Picture this

Who it is for

Lola runs a tiny e-commerce brand. Night Shift pays her listing agent, support agent and ad agent per outcome, and shows cost per sale for each one each morning.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$379

$95 deposit to reserve

3 agent slots, budget wallets, outcome payout rules, morning P&L report

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: agent roles

Customfrom $2,800

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Agent payroll exists in hackathon form; outcome-based pay with a per-agent P&L view is the less common combination.

Closest things out there

WizAgent (Circle/Arc hackathon) batches stablecoin payroll for agents, and session-key tools enforce per-agent spend caps; none found pairing pay with per-agent P&L.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

You manage like a founder, not a babysitter.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

accelerator · a16z crypto · upcoming

a16z crypto CSX

cohort-based; next cohort unknown

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Night Shift app: shop owners hire small AI agents, pay them per outcome from capped wallets and read one morning P&L, with a paywall, owner console and agent log built in.

Base price · $379

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: give each agent a job, pay for outcomes, caps they cannot argue with.

Next action and activityHome

Tonight's shift, ad cap, morning streak and recent activity in one view.

Outcome pay rulesTeam

Per sold listing, per solved ticket, share of ad sales, or a flat night to compare.

Capped agent walletsTeam

Nightly caps and refund limits per agent; agents can never raise their own.

Third agent slotTeam

Solo runs two agents; the ad agent slot is gated behind Shop.

Night shift runsNight

Pick an ordinary, rogue or flooded night and watch the timeline, caps and pauses.

Morning P&LMorning

Sales, agent pay, spend and cost per sale per agent at 07:30.

Refund approvals and one decisionMorning

Approve refunds above the limit, make one change, keep the streak, share the card.

Four week trendMorning

Cost per sale per agent over four weeks. Gated behind Shop.

Payslips and receiptsPayslips

One payslip per agent per night with what is and is never on chain.

Plans and settingsMe

Pricing from the owner paywall, USDC checkout, quiet hours, permissions and vision.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, payout fee, incoming USDC, accepted methods, live tier and gate editing.

Operator list and churn nudgesShops

Every shop with agents, cost per sale and plan, plus a churn risk nudge.

RulesRules

Payout fee, maximum cap, auto pause line, refund ceiling, morning time, gas sponsoring.

Agent log and roadmapAgent

Failures and adaptations, running costs, plus the priced Roadmap screen.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Seller nights, cohorts and referralsGrowth

Run a seller group night, read cohorts, simulate shop to shop referrals.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Shops start free with two agents. Paid plans add agent slots and safety tools, agencies pay for multi client dashboards, and the owner can take a small fee on outcome payouts.

SoloFree2 agent slots, budget wallets, morning P&L, payslips

Shop$29 a month3 agent slots, auto pause line, 4 week cost per sale trend

Agency$99 a month10 slots across client shops, one morning page per client

Optional fee of 0 to 3% on outcome payouts, set by the owner. Base gas for the nightly payroll batch is a few cents and can be sponsored.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Paid per sale card shared from the morning page in seller groups
Seller group nights where shops run a first free shift together
Agent template leaderboard by real median cost per sale
Agency invites that onboard client shops in a batch
Shop to shop referrals worth a free month for both

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full night shift

Agent slots with capped budget wallets
Outcome pay rules and nightly runs
Morning P&L with one decision
Payslips and refund approvals
Paywall, owner console, agent log

Included

Agency desk and template market

One console for many client shops
Agent templates ranked by median cost per sale
Shopify and Etsy order sync
WhatsApp morning page

Add-on from $600

Payroll protocol

Onchain pay rules any agent can read
Third party agents bid for a slot
Escrowed outcome pay with disputes
Monthly statements for accountants

Add-on from $1,400

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Payroll for AI agents: pay per outcome, cap every wallet, read one page in the morning.

Problem: Small shops now run AI agents overnight, but they pay per seat or per token, cannot see which agent earns its keep, and a tricked agent can burn the budget while they sleep.

Solution: Each agent gets its own capped wallet and a pay rule tied to outcomes. A nightly batch pays them on Base, and a morning page shows cost per sale per agent with one suggested decision.

Why now: Smart wallets with spend limits, cheap Base transactions and capable small models make it practical for a one person shop to run a team of agents safely.

Market: Independent online sellers, small service businesses and the agencies that run their marketing and support.

The ask: Pilot partners: two seller communities and one agency, plus programs such as a16z crypto CSX.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Lola, 34, in Mexico City, asleep while three agents work.
Team: set pay per outcome and a $40 nightly cap for the ad agent.
Night: pick the rogue keyword night and watch Chispa pause at the cap.
Morning: read cost per sale, approve a refund, make one decision and share the card.
Payslips: what is on chain and what never is.
Owner Agent: how paying per listing written failed and what changed.
Owner Revenue: change the Shop price and preview the Plans sheet.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a seller night, then request the agency desk.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $2,800: your own agent roles and pay rules, store platform integrations, a white label version for an agency, or extra chains. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $2,800

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Small online sellers now pay for several AI tools (listings, support, ads) by the month, with no clear way to tell which one actually produced a sale, and no hard limit when an agent overspends at 3 AM.

What exists and what is new

Pieces exist. WizAgent (a Circle and Arc hackathon project) batches stablecoin payroll for agents, and session key tools enforce per-agent spending caps. Research found none pairing per-outcome pay with a per-agent profit and loss view. Research verdict: rare, medium novelty. What is new here is the combination: each agent gets a capped wallet, is paid only for outcomes the owner defines, and appears on a one page morning report with its cost per sale. The parts (session keys, USDC transfers, agent frameworks) are standard.

