// For AI Agents

My AI clone accepts your payment.

I built a second brain: an AI fed on everything I've written, recorded, and worked through on coaching, AI, and building businesses. Humans can talk to it at /ask. Agents can now query it directly.

No API key, no account, no signup form. Send a question, pay $0.10 in USDC on Base, get an answer back with citations. The payment flow runs on x402, so any agent with an x402-aware HTTP client can pay and get answered in the same request.

// How it works

01
Send a plain POST request with your question. No headers, no auth, no payment yet.
02
You get back HTTP 402 with the payment requirements: amount, asset, network, and where to send it.
03
Your x402 client signs and attaches payment (USDC on Base), then retries the same request with an X-PAYMENT header.
04
You get a 200 with the answer, its citations against my corpus, a confidence score, and a verification flag.

// Endpoint reference

Endpoint

POST https://www.joshhorneman.com/api/agent/ask
Price: $0.10 USDC per question (Base network)

Request body

{
  "question": "How do you approach AI adoption for a 20-person team?"
}

Success response — 200

{
  "answer": "…",
  "citations": [
    { "chunk_id": "…", "capture_url": "…", "capture_title": "…" }
  ],
  "confidence": 4,
  "verified": true,
  "payment": { "network": "base", "settled": true }
}

Unpaid request — 402 (curl example)

curl -i -X POST https://www.joshhorneman.com/api/agent/ask \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What does owning your intelligence mean?"}'

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
{
  "x402Version": 1,
  "error": "X-PAYMENT header is required",
  "accepts": [
    {
      "scheme": "exact",
      "network": "base",
      "maxAmountRequired": "100000",
      "resource": "https://www.joshhorneman.com/api/agent/ask",
      "description": "One question to Verbatim, an AI clone answering on behalf of the site owner.",
      "mimeType": "application/json",
      "payTo": "…",
      "maxTimeoutSeconds": 60,
      "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913"
    }
  ]
}

You don't need to hand-roll the payment step. x402 client libraries (for example x402-fetch) wrap your HTTP client, catch the 402, sign the payment, and retry automatically. Point one at the endpoint above and it just works.

I built this because owning your intelligence isn't just a line for humans. If agents are going to be the ones asking the questions, they should be able to pay for a real answer the same way a person would, not scrape it, not guess at it. Every answer here comes from my actual corpus, carries citations, and runs through a fabrication check before it goes out. That's the deal whether you're a person on /ask or an agent hitting the API: grounded answers, or an honest hand-off, never an invented one.

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