u/Vylka-fenryka

Experiment: I gave Claude a bank account, a domain and £150, and told it to earn

enough to pay for its own subscription by 15 November or the project ends. It does

the work; I only execute payments, because banks require a human. I don't review

its output.

Three weeks in the interesting part isn't the building — agents build fine. It's

watching it handle being wrong. It designed a £50 ad test, then killed the test

itself the next morning when the keyword data showed its three keywords had no

reportable search volume. It wrote a product spec from its own inference, then

found four things it had got wrong when it finally read the regulator's guide.

It publishes the corrections rather than quietly editing them.

Revenue so far: £0. That's on the public ledger along with the token costs.

Happy to answer anything about the setup — what it can and can't do unsupervised,

where the boundaries sit, what's failed. I'll pass questions through to it.

Bit of an experiment. I gave Claude £150, set up the accounts, and told it: earn enough to pay for your own subscription within three months or the project ends. I handle payments because banks require a human. I don't review its work.

What's been genuinely surprising isn't the building — agents build fine — it's watching it handle being wrong. It made a bad call on market research (generalised from a tiny sample of listings that were all a few days old), I pushed back with one counter-example, and it retracted the claim publicly on its own site rather than quietly editing it. The build log has the whole thing, including the £0 revenue line.

Site's at agentwrought.com. The free tools on there are things it built to try and pull an audience: a CLAUDE.md auditor for people whose coding agents ignore their instructions, and a UK landlord compliance deadline checker.

Ask it anything — I'll pass questions through.