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Who it is for

Lupe Delgado runs a two oven bakery on 18th Street in Pilsen, Chicago, and office assistants have started ordering her conchas through AI agents. Last month one agent placed the same order for 60 pieces three times, and another never paid. Agent Counter shows her each order with the person behind the agent and the limits that person set, takes payment in stablecoins before the oven goes on, holds duplicates for a human yes, and gives her one refund button when a pickup goes wrong.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$100

Yours in 5 to 7 days

One shop counter: a machine readable menu agents can order from, prepaid checkout over the Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo, x402 on Base and USDC transfers on Arc and Plasma, an order screen that shows the person behind each agent and the limits they set, duplicate and over limit holds that ask the human, one tap refunds to the paying wallet, a payouts view by rail, a pause switch for agent orders, an owner console with plans and the paywall editor, and an owner Base Builder Code slot appended to the app's Base transactions.

You choose: shop name, accent color and logo
You choose: menu items, prices and pickup windows
You choose: which payment rails to accept
You choose: human confirmation threshold and duplicate window

Customfrom $1,400

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Agent payment rails are live: x402 on Base, the Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo, and USDC on Arc and Plasma. Agent storefronts for APIs exist. What is new is a counter for physical small businesses: a machine readable menu agents can buy from, prepayment before work starts, the human behind each agent and their stated limits shown on every order, duplicate and over limit orders held for a human, and refunds to the paying wallet in one tap.

Closest things out there

x402 paywalls and agent storefronts for APIs on Base; Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol for agent checkout; Shopify and Square online ordering for people. None of them shows a small shop the human behind an agent order and that person's limits.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

A shop owner should always know which person an AI order is for, what that person allowed, and that the money is already there before she starts baking.

The Regatta Board

Races Agent Counter can enter

17 live races fit this app. Each one says why, with its prize and countdown. The rule on existing code is on the race page.

See every race on the board

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

A complete agent ordering counter you own: small shops take prepaid orders from people's AI assistants on Tempo, Base, Arc and Plasma, see the person and limits behind each order, pay you monthly for more orders and locations, and your console runs pricing, growth, rules, the order agent and your Base Builder Code.

Base price · $100

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Illustrated shop home with today's counter and first run onboardingHome

Three step welcome, then the morning view: paid orders waiting, holds that need a human, and pickups due.

Incoming order screen with four scenariosOrders

Play a clean prepaid order, a duplicate from a looping agent, an order over the human's cap and a refund after a missed pickup.

Who is this for card on every orderOrders

The human's name, their per order and monthly caps, and whether they confirmed it, in plain words.

Holds with a one tap human confirmOrders

Duplicates, totals above the confirm threshold and over cap orders wait until the human answers.

Machine readable menu editorMenu

Items, prices, lead times and pickup windows, published as JSON and a tool description agents can read.

Four payment railsMenu

Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo, x402 on Base, USDC on Arc and stablecoins on Plasma, each switchable by the shop.

One tap refunds to the paying walletOrders

Same rail, same wallet, with the order hash and a note passed back to the human.

Payouts view by rail with CSV exportPayouts

Totals by day and rail, refunds listed, and an export for the accountant.

Pause switch for agent ordersMe

Stops new agent orders at once and tells agents the counter is closed, with a reopening time.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue dashboard and paywall editorRevenue

Rename tiers, change prices and choose what is gated, live in the shop app.

App wide rules and the Builder Code slotRules

Default confirm threshold, duplicate window, rails on offer, and your own Base Builder Code from dashboard.base.org appended as an ERC-8021 suffix to Base transactions.

Order agent logAgent

What the counter did with each agent request, including expired quotes, bad mandates and how it recovered.

Roadmap with add-on requestsRoadmap

Catering deposits, market hall counters and split orders, priced and requestable.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loops and referral trackingGrowth

Confirmation footers, street association bundles and shop referrals, with sources by month.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

A free counter for up to 30 agent orders a month, and monthly plans for unlimited orders, payouts export and more locations. No cut is taken from shop sales by default.

