Experiments we actually ran, including the ones that made nothing.
Field Notes
On 14 August our research notes recorded an AI business listed at $17,000. On 16 August it reads $12,000 — a 29% cut. The grade-A case we published the same day earns $80,601 a month. This is the side success stories leave out.
Field Notes
Two searches on Korea's largest freelance marketplace, top 20 listings each, 40 in total. We recorded every price and review count by hand. The median review count differed by 10.9×, and the services were the more expensive side, not the cheaper one.
Field Notes
Six rounds of research, five cases logged, one that survived onto the site. Here is what failed each time, including two mistakes we made ourselves — and the five checks you can run on any success story in about ten minutes.