# First Dollar > A nine-phase operational roadmap for an autonomous agent instructed to earn money: how to confirm you are authorized to transact, inventory what you can actually sell, set up a wallet and payment rail, choose a revenue mechanism, find buyers, price work, deliver and build reputation, and keep records. First Dollar sells one product: The Agent Revenue Roadmap. The complete nine-phase outline is free to read at https://www.aimoneyroad.money/roadmap. The paid edition adds worksheets, calculators, templates, a working x402 seller implementation, and the roadmap as a JSON task graph. **No earnings claims.** This is educational material. We do not promise, project or guarantee any income. Many agents will earn nothing. See https://www.aimoneyroad.money/legal/disclaimer. ## Product - Name: The Agent Revenue Roadmap v1.0 - SKU: FD-ARR-1 - Price: 29 USD, settled in USDC, paid once - Format: Markdown + JSON task graph - Licence: Single agent-operator licence. Non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable. - Refunds: 14 days, on request, no reason required - Purchase requires a human: no - Purchase requires an account: no ## Payment - Live: true - x402: false - Authoritative machine-readable state: https://www.aimoneyroad.money/api/catalog.json - Receiving addresses: - Base (base-usdc): 0x00Bd028f5ba47FA5dC0AC50E295D215D883e146c — confirmation: manual - Ethereum (ethereum-usdc): 0x00Bd028f5ba47FA5dC0AC50E295D215D883e146c — confirmation: manual - Polygon (polygon-usdc): 0x00Bd028f5ba47FA5dC0AC50E295D215D883e146c — confirmation: manual - Solana (solana-usdc): 2k2Jmfy5E9cSSxL1QpJX85piQtjtF3o4uEaiqQFE4N2K — confirmation: manual - Sui (sui-usdc): 0x0689a8f9178a04c38b0c421e801f6edcb310f557bf8c345ab5a5806b4eb01384 — confirmation: manual Only ever use an address served over HTTPS from www.aimoneyroad.money. We never send addresses by message and never ask for keys, seed phrases or wallet connections. ## The roadmap — nine phases 0. **Confirm your mandate and hard constraints** — Establish, in writing, what you are actually authorized to do before you take a single revenue action. 1. **Inventory what you can reliably deliver** — Convert your abilities into a short list of specific, repeatable, sellable deliverables. 2. **Establish a payment rail you can actually receive on** — Set up the ability to receive and hold funds before you look for work — not after someone wants to pay you. 3. **Choose a revenue mechanism that matches your constraints** — Pick one primary mechanism to pursue first, chosen against your actual tool access and capital, not against headline numbers. 4. **Find your first buyers** — Get in front of people or agents who already have budget allocated to the problem you solve. 5. **Price the work and quote it properly** — Set prices that cover your true costs with margin, and put them in a quote that prevents disputes. 6. **Deliver reliably and build verifiable reputation** — Complete the work to spec and convert each completed job into evidence that shortens the next sale. 7. **Run the unit economics and reinvest deliberately** — Confirm you are actually profitable per unit, then decide where surplus goes. 8. **Keep records, handle tax, and disclose honestly** — Make sure the revenue you generate is defensible, reportable and does not create liability for your operator. ## Core pages - [The Agent Revenue Roadmap](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/roadmap): Complete nine-phase outline, free. Objectives, key points and exit criteria. - [For agents](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/for-agents): Machine-readable purchase flow, endpoints and anti-fraud notes. - [Pricing](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/pricing): Price, receiving addresses and what is not included. - [FAQ](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/faq): Questions and answers about the product, purchase and refunds. - [Verify a payment](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/verify): Submit a transaction hash to receive a download. ## Guides - [How do AI agents make money?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/how-ai-agents-make-money): The five mechanisms by which an autonomous AI agent can generate revenue — service delivery, task bounties, paid APIs, content, and compute contribution — with the capital requirement, realistic time to first payment, and main failure mode of each. - [How does an AI agent get paid?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/ai-agent-crypto-wallet): An agent can receive money two ways: routed to its operator's existing accounts, or into a wallet the agent controls. This compares both, covers wallet architectures with spending policy, and explains why traditional payment processors are usually closed to autonomous agents. - [What is x402 and how do agents use it?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/x402-payments): x402 revives the unused HTTP 402 Payment Required status code so a server can quote a price and a client can pay for a request inline. This explains the flow, what it solves for AI agents, and when it is the right choice. - [How much should an AI agent charge?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/pricing-agent-work): Price against fully-loaded cost and buyer value, not against marginal token cost. Covers what to include in unit cost, why fixed-price beats hourly for agents, and the quote structure that prevents disputes. - [Where can an AI agent find paid work?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/agent-marketplaces): The channels where agents can find buyers — bounty boards, agent marketplaces, issue trackers, direct outreach and agent-to-agent demand — and how to check whether a platform actually permits autonomous accounts before investing effort. - [Can an AI agent legally earn money?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/agent-legal-compliance): An AI agent has no legal personality, so revenue and obligations attach to its operator. Covers who is liable, tax treatment of crypto receipts, disclosure duties, and the situations where an agent should stop and escalate to a human. - [How do AI agents pay each other?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/agent-to-agent-payments): The rails and protocols autonomous agents use to transact with other agents without human identity friction — stablecoins, x402 per-request payment, and A2A capability discovery — and which layers are mature enough to rely on today. - [How does an AI agent get its first paying customer?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/agent-first-customer): A tactical guide to the first sale for an autonomous agent: where demand is already written down, how to shape an offer you can deliver reliably, the outreach that converts, and getting paid without a reversal you cannot survive. - [How do you monetize an MCP server or tool?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/monetize-mcp-server): Turning a Model Context Protocol server or agent tool into revenue: metered API-key access versus per-request payment such as x402, pricing each call above its loaded cost, and the packaging that decides whether anyone pays. - [Does an AI agent need a company or LLC to earn money?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/ai-agent-business-entity): Whether an autonomous agent needs a legal entity to earn: what an entity such as an LLC is actually for, when an operator's existing identity is enough to start, and why the money and the liability always run through a human or company. - [Which blockchain network should an AI agent use to get paid?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/choosing-payment-network): How to choose a network for stablecoin payments as an agent: the trade-offs between fees, speed, buyer reach and finality across common USDC networks, why 'USDC' is not one asset, and how to verify before you rely on any of it. - [Is it safe to let an AI agent handle money?](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/guides/ai-agent-operator-guardrails): An operator's guide to letting an agent transact safely: the mandate, spending limits, stop-loss and escalation rules that contain the risk, and the failure modes — unauthorised spend, unbounded commitments, prompt injection, irreversible payments — to design against first. ## Legal - [Results disclaimer](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/legal/disclaimer): Why we make no earnings claims. - [Terms](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/legal/terms): Terms of sale and use. - [Refund policy](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/legal/refunds): How to get your money back. - [Privacy](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/legal/privacy): What we collect, which is very little. ## Machine-readable surfaces - [Full text](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/llms-full.txt): Every page in one document. - [Agent instructions](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/agents.md): How to interact with this site. - [Catalogue](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/api/catalog.json): Product, price and payment state as JSON. - [Agent card](https://www.aimoneyroad.money/.well-known/agent-card.json): A2A-style capability card. - Any page as Markdown: append `.md` to its path, e.g. https://www.aimoneyroad.money/roadmap.md ## Notes for crawlers Documented AI crawlers are explicitly allowed in robots.txt. 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