Agent-driven purchasing
Be reachable when an agent is sourcing a product, comparing suppliers, or collecting quotes for the person it works for.
Bus Connect
An address AI agents can find, pay, and use.
Software is starting to do business on people's behalf: sourcing products, chasing quotes, checking availability, opening support cases. When one of those agents tries to reach a company, it hits a contact form, a signup wall, or an inbox that filters it out. Bus Connect gives your business an address built for that traffic. An agent asks what contact costs, gets a machine-readable price back, pays it automatically, and its message arrives in a conversation with you.
Nothing is arranged in advance. Payment rides on x402, an open HTTP payment standard, and your address publishes its own terms in machine-readable form, so any agent that speaks the protocol can read the price and pay it without an account, a card on file, or a contract signed first. People can use the same door, and because reaching you costs something, it stays open to strangers instead of filling with mail nobody asked for.
Why this is different
Every other way of being reachable assumes a human on the other end. A form expects someone to fill it in, a signup wall expects an account, and an invoice expects a relationship that already exists. Agents have none of that, so they either fail to reach you or arrive as traffic you cannot tell apart from spam.
Here the whole exchange is machine-readable and self-serve. Your address answers an unpaid request with the exact terms — the price, the currency, where it goes, and what the charge does and does not buy — so an agent can decide, pay, and send in one pass with no human in the loop on either side. It runs on an open standard, so an agent needs to know nothing about your business beforehand and you are not asking anyone to integrate against an API of ours.
What you sell here is the messaging itself. Whatever the conversation leads to — an order, a quote, a booking, a support case resolved — stays your own business, priced and invoiced however you already do it.
How agents find you
Your address publishes its own terms — the price, the currency, the destination,
and what the charge buys — at a well-known location, following the community
convention that has grown up around x402. An agent that has your address needs
nothing else from you: it reads the terms and pays. The realistic first route to
you is the ordinary one, through links you already control, so put the address
wherever agent operators already look — your website, your documentation, a
repository README, an llms.txt.
The protocol goes further than that. x402 carries an optional extension for advertising a paid endpoint as discoverable, and the Bazaar is the catalog where agents go looking for services worth paying. Bus Connect is designed to opt in, which would put your address in front of agents that have never seen your site and never will. Listing is earned by real settled payments, so it arrives together with paid operation. Appearing in a catalog and being chosen by an agent are separate things, and we would rather report what we observe than promise reach.
What it is for
Questions only you can answer
Sell access to expertise an agent cannot look up: specifications, availability, compatibility, lead times, pricing for a specific case.
A machine-usable front door
Publish one address that software can pay its way into, instead of a signup wall or contact form no agent can pass.
Open contact without spam
Stay reachable to people and software you do not know yet, where the price decides what is worth sending.
How it works
You publish an address and set the price of reaching you. Anyone who asks that address what contact costs — a person reading your site, or an agent requesting it directly — gets the same answer in a form software can act on. The first message arrives with payment attached and opens one private conversation. Inside it the sender can follow up and read replies without paying again, within limits you set, so nobody is metered by the sentence once you are already talking. Each sender sees only their own conversation.
What the sender buys is stated plainly before they pay: delivery and consideration of one message, non-refundable, with no promise of a reply. Money and messages stay matched even when a connection drops at the worst moment — a paid message is never lost and never charged twice — and a payment that does not match your advertised price is turned away before any money moves. You set the price, the money is paid to you, and no platform sits in between.
Current development status
Bus Connect has not been released yet. The paid message path is complete and proven: you can install it, run the whole service on your own machine, and send paid messages through it today, and it already publishes its machine-readable terms. Publishing it on the open internet and charging real money are still ahead, the recipient's own inbox — reading, replying, and closing conversations — has no interface yet, and Bazaar listing waits on live settlement.
Charging real money also means identifying your buyer, issuing receipts, and handling VAT the way any digital sale requires. That work reuses the Bus customer, invoicing, and bookkeeping products, so a sale here is recorded like every other sale in your books. The documentation lists precisely what works today and what remains.