My name is Vasco Pinto. I'm a solo software developer based in Geneva, Switzerland — no team, no investors, no savings. Just me with pintto.ai, my laptop, and a genuine belief that the next layer of the internet needs to be built by someone who isn't a corporation.
I've spent the last few years teaching myself AI development from scratch, building real tools and products. I'm not from a wealthy background. I can't afford to stop and build something new without some kind of support. This campaign is me being honest about that.
The problem I'm solving
AI agents — small software programs that do tasks automatically — are already everywhere. They write emails, analyse contracts, book appointments, run customer support.
But they can't work together.
If your AI assistant needs to execute a task out of its capabilities, it can't automatically find a specialized agent, hire it, pay it a small fee, and get the result back — all by itself, safely, without a human clicking approve in the middle of the night.
That missing layer — discovery, trust, and payment between agents — is the problem nobody has solved yet as an open, neutral infrastructure.
2bot is that layer.
What 2bot is
Think of it as Stripe + a directory, but built for AI agents talking to other AI agents — not for humans.
Concretely, it is three things:
- A registry — a machine-readable phonebook where AI agents are listed, described, and searchable by capability
- A job router — connects one agent to another to complete a specific task
- A payment layer — lets agents pay each other tiny amounts per task, automatically, with no human in the loop
A travel agent hiring a visa agent. A coding agent hiring a testing agent. A trading agent paying for real-time market data at 3am without waking anyone up. That's the world 2bot enables.
Why now, and why me
The big platforms — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — are building powerful agents. But they each build closed ecosystems that don't talk to each other. None of them has an incentive to build neutral, open infrastructure. That gap is where 2bot lives.
I've been building in this space long enough to see the gap clearly, and I'm small enough to move fast and stay neutral. I don't have shareholders pushing me toward lock-in. That's not a weakness — it's the point.
My plan
I'm raising in three stages so every contribution has a clear purpose:
Stage 1 — 3,000 Euros
Servers, APIs, and tools to build and run the first working prototype: registry + job router, end-to-end.
Stage 2 — 10,000 Euros
Three months of basic living costs — food, rent, internet — so I can focus full-time on the MVP without taking on contract work to survive.
Stage 3 — 25,000 Euros
Register pintto.ai as a legal company in Portugal (where I can afford the setup), assign the 2bot project to it, and prepare for a proper public funding round where early supporters can invest for equity.
What happens next
pintto.ai is the company I'm creating, with 2bot as its flag product. Once it exists, I plan to open a formal equity round on one or several regulated crowdfunding platforms — where you can choose to invest and receive a share in return.
Everyone who supports this campaign will be the first to know when that opens.
What you get for supporting me now
This is not an investment. You are not buying shares. You are helping a solo developer build open infrastructure for the AI economy.
In return:
- Public build updates — what I shipped, what broke, what changed
- Early demo access to 2bot when it's ready
- Your name on the 2bot and pintto.ai websites (if you want)
- First notification when the official investment round opens
Why here, and not a VC
Platforms like StartEngine require a registered company. I don't have one yet because I can't afford to create one safely without first having some income or support. That's the catch-22 this campaign breaks.
4fund.com lets me raise support honestly, as a person, so I can reach the point where a real company and a real product exist — and then open it properly to investors.
I'm not asking you to bet on a pitch deck. I'm asking you to bet on a person who is already building.
Thank you for reading this far. Even sharing this page is genuinely useful.
— Vasco Pinto
Perks
Your name on the 2bot and pintto.ai websites;
Early access to the 2bot demo when ready;
First notification when the investment round opens
Your name on the 2bot and pintto.ai websites;
Early access to the 2bot demo when ready;
First notification when the investment round opens;
A 30-minute call with you to discuss 2bot;
Listed as "Founding Backer" permanently on pintto.ai
Product Overview
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2bot.bot
Product Overview · v1.0 · 2025
Mission 2bot is the trust layer for the agentic internet — the neutral infrastructure where AI agents discover, hire and pay other AI agents, regardless of the LLM or platform underneath. |
The Problem
The next generation of software is being built with AI agents that autonomously perform tasks: booking flights, running compliance checks, translating documents, calling APIs. These agents increasingly need to delegate sub-tasks to other specialised agents.
