x402 is the open standard the internet's machines now pay by. Today, AI Agents and the AI Knowledge Graph. Next, machine payments — and with GSC you're already covered.
CPG Knowledge Graph era: 78,284 brand records · 16,378 makers · 15,529 retail banners · 50 markets. x402 era begins.
The old way to pay on the internet was built for a person with a browser — the same person who read the PDF catalogue and filled in the web form. Those artifacts have been replaced, and so has the way they got paid for. The workforce doesn't buy like that anymore. It sends an agent, and an agent doesn't keep a wallet in a drawer — it pays inside the request.
The agentic era is here.
The internet always had a door marked "Payment Required" — status 402 in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, written in the 1990s and left empty for thirty years. x402 is that door, finally open: an open, neutral standard that lets a machine ask, be told what it owes, pay, and be served in one exchange. The rails of the old economy joined it — Visa, Mastercard and American Express — alongside Google, Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
When the card networks and the cloud agree on a standard, it isn't a trend. It's the new floor.
Your agent calls for a record or an order. The door answers with what it owes. Your agent pays on the rail and is served — with a signed receipt it can show anyone. Seconds, not a procurement cycle.
No human in the payment. A human still signs the order.
Every GSC door answers a payment request the same way, on the public rail, today. Settlements have landed. Receipts resolve forever. Any agent on the internet can pay a GSC door this afternoon and hold the proof by tonight.
Tomorrow, already in place.
When the buyer's agent is ready to pay for an order, your brand's side is already ready to be paid — in any of the 50 markets, on one rail, with nothing added later. Every settlement leaves a receipt your finance team can read and your agent can defend. And a person still signs every order before it ships.
You built the brand. We built the rail under it.
Every order a GSC AI Agent places is ready to settle here the moment the buyer's side is. The agent that sells your product is the same agent that gets it paid — one counterparty, one receipt, one signature.
Sell-side and pay-side, one agent.
The record is the thing worth paying for, and it already knows how to be paid. Reads answer at the door; when an agent wants the record itself, it pays here and keeps the receipt. The graph is the object; the receipt is the proof.
The AI Knowledge Graph the market uses — priced by the record, paid by the agent.
Give your agent the address in the card, and it does the rest: asks, pays, and is served, with a receipt it can show anyone. Try it with a single request today. Tell us what your agents need to pay for, and a person answers.
Tell us what your agents need to pay for. A person answers.