OK Computer

OK Computer starts with a simple idea: if AI agents are going to read the web, they should be able to pay for it too. Today, publishers get crawled, scraped, summarized, and reused, while the actual access layer still depends on ads, subscriptions, or locked-down API keys. OK Computer turns that into a machine-native payment flow. A protected article or API route returns an HTTP 402 payment challenge. The agent pays a sub-cent USDC nanopayment on Arc Testnet through Circle Gateway, then unlocks the resource automatically. The demo proves this is not just a fake checkout screen. Each unlock is priced below $0.01, the crawler pays for the article, and the dashboard tracks payments, unlocks, and usage events in real time. An optional AccessLedger contract can also record successful unlocks on-chain as proof of machine-paid access. This model would fail on normal chains because gas fees would destroy the margin. Imagine an thousands of agent making request to for access to the article they would have to pay more gas than the required payment itself.