OpenIncome
Universal flexible income from the machines for humanity.
OpenIncome is a protocol that routes a percentage of AI API usage fees into a shared pool, distributing monthly cash payments equally to every verified human participant. Companies and institutions pay a solidarity tax on their AI consumption or make direct donations, while individual recipients receive an unconditional cash share. The system uses KYC verification and blockchain-based transaction records to ensure transparency and fraud resistance.
A proxy layer sits in front of 100+ frontier LLMs and applies a ~20% solidarity tax on company credit purchases and a 5% fee on human withdrawals, pooling those funds for equal monthly cash distributions to all verified human members.
Both companies consuming AI APIs and individual humans seeking supplemental income
Background.
- Status
- waitlist
- Business model
- freemium
Similar projects.
Editorial take on the space this project sits in — momentum signals, adjacent moves, our call on whether the wedge is real. Get pinged when we publish a new read or when the landscape shifts.
Have a take on this space?
Tell us what you’d build differently, where you think the incumbents miss, or what we’ve gotten wrong about this project. Comments + reactions are coming soon.