alt Hacker NewsAI products are going to have to deal with accounting. An agent performs some work. It uses some models and perhaps some other metered services. Someone has to meter that activity. They have to attribute costs, apply the product's pricing rules, bill the customer, collect, reconcile with vendors, and maintain the ledger.
Stripe can use OpenRouter to build the financial and accounting infrastructure for every product that sells metered AI work.
I think the analogy is ADP. Payroll for all the work that's going to be done by AI agents.
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IDK, that sounds like a solution in search of a problem. What would be different about this than what OpenRouter is currently doing with pricing?
It's not just that.
As user agents become more common it's only natural that they will be used for taking the heavy lifting out of e-commerce purchases. There will be a big need for digital payments to verify and reconcile these purchases.
With LLMs that are plugged into digital payments we will essentially have buying agents in our pocket that can find us exactly what we want for the cheapest price and the quickest delivery.
At some point AI will be able to deal with the repetitive and template based parts of accounting better than accounting.
Which is saying a lot.
I built modelrelay.ai that does this. Happy to give you an invite code if you want to play with it.
Every token/llm provider already has usage metering...so not sure what exactly you're imagining stripe adds here