Signal. Memory. Intelligence.
Advisory work, applied research, and public writing at the edge of agentic AI.
Agentic tools for builders, organizers, and communities. Public and permissioned.
The agent can ask. Only the vault can sign.
An agent shops over MCP and pays in testnet USDC. The signing key sits in a Basis Theory vault and signs only payments that pass fixed rules: approved payee, per-payment cap, one payment per order.
Watch the explainer →An agent with a budget, buying while you sleep.
An agent buys articles overnight, paying per read inside a budget you set, with every spend written to a ledger. Replay a night of spending step by step.
Open the replay →A black box for agent checkouts.
Records how an agent moves through a UCP shop, from discovery to cart to checkout, and replays each step in a read-only trace viewer. An explainer film is in production.
What does a payment sound like?
A browser sound lab that turns agent and payment events into short audio cues, so you can follow an agent at work without watching a screen. Design cues, run listening tests, export a sound pack.
Open the studio →Machine payments, read by a human every week.
A human-reviewed weekly report on MPP, Tempo, x402, Payment Auth, HTTP 402 and the wider machine-payments ecosystem.
Read this week →What builders are asking for, in one feed.
A radar for builder communities: posts from forums, Discord, Slack and Reddit, tagged by type, with the feature requests worth routing to a product team.
Services priced for agents, not only people. Stablecoin settlement and payment at the protocol layer, offline-verifiable receipts, agents as customers.
Agents people talk to and hear. Live speech in and out, turn-taking and interruption, context carried through the call, and sound as the interface when there is no screen.
Watching what agents touch. Exfiltration firewalls, state-leakage observability, control over systems of record.
Identity and content as signed, portable records. Personal data servers, firehose labelers, cryptographic provenance.
Live events turned into queryable memory. Transcripts into speaker-agents, applied retrieval and routing, builds that ship.
Fast, System 1 judgment for agents. Small models answer typed questions about state with probabilities, so routing, triage and approvals happen before a large model reasons. Classifiers route, credentials authorize, code pays.
Available for fractional and advisory engagements: developer ecosystem strategy, agentic infrastructure adoption, and standards positioning for platform companies shipping new agentic capabilities.
Diagnosis before prescription. Every engagement starts with a scoped read of where your developer surface actually meets its market, before any plan gets proposed.
Buildathons, cohort programs, and builder education. Blockchain University pre-accelerator (60+ team projects, 5 VC-funded startups), a Linux Foundation edX course (150,000+ learners), and 47 hackathons across payments and blockchain.
Machine Commerce Lab
In development: 50+ hours of lectures and hands-on labs on MPP, x402, Tempo, and stablecoin settlement, with reference implementations and a capstone.
Dispatches from the rooms where agentic AI is being worked out. PayPal Dev Days, MCP Demo Night, OpenClaw SF, Workato AI Hub, Redis Released, agentic commerce panels.
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