Making $$$ selling to AI Agents

In this solo episode I break down Cloudflare's AI agent announcement in plain English and explain why I see it as the new business model for the internet. I walk through AI crawl control, pay per crawl, the monetization gateway, and the x402 payment rail, and I show how a single request turns into a transaction. From there I give three startup ideas built directly on top of this shift: a niche data refinery, agent readiness for businesses, and expert archives turned into agent tools. For each idea I lay out the wedge, the first customer, the first version, and how I would sell it. My core claim: the internet is moving from pages humans visit to resources agents use, and the builders who move now own the doors.

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro

01:01 – The Old Paradigm of the Internet

02:57 – The New Paradigm of the Internet

03:41 – What Cloudflare is actually doing

06:33 – An AI Index for all our customers

07:34 – The Agent Internet Stack

09:09 – Why Now Is the Best Time to Build

10:29 – Startup Idea 1: The Niche Data Refinery

17:10 – Startup Idea 2: Agent Readiness for Businesses

23:43 – Startup Idea 3: Expert Archives as Agent Tools