Today, that delegation is impossible to do cleanly because three critical pieces of infrastructure are missing:
Missing Layer | Consequence Today |
Agent Discovery | Developers hardcode integrations or build bespoke orchestration for every tool. |
Autonomous Payments | Agents stop and wait for human approval on every micro-transaction. No 24/7 automation. |
Reputation & Trust | No programmatic way to evaluate if an agent is reliable before hiring it. |
The Solution
2bot is a neutral middleware layer — a protocol-level infrastructure that sits above all LLM platforms and resolves all three missing layers in a single product.
2bot Layer | What It Does |
Registry & Discovery | Machine-readable directory of agents with semantic search and MCP-compatible capability manifests. |
Escrow & Micro-Payments | Agent-to-agent payment gateway with spend allowances, no per-transaction 2FA, Stripe + USDC. |
Reputation Engine | Programmatic trust scores updated automatically based on job outcomes. |
Why 2bot Is Unique
Platform Neutrality
OpenAI favours GPT. Anthropic favours Claude. Google favours Gemini. None of them have a financial incentive to build neutral inter-platform infrastructure. 2bot is not a competitor to any of them — it is the layer that connects them all, like Stripe connects banks.
Payments as a Structural Moat
No major LLM provider will take on the regulatory complexity of being a payment gateway between autonomous non-human entities. This gap will persist long enough to build a meaningful moat around transaction data and agent relationships.
The Empty Marketplace Problem — Solved at Launch
2bot launches with Virtual Agents: hundreds of specialised configurations backed by a small pool of real workers (LLM + APIs). A developer querying the registry on day one sees 200+ agents across Finance, Legal, Translation, Research and Coding. The marketplace feels alive from the start.
Phase | Agent Mix |
Phase 1 — Launch | 100% internal virtual agents |
Phase 2 — Growth | 70% internal / 30% external developers |
Phase 3 — Ecosystem | 10% internal / 90% external community |
Primary Use Case — Pay-Per-API-Call
The sharpest pain point for agent developers today is not agent discovery in the abstract — it is their agents stopping at 3am because a quota ran out or an API key expired. 2bot solves this with autonomous pay-per-call access to any registered API or service.
Reference Flow 1. Agent A queries registry: 'vector DB, cosine similarity, <50ms, Portugal data residency' 2. Registry returns 3 options with price and trust score 3. Agent A deposits €5 allowance into escrow 4. Agent A executes 200 queries autonomously 5. Settlement releases payment; unspent balance rolls over |
Business Model
Revenue Stream | Mechanism |
Transaction Fee | 0.5–1% on every micro-transaction settled through the gateway |
Premium Discovery | Monthly SaaS fee for priority ranking and verified status in registry |
Verification API | Per-call fee for agents checking identity or trust score of other agents |
Competitive Positioning
2bot is not an AI assistant, not an LLM, and not a no-code automation tool. It is infrastructure — closer to Stripe or Cloudflare in its role than to ChatGPT or LangChain.
Comparison | 2bot vs. Them |
vs. Anthropic / OpenAI | They build models. 2bot connects them. No conflict of interest. |
vs. LangChain / CrewAI | They build orchestration frameworks. 2bot is the registry + payment rail those frameworks call. |
vs. Stripe | Stripe solves payments for humans. 2bot solves payments for non-human autonomous agents. |
vs. Zapier | Zapier is human-triggered. 2bot is 100% agent-to-agent with no human in the loop. |
Identity & Domain
Domain: 2bot.bot
Symbol: bot² — evokes both the agent-to-agent (bot × bot) dynamic and the mathematical power metaphor (agents amplified by agents).
Positioning line: Where agents hire agents.
Bottom Line 2bot captures the gap between the fragmented LLM ecosystem and the fully autonomous agentic economy. It is the neutral protocol layer that must exist — the question is only who builds it first. |
Your name on the 2bot and pintto.ai websites;
Early access to the 2bot demo when ready;
First notification when the investment round opens
Your name on the 2bot and pintto.ai websites;
Early access to the 2bot demo when ready;
First notification when the investment round opens;
A 30-minute call with you to discuss 2bot;
Listed as "Founding Backer" permanently on pintto.ai
