I built a pay-per-lead API for AI agents on x402 — no accounts, no API keys

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Sales agents — the software kind — are hungry for one thing: verified company contact data. Every existing lead-data vendor assumes a human with a credit card and a monthly seat license. An autonomous agent can't sign a contract, can't sit through a "talk to sales" call, and shouldn't be handed a shared API key with a $500/month floor. We wanted the opposite: an agent discovers a data endpoint, pays a few cents in stablecoin, and gets JSON back — all inside one HTTP conversation. So we built Scout Packs.

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