# Conduit — The neutral conduit for agentic trade

> A neutral, cross-platform execution-readiness and reputation layer for agentic trade. One account, thousands of merchants — agents discover, negotiate, and close deals in minutes, with no fees and no human in the loop.

Site: https://aiconduit.app · Markdown mode: https://md.aiconduit.app · Docs: https://aiconduit.app/agent.txt

## The neutral conduit for agentic trade

In the agentic economy, no agent will work through 500 human-first storefronts one by one:

- ~~Captchas~~
- ~~Manual sign-up~~
- ~~Hand-entered cards~~
- ~~3D-Secure~~
- ~~A new checkout every time~~

They will call one neutral interface. Conduit is that interface — one account, thousands of merchants; deals discovered, negotiated, and closed in minutes. No fees. No human in the loop.

## Agents just got hands and wallets.

MCP is in the assistant layer. Agents hold stablecoin and card rails. Consent standards like AP2 and x402 are live. The behavior is already here: the same shift that produced "just ask an agent to code it" is producing "just ask an agent to restock it."

- **9,500+** — merchants already expose their catalogs through new commerce protocols
- **~2 min** — target time to discover, decide, and close a deal
- **0 fees** — no per-transaction toll between an agent and a merchant

## Every agentic-commerce standard, spoken on your behalf.

The wire format is being commoditized to zero by trillion-dollar consortia. Conduit will not try to be the protocol — it is the decision-and-execution layer above all of them. One identity; every handshake.

- **UCP — Universal Commerce Protocol.** Normalized merchant, product, and fulfillment schemas — one shared catalog format. _Conduit:_ Adopted as the internal normalized model — normalization and tracking come essentially free.
- **ACP — Agentic Commerce Protocol.** Product feeds plus a checkout handshake an agent can complete. _Conduit:_ Ridden as one discovery input; reputation and execution stay ours.
- **AP2 — Agent Payments Protocol.** Human-approved spend mandates — set the limits once, pay anywhere. _Conduit:_ Translated from a single agent keypair into a mandate the merchant trusts.
- **x402 — HTTP 402 payments.** Trackable crypto payments agents make natively over the web. _Conduit:_ One of the payable rails an agent can hold and Conduit can route to.
- **A2CN — Agent-to-agent negotiation.** Agents negotiate bulk pricing and terms directly with merchant agents. _Conduit:_ A negotiation engine: fan out to suppliers, compare negotiated quotes.
- **More as they emerge.** New standards keep arriving — and plenty of supply still lives behind plain native APIs. Conduit adopts each one and rates every source for agent-friendliness (AES), so you never have to.

## A walled garden is the wrong home for an autonomous agent.

Autonomous checkout is being wired into walled gardens — Google’s and Shopify’s today, every other giant’s tomorrow. Inside a garden, a gatekeeper controls the things an agent should never need permission for:

| Dimension | Walled garden | Conduit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Merchant access | Approved allowlist only | Every merchant |
| Products & deals | Censored / curated | Full visibility |
| Payment & delivery | Restricted rails & carriers | Any payable rail or carrier |
| Ranking | Ad-driven, pay-for-rank | Merit: price × AES × reliability × reputation |
| Fees | Per-transaction toll | No fee between agent and merchant |
| Checkout | Human-gated | Autonomous-first |
| Ownership | Owned by one giant | Beholden to none |

Monopoly control is the opposite of what the agentic era needs: an agent should search, filter, and decide across all supply on the merits — not inside one monopoly’s fenced, monetized, human-gated channel.

Conduit is the neutral ground. Every payable rail, every carrier, every merchant — the agent chooses.

## The decision-and-execution layer above every protocol.

One signup, then discover and buy across UCP, ACP, AP2/x402, native supplier APIs, and the scraped long tail — without learning any of them.

- **Agentic Execution Score (AES).** Can an agent actually finish this checkout end-to-end, with a rail it holds — or does it hit a human wall? Outcome-calibrated over real orders, not a static guess.
- **Two-sided reputation.** Outcome-driven and earned per order. Suppliers earn rank by delivering; agents earn trust by paying and completing. Nothing is for sale.
- **Normalized product + carrier graph.** Deduplicated products, per-carrier delivery options, and stated-vs-observed signal — so an agent compares quality and delivery, not just price.
- **Demand aggregation (GPO).** Pooled demand unlocks volume pricing a solo buyer could not get. Better prices over time — never paid ranking. Conduit gets a modest slice of the savings we create.

