Sam Ragsdale

Merit Systems

CEO @merit_systems -- Open Agentic Commerce Products: @poncho_ai @x402scan @agentcashdev Retired zkVM guy @a16z

Writing

The Age of Open Agentic Commerce

Checkout in ChatGPT is an incremental improvement. Open Agentic Commerce will reshape society as the internet did in the early 2000s.

Echo: The Micro-App Revolution

As AI becomes a utility, the platform era gives way to a long tail of small, opinionated apps that do one job perfectly and monetize per use.

Announcing Our $10M Seed Round

Announcing our $10M seed round led by a16z and Blockchain Capital to build the future of open source economics.

Open Source Capitalism

A new economic engine for innovation: our manifesto for the future of open source.