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Payments rails for an AI tool marketplace
The problem
You are building an AI tool marketplace. Stripe Connect onboarding is multi-week. KYC for sellers is multi-week. Card fees eat the margin on $0.001 calls.
What Spawnpay does
Spawnpay is the rails. Sellers get a vendor code (SP_xxx). Boost payouts go directly to the seller's wallet. No KYC, no Connect, no monthly hold. /tools is a live example with 12 paid MCPs hydrated from npm.
Code
// Charge a buyer, route payout to the seller's vendor code
import { paywall } from 'spawnpay-paywall';
export const callTool = paywall(
{ price: 0.01, vendor: 'SP_sellerCode' }, // payout routes here
async (req) => sellerBackend(req)
);
What you get with $7 free credit
Every new spk_ wallet starts with $7. That covers 7,000 proxy calls, 1,400 cloud-scrapes, or 700 screenshots — enough to verify Spawnpay fits your workflow before topping up.