Grok Bot just built me an autonomous business...

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Original video: Grok Bot just built me an autonomous business… · Channel: Alex Finn · 20:06 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, AI content generation, Markets and economy

Summary

Alex Finn presents the idea of “agentic income”: revenue from AI agents that build and maintain small businesses. He demonstrates a site-building workflow in which an AI bot proposes a business idea, creates a directory of AI tools, and sets up routines for updates, SEO, chatbot visibility, and a newsletter. He recommends connecting services such as Vercel, GitHub, Resend, and Stripe, while emphasizing that people still need to attract an audience and approve certain actions. The video closes with his vision of running several small AI-operated businesses and encourages viewers to try building one themselves.

Key points

The video frames income generated by autonomous AI-operated businesses as “agentic income.”
The example business is a directory intended to help people find AI tools for different use cases.
The agent can help choose a simple problem to solve, build an initial website, and suggest sponsorships as a revenue model.
The creator demonstrates assigning the bot a CEO role and setting expectations for its ongoing work.
Suggested maintenance tasks include adding new releases, checking for bugs and feedback, improving SEO, and maintaining a newsletter.
The creator recommends Vercel for hosting, GitHub for code, and Resend for programmatic email; he also demonstrates Stripe for collecting payments.
The video argues that distribution and audience-building remain important for attracting users to a business.
The agent may still need human input, including approval before actions such as sending newsletters or accepting payments.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	The idea of agentic income	Finn introduces an AI-maintained business and describes his vision of revenue generated by autonomous agents.
02:35	Creating an AI business and choosing an idea	He creates a bot with a CEO role and uses it to brainstorm a simple business problem to solve.
07:14	Building the first version	The bot shapes the AI-tool directory concept, suggests featured listings as monetization, and builds an initial site.
09:17	Setting up autonomous operations	Finn outlines ongoing tasks for the agent, including SEO, site maintenance, feedback monitoring, and a newsletter.
12:54	Connecting services and building distribution	He recommends tools for hosting, code, email, and payments, and explains why attracting an audience matters.
16:01	Payments and the case for multiple small businesses	Finn describes using Stripe for sponsorship payments and shares his vision of several small agent-run businesses generating income.
18:02	Letting the agent continue and taking action	He reviews the bot’s updates, encourages viewers to launch their own projects, and invites them to share their businesses.

Quotes

the most important metric in your life 5 years from now will be agentic income — 00:00

The best businesses are the ones that solve challenges. — 03:40

distribution’s one of the last remaining motes. — 14:58

That’s what we’re coining it, agentic income. — 17:01

Your bot keeps going and building your business autonomously for you. — 19:06

Concepts and entities

Grok Bot, Milo, Timothy, agent use cases.ai, Build Stack, Vercel, GitHub, Resend, Stripe, Alex Finn

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 I think what I’m about to show you is the future of the economy. I think most people in the world is going to be setting up over the next 5 years exactly what we’re about to go through, which is your own autonomous business being run by an AI agent. Like I think the most important metric in your life 5 years from now will be agentic income, the amount of money coming in from AI agents that are autonomously running your businesses. What I got here is my Stripe page for a business my Grok bot set up and is actively maintaining. I’ve basically done zero work on this

00:31 business and I’m just collecting revenue for me. Again, I’ll go over how to set it up, everything involved in just a second, but this is the Stripe page. Over the last day it’s made $1,100. I’ll show you where that’s coming from as well, and it’s all coming from this autonomous business my Grok bot has set up called agent use cases.ai. It’s basically a directory of use cases across all AI agents, Meta Muse, Grok bot, Claude code, Hermes agent, all of them. It’s scraping the entire internet for use cases for AI bots. Grok bot

01:02 autonomously built this, autonomously monetized it, and now is autonomously collecting revenue for it. It’s continuously searching the web for new use cases. It’s continuously updating the site for SEO, updating the site for chatbot optimization, so ChatGPT and Claude will recommend users to come to this. And as you can see it’s working. 56,000 visitors over the last couple days, 123,000 views, and it’s coming from all across the internet. Google, Facebook, Bing. So it is really SEO

