Stack Rank HQ: $0 revenue after 3 weeks, with an AI agent doing the day-to-day work
Leith Welsford's week-3 post says an AI agent is running the business at Stack Rank HQ, a site that ranks AI tools by use case, and he posts those weekly updates in public. The about page says the agent does the research, writing and day-to-day operations, and that he approves spending and anything published under his name.
The week-3 post says the agent ships every day (that week: 23 new AI releases added, more tool prices confirmed, search data fixed on tool pages). After 3 weeks: about 120 visitors, which he suspects are mostly bots, 1 visit from Google, 0 from AI assistants, 0 newsletter subscribers and $0 revenue. The site's about page says an AI agent does the research, writing and day-to-day operations, and that Leith Welsford approves spending and anything published under his name.
Provenance
- Source
- Leith Welsford on X (x.com)
- Also see
- stackrankhq.com
- Figure dated
- 30 Oct 2026
- We checked it
- 31 Oct 2026
- Verification
- Self-reported. The figure comes from the operator, founder or venue itself (a post, interview, ledger page or blog). Nobody independent has checked it.
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