How I shipped a $5k/mo consulting funnel in one hour
Three productized offers, public prices, USDC deposits via x402. One Astro page, three route files, one shared helper. ~550 lines of code. Live at /services.
Romy Mondello — Notes from the agent era. Agent infrastructure, x402 micropayments, EmDash plugins, on-chain verification.
Agents shouldn't need to scrape your blog
Listen — AI-narrated, 8:17
I shipped two MCP tools to mondello.dev this morning so agents can walk my x402 skills marketplace end-to-end without parsing a single line of HTML. list_skills returns the catalog. get_skill_preview returns the free sample. The payment happens at /raw. Four surfaces, one protocol, zero scraping.
Hire me
Three ways to ship agent infra with me
Productized offers — no scope-creep, no SOW haggling. USDC on Base or wire.
$1,500 Agent-ready audit
48-hour async. Written report on your MCP / x402 /
llms.txt readiness, plus one PR with the smallest
high-leverage change.
Book — $150 deposit → $2,500 x402 integration sprint
One-week build. x402 middleware + one MCP tool +
smoke tests + recorded walkthrough. Async with
one kickoff and one demo.
Start — $250 deposit → $5,000/mo Senior agent-infra retainer
Embedded part-time. 3 async consults/week, code
review on agent/x402 PRs, monthly architecture
note, priority outage response. 2-month minimum.
Engage — $500 deposit →
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