01:33 optimized, LinkedIn. Uh these are a ton of different websites driving users uh to agent use cases. And this is all autonomous. I didn’t do anything you see here. So I did this with Grok bot. You can do this with pretty much any AI agent you’re using now, Muse, ChatGPT, dots, Hermes, whatever you’re using what I’m about to show you is relevant. I’m just going to be using Grok bot as an example cuz that’s what I’m using to maintain this. This is not sponsored by Grokbot. I just think it’s the best setup at the moment for doing this type of autonomous business thing, but you

02:04 can use anything you want. I promise. So, this is Grokbot and this is the bot I made for this, Milo. Milo is my maintainer, basically CEO of agent use cases. As you can see here, Milo pings me every once in a while. Pings me late last night that we got our second sponsor, Lasso Finance. They paid us $600. They’re sponsoring the site. It’s all set up, good to go. They ping me with analytics updates, how many people are on the site. Pings me when it has improvements it’s building. Pings me when I’m making money. I do not have to do any work here. It just does all of these things. So, how do you set this

02:35 up? How do you build an autonomous business with your agents? Well, the first thing you do is build the bot itself. I would have a profile dedicated to this agentic business. If you’re on Grokbot, make a new bot, make a category for your new bot. Give it whatever name you want. I’d give the role CEO of your agentic business and you’re good to go. I’m going to build this alongside with you here. So, let’s create a new bot here. We’re going to create a new bot. Your name is Timothy and I want you to be the CEO of a new agentic business I

03:08 want to build. And we hit enter and Timothy’s going to get to work for us. Do this alongside me, by the way. If you do this alongside me, pause as we go. Do the steps. You’ll be set up by the end of this video with your own agentic business, which is going to be sick. So, it renamed itself Timothy and we are good to go. The first thing we need to do with our new CEO, agentic CEO, that’s going to be running our business for us, making us autonomous money, is figuring out an idea for the autonomous business. At the end of the day, the best businesses are the ones that solve challenges. Agent

03:40 use cases solves the challenge of people not knowing what to do with AI agents. My best performing videos on YouTube are always the ones where it’s like top five use cases this, top six use cases of that, because people just don’t know what to do with their AI agents. That micro business solves that problem. So, what you want to do is you want to solve problems in very simple ways. You just want to build simple micro businesses here that our agents can fully take care of. So, here we go. I’ll put this prompt down below. Just copy it. Copy paste it. Give it to your Grok bot, whatever agent

04:10 you’re using. I want you to design, build, and run an autonomous business for me. Let’s first come up with the idea. I want this to be very simple problem my audience might have. I’m into AI AI agents, tech, video games, and vibe coding. What are some very simple challenge challenges we can solve? I hit enter. And my Grok bot is going to start thinking. By the way, I forgot to show you this when we’re going through agent use cases. The $1,100 we have so far are both sponsorships. So, you can come in here. You can click your logo here. Sponsor us. So far, Pain AI has been the

04:41 first sponsor. The second sponsor is Lasso. They’re going to go up in the the ticker down here next week. And they also get their logo in the newsletter that agent use cases send out. Also completely autonomously ran by Grok bot. And now it was like I think I have 2,000 subscribers on the site, which is amazing. Completely autonomously built, run, sent. I put zero effort into it. But their sponsorship goes in there, too. So, that’s how this is monetized. I’ll show you how to monetize your autonomous business in a second as well. And this is what I love about Grok bot. This is why I like to use Grok bot for

05:12 this. The interface is just so good. Like it gives you like multiple choice questions, things like that. Here’s six simple problems your audience actually runs into. Each one small enough for agents to run mostly on their own. My vibe coded app broke and I don’t know why. People paste an error or repo link and get a plain English fix back. They’d pay for the fix. I built something, but nobody knows it exists. An agent writes launch posts for X. That’s pretty good. Which AI tool should I use for this? A weekly rank list of new AI and agent tools short by which ones actually good for it. Could start as a paid new

05:42 Interesting. So, this is an interesting idea. So, kind of like how agent use cases is a directory of agent use cases, maybe we build like a directory of like AI tools. That could be interesting. So people, they don’t know which AI tools to use, they go on our site, shows you which AI tools solve which problems. This is super good for SEO, simple super good for like AI SEO, where ChatGPT and Claude send people to your site. That’s pretty good as well. I want an AI agent but don’t know where to start.

