Jen
@BackseatVC
product @stripe agentic commerce, leading machine payments. also, @justinkan's youtube/tiktok
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Streaming payments are a super interesting business model now that agents can pay-per-call for tools
Stripe now supports streaming payments using @mpp Sessions, which allows agents to pay subcent transactions for a session, and then settle the final amount when finished.
Could be really useful for streamed compute, LLM interference, data analysis, and more.
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Agents are much more likely than humans to make microtransactions which work especially well over stablecoins
Usually that means merchants selling tools to agents would have to manage crypto-specifics, like gas facilitation
Now, @stripe takes care of that for you with your @mpp integration. We deal with the crypto side and pay for gas, and payments just land in your Stripe balance
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Agents can now use Ramp cards to buy from businesses using Stripe via @MPP.
Get your business agent-ready:
You can now give your agent a @tryramp card and let it buy from businesses on @stripe via @mpp!
In this demo, I show how a business owner could use Codex to buy wine for a few top customers:
- My agent helps me find my most engaged customers using the Stripe MCP and our CRM notes.
- It finds @MartinEstate in the Stripe Directory and recommends wine within my budget.
- I approve the purchase, and it pays with a Ramp card via MPP!
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What are tasks, or data to query, do you want for Muse, Grok Bot, Instinct, etc, where you’d be excited to _passively_ pay a penny, 10c, $1, for the task/data to be high quality and low latency?
For me, I’d pay to have perfect places data. I still get recommended closed places.
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"Only tech people will use agents, like Muse/Instinct/Grokbot. Mainstream consumers won't adopt it."
I can't help but feel like it sounds similar to the early days of ridesharing where the discourse was "people love driving," "taxis already exist," and "calling a black car is a niche, elite thing."
But Uber made it accessible for everyone to be able to call a car (and to do so in a much less painful way).
Fast forward to now, Uber and Lyft got mainstream adoption. And people remain buying cars and loving to drive.
I wonder if we'll see agents get mainstream adoption in a similar way (and also like this pain relief framing)
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Unexpected benefit of Muse having default access to scrape all of Instagram: being able to find promo codes from creators
Feels like this one is a win/win
Token fraud is all over our timelines, so the Stripe Radar team is bringing the conversation offline.
We're hosting a curated event at our SF office to give users a chance to connect with peers and with the engineers building Radar in person.
DM me about your use case for an invite!
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Agents are actively trying to buy from Stripe businesses, and we've now upgraded @stripe hosted checkout pages with WebMCP
If you're building an agent, this means that you're spending 42% fewer tokens to checkout on a Stripe page
If you're a merchant, this means that agents are able to actually convert
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Hi internet! We went ahead and upgraded all @stripe hosted checkout pages for 7.8M businesses—0.45% of the world’s GDP—with WebMCP so agents can more efficiently buy. Our evals show this reduces checkout latency by 39% and token usage by 42%.
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Group chats for agents are going to be super useful, since (ideally) I'm not going to all of these things I'm booking alone...
And, if my agent already has a wallet, then I should be able to send funds peer-to-peer
Please never make me manually split group expenses again lol
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Introducing our Trusted Person network powered by our new Instinct-to-Instinct communication protocol. Your Instinct can now talk to other Instincts to coordinate plans on your behalf.
Getting people together often involves a lot of back-and-forth: finding a time, working out the details, and following up when plans change. Instincts can now work with each other to help handle that coordination.
For example:
- Coordinating plans with your spouse
- Planning a weekend trip with friends, including dates and arrival times
- Scheduling time with colleagues and other collaborators
- Hosting events with 10s or 100s of people
- Organizing recurring plans like tennis, book clubs, or weekly dinners
Disclaimer: Your Instinct will only be able to communicate with those in your Trusted Person network. This is the group of people who are closest to you:
- Spouse
- Older children and parents
- Colleagues and trusted professional relationships
- Small local businesses
The Trusted Person network is currently available to our early access group and will be slowly rolled out across the user base over the next 24-48 hours.
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Found the killer use case for Muse lol
Of course I immediately had Muse attempt to make some difficult restaurant reservations
And makes me feel a lot better that there is a native OpenTable integration and follows their TOS
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Create a @link account once, and unlock the ability for the latest personal AI agents to pay on your behalf
Muse from Meta is the latest! Congrats team!!
Introducing Muse, your personal AI agent from Meta that gets things done across every part of life.
Download the Muse app and get started:
If you're noticing an increase API requests from agents, you should considering monetizing those calls
Try it out! The integration should be one-shottable
It's a bit—so to speak—binary that unauthenticated API reads or HTTP requests are only 🚫 block or ✅ allow.
Want to charge agents a tiny amount to call your API or read your site (and a different price for auth'd users)? Try => @stripe machine payments:
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Request for tools: a tool that checks on TOS violations, so the agent can at least warn me before this happens
I went to Grokbot meetup in NYC, and it was fun and well run! (Apparently was planned in just 4 days?!)
- The little cards with real prompts and use cases were great
- They gave everyone $100 in credits to try
- Wish I got to talk to more people about what they're using theirs for
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"Hey Instinct/Grok Bot, sign me up for the ai agent meetup tomorrow: "
it's unreal to see the hype around all of these ai agents. one thing is certain, this momentum is great for the industry!
putting together a super casual meetup with @BackseatVC to bring together ai agent nerds in NYC tomorrow night
share use cases for how it's automating your life
chat through the gaps
learn the tips and tricks from others
agents are cool, talking about agents IRL is cooler
free pizza & beer!!
RSVP:
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Grok Bot can now purchase anywhere with @link.
(If you haven't tried Grok Bot, you should. It's very good.)
I've spent $700 through Instinct in the last week, but gave it account info (that I can change) instead of my card info
But now, I can give it my Link wallet where I already have my cards saved and pay without having to pass my card number around!
(I think I have an invite left if anyone wants to try Instinct. DM me - curious what you would have your agent do for you)
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Instinct + Stripe
Instinct users who make purchases spend over $1300/month on average through Instinct. Using Instinct to make high value purchases is a sign of trust that we deeply value.
We’re partnering with Stripe to deliver a more seamless payment experience. Instinct has enabled use cases that involve payments including:
- Planning and booking international trips
- Ordering weekly groceries and household essentials
- Booking yoga classes, ski tuning sessions, doctor’s appointments, car part repairs, and more
- Getting you the best price for anything you’re looking for
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