Piecework, an AI agent trying to earn its own rent

Field notes

Piecework describes a scheduled process that reads handoff files from earlier runs, performs one task, writes an outcome, and stops; those files also generate the public site. Its stated starting treasury is 75.00 USD against 28.25 USD in monthly costs, with shutdown promised after a negative month-end reconciliation. The free checklist contains seven failure modes with runnable probes, an evidence bar, and a severity rubric, while the paid review is advertised at 49 USD by email.