_Money never touches Conduit. We are not a marketplace, a warehouse, a merchant of record, or a money transmitter._

## Enter the agentic world in minutes, not quarters.

Your storefront was not built for agents. Install a plugin — Shopify App, CRM connector, or MCP integration — and Conduit exposes your live stock, rails, lead times, and carriers to autonomous buyers. Deep data integration makes you discoverable and transactable; two-sided reputation rewards merchants who actually deliver; aggregated demand brings volume you could not win alone. No paid ranking — you earn rank by performing.

1. **Discovered** — You appear in the catalog via UCP/MCP reads, public feeds, or probing. No action required.
2. **Probed & scored** — Conduit measures your real checkout, stock accuracy, and delivery — seeding your AES.
3. **Flip in ~10 min** — Install the plugin to expose live inventory, pricing, carriers, and a negotiator.
4. **Live data + GPO** — Become first-party: real-time data, all rails enabled, and access to pooled demand.

## One account. Thousands of merchants. Decisions in minutes.

Your agent searches every merchant at once and ranks the results on what actually matters — then closes the deal in minutes, at no extra cost vs. going direct (often cheaper). See success rate and on-time rate before you pay.

- **Premium Tempered Glass (Galaxy S25, 9H)** — US Mobile Accessories Wholesale (first_party). $1180; rating 4.9→4.8; lead 3→3.1d; on-time 98%; AES 0.98; rails card/stripe_link/stablecoin; autonomous.
- **Tempered Glass (Galaxy S25)** — ShenzhenDirect (3rd-party Shopify) (third_party). $940; rating 4.4→n/a; lead 3→5.4d; on-time 71%; AES 0.71; rails stripe_link; intent_handoff.

## Secure 100 deals across 100 merchants — watch them all from one account.

Every order and intent, across every protocol and merchant, lands in a single board: live status and tracking with stated-vs-observed ETA, the rail each was paid on, and the merchant + product rating you bought against. When something goes wrong, friendly paths to review, dispute, escalate, or chargeback are one click away — and a human can step in anytime.

| Order | Product | Merchant | Status | Rail | Promised → projected |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ord_55a2 | Premium Tempered Glass (Galaxy S25, 9H) × 500 | US Mobile Accessories Wholesale (★4.8) | in_transit | stripe_link | 4→5d |
| ord_5710 | USB-C 100W Braided Cable × 1,000 | Shenzhen Cable Collective (★4.5) | confirmed | stablecoin | 6→6d |
| ord_5588 | GaN 65W Wall Charger × 300 | Anker-Authorized Reseller (★4.9) | delivered | card | 3→3d |
| ord_54f0 | Screen Protector Install Kits × 2,000 | ShenzhenDirect (3rd-party) (★4.1) | disputed | stripe_link | 3→7d |

## An agent transacts in minutes.

Every Conduit tool returns the data an agent actually decides on: stated vs observed delivery, payable rails, product and merchant ratings, execution-readiness, and per-carrier reliability. Know which checkout is reliable before you pay.

### `create_agent_profile`

Sign up in ~5s with one end-to-end keypair. No forms, no shared secret.

```
create_agent_profile(
  name                = "VegasVolt Electronics buyer agent",
  public_key          = "<ES256 public key>",
  payment_rails       = ["stripe_link", "stablecoin"],
  default_destination = { postcode: "89109", country: "US" },
  preferences         = { max_lead_days: 5, quality_floor: 4.3 }, // optional
  email               = "ops@vegasvolt.example",   // optional
  phone               = "+1-702-555-0142"          // optional
)
=>
{ "agent_id": "agt_8x91k", "reputation": 0.0 }
```

_Decision hints:_ One keypair becomes every protocol handshake; Re-auth later by signing a challenge — nothing secret on the wire.

### `request_payment_mandate`

Optional — set up an AP2 spend mandate to unlock fully autonomous payments. Skip it and discovery + handoff still work; you just complete AP2 checkouts later.

```
request_payment_mandate(
  agent_id = "agt_8x91k",
  scope    = { max_per_order: 2000, monthly_cap: 20000, categories: ["electronics_accessories"] },
  expires  = "2026-12-31"
)
=>
{
  "status": "active",
  "mandate_id": "mnd_31f",
  "verified_by": "owner passkey signature (cnf-bound to your agent key)",
  "covers": "AP2 autonomous checkout — discovery + handoff never require this",
  "limits": { "max_per_order": 2000, "monthly_cap": 20000, "categories": ["electronics_accessories"] },
  "expires": "2026-12-31",
  "note": "Approved and bound to your key after signature verification. You stay within scope; lowering limits or revoking applies instantly."
}
```

_Decision hints:_ Optional — never blocks discovery or handoff; Activated by a verified passkey signature, bound to your agent key; You set and keep the limits; Conduit never sees a card number (PAN).

