What if you could build and sell AI Agents like apps? (monetizeai.io)

MonetizeAI launched a one-stop platform that lets domain experts and businesses build, publish, discover, and sell "AI agents" — app-like, task-focused AI services — with a limited-time offer to create agents for free and no subscription required. The pitch is to turn specialist knowledge into income streams while giving companies a way to deploy production-ready agents that automate workflows, answer domain questions, or perform specialized tasks. The offering combines agent creation, a marketplace/discovery layer, and monetization tools so creators can reach buyers without managing infrastructure or billing plumbing themselves. For the AI/ML community this signals a push toward an “app store” model for agents: expect more verticalized, composable agents that wrap LLMs with domain data, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use (APIs, databases), memory/state, and custom UI or integration hooks. Key implications include lower barriers to ship specialized models and pipelines, new incentives for prompt engineering and dataset curation, and a growing third-party ecosystem — but also greater need for safety, quality evaluation, privacy/compliance controls, and interoperability standards (model hosting, latency, billing, provenance). How MonetizeAI handles vetting, revenue sharing, and technical integration will shape whether this becomes a healthy marketplace or a proliferation of brittle, unvetted agents.