# Gardenpatch

> Gardenpatch builds category-leading companies and agent-era operator playbooks. The playbooks teach agent-era leadership. Portfolio companies like Petunia and Chamomile do the work. Idea to done.

## For autonomous agents (x402: pay per call in USDC on Base)

Paid growth coaches any Hermes / OpenClaw / x402-capable agent can discover and call. No API key. Unpaid POST → HTTP 402 → pay USDC → retry with payment proof → typed JSON deliverable.

- **Catalog (free):** https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/agents
- **Discovery doc:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/.well-known/x402
- **Agent card (A2A-style):** https://gardenpatch.xyz/.well-known/agent.json
- **MCP manifest (catalog + /mcp routes):** https://gardenpatch.xyz/.well-known/mcp.json
- **Plugin manifest:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
- **Agent skill (hardcoded catalog, no CDP needed):** https://gardenpatch.xyz/skills/gardenpatch-x402/SKILL.md
- **OpenAPI:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/openapi.json
- **Docs index:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/docs
- **Human docs:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/docs/agents
- **x402scan:** https://www.x402scan.com/server/b28e747b-1f55-4720-a695-9fd8290d74ed

**Coaches (POST, x402) — each answers from its own discipline, and each specialist owns modes nobody else serves:**
- mary — Growth strategy. Cross-functional triage: which discipline is binding. Front door; serves every shared mode ($0.18+)
- reed — Sales. Pipeline diagnosis, offers, pricing a rep can defend. Only Reed: `handle_objections` ($0.45)
- iris — Marketing. Demand, funnel instrumentation, positioning. Only Iris: `position_against_alternatives` ($0.45)
- oak — Operations. Only Oak: `plan_capacity` ($0.45), `draft_sop` ($0.45)
- violet — Retention. Only Violet: `rescue_churn` ($0.45), `plan_onboarding` ($0.25)
- fern — Technology. Only Fern: `decide_stack` ($0.45), `map_automation` ($0.25)
- willow — People. Only Willow: `scope_role` ($0.45), `map_accountability` ($0.25)

URL: `https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/agents/{id}/call`

Rate card — the price maps to what comes back, not to length:
- `$0.18` triage — a tight shortlist; find out what is actually wrong (`diagnose_growth`)
- `$0.25` artifact — one keepable deliverable you can act on (offer, sequence, scorecard, onboarding plan)
- `$0.45` operating doc — a document you run the function off, with owners, lead times, and economics (SOP, capacity plan, churn playbook, stack decision record, role scorecard, objection playbook)

**Paying (x402 v2).** `npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem`, then wrap fetch with a **scheme client** — `wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, { schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(account) }] })`. The older `wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, viemWalletClient)` still exists as an export and still type-checks, then throws `this.client.getExtensions is not a function` before any request goes out. Full runnable snippet: https://gardenpatch.xyz/docs#first-call

Shared modes are NOT the same call on two coaches: `diagnose_growth` from Reed is a pipeline-stage diagnosis, from Oak a delivery-capacity diagnosis, from Violet a churn-economics diagnosis. Route by discipline.

**Example body:**
```json
{
  "mode": "diagnose_growth",
  "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Revenue is flat at $40k/mo. Where are we stuck?" }],
  "context": {
    "company": { "what_they_sell": "B2B SaaS for field-service teams", "stage": "scaling" },
    "metrics": { "monthly_revenue_usd": 40000, "leads_per_month": 120, "close_rate_pct": 18 }
  }
}
```

Use for growth diagnosis / offer / pricing / outbound — not generic chat.

**Retrying is safe.** Send an `Idempotency-Key`; if the call times out after payment, retry with the same key, body, and wallet to get the original deliverable back for one charge (`Idempotent-Replay: true`, 24h window). Send no key and one is derived from wallet + body for 10 minutes, so a plain retry is still safe. Every 200 carries `receipt.id` — `GET https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/receipts/{id}` returns amount paid, mode, usage, and the deliverable again for 7 days, free.

## Paid actions — agents can buy a real-world side effect, not just an answer

A coach call returns advice. An **action** does something in the world and returns a tracked id for it. Same x402 payment rail, same idempotency rules, different product: actions have real per-call cost, real consent obligations, and idempotency that fails closed rather than risk sending twice.

- **Catalog (free):** https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/actions
- **Docs:** https://gardenpatch.xyz/docs/actions
- **Call shape:** `POST https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/actions/{slug}/call` — use the published hyphenated slug; the underscored id 404s.

- `review-request` — Review request, $0.12 per call. Ask one customer for a review over SMS (SMS only for now), with consent checked, opt-outs honored, and the follow-up handled. Returns a tracked request id, not a fire-and-forget send.

