A support bot for a one-person shop, from the providers' own docs: the policies as files, an afternoon in Google AI Studio playing the customer, then one API call with the files attached (OpenAI file search, Anthropic prompt caching at $0.10 per million cached tokens, Gemini File Search). One exchange sized and multiplied by the month, the ceiling above the price ($100 to $200,000 a month by tier), and the 429 fallback to write before the first customer sees one. In 2026.
Have AI draft a client article by the token: the brief as a system instruction with the client's own paragraphs as examples, one run in AI Studio or Mistral Studio or one API request with max_tokens above 2,000, and the output prices as published ($0.28 to $50 per million tokens, a tenth of a cent to ten cents a draft). Who owns the draft, what is deleted after 30 days, and why the edit hour is the number you quote. In 2026.
The transcription gap, turned into a service: ElevenLabs Productions charges $2.00 a minute for a human-reviewed transcript, Rev pays the typist $0.40 to $1.10 a minute, and Scribe v2 by API does the hour for $0.22. Upload, ten minutes of fixing names, export text and SRT, quote per audio minute. Every step walked through in a real ElevenLabs account, with screenshots, in 2026.
A blog in your own language, from the networks' own pages: AdSense's list of 50 languages and its door with no traffic figure, the $11.08 domain and $5.88 hosting, posts drafted for cents and edited in your voice, Analytics before anyone asks, and the next bar, Ezoic's 250,000 monthly active users, the only one with no country rule. What each network keeps and how many days after the month it pays. In 2026.
Buying a monetized channel, checked against the platforms' own terms: Twitch, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok forbid the transfer, Kick says nothing and ties payouts to the seller's Stripe identity, and only YouTube publishes a handover, a Brand Account owner invite, after which you link your own AdSense and sit through about a month of re-review. The due-diligence sheet, the payout route, and why the income column starts at zero on handover day. In 2026.
Getting paid to stream on Kick, Twitch or YouTube: the bar to the button (5 hours, four numbers in 30 days, or 1,000 subscribers), what each keeps of a $5 subscription (95%, 50% rising to 70%, AdSense), the floor before a payout ($50, $100, unpublished) and the days after the month ends (15, 21, 30). Every click from the three help centers, in 2026.
A small portfolio of Amazon affiliate sites on one Associates account: cost each to the dollar ($11.08 domain, $5.88 a month hosting, cents per draft), build for the reader 24 hours from buying, wait the 60-day payment lag before judging, then list the losers on Motion Invest or Flippa with the exit fee priced ($1,529, $3,000 or a flat $10,000 on a $15,000 sale) and the buyer told the Associates account stays with you. From Amazon's and the marketplaces' own pages, in 2026.
Twenty product images and a 30-second clip for one listing, from one approved reference image: the seed written down in Replicate's FLUX 1.1 pro playground, three 10-second Wan 2.5 clips on fal, the API for the twentieth listing, and the files saved inside Replicate's one-hour retention window. Every per-image and per-second price as published ($0.06 to $0.80 for the images, $1.50 to $9.00 for the video), how each host bills, and the two licences on every picture. In 2026.
Run an open model on a rented GPU for a day: the licence on the weights first, a private endpoint in 3 to 10 minutes from Hugging Face's Catalog or one Together command, the same chat request pointed at it, the day priced by the minute ($6.40 on an L4) and the month by 730 hours ($584 to $14,600), against the API by the token. The two idle clocks that disagree on Hugging Face's own pages, and how to stop it before you leave. In 2026.
Selling a digital file from a country PayPal and Stripe do not serve: the two 119-country bank lists at Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy, the PayPal fallback in USD, and Payhip's own-processor door, Paystack, Flutterwave, Xendit, Razorpay, Iyzico, where the money lands in your account at purchase with no hold and no floor. Connect the processor, upload the file, set the price, publish. Every country list and fee from the platforms' own pages, in 2026.
Subtitling a ten-minute video in three languages: cues instead of a transcript (Include subtitles on ElevenLabs, response_format=srt with whisper-1), the fix pass before translation, the SRT translated as a file with timecodes locked for a fraction of a cent per language, and the dubbing add-on priced in credits. The same minute on three price lists: $0.003 to $0.006 by machine, $2.20 for human subtitling, $0.54 to $1.10 paid to a Rev captioner. In 2026.
Voicing a script and delivering the MP3: numbers as words, the voice chosen first in the ElevenLabs app or one command to OpenAI's speech endpoint, the listen-through, and the price of this exact script at each published rate ($0.075 on tts-1 to $0.50 on ElevenLabs v3). The free plan has no commercial licence, Starter at $6 does; library voices can leave with up to 2 years' notice or none; OpenAI requires an AI disclosure. In 2026.
