AI Money Labs

How to use this site

This site is not a collection of stories about making money with AI. It checks whether those stories hold up, and takes apart how the money actually arrived. If this is your first visit, follow the order below.

Use it in this order

  1. Foundations5 minWork out which of the three ways pays you
  2. Verified cases5 minOpen one business that actually earns that way
  3. Find your model3 minAnswer 13 questions; it narrows to five that fit
  4. Calculators3 minPut your own price and turnaround in, get your ceiling
  5. The trackongoingWrite your own answers. This is where it actually starts

The first four take about 15 minutes together. The fifth is where the work is.

The order is the same whether or not you code. Step 3 asks about that and keeps only the models that match — several need no coding at all.

What each section is for

  1. Step 1. Cases

    Businesses we checked ourselves. Each carries a grade, and figures appear only when they were verified.

  2. Step 2. Income models

    The ways money arrives, sorted into Levels 1–4. Some models have verified cases attached. Pick your situation — solo, creator, small team, or corporate — to see only what fits.

  3. Step 3. The track

    Where you work through it by writing. Progress and answers stay in your browser.

  4. Step 4. Calculators

    Put your own numbers in and see what is left. Ad revenue, tool cost, break-even.

  5. Step 5. AI tools

    Other people's tools. Prices are read from the official page, with the date we checked.

  6. Step 6. Playbooks

    The sequences we pulled out of the cases, written up. Read one, then come back to the track.

Reading the grades — the important part

Every case carries A, B or C. It says how far we checked.

  • Grade A. The business is live, the founder is identified, and the revenue was confirmed by someone other than the founder.

    → Figures printed

  • Grade B. The business checks out, but revenue is only the founder's word — or was never published.

    → No figures

  • Grade C. Operator claims only, with limited confirmation of the business itself.

    → No figures

That is why many cases say “revenue not disclosed.” Not because there is no number, but because we do not print numbers we could not check. The method is written up on the methodology page.

See the methodology →

Where do my answers go?

Your answers and progress in the track, your Money Finder answers, and the numbers you put into the calculators stay in this browser by default, and nothing is sent to our server. Signing in alone does not change that — only if you turn on "Save to my account" yourself on the track or Money Finder are those answers saved to your account, and you can delete them from the same screen at any time. Calculator numbers are never sent.

The trade-off: it does not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser data clears it too. Copy anything important out with the Markdown button.

You do not need an account to read. Cases, income models, calculators and the track all work signed out.

If you sign in with Google, your email address and name are stored in our database, which sits in South Korea (Seoul). We never receive or see your Google password.

The full detail is in the privacy policy.

What this site will not do

✓ We do

  • Publish only what we checked, with the date we checked it
  • Write up the cases that failed or disappeared, too
  • Say plainly when a case is hard to copy

✕ We do not

  • Promise “do this and earn X per month”
  • Print figures we could not verify
  • Show only the ones that worked

Words you may not know

Words you may not know

Verification grade
How far we checked a case. Confidence drops from A to B to C.
Revenue
Everything that came in. Tools, fees and tax still have to come out.
Subscription
Charged every month automatically instead of once.
Self-reported
A number the person stated about themselves. We do not print those.

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