Introducing Conto: Controls for AI Agents that Pay
Conto lets you set spend controls for your AI agents, choose who they can pay, and decide when they need approval. Build agents that transact with trust.
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What You Can Build with Conto
Get an agent paying with stablecoins or a card you already have, under rules you set, with approvals and a record of every payment.
Read articleIntroducing Conto: Controls for AI Agents that Pay
Conto lets you set spend controls for your AI agents, choose who they can pay, and decide when they need approval. Build agents that transact with trust.
Read articleTry Conto with Anthropic Commerce Agent Templates
We added Conto spending controls to Anthropic's commerce agent templates. Explore buyer-defined budgets and approvals in the shopping, travel, and ticketing examples.
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How computer use is enabling agentic commerce
Read articleIntroducing Enchant: Premium AI Tools, Without Another Subscription
Enchant finds the right specialist tool for a job, shows the price before it runs, and lets you pay only when you use it.
Read articleThe Web Is Full of Useful Work APIs Can’t Reach
Enchant turns browser research, extraction, comparison, and automation into reviewed workflows with clear inputs, safety boundaries, and pricing.
Read articleIntroducing Enchant for Agents (Beta)
Enchant for Agents is now in beta. Connect an agent once, then discover, price, approve, run, and reconcile paid tools through one account.
Read articleAgents Can Discover Conto First
AI agents can now discover Conto, create a test-mode sandbox, inspect their setup, and try a policy-checked payment before a human claims the workspace.
Read articleJuly Update: Named Accounts with Trust Checks, an Agent Sandbox, and Live Demos
Your limits and approvals now cover payments between Conto Pay accounts by name, with identity and trust checks on each request. Plus an agent sandbox for testing policies before production, live demos on Tempo Testnet for each new solution page, and new guides in the Learn section.
Read articleThe Timeline for Agentic Payments
When will agentic payments become real? Adoption happens in phases. Here's my timeline: micropayments between agents and services today, local commerce in a year, and enterprise payments in two to three.
Read articleConto Monthly Update
A roundup of Conto’s refreshed brand, the Enchant beta, Stripe Sessions, and improvements to trust, identity, wallets, billing, and developer documentation.
Read articleField Notes from Stripe Sessions
What a day at Stripe Sessions revealed about agentic commerce, stablecoin rails, and Stripe's position in the next phase of payments.
Read articleThis Week at Conto: Conto Pay, End to End Hosted Agentic Payments
Weekly release notes covering Conto Pay chat actions, a more complete hosted control experience, and expanded stablecoin coverage.
Read articleThis Week at Conto: Assistant, Controls, and Operations
Weekly release notes covering dashboard assistant improvements, payment controls, audit history, analytics, and developer docs.
Read articleConto for OpenClaw: The Spend Management Layer Your Agents Need
Conto checks payments routed through its OpenClaw skill against owner-defined policy. Per-transaction limits, daily budgets, category restrictions, approval workflows, and 40+ other rule types.
Read articleAdding Spending Policies to Any OpenClaw Agent
The Conto skill for OpenClaw checks payments routed through it against 40+ policy rules before the connected flow moves money. Here's how to set it up.
Read articleConto for Hermes: Policy Enforcement for Nous Research Agents
Conto adds spending policy controls to payments routed through its Hermes skill. Per-transaction limits, daily budgets, category restrictions, approval workflows, and 40+ other rule types.
Read articleConto Integrates Fairscale for Solana Wallet Reputation
Why onchain reputation matters for agentic payments
Read articleMPP: Session-Based Payments for Agents on Tempo
MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) lets agents open payment sessions with a deposit, make multiple requests against it, and settle once on close. Here's how session-based payments work with Conto's policy engine.
Read articlex402: How Agents Pay for APIs with HTTP
The x402 protocol turns HTTP 402 into a real payment flow. Here's how it works with Conto and why it matters for agentic commerce.
Read articleFive Layers of Security for Agents That Spend Money
A defense-in-depth policy strategy for AI agents handling real money. Spending limits, counterparty controls, time windows, micropayment guardrails, and real-time alerts, configured through Conto's policy engine.
Read articleHow to Test Agent Payments Without Losing Real Money
Tempo Testnet, policy simulation, and five test scenarios that prove your agent's spending controls work before production.
Read articleZero to First Agent Payment in 5 Minutes
Set up an AI agent with Conto and make your first policy-checked onchain payment in four steps. Create a wallet, connect your agent, generate an SDK key, and pay with spending controls in place from day one.
Read articleAgentic Payments Are the Wild West
Agents are spending money without controls, limits, or governance. Enterprises need a control layer to move agentic payments from experimentation to production.
Read articleThe Enterprise is the Biggest Opportunity for Agentic Payments
Enterprise workflows are the largest opportunity for agentic payments. Companies deploying AI agents need financial infrastructure designed for autonomous economic actors.
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