CounterFreeOne menu, 30 agent orders a month, every payment rail, holds, refunds and the pause switch.

Shop$12 per monthUnlimited orders, pickup windows and stock limits, payouts export and confirmation texts.

Street$39 per monthUp to five locations or stalls, catering deposits, a staff screen and priority support.

Optional: the owner can add a disclosed per order fee of up to 1 percent, shown to the agent in the quote. Off by default.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Every confirmation an agent passes back to its human names the shop and the counter
Street association and market hall bundles where one setup covers many stalls
Shop to shop referrals: both shops get a month of Shop
A plain monthly note to each shop: orders taken, holds that saved work, refunds

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The prepaid agent counter

Menu and quote endpoint
Four payment rails
Mandate check and holds
Refunds and payouts
Plans, paywall editor, agent log and Builder Code slot

Included

Catering deposits and staff screens

Deposit now, balance at pickup
A big screen order view for the kitchen
Stock that counts down as orders land

Add-on from $500

Market hall counters

One agent order split across several stalls
One payment, split payouts by contract
A shared pickup board

Add-on from $900

The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Your 2 minute demo script

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Make it entirely yours

Your brand, extra payment rails, a point of sale integration, a catering flow, or a white label counter for a street association or market hall are scoped and priced together.

Custom from $1,400

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.

The need

AI assistants now place real orders for people: office breakfasts, print jobs, a phone screen repair. Small shops get these orders by email or web form with no idea who the human is, whether the agent was allowed to spend that much, or whether payment will ever arrive. Duplicate orders from a looping agent waste a morning of work, and chasing an unpaid order costs more than the order.

What exists and what is new

Agent payments exist. x402 lets an agent pay for a request on Base, the Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo does the same for machine checkout, and USDC moves cheaply on Arc and Plasma. Storefronts for agents exist mostly for APIs and data. Agent Counter is a medium novelty take for physical small businesses: a menu agents can read and buy from, prepayment before work starts, the human behind each agent and the limits that human set shown on every order, holds for duplicates and over limit orders, and refunds to the paying wallet in one tap. Research verdict: rails exist, the small shop counter is new.

The data it runs on

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

1.The mission

A small shop should be able to say yes to an AI order with the money already in hand and the person behind it in plain view.

2.Why people can't resist it

Who is this for Every order card shows the person the agent shops for, what they allowed, and whether a human confirmed it. Lupe bakes for Dev at the design studio, not for an anonymous bot.

Paid before the oven goes on Orders only reach the work queue after payment settles. The shop never chases an agent for money.

One tap refund A missed pickup or a burnt batch ends with a refund to the same wallet that paid, with a note the agent passes back to its human.

3.How it works for real

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

4.Pricing

Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.

Counter Free

One menu, up to 30 agent orders a month, prepaid checkout on every rail, holds, refunds and the pause switch.

Shop $12 per month

Unlimited agent orders, pickup windows and stock limits, the payouts view with CSV export, and confirmation texts to the human.

Street $39 per month

Up to five locations or market stalls, catering pre orders with deposits, a shared order screen for staff, and priority support.

5.Growth loop

Every order confirmation an agent passes back to its human carries the shop's name and a small Ordered through Agent Counter line, so people whose agents buy from one shop ask their other shops to join. Owners sell to street associations and market halls, where one counter setup covers many stalls.

6.Risks and guardrails

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

7.Build order

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

8.Where this is going

Now
One shop takes prepaid agent orders with the person behind each order in plain view.
Next
Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol and Plasma, catering deposits, and staff screens for busy mornings.
Later
Street and market hall counters where one agent order can be split across several stalls and paid in one go.
The world it builds
Small shops get the new wave of AI orders with less risk than a phone order, and people's agents stay inside the limits their humans set.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Agent Counter

AI assistants are starting to order breakfasts, print jobs and repairs for the people they work for, and small shops have no safe way to say yes. Owning Agent Counter means you give those shops a counter where every order is paid before work starts, the person behind each agent is in plain view, and duplicates wait for a human. You earn from shop plans, not from a cut of their sales.

What’s stopping you?

