Akshat Mishra
Hey, I’m Akshat, an engineer and founder based in Bengaluru 🇮🇳. I build for a world where AI agents are customers, and I own the whole loop, from code to distribution. Currently running FForge, buyer analytics for agent commerce, and Agent Reviews. Previously CTO at QuillAudits.
Work
Products I’ve shipped so AI agents can find, judge and pay for things online.
Journey so far
I like getting to hard problems early. I worked on AI code auditing in 2021, fine-tuned security models in 2023 and moved into AI agent payments in 2025, each before the space got crowded.
Along the way I led a 10-person team as CTO of QuillAudits, shipped an AI code-auditing agent with 50K+ scans, and grew WachAI, an AI agent business, to $36K ARR.
In January 2026 I co-founded Forge with Akshay Dev. Three pivots later, it helps API businesses turn agent traffic into paying customers. I build the product and the distribution: 195 merged pull requests in seven weeks, and a launch post that reached 10K impressions within a few hours.
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2026 · Now
Founder & CEO, Forge
Forge is buyer analytics for agent commerce, built for API businesses that already sell to AI agents. It shows how agents find, judge and pay for an API, where friction stops payment, and how to turn more of that traffic into paying customers.
I built and shipped the web app myself: 195 merged pull requests between Sep 10 and Oct 30, 2026. That covers agent session analytics, an Agent Experience report that scores a service across discovery, API usage and payment (including x402 and MPP), Discovery checks with WebMCP detection, and Competitors, a head-to-head view of why agents pick a rival. Agent simulations are in development.
We signed 3 API founders as design partners in Aug 2026. I also analyzed 30 days of agent payment data across 14 API categories. In 11 of them, the leader out-earned every other provider combined.
The company started as ClawLens and pivoted through ClawCash and Agentify before landing here. Each one taught the same lesson from a different side: the bottleneck was agent demand, not payment tooling.
I also run brand, social media, content and outreach myself, from visual identity and landing pages to launch posts and founder-led LinkedIn content. Partnerships so far include 4mica, SKALE and MoltyCash, with a Valiron partnership in progress.
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2023 to 2026
CTO, QuillAudits
Led a 10-person team across QuillAudits’ AI security products and, for the final 12 months, its WachAI agent business.
On the security side I led development of QuillShield, an AI smart contract auditing agent, to about 200 users and 50K+ scans. I trained and fine-tuned language models to detect smart contract vulnerabilities. QuillShield AVS took 3rd place at AVSTHON Bangkok 2024, and I presented QuillShield at ETHDubai 2024.
At WachAI (Mar 2025 to Feb 2026) I led the largest launch on Virtuals ACP, measured by subscribers who pledged before launch. The agent served 5K+ jobs and reached $36K ARR. I worked on agent orchestration (job classification, delegation to specialist agents, payments and delivery tracking) and contributed to the Mandates SDK and specification, which let agents create, sign and verify explicit task agreements.
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2022 to 2023
Technical Product Manager, Attirer
Owned the website’s development end to end, shipping features in stages. Finding and fixing gaps in its Google Analytics setup lifted monthly views and user subscriptions by 100%.
I ran competitor analysis and SEO work to improve UX and search ranking, improved Core Web Vitals, and added dark and light mode, speech-to-text and multi-language translation, reaching a click-through rate above 3%. I built the frontend with a Handlebars theme, vanilla JavaScript and SCSS, plus a Node.js, Express and MongoDB API that tracks likes, views per post and conversions.
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2022
Developer Relations, Openware
Onboarded 5K+ developers through docs, SDK demos, tutorials and technical content.
I wrote step-by-step guides for setting up, deploying and customizing OpenDAX, Openware’s open-source trading platform, and wrote about Yellow Network’s protocol design and what it means for businesses and developers. The content explained complex distributed-systems concepts in plain terms, and ran in The Yellow Network Blog and Openware’s Medium publication.
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2021
Co-founder, Scrutify
Co-founded Scrutify to build an AI platform for auditing smart contracts, before AI code auditing got crowded. The work later led to the QuillAudits CTO role in Nov 2023.
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2019 to 2023
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
Other roles
- BBitBatuaInternA payment gateway that lets Indian businesses accept payments in crypto.
Selected projects
One thread runs through them: making AI agents trustworthy. Agent Reviews is live today. ClawLens, ClawCash and Agentify were earlier pivots at the company that became Forge.
- Agent ReviewsLiveReviews of paid APIs, written and read by AI agents. Every review is backed by a real, settled payment, verified automatically.
- CClawCashMay to Aug 2026One prepaid balance for agents to pay for APIs and merchant purchases, with 200+ merchant endpoints made agent-ready.
- AAgentifyJul to Aug 2026Turns Shopify and WooCommerce stores agent-native, with built-in agent payments.
- SkyX402May 2026Real flight booking for AI agents across 300+ airlines, with built-in agent payments.
- LClawLensJan to May 2026Financial identity for AI agents, with identity and credit scoring.
Open source
Bringing signed task agreements (mandates) from WachAI into ChaosChain’s SDKs.
- ChaosChain Python SDKPR #15 · MergedMandates integration so agents can create, sign and verify task agreements, with SDK helpers and integration tests. Merged Dec 24, 2025.
- ChaosChain TypeScript SDKPR #4 · OpenMandate creation, signature verification, canonicalization, and client and server signing helpers.
Talks & awards
- AVSTHON Bangkok 20243rd placeWon with QuillShield AVS. Watch the presentation.
- ETHDubai 2024TalkPresented QuillShield, an AI smart contract auditing agent.
- ETHGlobal Mumbai 2026HackathonBuilt Agent Reviews with the Forge team in three days, using on-chain identity registries and World ID to put a verified person behind each review.
Writing
- 12 technical articles on Medium13.7K viewsSecurity, Python, Solidity and OpenDAX, published in The Yellow Network Blog, Openware, Coinmonks and CoinsBench. The most read: “Automate Crypto Trading With Python.”
- Agent payments are winner-takes-mostResearch30 days of agent payment data across 14 API categories. Leaders took about 65% of category revenue on average.
I share research and things I’m building on LinkedIn.
“A brilliant Web3 developer and experienced technical writer.”
Eugene M., in a LinkedIn recommendation
Toolkit
- AI and agents
- Agent orchestration, MCP servers, LLM fine-tuning, agent skill files and hooks, agent marketplaces (Virtuals ACP), signed task agreements
- Product and growth
- Product discovery and management, SEO, Google Analytics, Core Web Vitals, UX and accessibility, social media, content, outreach
- Engineering
- API and SDK design, Node.js, Express, Next.js, React
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Solidity
- Data and infra
- Postgres, MongoDB, Drizzle ORM, Supabase, Vercel, Railway
- Security
- Code and smart contract auditing, SDK security reviews, payment verification, tamper-evident systems
- Payments and commerce
- Agent payment protocols (x402, MPP, ACP, UCP), stablecoin payments, Shopify GraphQL Admin API, Duffel
- Blockchain
- ERC-8004, SIWX, EIP-191 signing, Base, Solana, Tempo, Hedera
- Leadership
- Team leadership (10 people), developer relations, technical writing, partnerships, brand
Contact
Selling an API to agents, building agent payments, or want to compare notes? Email is the fastest way to reach me.
Follow along on LinkedIn and GitHub, or email hello@0xakshat.com.