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agentusecases.ai: the directory that sells its own top slot

agentusecases.ai is Alex Finn's directory of AI use cases, built and run with his Grok Bot agent, plus a daily email on top. Sponsors pay to sit at the top of the issue, and the placement price climbs $100 each time one sells.

Original source Read the teardown on dev.to Published teardowns · Source published Oct 16, 2026 · Filed Oct 2026

Proof grade: proof on the first sponsor, claim on everything bigger. The first sponsorship, $500, is confirmed by a second source. The larger figures, a $10,000 sponsorship among them, appear in Finn's own posts. He is the person selling the sponsorships, so we file those under claims, and this entry keeps the two piles separate.

The story

Alex Finn set a Grok Bot agent to work gathering AI use cases from the open web, and put a directory and a daily email on top of the pile. The teardowns that fetched the site counted 1,210 use cases live, with 254 added in a single week. The email turned the pile into a business: sponsors pay to sit at the top of the issue, the first one paid $500, a figure a second source confirms, and the price climbs $100 every time a slot sells. Bigger numbers travel with this project, a $10,000 sponsorship among them, and they are the seller's own claims, filed here as claims.

How it was built

The teardowns document how the business runs, not the order it was assembled in, so no build sequence is stated here. The documented pieces: a Grok Bot agent doing the gathering and the publishing; a directory site as the permanent archive, fed from the open web, X, Reddit, and Hacker News; a daily email as the sellable surface, with the sponsor slot at the top; and a public price ladder for the slot, which doubles as the marketing for the next sale.

How it runs

Grok Bot gathers AI use cases from the open web, X, Reddit, and Hacker News, and keeps the directory stocked. Two teardowns that fetched the site counted 1,210 use cases live, with 254 added in a single week. On top of the directory sits a daily email, and the email is the inventory: a sponsor slot at the top of the issue is what gets sold.

The agent's day is the gathering, the sorting, and the publishing. The human's part is the deals. That split is the business: the content engine runs itself, and the revenue line sits exactly where a person still approves the money.

Tools in this entry

Tools this business runs on, where its source names them. Links in this box are affiliate links and are tagged as such.

Grok Affiliate link The model behind Grok Bot, the agent that gathers the use cases and publishes the directory and the email.

The money and the proof

The first sponsor paid $500, a figure a second source confirms. The placement price rises $100 each time a sponsorship sells, so every sale makes the next slot worth more in public. Bigger numbers appear in Finn's own posts, a $10,000 sponsorship among them. Those are single-source claims from the person selling the thing, and we label them that way wherever they show up.

Filed as proof on the $500 and claim on everything bigger, the two piles kept separate on purpose.

Where the seams are

The seam is the cleanest in this directory, and the reporting names it: the agent's day is the gathering, the sorting, and the publishing, and the human's part is the deals. Sponsorships are approved by a person. The content engine runs itself; the revenue line sits exactly where a human still says yes.

Steal this part

The price ladder is the part to steal. A public price that climbs $100 per sale turns each sponsor into proof for the next one: the last buyer paid less than you will, and both of you can see it. An agent can run the outreach, the verification, and the draft. A human approves the deal. The ladder does the persuading in between.

Build your own

First move, this week: list the material your agent can gather on its own every day. If it cannot restock the directory without you, it is a page, not a business.

Build the directory from material your agent can gather daily on its own. If the agent cannot restock it, it is a page, not a business.
Put a regular email on top of it. The email is the inventory sponsors actually buy.
Sell the top slot at a public price, and raise the price $100 with every sale.
Let the agent run outreach, verification, and the draft of each deal. A human approves the deal itself.
Print which figures are confirmed and which are claims, in the same breath as the numbers.

Source

Visit the business at agentusecases.ai. The money grading rests on published teardowns of the site and its sponsorships, including this teardown on dev.to, published October 16, 2026. Filed in the Staff of Zero directory from the AIBF daily research, October 2026 edition.