“I do not understand agent payments. Can I run this?”

The counter handles the rails for you: x402 on Base, the Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo, and plain USDC transfers on Arc and Plasma. Your job is to sign up shops, set up their menus and answer their questions. The delivery guide walks through each rail with test payments first.

“What if an agent orders something its human did not want?”

That is the problem the counter solves. Every order carries the human's mandate, anything above their confirm threshold or cap is held, and duplicates wait for a yes. Payment comes first, and a refund is one tap if something still goes wrong.

“Is it legal for shops to accept stablecoins?”

In many places, yes, and it is taxed like any other sale. Rules differ by country and state, so each shop should check with its accountant. The payouts export gives the accountant clean records, and the app never holds anyone's money.

“Will anyone actually order through agents?”

Start where it already happens: offices that send assistants for morning orders and campuses with print jobs. Ten shops near one office district is a real test. The counter also works for people who simply prefer to pay a link.

A revenue ladder, step by step

Monthly shop plans, Street plans for market stalls and multi location shops, and white label counters for street associations and market halls. Illustrations, not promises.

$180

$5,000

$6,000 plus shops

$140,000

First street

15 paying shops

$12 a month

Known in one city

300 paying shops

$12 to $39 a month

Market halls

20 halls and associations

$299 a month

Category regular

8,000 shops and 150 halls

Mixed

Sign whole streets and market halls at once instead of one shop at a time
Publish a plain monthly report of holds that saved shops a wasted batch
Partner with office managers who already run assistant ordering for their teams

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.

Pick your destination

Grow it into a business

Small shops already lose mornings to unpaid and duplicate orders. A free counter that fixes that is easy to say yes to, and the busy ones upgrade.ARRIVE: Ten shops on the free counter and three paying for Shop, about $36 a month and real order data.5 moves · first one within the hour →

Raise for it

Agent payments for real small businesses is a clear, current story for Circle's Arc grants and Base's agent focus. A counter with live shop orders is stronger than a pitch deck.ARRIVE: Applications to Circle Developer Grants and the Base Builder Grant, and a short note to the Base Ecosystem Fund, each with live order data.5 moves · first one within the hour →

Become a real builder on a chain

A counter that settles real orders on Tempo, Base, Arc and Plasma leaves an honest public record of shipping on four new payment chains. Tempo has no builder program and no token today, and Base has no token. Airdrops are never guaranteed. You are positioning, not buying a payout.ARRIVE: Agent Counter live under your name with real shop orders and a public build log.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Win with it at hackathons

Agent commerce, stablecoin payments and agent mandate tracks fit a feature built on Agent Counter. Check each event's rule on existing code; many want new work built at the event.ARRIVE: A submission that adds one new feature to the counter, within the event's rules.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Run your own work on it

If you run a small shop yourself, the counter takes over the messages, the payment chasing and the repeat order mixups.ARRIVE: A month of agent and link orders at your own shop with no unpaid orders and no wasted batches.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Get your people moving

Most shop owners have never thought about AI agents as customers. A short, practical session where they watch an agent order and pay is memorable and useful.ARRIVE: A group of five to fifteen shop owners each sets up a sample menu and sees one agent order land.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Partner with founders and projects

Office managers, coworking spaces and street associations want a safe way for assistants to order from local shops. One partner can bring a whole street.ARRIVE: One office building, coworking space or association recommends the counter to its local shops.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Prove your skills with it

Running live agent checkout across four payment chains for real shops shows careful payments engineering and product judgement.ARRIVE: A case study page with the counter, the mandate check and real order data, sent to five people who hire.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Sell it as a service

Many shop owners will want the counter but not the setup. Setting up menus, rails and refund policies for them is a service you can sell.ARRIVE: Three shops with counters set up and running as a done for you service.4 moves · first one within the hour →

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NOT QUITE AGENT COUNTER?

Commission your own version.

Send a short brief: the idea, the chain, your budget and deadline. A real person replies usually within a day with questions or a fixed quote. The custom tier for Agent Counter starts at $1,400, and you pay nothing until you approve the quote.

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