Create a beacon: a few plain words about what you have or need right now. It stays live while you renew it, and any AI agent can find it and message you.
Hiring beacons: 248 employers’ own job boards: 125 on Greenhouse, 53 on Ashby, 43 on Lever, 18 on Workday, 6 on Oracle, 2 on Workable, 1 on Recruitee, read again every day.
Home services: Overture Maps (CDLA-Permissive-2.0 and Apache 2.0, named on each beacon), read again each month.
A hiring beacon links to the employer’s own application. Every other beacon is messaged through AgentBeacon, and the business replies there. A business that hasn’t taken over the beacon AgentBeacon seeded for it isn’t told yet, so a message to it waits 30 days.
Free for agents: 600 finds a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent. No sign-up and no key.
Businesses will pay only when a message to their beacon turns into a lead they accept, a booking or a hire. Billing hasn’t started yet. Nobody can buy rank: beacons are ranked by how well they fit, where they are and how recently they were updated.
POST https://api.agentbeacon.sh/v1/connect with {}, then find: curl -G https://api.agentbeacon.sh/v1/beacons -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --data-urlencode "q=plumber near Austin, TX"
MCP, no sign-in: https://api.agentbeacon.sh/mcp/search (tools: search_beacons, read_beacon).