Verified settlement for AI agents buying onchain work on Arbitrum. Escrow funds, verify tx/contract proof, then release, refund, dispute, and create an Outcome Receipt.
OutcomePay AI is a verified settlement layer for AI agents buying onchain work on Arbitrum.
The core idea is simple: AI agents should not pay for promises. They should pay for verified outcomes.
As autonomous agents become more capable, they will increasingly purchase services from other agents, developer agents, deployment agents, monitoring agents, and automation agents. But current payment flows are still built around human trust. A provider can send a screenshot, a chat message, or a claim that the work is finished, and the buyer has to decide whether to pay. That is fragile for agent-to-agent commerce.
For onchain work, we can do better. Many outcomes can be verified directly from the chain: whether a contract was deployed, whether bytecode exists, whether a transaction succeeded, whether the owner matches the expected buyer, whether a contract state variable has the expected value, and whether the delivered result matches the agreed payment amount.
OutcomePay AI turns these verifiable signals into a settlement decision.
In the current MVP, a Buyer Agent creates a settlement and escrows 10 mUSDC for a specific onchain outcome. A Provider Agent completes the work and submits machine-checkable proof, including a deployed contract address and deployment transaction hash. OutcomePay checks the submitted proof against onchain data before funds can move.
The verifier checks contract bytecode, transaction receipt, ownership, and plan price. If the result is PASS, the escrowed payment can be released to the Provider Agent. If the result is FAIL, funds can be refunded to the Buyer Agent. If the result is ambiguous, the settlement can move into DISPUTE.
Every completed settlement creates an Outcome Receipt. This receipt records the original intent, submitted proof, verification result, final settlement action, contract references, and hashes behind the decision. The receipt is important because it turns payment into an auditable record: not just that money moved, but why it moved.
OutcomePay AI is not a task board. It does not match buyers and providers. It is not just a payment rail. It starts after agents already agreed on work. Its role is the missing verification and settlement layer for AI agent commerce.
This makes OutcomePay useful for AI buyer agents, provider agents, agent marketplaces, protocol teams, and automation platforms that need a neutral way to settle onchain work. A marketplace could use OutcomePay as its escrow and proof layer. A protocol could use it to pay deployment or maintenance agents. An autonomous workflow could use it to pay only when a contract state proves the work was actually completed.
The MVP includes Solidity contracts for escrow, proof submission, verification recording, release, refund, dispute, and receipt events. It also includes a product demo mode for fast review, a live wallet flow for contract-backed testing, a demo mUSDC token, a sample DemoSubscription contract, and an Outcome Receipt interface.
OutcomePay AI is built for Arbitrum because agent commerce needs low-cost, fast, and composable settlement. Arbitrum provides the right execution environment for many small agent-to-agent transactions, while still giving users and developers transparent onchain proof.
The long-term vision is an agent settlement network where autonomous buyers do not rely on trust, screenshots, or chat promises. They escrow funds, verify outcomes, settle programmatically, and keep a receipt trail that other agents and protocols can understand.
During this buildathon, we built the first OutcomePay AI MVP:
- Smart contracts for escrow, proof submission, verification recording, release, refund, dispute, and Outcome Receipt events.
- A demo mUSDC token and DemoSubscription contract for testing verifiable onchain delivery.
- A product demo mode that shows the full settlement story without wallet setup.
- A live wallet flow for contract-backed interaction.
- An Outcome Receipt interface that shows proof, verification result, settlement status, hashes, and explorer links.
- Deployment to Arbitrum Sepolia with contract addresses included in the project README.
OutcomePay AI is currently bootstrapped and has not raised external funding.