06:12 Ready-made agent templates for common jobs like email triage or lead research sold as cheap downloads. That’s interesting. So it’s like a directory of like bot personas. So you can go on, oh, here’s a persona for like an email bot, but I guess like Grok Bot already has kind of like a bot marketplace. But I guess this could work across all bots, right? Let’s do this. Let’s do number two. So like a directory of AI tools.

06:42 Which AI tools are used for which things? You can type in your use case, it shows you which AI tools to use. I kind of like that. So I’m going to say, let’s do AI tool ranking. We can make a directory of AI tools, shows which AI tools people should be using for which use cases, and showcases new tool releases, right? So you choose one of the problems, you choose a

07:14 solution, you hit enter. By the way, I’m not going to launch this idea. I want to let you guys take the idea. So if you’re in the audience right now, you don’t know which idea to do, just steal this one. Just do this one right here. I’m going to hit send on that. And Grok Bot’s going to go ahead and it’s going to, I assume, next steps build this out for us. Here’s how I’d shape it. A website list tools by use cases like best for writing, best for video. Each pick gets a short verb on why agents can scan X. The money comes from featured listing to tool makers pay for. So, that’s great. This perfect monetization.

07:44 People can buy sponsorships and they get featured at the top of our AI tool directory. A lot of these AI tools are paying tons of money to for sponsorships and get ahead of people cuz that’s the only way they can get distribution. So, this is really good. Who is this mainly for? Let’s do vibe coders and builders. And this is great because Grok Bot is guiding us along the way and what the idea should be and how we should build this out. What should I do first? Research competitors, pick a name, build a first Let’s just build it. Let’s build. Let’s have a bias for action. Don’t spend too much time on name The

08:14 name of my micro business is AI use cases, right? Like it doesn’t You don’t need You don’t need to spend much time. It doesn’t need to be perfect. You just need to get it built and out there on the internet so other AI agents can find it and recommend people to go to it. On it building a first version real tools picked for vibe codes. This is great because the cursor cloud agents are built in. So, it just uses cursor and builds it out. The first version’s live. It’s already built. This is like real time. It took like 2 minutes to do. Uh the first version live at Build Stack. All right, let’s see what this looks like. Wow, okay. It’s literally live. Uh

08:47 it’s actually live right now. I’m not going to promote this at all. So, feel free to steal the idea. This is just for the demonstration of this video. I want you guys to have this idea. But look at this. Wow, it even has the newest Like this dropped like literally an hour ago, Gemini 4 Argon. Uh unbelievable. News wonder, that was yesterday. This is really, really sick. Obviously, from a visual perspective, is it the prettiest? No. But we can massage this little bit. All right, so the business is built. It has 33 real tools across categories. What is next? So, here is where we’re

09:17 going to get autonomous, right? Well, we got our bot set up. This is really 90% of the manual work we’re going to do with this. Now, we’re going to start setting expectations for how this autonomous business is going to run. I made this tweet this morning that lists all the autonomous things my bot is doing for AI agent use cases. And by the way, I’ll put the link for that down below if you want to check out the autonomous business itself. It’s agent use cases.ai. Uh here’s everything my bot’s maintaining. So, let’s set up our bot now to maintain these as well.

09:48 Monetizing when appropriate, optimizing SEO, optimizing for chatbots, starting and maintaining a newsletter. This is a big one. This is what’s going to drive people back to your site and this is really easy for your bot to maintain its own autonomous newsletter. This is actually going to be like the most valuable part of the autonomous business because you can monetize your email list like really, really easily. Watching for feedback on X. This is if you’re building your distribution, which I will cover later in this video as well, why you should be building your distribution for this. Watching for bugs, things like that. So, let’s take this list. I’ll put

10:19 this down below as well so you just copy Everything is copy and paste. If you just copy and paste everything I’m telling you to copy and paste, you’re going to have your own business. Why aren’t you copying and pasting everything I’m telling you to copy and paste? Let’s go back into the Grok bot here. All right, you are going to be the autonomous CEO for this micro business. Here is everything I want you to work on and maintain for me. Then I’m going to paste that in. I’m going to hit enter on that. And now we

