What is Orthogonal?

Orthogonal is an artificial intelligence infrastructure platform developing a discovery, orchestration, and payments layer for autonomous AI agents. The platform unifies service discovery across application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling machine-to-machine interactions and task orchestration across different software tools. Orthogonal incorporates multi-chain transaction routing and agent-native on-chain payment protocols, including the x402 micropayment standard, allowing AI agents to query external web data, utilize services on-demand, and settle operational costs programmatically within a single workflow.