When Will Your AI Start Paying Rent?

Or at least cover your daily Starbucks habit.

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You feed your AI like a freeloading flatmate. You throw it prompts, upload knowledge, connect it to apps, and fix its mistakes just to keep it alive. At first it feels novel, like training a clever pet. A few months in, you start asking the question every builder eventually asks: when will this thing start earning?

Because if your agent is burning through your budget, you don’t have an employee.

You’ve got a very expensive science project.

The Shift

Most agents today behave like cost centres. Helpful, yes, but not enough to justify their keep.

However, when you stop treating agents like toys and start treating them like employee, that’s when it starts to owns results. Afterall, an employee earns their seat on the payroll, right?

Your agent should do the same. If it lives in your stack, it should also live on your P&L. And if it doesn’t? Well…

The Juice

So how do you stop your AI from being a freeloading flatmate?

Treat it like a hire.

The Zest

Stop treating your AI like a freeloading roommate who eats your snacks and never pays a bill. The moment you give it a real role, tie it to revenue, and then package it so customers actually pay for it, you stop running experiments and start running a business.

With LaunchLemonade, they can show up branded, billable, and capable of delivering services for you. In other words, they start paying for stuff like your daily cuppa.

So here’s the real challenge: what job will you give your first earning agent?

All the zest, 🍋

Cien


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