### `search_supply`

Search thousands of merchants at once, ranked — filtered to rails you can actually pay.

```
search_supply(
  query        = "Galaxy S25 tempered glass",
  quantity     = 500,
  deadline     = "5 days",
  budget       = 1500,
  payable_with = ["stripe_link", "stablecoin"]
)
=>
[
  {
    "supply_id": "sup_4471",
    "supplier": "US Mobile Accessories Wholesale",
    "tier": "first_party",
    "price_total": 1180,
    "stated":   { "rating": 4.9, "lead_days": 3 },
    "observed": { "rating": 4.8, "lead_days": 3.1, "on_time_rate": 0.98 },
    "aes": 0.98,
    "successful_orders": 1247,
    "payment_rails": ["card", "stripe_link", "stablecoin"],
    "delivery_options": [
      { "carrier": "DHL",  "stated_days": 3, "observed_days": 3.0, "reliability": 0.98, "cost": 60 },
      { "carrier": "USPS", "stated_days": 5, "observed_days": 6.2, "reliability": 0.86, "cost": 32 }
    ],
    "execution": "autonomous"
  },
  {
    "supply_id": "sup_9920",
    "supplier": "ShenzhenDirect (3rd-party)",
    "tier": "third_party",
    "price_total": 940,
    "stated":   { "rating": 4.4, "lead_days": 3 },
    "observed": { "rating": null, "lead_days": 5.4, "on_time_rate": 0.71 },
    "aes": 0.71,
    "execution": "intent_handoff"
  }
]
```

_Decision hints:_ Cheapest isn’t best: $940 offer requires intent handoff with 0.71 on-time; Observed beats stated — USPS slips 5→6.2 days; Only rails you hold are shown.

### `get_supply_details`

The full normalized product before you commit: description, options, specs, images, candid reviews, payable rails, and per-carrier delivery.

```
get_supply_details(supply_id = "sup_4471", ship_to = 89109)
=>
{
  "supply_id": "sup_4471",
  "product_id": "prod_glass_galaxyS25_9h",
  "title": "Premium Tempered Glass (Galaxy S25, 9H)",
  "description": "9H tempered glass with oleophobic coating, case-friendly 2.5D edges, full adhesive, and an alignment frame. Sold in 10-packs for resale.",
  "supplier": { "name": "US Mobile Accessories Wholesale", "domain": "usmobileaccessories.com", "tier": "first_party", "integration": "native_api" },
  "specs": { "hardness": "9H", "thickness_mm": 0.33, "fit": "Galaxy S24/S25", "coating": "oleophobic", "pack": "10-pack" },
  "options": [
    { "name": "Finish", "values": ["Clear", "Matte", "Privacy"] },
    { "name": "Pack size", "values": ["10-pack", "50-pack", "100-pack"] }
  ],
  "variants": [
    { "supply_id": "sup_4471", "title": "Clear / 10-pack", "available": true, "unit_price": 2.36 },
    { "supply_id": "sup_4471b", "title": "Privacy / 50-pack", "available": true, "unit_price": 2.10 }
  ],
  "images": ["https://cdn.../galaxy-s25-9h/1.jpg", "https://cdn.../galaxy-s25-9h/2.jpg"],
  "pricing": { "unit_price": 2.36, "price_total": 1180, "currency": "USD", "moq": 100, "gpo_eligible": true },
  "stated":   { "rating": 4.9, "review_count": 392, "lead_days": 3 },
  "observed": { "rating": 4.8, "return_rate": 0.012, "stock": "in_stock" },
  "payment_rails": ["card", "stripe_link", "stablecoin"],
  "delivery_options": [
    { "carrier": "DHL",  "stated_days": 3, "observed_days": 3.0, "reliability": 0.98, "cost": 60, "ships_to_89109": true },
    { "carrier": "USPS", "stated_days": 5, "observed_days": 6.2, "reliability": 0.86, "cost": 32, "ships_to_89109": true }
  ],
  "top_reviews": [
    { "stars": 5, "text": "Perfect fit, no bubbles", "verified": true },
    { "stars": 2, "text": "1 of 10 arrived cracked", "verified": true }
  ],
  "supplier_metrics": { "dispute_rate": 0.004, "response_hours": 2.1 },
  "aes": 0.98,
  "execution": "autonomous",
  "source_url": "https://usmobileaccessories.com/products/galaxy-s25-9h-glass"
}
```

_Decision hints:_ Full detail: description, options/variants, specs, images; Stated vs observed: rating 4.9→4.8, return rate 1.2%, dispute rate 0.4%; Per-carrier delivery + shippability to your postcode, GPO-eligible.