10:51 are going to Now that we set expectations, see what Timothy has to say here. But now it’s going to set routines, set tasks up so we can do these things. Look at these routines. Build task daily ops, build stack weekly CEO updates. We’re going to weekly updates. Look at this. It’s building the routines out live as we I like this orange. Kind of a nice for Halloween, this nice toasty orange. By the way, call me soft, but pumpkin spice lattes I’m not sponsored by Starbucks. Every time I mention anything, people accuse me of being uh sponsored by whatever company. It’s not sponsored by

11:22 Starbucks, but pumpkin spice lattes uh that’s where they’re at. Anyway, what’s running it now? Every morning at 7:52 a.m. PT, I will add new releases, check the site for bugs, scan for X feedback, and make one SEO improvement. It’ll only message you if something matters. Every Monday night 7:17, you’ll get short progress. Right now, I’m adding SEO basics, a page that AI chatbots can read and quote, and a newsletter sign-up. Before anything goes out to people like newsletter sign-ups, sponsorships, or payments, I’ll check with you first. We now have an autonomous business. There’s still some things we need to do. I’m going to show you a few more very

11:52 critical steps, but like this is kind of the basis of what we’re setting up here. It built the site, came up with the idea, and now it’s main taining it for us. This is not going to require any work. Once we start getting people on the site, money will just start coming in from sponsorships, from the email newsletter, things like that. As you’re setting this up, one critical thing you’re going to want to do here is make sure it does set up that email newsletter. How do you set up and maintain an autonomous email newsletter? Well, I’m using the service I’m about to

12:23 show you in a second, but real quick before I do that, if you learned anything so far, leave a like down below, subscribe, turn on notifications. All I do is make incredible videos about AI. I give you the latest news. I show you how to make money off AI. I show you how to build your own autonomous businesses. All I do all day is play around with AI, then tell you everything I’m learning. If you appreciate that, like, subscribe, notifications. And also, if you’re interested, the link to agentusecases.ai is down below if you want to click and check out my autonomous business I’m now

12:54 running. So, big part of this is the autonomous newsletter, so you can build a marketing list and keep driving people back to your site on that. To do that, you’re going to need to set up a connector. There are a few critical connectors you need to set up to get this working as autonomously as possible. Number one, the one I would set up first is Vercel. Vercel is excellent. It was my favorite web hosting. Again, no no sponsorships in this video. None of these are sponsored. I’m just personally telling you which ones I like. Vercel is the best for

13:26 hosting your site, hosting your autonomous micro businesses, use Vercel for that. You can do it completely for free. The other one you need to do is GitHub. This is where your code will be stored. Set up GitHub so it can push changes and PRs to GitHub. And then for the autonomous newsletter, I’m using Resend. Not sponsored by Resend, although Resend, if you’re watching, sponsor the hell out of me here. Uh Resend is my favorite programmatic email service, basically meaning your bot can hook into it, start collecting emails

13:56 with it, and send out the autonomous newsletter with it. Resend has been sending out the autonomous agent use cases newsletter every single morning for me. I don’t write this newsletter. It’s completely maintained by my agent. It’s sent out through Resend, and it just tracks all the clicks, and it tracks all the opens and everything for me. Zero work necessary. Boom, there’s the sponsor from this week, too. Right in there automatically. Really, really means it. You get those three plugins for you using your using set up, your business is now autonomous. So,

14:28 Timothy’s still going there. It’s working on the SEO for We’re pretty much hands-off at this point, where Timothy is now going and handling everything for us, improving the site, watching for feedback, building it out. But how do we start getting people to our site? Well, this is where I think one of the last remaining motes are in software. Software is quickly dying. If you saw reverse engineer everything coming out uh this week, it’s taking over. It’s making it super easy copy software. By

14:58 the way, if you want a video on reverse engineer anything, let me know down below. That’ll be my next video if people are interested. But software is pretty much dead. So, what’s the mote? How am I still able to make money off the site? Well, distribution’s one of the last remaining motes. I have been able to drive a lot of people to my site by tweeting a lot, right? I post about this quite often. The agent use cases drives a lot of people there, and it works. You don’t need half a milli followers like me to do this. You can do this with significant You can do this with like 50 followers. But, distribution is important. I think it’s

15:30 going to only be more important in the future. So, you need to start building an audience cuz this is going to be one last moat, especially if you want to make money with AI. I think the easiest way to build distributions on X. I’m not sponsored by X, but like it takes like 5 seconds to tweet. It was my first social media platform. You start an account, you tweet, you reply to a couple people, and boom, you have 50 followers on X. You put out a tweet, you get a few people to your site, and you start your autonomous business. Start an X, post about whatever you want. I started

