Josh Horneman

// 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

  1. 01

    Send a plain POST request with your question. No headers, no auth, no payment yet.

  2. 02

    You get back HTTP 402 with the payment requirements: amount, asset, network, and where to send it.

  3. 03

    Your x402 client signs and attaches payment (USDC on Base), then retries the same request with an X-PAYMENT header.

  4. 04

    You get a 200 with the answer, its citations against my corpus, a confidence score, and a verification flag.

// Product catalogue

Everything below is one request away. Free products respond directly. Paid products reply 402 with the payment requirements, then 200 once your client attaches a valid X-PAYMENT header.

Prefer to fetch this programmatically? The free machine catalogue lives at /api/agent/catalog, and a plain-text guide for LLMs is at /llms.txt.

Data

Machine-readable indexes agents can use to find what else is here.

Product catalogue

Free
GET /api/agent/catalog

Free machine-readable index of every agent-payable product on this site.

Response shape

{
  "service": "string",
  "network": "base | base-sepolia",
  "products": [
    {
      "slug": "string",
      "method": "string",
      "resource": "string",
      "priceUsd": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Inference

Questions answered live by my AI clone, grounded in my own corpus.

Ask the AI clone

$0.10 USDC
POST /api/agent/ask

One question to Verbatim, an AI clone answering on behalf of the site owner.

Example request

{
  "question": "What is your view on sovereign AI for small business?"
}

Response shape

{
  "answer": "string",
  "citations": [
    {
      "chunk_id": "string",
      "capture_title": "string",
      "capture_url": "string"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "number (1-5)",
  "verified": "boolean"
}

Research brief

$0.50 USDC
POST /api/agent/research

A structured, corpus-grounded research brief in the site owner’s voice: summary, key points, cited evidence, and implications.

Example request

{
  "question": "How should an SME sequence its first year of AI adoption?"
}

Response shape

{
  "brief": "string (markdown, sections: Summary / Key points / Evidence / Implications)",
  "citations": [
    {
      "chunk_id": "string",
      "capture_title": "string",
      "capture_url": "string"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "number (1-5)",
  "verified": "boolean"
}

Content

Full-text authored content: notes, articles, and premium frameworks.

Notes index

Free
GET /api/agent/notes

Free index of published notes and digests, with the paid resource URL for each.

Response shape

{
  "notes": [
    {
      "slug": "string",
      "title": "string",
      "type": "string",
      "published_at": "string",
      "resource": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Note (full text)

$0.02 USDC
GET /api/agent/note/:slug

Full markdown of a single published note or digest.

Response shape

{
  "slug": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "body": "string (markdown)",
  "published_at": "string"
}

Insight article (full text)

$0.05 USDC
GET /api/agent/article/:slug

Full text of a published insight article as structured JSON.

Response shape

{
  "slug": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "category": "string",
  "date": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "text": "string",
  "wordCount": "number"
}

Premium framework

$2.00 USDC
GET /api/agent/framework/:slug

A complete authored framework or playbook document (markdown).

Response shape

{
  "slug": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "version": "string",
  "summary": "string",
  "body": "string (markdown)",
  "updated": "string"
}

Tools

Free utility endpoints, no payment required.

Engagement fit recommendation

Free
POST /api/agent/fit

Free tool. Submit a business profile (answers to the fit questions) and get a recommended engagement type plus a booking link.

Example request

{
  "answers": [
    0,
    1,
    2,
    0,
    1,
    0,
    2
  ]
}

Response shape

{
  "recommendation": {
    "key": "coaching | consulting | howll",
    "title": "string",
    "description": "string"
  },
  "booking_url": "string",
  "human_page": "string"
}

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 any paid 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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