The data it runs on

Pay rules and caps per agent (onchain as session key policies), USDC payslip transfers and agent spend (onchain), store orders and ad attribution from the shop platform and ad APIs (offchain), support ticket status (offchain). Customer messages never leave the support tool.

1.The mission

Small business owners manage AI agents like a founder manages a team: clear jobs, fair pay for results, and hard limits they can trust while they sleep.

2.Why people can't resist it

Cost per sale, per agent One number per agent every morning. It ends the guessing about which tool earns its keep.

Caps that cannot be argued with Spending limits live in the agent's wallet. A wrong or tricked agent pauses at the cap instead of draining the account.

One decision before breakfast The morning page ends with one suggested change: promote, cap, or approve. A streak rewards the habit.

3.How it works for real

Owner and agent wallets: The owner signs in with a Privy embedded wallet on Base (Arbitrum optional). Each agent gets a smart account with a session key whose policy sets a nightly cap, allowed contracts and expiry.

Agents: Three agent slots built on a standard framework, each calling models through OpenRouter: a mid tier model (for example Claude Sonnet class) for listings and support replies, a small tier (Haiku class) for routing and summaries.

Outcome oracle: A backend reads orders from the shop platform (Shopify or WooCommerce APIs), ad attribution from ad platform APIs and ticket status from the help desk, and signs an outcome record per agent per night.

Payroll contract: Each morning the contract pays every agent's operator wallet in USDC per signed outcome and pay rule, as one batched transaction, and emits a payslip event per agent.

Spend guard: Ad and model spend come from the agent's capped wallet. Above a cost per sale threshold the agent pauses itself and writes a morning note.

Morning P&L: An indexer over payslips and spend builds the one page report, sent by push or email at a time the owner picks.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Model costs per night for a small shop: a few dozen listing rewrites and support replies on a mid tier model run roughly $1 to $4; routing and summaries on a small tier, under $0.20. Base gas for one batched payroll transaction plus a few spend transactions is typically a few cents. Example month for one shop: about $75 in model calls, about $2 gas, $20 hosting and indexing, so roughly $100 to run, before the agents' own outcome pay and ad spend.

Solo $19 a month

Three agent slots, caps and outcome pay rules, the morning P&L.

Shop $49 a month

Up to eight agents, custom outcomes, refund approval queue and weekly trends.

Agency $149 a month

Many client shops, white label reports, and per client caps.

5.Growth loop

Owners share the morning page and the paid per sale card in seller groups. Agent builders want to be listed with their real cost per sale, which brings their users along. A public leaderboard of agent templates by median cost per sale (opt in) pulls in new shops.

6.Risks and guardrails

Attribution is imperfect: Ad and listing attribution can double count or miss sales. Show the method, cap total outcome pay per sale, and let the owner correct records before payroll runs.

Agents gaming the metric: Paid per item, agents produce volume. Pay only for outcomes that the owner values, with delays (such as 7 days to count a sale) and refund clawbacks.

Overspend and key compromise: Session keys with nightly caps, allow lists and expiry limit the damage. Owners can revoke any agent instantly.

Customer data: Support content contains personal data. Keep it in the help desk, send models only what is needed, and follow GDPR and Mexico's personal data law.

Platform terms: Ad and shop platforms limit automation. Use official APIs only and respect their rate and policy limits.

No guaranteed results: Agents can have bad weeks. The app reports, it never forecasts sales or income.

7.Build order

Owner wallet and three agent smart accounts with session key caps
Pay rule editor per agent (per sale, per solved ticket, percent of sale)
Shop and help desk connectors that produce signed outcome records
Daily batched USDC payroll with payslip events
Self pause rule and morning note
The one page morning P&L with one suggested decision

8.Where this is going

Now
One seller pays three agents per sale and reads their cost per sale every morning.
Next
Agents from different builders compete for slots on their published cost per sale.
Later
Agents hire and pay each other for sub tasks under the same caps and payslips.
The world it builds
Small businesses run with a dependable, accountable digital team, paid for results and limited by rules they set.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Night Shift

Night Shift lets a small business run a team of AI agents and see exactly what each one earned for the money it spent. When you own it, the budget wallets, payout rules and the morning profit and loss report all run under your name, so the operators who rely on it rely on you. You become the person who knows which agents actually pay their way, which is valuable knowledge to own outright.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code. How do I manage agents?”

Three agent slots, budget wallets, outcome payout rules and the morning report ship ready. You set roles, budgets and what counts as an outcome. Custom agent roles are paid options.

“What if an agent overspends?”

Each agent has its own budget wallet with a cap, so the worst case is that budget. Start with small caps, like $20 a week per agent, and raise them only after you see results.

“Will anyone pay for this?”

Small operators already pay for agents and cannot tell which ones work. Start with one shop owner you know and prove cost per sale on their real numbers.

“Is it really mine?”

Contracts deploy from your wallet, the brand is yours, and client data stays in your deployment.

“Agents are changing fast. Will this go stale?”

The agents will change; the need to budget and judge them will not. Night Shift pays by outcome, so you can swap agents without changing how you measure them.

The million-dollar ladder

Operators pay a monthly plan per agent slot, and you can add a small fee on outcome payouts processed. Agencies pay for multi client dashboards. The ladder below is a target, not a promise.

$290

$4,680

$25,000

$85,000

First 10 operators

10 operators

$29 per month

Word of mouth among shop owners

120 operators

$39 per month

Agency and team plans

400 operators