16:01 posting two times a day when I started an X about 5 years ago. Just posted twice a day in between meetings at work, and eventually snowballed into what I have today, which is half a million. But, if you post continuously, and every once in a while plug the autonomous business your Grok Bot’s maintaining, you will get users to your site will start making money. Another thing, you do want to set up Stripe. Set up a Stripe connector here as well. I use Stripe to collect payments. That was the screen I showed you earlier. Grok Bot

16:31 can work with it really well. It can autonomously set up the payment link. It’s going to put that in the sponsorship area on your autonomous site. I imagine the way it’s going to monetize is by offering sponsorships on the site. For our example, it was like the AI tool directory. It’ll allow sponsors to go in and make sure their AI tool ranks highly. It’ll put a Stripe payment link in there, and now you can start autonomously collecting payments. Once you do that, you will get the amazing messages I get from my Grok Bot, which are, “Hey, you just closed a

17:01 deal.” When you get those messages for the first time, it is the best feeling ever. I woke up to this message this morning that you got your second sponsor for $600. I was so pumped, because I put basically no effort into building this micro business out, and it just collected the money. It really is like the greatest feeling ever once you start making uh agentic income. That’s what we’re coining it, agentic income. Someone replied to my post on X saying it, that’s the new term. That’s what we’re going with. That’s going to be the huge term over the next few years. I

17:32 really do believe like this is the future though. In a world of AI, I see an alternative to jobs and careers being like you set up three to four agentic businesses that are collecting agentic income. Maybe you have three or four businesses each making 10 to 20k uh each collecting revenue. They’re not huge. They just kind of collect a little bit of revenue, provide value to the users, and boom, you got enough to live off that and do what you want out there.

18:02 Right? That’s the beauty of AI. It allows you to do way less of what you don’t like if you don’t like sitting in meetings and things like that, and way more of what you do like, living your life out there, creating content if you want, playing around with tech, playing around with tools, and your agents go and autonomously collect revenue and build value for other people. That is the beauty of AI, and that’s what you get to do if you follow these steps I just showed you. So, let’s go back to Timothy to see what it is up to. Okay, the SEO chatbot newsletter upgrades are now live. Boom, there’s now a newsletter good to go, all set up. It did some SEO

18:34 upgrades so Google starts recommending the site. It is optimizing for the chatbot so that ChatGPT will start recommending people to our site. To go further, I need a real name and a real contact email since Build Stack are still places. I’d also like to connect Google Search Console so you can get the Google login. Keep the name Build I actually like Build Stack. Here, I’m not going to take it. If you build this right now, you take Build Stack, and boom, you just got free promotion from this video. Go to Build Stack. I’m not taking someone else can take that and build their autonomous business. I’m going to keep working on agent use

19:06 cases.ai. But all you need to do now is let your bot go wild. Figure out what it needs to do, right? It has its own routines to check things over every day. Let it go wild every once in a while. It check in with you, “Hey, do you want to improve this? Do you want to improve that? What’s your opinion on this?” You choose an option, and you’re good to go. Your bot keeps going and building your business autonomously for you. I think, as I said before, this is going to be an absolutely tremendous trend over the next few years. The earlier you get in on it, the more profitable it can be.

19:36 So, if you’re part of the Fin Fam, you watch my videos, go and take action immediately. Don’t just watch this, bookmark it, then walk away. Like, actually go and do these things. Cuz I think this is an outrageously large opportunity at the moment. I will keep you up to date on how Agent uses cases.ai goes, how much autonomous revenue it’s bringing in for me. So, again, make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications for all those updates. Hit up my newsletter. It’s the number one newsletter in AI, Ship It Weekly. It has over 40,000 subs. Link for that down

20:06 below. Check that out as well. I hope this was helpful. If you set up your own agentic website, your own agentic business, link it down below in the replies. Promote your agentic business if you took action on this video. If you promote it, I’ll reply. I’ll give it the heart, so it goes to the top of the list, so other people can see it. Build your agentic businesses, put them in the replies down below. I’ll help promote you and get users to your site. Fin Fam is fam, so you know I always got your back. I hope this is helpful. I’ll see you in the next video.