About Paid: The Business Engine for AI Agents
🚀 Who We Are
Paid is the all-in-one, drop-in Business Engine for AI Agents that handles your pricing, subscriptions, margins, billing, and renewals with just a few lines of code.
Founded by Manny Medina (former CEO of Outreach, valued at $4.4B), Manoj Ganapathy, Arnon Shimoni, and Raj Dosanjh, we're building the critical business infrastructure that enables AI agents to move from theoretical potential to practical, scalable solutions.
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About Paid: The Business Engine for AI Agents
🚀 Who We Are
Paid is the all-in-one, drop-in Business Engine for AI Agents that handles your pricing, subscriptions, margins, billing, and renewals with just a few lines of code.
Founded by Manny Medina (former CEO of Outreach, valued at $4.4B), Manoj Ganapathy, Arnon Shimoni, and Raj Dosanjh, we're building the critical business infrastructure that enables AI agents to move from theoretical potential to practical, scalable solutions.
🎯 The Problem We Solve
Traditional SaaS software is dead.
The AI agent industry is exploding - projected to reach $217 billion by 2035. But there's a massive problem: 75% of AI agent companies struggle with billing and pricing their agents.
Why? Because traditional billing systems weren't built for this new reality:
Complex usage patterns that don't fit rigid SaaS SKU structures
Unpredictable costs that can eat margins without warning
Value-based pricing opportunities that legacy billing can't capture
Customer retention challenges when value isn't clearly demonstrated
As one founder told us: "We were leaving money on the table, and we knew every other AI company was too."
💡 Our Solution
Paid provides three core capabilities for AI agent companies:
1. Monetization
Mix subscription, action, and performance billing models without breaking a sweat. Want to charge for outcomes instead of inputs? Done. Need to mix subscription models with workflows? You got it. Charging per Agent? Of course!
2. Margin Management
Track how much it costs you to run each action and each agent workflow. We help you calculate what to charge to earn more than you spend. Real-time visibility into your Agentic Margin (revenue minus agent operating costs).
3. Momentum
Transform invisible AI value into tangible ROI metrics. Show customers exactly what they're getting from their agents, making renewal conversations easy and keeping competition out.
🛠️ How It Works
Implementation is remarkably simple:
const agentId = "agent_sdr";
const customerId = "user_abc2234";
const signalName = "meeting_booked";
const additionalData = {
model: "gpt4",
subjectLength: 56,
bodyLength: 452
};
client.recordUsage(agentId, customerId, signalName, additionalData);That's it. We handle the rest.
📊 Our Pricing Models for AI Agents
Through analyzing 60+ AI agent companies, we've identified four pricing frameworks that actually work:
Price per agent (FTE replacement model) - Used by 11x, Harvey, Vivun
Price per agent action (consumption model) - Used by Bland, Parloa, HappyRobot
Price per agent workflow (process automation model) - Used by Rox, Salesforce, Artisan
Price per agent outcome (results-based model) - Used by Zendesk, Intercom, Airhelp
🌟 Early Success
Launched 3 months ago with €10M in pre-seed funding
Already onboarding 20+ beta customers including Artisan, Actively, HappyRobot, Logic, Vidlab7
Featured in major tech publications and podcasts
🎪 The AI Agent Builder's Manifesto
We believe:
Traditional SaaS software is dead
We are AI Agent builders creating agents that perform entire roles
The SaaS business model is irrelevant for AI agents
AI Agents have changed how software works
The potential of our AI agent economy stretches into the trillions. To our fellow AI Agent builders: Our time is now. Let's build this new economy and capture the full value we create.
Innovate, create, get Paid.
🤝 Join Us
Whether you're building AI agents or looking to join our team, we're here to help you get Paid.
For AI Agent Companies: Get exclusive access to our beta
For Talent: Join a fun, fast-moving team serving the cutting edge of AI - view our jobs page on LinkedIn
