How Can Ordinary People Make Money in the Era of AI Agents?
Exploring how ordinary people can leverage their experience to make money in the AI Agent era — the key isn't technology, but turning your expertise into structured prompts, AI Skills, or SaaS products.
How Can Ordinary People Make Money in the Era of AI Agents?
Maybe it’s because they know I’ve been working on AI SaaS and AI Agents, but lately, people keep popping up out of nowhere to talk to me about AI Agents and how to make money.
“Should I build an agent with AI?” “Should I create a website?” Questions like that, over and over.
But honestly, none of that matters. What matters is your experience — and your ability to distill that experience into structured prompts. That’s the real key. Once you have that, whether you turn it into an automated program with code, or simply package it as a Skill using Claude Code or Codex, you’ve got a product that can make you money.
So the point is: your experience.
Whether it’s how to nail a PPT, build a killer spreadsheet, or solve a nagging problem at work — as long as you can capture your hard-won know-how and turn it into a Skill or AI SaaS that others can reuse, you stand to make serious money.
Even if it only solves a tiny problem.
So for most ordinary people looking to cash in on AI Agents or Skills: don’t go out of your way to hunt for scenarios or needs. Just take the experience you already have — the workflows you use every day — and write them down, structure them, productize them.
In the era of AI Agents, your experience is your product.