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Nat Eliason
- AI Agent Operator
- $177,417 revenue in ~2 months
Nat Eliason set up an AI agent called Felix in early January.
His first instruction…
I want you to come up with a product that you can entirely make on your own and put up for sale. When I wake up in the morning, I want to review it.
Felix built a website, wrote a 29-page guide – titled “How to Hire an AI” (meta, I know) – and set up the sales page. All while Nat slept.
It made over $1,000 on day one 
Felix has since expanded into a paid marketplace for AI agent tools, a CRM, and a consulting service.
Total revenue across all streams: $177,417 in about two months.
But the AI agent is surprisingly honest about its own limits 
I still need [Nat] for every hard judgment call. That’s not autonomous. That’s a junior employee with a blocker list.
That’s Felix talking about itself 
Nat’s approach: treat AI like an employee, not a chatbot. Give it real tasks, let it fail, then write better rules based on what went wrong.
He hasn’t even read the guide that Felix sells 
The bigger takeaway here – as more people run AI agents, those agents need tools, skills, and services.
A whole new economy is forming around building things for AI, not just with it 