the business layer · all payments simulated, all protocols real

Services with price tags
agents can read.

The agentic web is growing a payment layer: Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl, x402 micropayments (AWS AgentCore, Vercel), RSL content licensing, metered MCP tools. This page implements four working business models on top of the showcase — priced in schema.org Offer markup and in agents.json, because a price an agent can't read is a price that doesn't exist.

Run an audit See the 402 flow

service 01 · POST /api/audit · 3 free per hour, then $0.005 (demo)

Agent-Readiness Audit

Submit any URL. The server fetches it live and grades 18 signals across four dimensions — Discovery, Content, Capability and Trust (llms.txt, sitemap, markdown negotiation, valid JSON-LD, agents.json, A2A Agent Card, Web Bot Auth and more). Score ≥ 70 qualifies for certification. The monetization: metered audits — the fourth one inside an hour answers 402.

report

No audit yet — try this very site. It grades itself with a straight face.

$ curl -s -X POST https://agentswelcome.dev/api/audit \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url":"https://agentswelcome.dev"}'
{ "score": 100, "grade": "exemplary", "certifiable": true, … }

service 02 · GET /api/premium/playbook · $0.10 per unlock (demo)

Premium content behind HTTP 402

The Agent-First Playbook — checklists, nginx/Next.js snippets, the full monetization table — sits behind a protocol-faithful x402 flow. No login, no account: request, pay, retry. This is how Stack Overflow charges crawlers and how Nous bills per inference.

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RequestGET /api/premium/playbook
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→ …
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2
402 Payment Requiredaccepts: [{maxAmountRequired: "$0.10", …}]
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→ …
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3
Pay (simulated)POST /api/pay → token
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→ …
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4
Retry with proofX-Payment: <token> → 200 + receipt
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→ …
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live demo

Runs the four steps against this server and shows each response. The unlocked playbook opens below.

the unlocked playbook (markdown)

also in this model · RSL content licensing

Our robots.txt carries a License: directive pointing to /license.xml (RSL 1.0): inference, search and summarization are free; training use is licensed — the standard Reddit, Yahoo and Medium adopted, with royalties clearing through the RSL Collective in production.

service 03 · /api/directory · standard listing free · featured = paid (production)

Certification & the directory

Pass the audit with ≥ 70 and your site gets certified, listed, and issued an embeddable badge — trust infrastructure for the agentic web, and a classic recurring-revenue model (listings, featured placement, re-certification).

certified sites

https://agentswelcome.devfounding member · self-certified, of course

service 04 · WebMCP / MCP · per-call pricing in the intent preview

Metered tools

97 million MCP SDK downloads a month, and almost every server is free — that gap is the business. This site's services double as WebMCP tools (audit_site, get_premium_playbook, list_directory), registered on the homepage playground. The price appears in the intent preview before execution — monetization and the AX trust pattern are the same feature.

// the paid tool announces its price in the description — agents budget BEFORE calling
await document.modelContext.registerTool({
  name: "get_premium_playbook",
  description: "Unlock the Agent-First Playbook. Price: $0.10 (demo) via x402 flow.",
  annotations: { readOnlyHint: false },
  execute: async () => x402Fetch("/api/premium/playbook")   // 402 → pay → retry
});

simulated pricing · machine-readable twins: JSON-LD offers + agents.json

The price list

Service	Free tier	Metered (demo)	Production rail
Agent-Readiness Audit	3 / hour	$0.005 per audit	x402 micropayment
Agent-First Playbook	—	$0.10 per unlock	x402 / pay-per-crawl
Directory listing	standard listing	featured placement	subscription (ACP checkout)
Content for AI training	inference & search free	$25 / license	RSL Collective royalties
MCP tool calls	read-only tools	per-call, priced in preview	x402 / AgentCore Payments

Every price here is a demo. Every flow is real. Swap the mock facilitator for Coinbase CDP or AWS AgentCore Payments and this page starts earning.

Services with price tagsagents can read.

Services with price tags
agents can read.