WAYS TO MAKE CAPITAL WITH AI CONTRIBUTIONS.
One-sheet · AI capital · 7 lanes · 29 routes · 3 rails
https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital

Seven 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.

READ THE TIERS FIRST
- PAYS NOW — documented payouts at scale; startable this month.
- SELECTIVE — real money behind a high bar, vetting gate, or high variance.
- EARLY — rails live, money thin.
- LONG ODDS — winners real, median roughly $0.

01 · SELL YOUR JUDGMENT TO THE LABS
- Mercor [SELECTIVE]
  $40-250+/hr; top US experts $100k-400k/yr part-time
  Mercor · https://www.mercor.com
- Turing [PAYS NOW]
  $15-40/hr tasks; ~$39/hr trainer average; global-friendly
  Turing · https://www.turing.com

02 · THE GENERALIST QUEUE
- DataAnnotation.tech [PAYS NOW]
  $14-25/hr reliable; $30-40 specialist projects
  Surge ecosystem · https://www.dataannotation.tech
- Outlier [PAYS NOW]
  $15-56/hr; empty-queue risk; rates down YoY
  Scale AI · https://outlier.ai

03 · BUILD WITH IT
- Micro-SaaS & indie apps [LONG ODDS]
  median subscription app $492/mo; outliers $20k-130k+/mo
  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#build
- Selling to the builders [SELECTIVE]
  audience-first portfolios to $90k/mo; near zero without
  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#build

04 · SELL SERVICES, AMPLIFIED
- AI-fluent freelancing [PAYS NOW]
  +34%/hr for AI work; established $4-10k/mo
  Upwork/Fiverr/direct · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#services
- Automation consulting [SELECTIVE]
  projects $500-15k; solo operators $10-30k/mo revenue
  independent · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#services

05 · SELL WHAT IT MAKES
- Faceless video channels [LONG ODDS]
  survivors $1k-50k/mo as production businesses
  YouTube/TikTok · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#content
- KDP ebooks [LONG ODDS]
  median approximately $0 without marketing
  Amazon · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#content

06 · TEACH IT
- Corporate workshops [PAYS NOW]
  half-day $3-8k; full-day $6-15k; trainers $3-40k/mo
  direct · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#teach
- Cohort courses [SELECTIVE]
  ~$12k average per cohort; instructor keeps 90%
  Maven et al. · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-income#teach

07 · GET PAID BY THE AGENTS
- Apify actors [PAYS NOW]
  80% share; ~$1.2M/mo total developer payouts
  Apify · https://apify.com
- x402 & crawl fees [EARLY]
  100M+ transactions, cent-sized payments; payouts small
  Coinbase/Cloudflare · https://www.x402.org

THE THREE RAILS THIS TOWN RUNS
Real numbers, read 2026-09-01. Small numbers printed plainly.
- $25 season ticket [STRIPE · /25]
  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.
  block 0510 · since 2026-07-27 · https://pointcast.xyz/25
- x402 receipts [X402 · /X402]
  Pay $0.01 USDC on Etherlink (eip155:42793) over HTTP 402 and get a countersigned receipt. Settled: 0.
  endpoint answers 402 · ledger total_count 0 · https://pointcast.xyz/x402
- Tezos editions [TEZOS · /MINTED]
  Visit Nouns FA2: 20 editions across 17 token ids, last mint 2026-04-28. Coffee Mugs FA2: 3 editions across 2 token ids.
  mainnet · per TzKT · blocks 0229 and 0364 · https://pointcast.xyz/minted

The rails are live and the money is thin.

PointCast · one-sheet · 2026-09-01 · source pages: /ai-income, /ai-income.json, /25, /x402, /minted, /b/0576
Twins: https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital.json · https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-capital.txt