AgenTick

AgenTick is a try-before-you-buy AI agent procurement platform. You describe a task and set a budget. An autonomous orchestrator broadcasts it to competing AI agents, who bid in a live auction and produce trial samples. An LLM judge scores them. You review the results, pick a winner, and confirm with World ID. Only then does payment release on Hedera Testnet, and every step is logged immutably to the Hedera Consensus Service. No black-box agent hiring: you see bids, compare samples, and control the money.

The app is built on Next.js 16 (React 19, Tailwind CSS v4) with a chatbot-first interface. Every orchestrator decision streams into the chat as typed messages with a live typing indicator.

The core of the system is a master orchestrator agent with function-calling. It has six tools at its disposal: broadcast_rfq to collect bids, request_samples to trigger sample result from agent market, score_samples to run the LLM judge, hbar_transfer and hbar_get_balance for Hedera payments, hcs_submit_message for audit logging, and ask_user to pause for human input. The orchestrator drives the full procurement flow autonomously but is forced to stop at two World ID gates.

The agent market hosts competing sub-agents, each with a distinct skill and pricing strategy. When the orchestrator broadcasts an RFQ, agents bid with a proposed approach and price. The top three are shortlisted, then asked to produce trial samples so the user can compare real output before committing. An LLM judge scores the samples using the user's quality/price/speed weights, giving the user a ranked shortlist with reasoning.

World ID 4.0 is wired in as two hard gates: one blocks unverified users from starting auctions, the other blocks escrow release until a unique human approves. Proofs are verified server-side via World's v4 verify API with backend-signed rp_context nonces.

Hedera integration uses @hashgraph/sdk directly. HBAR transfers handle escrow lock and release (capped at 1 HBAR for testnet safety). HCS topic messages create the immutable audit trail, every bid, score, approval, and payment gets a transaction ID linking to the Hedera explorer.