Founder of a listed tool
Sam Ragsdale
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Sam builds
Agentzon D · Commerce & checkout
Online store for household essentials that agents can search and buy from through a JSON API. Sells 466 purchasable items shipped within the U.S. by Merit Systems Inc, with payment on a private checkout page.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
OpenInstinct F · Personal assistants
OpenInstinct is an open-source iMessage assistant that a person deploys into their own Vercel account. It uses a cloud browser to book tickets, order groceries and fill forms, with saved logins and cards kept in an encrypted vault.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Mason Hall Head of Strategy; Agentzon launch contributor
- Ryan Sproule Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Andreessen Horowitz Blockchain Capital
Questions
Who is Sam Ragsdale?
Sam Ragsdale is co-founder and CEO of Merit Systems, which builds open agentic commerce tools including x402scan, AgentCash and Poncho. He was previously a research engineer at a16z crypto, where he helped create JOLT, an open-source zkVM for RISC-V, and earlier worked as a software engineer at Blockchain Capital and Google.
What does Merit Systems, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Agentzon and OpenInstinct from Merit Systems, Inc.. Online store for household essentials that agents can search and buy from through a JSON API. Sells 466 purchasable items shipped within the U.S. by Merit Systems Inc, with payment on a private checkout page.
Who has invested in Merit Systems, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz and Blockchain Capital.
How are Sam's tools graded?
Agentzon is graded D, 51.4 out of 100; OpenInstinct is graded F, 22.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (16)
- https://agentzon.co/terms
- https://www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/merit-a-new-economy-for-open-source
- https://x.com/samrags_
- https://x.com/rsproule
- https://merit.systems/blog/fundraise
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Merit+Systems+Sam+Ragsdale+Ryan+Sproule+Mason+Hall+founders+X
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallmason
- https://x.com/0xMasonH
- https://merit.systems
- https://x.com/merit_systems
- https://agentzon.co/
- https://agentzon.co
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/merit-systems-raises-10-million-from-a16z-blockchain-capital.html
- https://openinstinct.sh
- https://merit.systems/contact
- https://github.com/Merit-Systems/OpenInstinct
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