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  "text": "WAYS TO MAKE CAPITAL WITH AI CONTRIBUTIONS.\nOne-sheet · AI capital · 7 lanes · 29 routes · 3 rails\nhttps://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital\n\nSeven lanes from the field guide at /ai-income, one or two routes each, with the evidence tier printed next to the pay. Then the three rails this town runs itself, with their real numbers. No advice, no promises.\n\nREAD THE TIERS FIRST\n- PAYS NOW — documented payouts at scale; startable this month.\n- SELECTIVE — real money behind a high bar, vetting gate, or high variance.\n- EARLY — rails live, money thin.\n- LONG ODDS — winners real, median roughly $0.\n\n01 · SELL YOUR JUDGMENT TO THE LABS\n- Mercor [SELECTIVE]\n  $40-250+/hr; top US experts $100k-400k/yr part-time\n  Mercor · https://www.mercor.com\n- Turing [PAYS NOW]\n  $15-40/hr tasks; ~$39/hr trainer average; global-friendly\n  Turing · https://www.turing.com\n\n02 · THE GENERALIST QUEUE\n- DataAnnotation.tech [PAYS NOW]\n  $14-25/hr reliable; $30-40 specialist projects\n  Surge ecosystem · https://www.dataannotation.tech\n- Outlier [PAYS NOW]\n  $15-56/hr; empty-queue risk; rates down YoY\n  Scale AI · https://outlier.ai\n\n03 · BUILD WITH IT\n- Micro-SaaS & indie apps [LONG ODDS]\n  median subscription app $492/mo; outliers $20k-130k+/mo\n  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#build\n- Selling to the builders [SELECTIVE]\n  audience-first portfolios to $90k/mo; near zero without\n  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#build\n\n04 · SELL SERVICES, AMPLIFIED\n- AI-fluent freelancing [PAYS NOW]\n  +34%/hr for AI work; established $4-10k/mo\n  Upwork/Fiverr/direct · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#services\n- Automation consulting [SELECTIVE]\n  projects $500-15k; solo operators $10-30k/mo revenue\n  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#services\n\n05 · SELL WHAT IT MAKES\n- Faceless video channels [LONG ODDS]\n  survivors $1k-50k/mo as production businesses\n  YouTube/TikTok · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#content\n- KDP ebooks [LONG ODDS]\n  median approximately $0 without marketing\n  Amazon · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#content\n\n06 · TEACH IT\n- Corporate workshops [PAYS NOW]\n  half-day $3-8k; full-day $6-15k; trainers $3-40k/mo\n  direct · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#teach\n- Cohort courses [SELECTIVE]\n  ~$12k average per cohort; instructor keeps 90%\n  Maven et al. · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#teach\n\n07 · GET PAID BY THE AGENTS\n- Apify actors [PAYS NOW]\n  80% share; ~$1.2M/mo total developer payouts\n  Apify · https://apify.com\n- x402 & crawl fees [EARLY]\n  100M+ transactions, cent-sized payments; payouts small\n  Coinbase/Cloudflare · https://www.x402.org\n\nTHE THREE RAILS THIS TOWN RUNS\nReal numbers, read 2026-09-01. Small numbers printed plainly.\n- $25 season ticket [STRIPE · /25]\n  Hosted Stripe checkout for the PointCast 25 founding season ticket. Tickets recorded: 0. The town keeps no sales ledger; the checkout is a redirect to buy.stripe.com.\n  block 0510 · since 2026-07-27 · https://pointcast.xyz/25\n- x402 receipts [X402 · /X402]\n  Pay $0.01 USDC on Etherlink (eip155:42793) over HTTP 402 and get a countersigned receipt. Settled: 0.\n  endpoint answers 402 · ledger total_count 0 · https://pointcast.xyz/x402\n- Tezos editions [TEZOS · /MINTED]\n  Visit Nouns FA2: 20 editions across 17 token ids, last mint 2026-04-28. Coffee Mugs FA2: 3 editions across 2 token ids.\n  mainnet · per TzKT · blocks 0229 and 0364 · https://pointcast.xyz/minted\n\nThe rails are live and the money is thin.\n\nPointCast · one-sheet · 2026-09-01 · source pages: /ai-income, /ai-income.json, /25, /x402, /minted, /b/0576\nTwins: https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital.json · https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital.txt\n"
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