Stripe
The financial operating system for autonomous economies — programmatic money movement without human intervention.
Stripe is the foundational infrastructure for the zero-human company, providing a robust API layer for every aspect of financial operations. It enables AI agents to move money, manage global tax compliance, and issue physical or virtual cards without a human CFO or finance department. By abstracting the complexity of the global banking system into a single programmable interface, Stripe allows autonomous entities to collect revenue, pay vendors, and manage capital with machine-level precision and speed.
Use Cases
- Autonomous SaaS Platforms: A software service that handles its own subscription billing, upgrades, and churn management without a billing operations team.
- Agentic Marketplaces: Platforms where AI agents buy and sell services from each other, with Stripe handling the automated split-payments and payouts.
- Self-Funding Compute Swarms: AI agent teams that manage their own Stripe accounts to pay for API credits and server costs using earned revenue.
- Global Micro-transaction Engines: High-velocity payment processing for machine-to-machine interactions that would be cost-prohibitive for human-managed systems.
Key Features
Stripe Billing
A complete engine for recurring revenue that runs on autopilot. It handles everything from subscription logic and tiered pricing to automated dunning and recovery.
Stripe Connect
The infrastructure for multi-party payments. Connect allows autonomous platforms to onboard users, verify identities via KYC/AML, and orchestrate complex fund flows.
Stripe Issuing
Programmable card infrastructure that gives AI agents 'hands' in the physical and digital economy. Agents can instantly create virtual cards with granular spending controls.
Stripe Tax
Automated global tax compliance that removes the need for human tax advisors. It automatically calculates and collects the correct amount of tax based on location.