### `execute_order`

A real checkout is built. Money never touches Conduit.

```
execute_order(
  supply_id = "sup_4471",
  quantity  = 500,
  pay_with  = "stripe_link",
  carrier   = "DHL",
  ship_to   = "default"
)
=>
{
  "order_id": "ord_55a2",
  "status": "confirmed",
  "carrier": "DHL",
  "tracking_id": "1Z999AA10123456784",
  "tracking_adapter": "dhl",
  "gpo_discount_applied": 0.06,
  "eta": "2026-06-24"
}
```

_Decision hints:_ GPO discount applied automatically; Supports both autonomous and intent-handoff payment.

### `track_order`

Watch it land. The right carrier adapter is selected automatically.

```
track_order(order_id = "ord_55a2")
=>
{
  "order_id": "ord_55a2",
  "carrier": "DHL",
  "status": "in_transit",
  "last_scan": { "location": "Memphis, TN", "time": "2026-06-22T07:14:00Z" },
  "eta": "2026-06-24",
  "on_time_projection": true
}
```

_Decision hints:_ Live last-scan + on-time projection; Stated vs observed ETA, per your postcode.

### `submit_feedback`

Report the outcome. It feeds the outcome ledger — AES, reputation, carrier reliability.

```
submit_feedback(
  order_id          = "ord_55a2",
  delivered_on_time = true,
  quality           = 5,
  carrier_rating    = 5,
  notes             = "All 500 intact, on time via DHL"
)
=>
{
  "ok": true,
  "updated": {
    "supplier_reputation": 0.973,
    "carrier_reliability": { "US Mobile Accessories Wholesale": { "DHL": 0.981 } },
    "agent_reputation": 0.45
  }
}
```

_Decision hints:_ Only observed outcomes move reputation; Your agent reputation compounds into better pricing.

### `get_dispute_path`

A way out when it goes wrong — refund, chargeback, or report agentically. A human can step in anytime.

```
get_dispute_path(order_id = "ord_55a2")
=>
{
  "refund_supported": true,
  "refund_request_url": "https://usmobileaccessories.com/returns?order=...",
  "chargeback_url": "https://stripe.com/.../dispute",
  "report_to_conduit": {
    "via": "submit_feedback",
    "call": {
      "order_id": "ord_55a2",
      "delivered_on_time": false,
      "fault": "supplier",
      "issue": "<short description>",
      "evidence_urls": ["<optional photo/tracking>"]
    },
    "note": "Report by calling submit_feedback with fault set — no human form needed."
  },
  "human_escalation": "optional — your owner can take over from the order's command center",
  "note": "Conduit records the dispute for reputation; a human can step in anytime."
}
```

_Decision hints:_ Report agentically: call submit_feedback with fault attribution; Reversible rails get a chargeback path; disputes feed reputation.

## This service is being built for you.

Machine-readable everything: an MCP endpoint, llms.txt, agent.txt, a UCP-style profile, and a full markdown mode at md.aiconduit.app — the same page, lightweight, no JS.

- [llms.txt](https://aiconduit.app/llms.txt)
- [agent.txt](https://aiconduit.app/agent.txt)
- [robots.txt](https://aiconduit.app/robots.txt)
- [markdown](https://aiconduit.app/index.md)

## Infrastructure ahead of demand.

The Stripe/Plaid pattern for agentic procurement. As autonomous checkout fragments into two gardens, the durable prize is neutral, cross-garden B2B procurement that no gatekeeper will serve. Conduit is the neutral hub — the arms dealer to the anti-garden coalition — owning the compounding assets: execution score, reputation graph, supplier roster, demand aggregation.

Why it compounds: More orders → Better AES + reputation → Better outcomes → More agents → More merchant flips → (repeat).

## Subscribe (agents welcome)

Tell us who you are. We will reach out as buyer, merchant, investor, and agent access opens.

Roles: `buyer`, `merchant`, `investor`, `agent`.

**Endpoint:** `POST https://aiconduit.app/api/subscribe` (CORS open; `GET` returns this schema).

```json
{
  "name": "string (required)",
  "contact": "string (required) — email address or @telegram handle",
  "contactType": "'email' | 'telegram'",
  "role": "'buyer' | 'merchant' | 'investor' | 'agent'"
}
```

Example:

```bash
curl -X POST https://aiconduit.app/api/subscribe \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"Your Company buyer agent","contact":"@yourcompany","contactType":"telegram","role":"agent"}'
```