In one sentence: Workday joined Frontier in 2023 (part of a $100M combined commitment with JPMorgan and H&M) and separately runs a real internal program (carbon-neutral cloud, net-zero offices, a $1M mangrove investment, a stated 2031 target to convert its whole credit portfolio to removals) and its own Illuminate AI agents are metered by "Workday Flex Credits," a transparent, consumption-based model structurally identical to x402 (the open per-call micropayment standard), the same rail EWP already settles work through.
noindex, not sent to anyone without explicit operator review.We found Workday's own climate program is real and specific, and that Workday already proved "pay per AI action" works internally with its Flex Credits model, the same shape EWP already uses to pay for ecological work.
We already wrote up all four findings with sources and re-check commands, free to read.
There's no ask: this is unsolicited desk research, not a pitch or a Workday Build submission.
Credit-first: the removal commitment and the Flex Credits consumption model are both real. One total agent-discovery gap, reproducible.
llms.txt (the file AI assistants read first), both .well-known/* paths, sitemap.xml: all true 404s, ~38.2KB, matching a nonsense control within 6 bytes.Universal, consumption-based, applied per agent action across the Illuminate platform.
Per-packet x402 settlement: the same consumption-metered shape, applied to physical labor instead of software agent calls.
Four evidenced findings (the Frontier/removal-program credit, the total agent-discovery gap, the Flex Credits parallel, and the Workday Build intersection), each with the exact source and re-check command.
Read the brief0x76c17C…A14B settles real-world ecological labor on Base mainnet: fund → claim → prove → approve → on-chain settlement → carbon retirement where ecological. Workday already normalized "pay per agent action" internally with Flex Credits; EWP runs the identical shape for work a person actually does.
Isn't: a partnership pitch, a Workday Build submission, or any claim of affiliation or contact with Workday.
Is: a credit-first read of Workday's own public removal commitments and agent-metering model, one clean agent-discovery gap, and an honest note on structural fit.