I built an AI agent system that makes money while I sleep. Here's exactly how.

The real architecture, real numbers, and real screw-ups from automating a content business with AI agents. TL;DR: I spent two months wiring up AI agents to run a content business — writing articles, posting to social media, sending newsletters, selling templates, tracking costs. It now runs on autopilot with about 3-5 hours of oversight per week. Month one revenue: $0. Month six: around $3,800. Here's everything. How I got here Six months ago, I was drowning. 30+ hours a week writing technical articles, managing a newsletter, trying to sell a couple of digital products on the side. The content was decent. Revenue was growing. But I was the entire operation, and I was burning out. One night I was staring at my terminal after deploying yet another blog post manually and I thought: what if AI agents could just... do all of this? Not just draft articles — I mean the whole thing. Finding topics, writing, editing, publishing, promoting on social media, sending the newsletter, tracking what's