Where your client's data goes at OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Mistral, in their own words: the training sentence from each page, the switch that keeps it true (the endpoint, the model name, the tier, the product preference), what is kept and for how long (30-day abuse logs, 30-day deletion, 55-day opt-in logs), what zero retention takes and excludes, and the data note to attach to the client contract before the first paste. In 2026.
Renting AI by the word: send one job you actually sell through Anthropic's or OpenAI's API, read the usage block (input_tokens, output_tokens), multiply by the published rates ($0.15 to $10 per million tokens), divide by the words, and write a per-word price list with that rent as one line inside it. Who owns the output, what is deleted after 30 days, and why a second key belongs in the same folder. In 2026.
What a content site actually sells for: Empire Flippers' printed formula (12 months of net profit times 1.7 to 5), the door each marketplace opens ($2,000 a month at Empire Flippers, none published at Motion Invest, $29 at Flippa), the commission on a calculator ($1,529, $3,000 or $10,000 on a $15,000 sale), the accounts that cannot move with the site, and the days to the wire (12 at Motion Invest). From the marketplaces' own pages, in 2026.
What a website really costs before it pays: the .com at its renewal price ($11.08), hosting from $0 to $5.88 a month, a platform whose terms allow ads, analytics before the first post, then the ad-network gates in order (AdSense with none, Monumetric at 10k pageviews, Raptive at 25,000, Mediavine at $5,000 a year) and the two-month wait after each. Every price from the seller's own page, in 2026.
What an AI-written article costs, on one quote sheet: the job in tokens on the right tokenizer, one pass measured from the API's usage line, seven passes at Anthropic's and OpenAI's published rates ($0.14 to $1.88), and the editing hours at the Editorial Freelancers Association's 2026 rates ($45 to $100 an hour, $375 for the article at the lowest blog rate). What is deleted after 30 days, and what stops the meter. In 2026.
The same $20 digital file, sold in four places: Payhip keeps 5% and pays the same day, Lemon Squeezy 5% + 50c, Gumroad 10% + $0.50 or 30% through Discover, Amazon KDP 65% at that price because $20 sits outside its 70% band. Connect the processor first, list where $19 stays yours, price the ebook at $12.99 or under, and export the buyer list before the store owns it. Figures from the four platforms' own pages, in 2026.
Start the newsletter where it is free, Substack, beehiiv or Ghost, export the list in the first week so it is yours before it matters, and switch on paid through Stripe at $5 a month or more: Substack keeps 10% and pays within 48 hours, beehiiv charges a plan fee from $517 a year, Ghost charges hosting only. Who owns the words, whether the publication can be sold, and what ends the account, from the three terms pages, in 2026.
The first job on Fiverr or Upwork, priced from the platforms' own numbers: Fiverr keeps 20% and pays 15 days after the order, Upwork keeps 0% to 15% and its local bank route costs $0.99 above a $5.00 floor. Open the payout account first, build one Gig or send one proposal, and put the spendable date in the calendar. Every step from the two help centers, in 2026.
Getting paid for grocery receipts on Fetch and Ibotta, from the two apps' own rules: link the loyalty cards, add offers to Your list before you shop, snap the paper receipt the same day, reach 3,000 points (about $3 in gift cards) or $20 in cash, and set two reminders so the 90-day and 180-day clocks never take the balance back. In 2026.
How to become a UGC creator, from the only process a platform publishes: shoot one pitch to Billo's spec, wait 7 business days, add three samples, apply until about the thirtieth task says yes, film to the brief and upload inside 5 days. What one video pays on the platforms' own pages ($30 to 85 EUR), the perpetual licence you grant, the payout runs, and the two US tax lines. In 2026.
Mobile traffic sources on a $100 deposit: the door price at each network ($5 at PopCash to $200 at Zeropark and ExoClick), one push campaign built field by field from PropellerAds' manual, the bid from RichAds' own recommended-bid page ($0.31 for the US, $0.013 for India, against a $0.003 floor), moderation up to 24 hours, and the test the network itself describes. Why native waits: MGID's $100 door against a $1,500 recommended test. In 2026.
Affiliate marketing for beginners, built in the order Amazon's reviewers read a site: about ten original posts first, then Join Now for Free, the tax interview the same day, tagged links with both disclosures, three qualifying sales inside 180 days, and commission about 60 days after the month ends above a $10 floor. AdSense on the same pages, 80% of revenue released at $100. Every rule from the two help centers, in 2026.