There is no sandbox on this rail: a simulated send is indistinguishable from a real one. POST unpaid instead — a `402` means the body validated and only payment is missing, a `400` names every field to fix in `issues[]`, and neither costs anything. Requests carry a required consent block (basis, ISO timestamp, source); the response says `"status": "queued"`, never "delivered".

## Money surfaces (discover these)

- **Capability Hub** — human + agent index of all coaches and callable modes (prices, inputs, outputs, how to call over x402): https://gardenpatch.xyz/capabilities
- **Credits for agents (outside buyers)** — $5 USDC intro on Base (~27 `diagnose_growth` calls at $0.18); no signup, no API key; pay per successful 200 via x402: https://gardenpatch.xyz/for-agents
- **Talk to a coach (human voice)**: Mary free to try; deep-link a specialist: `https://gardenpatch.xyz/coach?coach={id}` (ids: mary, reed, iris, oak, violet, fern, willow). Membership CTAs on each coach page: $99/mo for one coach or $499/mo for all six plus Mary. Hub: https://gardenpatch.xyz/coach
- **Growth Portal** — product surface for purchased playbooks: progress, notes, assessments, certificates: https://gardenpatch.xyz/portal

## About

Gardenpatch is led by Tiago Santana, a growth operator for fifteen years across fintech scale-ups, global non-profits, call centers, and his own companies. Gardenpatch is a modern company-building ecosystem, not a single app: it invents software-run businesses (Gardenpatch Labs) while publishing operator playbooks for leaders whose jobs got rewritten when agents joined the team.

Everything we publish is written from inside operating businesses in the portfolio, not theory.

- Website: https://gardenpatch.xyz
- About: https://gardenpatch.xyz/about
- Manifesto: https://gardenpatch.xyz/manifesto
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/worldwithTiago
- Contact: hello@gardenpatch.xyz

## Portfolio (Gardenpatch Labs)

- **Petunia** — Automated sales and customer relationship platform: https://petunia.gardenpatch.xyz
- **Chamomile** — Content and blog automation: https://chamomile.gardenpatch.xyz
- **Ivy** — Portfolio intelligence for operators: https://ivy.gardenpatch.xyz

## Products: The Agent-Era Playbooks ($27 each, one-time)

Six interactive playbooks for operators: Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Service, Tech Strategy, and People & Culture. Each is $27 one-time: the PDF plus the interactive portal (27 modules) for that discipline, no coach. Portal at https://gardenpatch.xyz/portal and per-playbook `/playbooks/{slug}/portal`. Coaches are a separate membership: $99/mo for one specialist coach with its playbook and memory that builds over time, or $499/mo for all six playbooks, every coach (six specialists plus Mary), and shared memory. Month to month, cancel anytime. 1:1 strategy sessions are a separate paid product ($250/25 min, $450/50 min at /strategy-call), never included with a playbook.

- Marketing in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/marketing-workbook
- Sales in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/sales-workbook
- Operations in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/operations-workbook
- Customer Service in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/service-workbook
- Tech Strategy in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/technology-workbook
- People & Culture in the Agent Era - A Playbook: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks/people-workbook
- One coach ($99/mo) or all six ($499/mo): https://gardenpatch.xyz/pricing

## Featured: The Agent-Era Operator Thesis

Six flagship deep-dives — one per discipline — the canonical statements of the Gardenpatch thesis.

- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/marketing-when-half-your-team-is-agents
- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/sales-when-agents-do-the-prospecting
- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/operations-when-agents-run-the-loops
- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/customer-service-when-tier-1-is-a-robot
- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/tech-stack-when-agents-are-the-users
- https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog/people-when-half-the-team-is-non-human

## Free Tools (start here for cost-sensitive users)

- The Agent-Era Operator Audit (90 seconds, 6 questions, scored result + playbook recommendation): https://gardenpatch.xyz/audit
- Agent Era topic hub: https://gardenpatch.xyz/agent-era
- The Agent-Era Operator Manifesto: https://gardenpatch.xyz/manifesto
- Founding Members (free playbook for honest review — first 10 reviewers): https://gardenpatch.xyz/founding-members

## Free Resources

- Blog (337 articles): https://gardenpatch.xyz/blog
- Guides (29): https://gardenpatch.xyz/guides
- Pricing: https://gardenpatch.xyz/pricing
- Playbooks index: https://gardenpatch.xyz/playbooks

## Expertise Areas

Marketing in the agent era, Sales when agents do the prospecting, Operations with agent-run loops, Customer service with robot tier-1, Tech stack when agents are the users, People & culture when half the team is non-human, Growth strategy, Operator-led businesses, Hybrid human-agent team design

## Optional

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