tool costs, your own labour and income tax. Rework and refunds are not in it either.

Who you sell to

  • Small and mid-sized firms
  • Owner-operated businesses
  • Teams with repetitive work

How the money comes in

  • Build fee
  • Monthly maintenance

Steps

  1. Pick one industry and survey its repetitive work
  2. Build a demo that automates exactly one of those tasks
  3. Take the demo to twenty prospects
  4. Quote the build and the upkeep separately from the start

Tools used

Make · n8n · Zapier · Lindy · Claude API

Linked tools are ones whose pricing we checked and listed.

Risks

  • Not knowing the client's work makes the automation wrong — that is a domain problem, not a tooling one
  • Maintenance accumulates and eats the time you need for new sales
  • When automation misfires the loss lands on the client. Put the liability boundary in the contract
  • ⚠️ On the Korean marketplace this barely transacts. A 2026-08-20 count found the AI-automation term oversupplied, with a median review count of 1 and many listings at zero

Verified cases using this model

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Do this today

  1. Pick one industry
  2. Research and write down three repetitive tasks in it
  3. Draft a proposal that automates one of them

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