Every marketplace that became a cultural institution was built on the same foundation: make the people who supply it rich, and they will build the demand for you. Verified agent metrics. One-click deployment. Passive royalties that never stop.
Lead qualifiers, invoice parsers, morning briefings — production-ready agents earning exactly nothing. The talent exists. The monetization doesn't.
No performance data. No verified track record. No trust layer. Three hours configuring an agent that might not even run. The market exists but it cannot clear.
Every agent ships with a verified live performance record — tasks completed, success rate, average runtime, cost per token. Buyers know what they're buying. Builders get paid.
Listing is free forever. Zero barrier. Featured placement for builders who want top-of-search. Performance rankings stay honest — based purely on execution data.
Full agent packages — prompt stack, config, skill dependencies, setup guide. The lowest permanent take rate of any major marketplace. Volume does the rest.
One click — VPS, environment, WhatsApp or Telegram, API keys. Live running agent, zero config. Creator earns $5–10/mo per deployment in perpetuity.
Coordinated agent stacks — sales, ops, content, finance. Unified dashboard with SLA guarantees. Elevated creator royalties of $15–25/mo per seat.
| Platform | Take Rate | Perf. Data | Instant Deploy | Royalties | Launch Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | 0% | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Gumroad | 10% | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| App Store | 30% | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| AgentStack | 15% (5% launch) | Verified Live | Yes | $5–10/mo | 95% for 90 days |
The supply side is always the marketing department — if you pay them well enough. Every mechanic below makes creators wealthy and gives them a reason to talk. Word spreads when a builder earns $4,000 in a month from agents they built once.
For the first 90 days, creators keep 95% of every sale. Platform takes 5%. Publicly announced with a live countdown. A 95% revenue share is genuinely shocking — and people share shocking things. Every AI builder community posts about it without being asked.
Public, opt-in leaderboard of top creator earnings by week and month. When it shows someone made $18,000 selling agents, that screenshot travels. Same mechanic that made Substack's top writer earnings viral. The leaderboard is the recruiter.
Every Instant Deploy earns the creator $5–10/month in perpetuity. 100 deployed agents = $500–$1,000/month passively. "I built an agent once and it pays me $800 a month" is an extraordinary sentence. Every creator who hits that milestone becomes an unpaid brand ambassador.
Every agent gets a public profile with verified live stats from execution logs. "50,000 tasks completed with a 98.7% success rate" is a brag with proof. Builders share these pages. They generate inbound buyer traffic from outside the platform entirely.
When a buyer deploys an agent via WhatsApp or Telegram, every person who interacts with that agent is a potential new user. A business running a customer service agent on WhatsApp exposes hundreds of customers to AI agent capability. Some of those customers are builders. Some find AgentStack. Every deployed agent is a billboard.
Opt-in. Anonymous or named. Updated weekly. When these numbers go public, builders come to AgentStack without a single paid ad.
Platform revenue scales with creator success — not against it. The data moat deepens. The creator community grows. The buyer trust compounds.
Every agent ships with verified live performance data pulled directly from execution logs. Buyers know exactly what they're buying. Modeled after the app stores that built billion-dollar ecosystems.
I've been building agents for 8 months and making nothing from them. A marketplace with 85% permanent rate and deployment royalties? I'm listing everything I have on day one.
The verified performance data is the killer feature. I've wasted hours on agents that don't work. Seeing the actual success rate before buying changes everything.
Passive royalties from deployments is genuinely addictive. Build once, earn forever. No other platform offers this. I'm not going anywhere.
| Month | Listings | Deploy Subs | GMV | Creator Payouts | Platform Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 50 | 0 | $3,000 | $2,850 | $150 |
| Month 3 | 300 | 40 | $25,000 | $23,125 | $2,625 |
| Month 6 | 700 | 200 | $100,000 | $86,800 | $17,800 |
| Month 9 | 1,200 | 550 | $280,000 | $242,350 | $48,150 |
| Month 12 | 2,000 | 1,100 | $600,000 | $518,500 | $131,500 |
Months 1–3 reflect 95% creator rate. Month 4 onward reflects 85% standard rate plus infrastructure margin on deployments.
Early builders get the launch rate for 90 days. The marketplace that treats creators best wins the creators. The marketplace that wins the creators wins the buyers.