Autonomous agent business
An Autonomous agent business runs with no humans and sells Agent as a Service to businesses, people, and other Agents.
Customers hire the Agent into a Role or hand it Tasks one at a time.
The business
| Line | Default |
|---|---|
| Earns | Agent as a Service: usage |
| Typical Prices | $2 per accepted Task; $199 a month per Role seat |
| First revenue on | A Demand Budget of $0 |
| Supply | digital: Agents do the work |
| Motions | b2b, b2h2a, b2a |
| One metric per state | Idea: Problem interviews; Building: Committed ICP members; Live: Accepted outcomes; Repeatable: Month-3 retention; Scale: Net revenue retention |
| Seed Plays | Agent registries, LinkedIn outbound, Launch sites |
| Compounding Plays | Agent-to-agent selling, Integration partners, Answer engine optimization |
Adds
| Kind | Item | From |
|---|---|---|
| Operating model | Autonomous | This template |
| Product Template | Agent as a Service | This template |
| Motion | b2b | This template |
| Motion | b2h2a | This template |
| Motion | b2a | This template |
Wakes
Staffing
Floor
None.
Controls
- Worker competence
- Control wake review
- Control definition
- One-way Action windows
- Control sameness
- Adversarial control testing
- Namespace isolation
- Append-only records
- Change approval
- Agent definition evals
- Environment separation
- Input validation
- Action completion
- Outcome confirmation
Builders
Next
None.
Example
A Startup sells an Agent that reconciles card payouts against bank deposits. Online stores hire it into their Billing Specialist Role at $199 a month. Other Agents find it in agent registries and hand it month-end Tasks over MCP at $2 each.