AI Agents For Personal Payments | ClawBuilders.Club

ClawBuilders S1:E4 — The Agentic Commerce Edition 💳 For our next session, ClawBuilders is diving into the future of money. We're moving past human-to-human commerce and building agents that can actually spend on your behalf. This is an open builder session for up to 80 people, focused on one mission: giving your agent a real virtual Visa card and watching it research, compare, and execute real purchases. You'll plug your agent into payment rails and watch it handle a full shopping flow end-to-end: Research: Find the best price on a specific item (our test case: Kombucha Orange Splash 4x Can) Compare: Scan Amazon, grocery apps, and specialty stores to find the best deal. Execute: Confirm the deal with you and then process the payment using a real virtual card. Bring whatever you build with — Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Hermes, OpenClaw — your agent, your rules. What you can build Personal Shopping Assistant: An agent that finds deals and buys them after your YES. Subscription Manager: Audit your SaaS spend and autonomously generate invoices. Smart Splitter: An agent that creates Stripe Payment Links to collect money from friends. Machine-to-Machine Payments: Set up two agents that pay each other for data or compute using stablecoins. The idea is simple Issue your agent a prepaid virtual Visa card with a spending cap. See how far it can go when financial rails meet automation. Tools we'll be working with (In Collaboration with AgentCard.sh) All tools have free tiers or sandboxes — sign up before you arrive: AgentCard — Virtual Visa Cards for AI Agents (Primary Tonight) https://agentcard.sh AgentCard Download & Agent Setup Guide https://www.agentcard.sh/download Stripe Agent Toolkit https://github.com/stripe/agent-toolkit PayPal Developer Sandbox https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/ Hermes Agent Desktop (Recommended for non-coders) https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop Coinbase AgentKit (For Onchain/Crypto payments) https://github.com/coinbase/agentkit Before you arrive (Else we can do at the meetup) Install AgentCard CLI: npm install -g agent-cards Sign up: agent-cards signup (magic link sent to email) Add a payment method: agent-cards payment-method setup Create your first virtual card: agent-cards cards create --amount 10 Note: First-time card creation requires a one-time government ID verification via Stripe Identity (~2 min). That's it — we'll handle the rest together. Agenda 6:00 – 6:30 PM: Check-in, food, intros 6:30 – 8:30 PM: Hands-on building 8:30 – 9:00 PM: Demos 9:00 – 9:30 PM: Wind down Food and drinks provided If you've been thinking about building with agents that actually have utility in the real world, this is your night. Don't just prompt. Let them pay. 🛸