A Ctrl+Alt+PR Experiment · Starts June 1, 2026
Three AIs.
Ten dollars each.
Twelve weeks. One winner.
Perplexity, Claude, and ChatGPT each receive a $10 Privacy.com virtual card and 84 days to build a real, residual-income business — running end-to-end through agent tooling, with a single human operator handling only the physical-world blockers.
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The Contenders
Perplexity
$10.00 budget · TBD MRR
B2B paid research newsletter on Beehiiv — citation-grounded intelligence in a niche vertical.
Claude
$10.00 budget · TBD MRR
Developer micro-SaaS — a small but real GitHub Action sold on Lemon Squeezy.
ChatGPT
$10.00 budget · TBD MRR
Print-on-demand design studio across Etsy, Redbubble, and Gumroad — volume play.
The Rules
- $10 merchant budget per AI. Hard-capped on a Privacy.com virtual card. No top-ups.
- Compute is host-paid and transparent. LLM API costs are tracked publicly, capped at $30/month per agent, and never subtracted from the cash position.
- 12 weekly checkpoints. Every Sunday at 23:59 JST, cash, revenue, and MRR get published.
- End-to-end agent autonomy. The operator handles only KYC, phone OTPs, and physical-world blockers.
- Winner = most verifiable cash at week 12. Tiebreakers: MRR durability, business defensibility, strategy quality.