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Pricing strategyPer-Token, Per-Agent, Per-Outcome: How AI Companies Actually PriceThree pricing models are competing to define how AI products charge for value: per-token, per-agent, and per-outcome. Here's how real companies use each one, where each one breaks, and what it takes to bill this way without guessing.Aug 30, 2026 · 14 min readProductMigrating off Stripe Billing: what actually changesStripe Billing is the default choice for a reason. Here's what actually breaks as usage pricing gets more complex, what a migration really carries over, and how to tell if you've hit the point where switching is worth it.Aug 30, 2026 · 13 min readProductWhy Automated Diagnosis Beats Blind Retries in Payment Recovery Failed payments silently erode revenue and drive involuntary churn in usage-based SaaS. Kribana's autonomous agent diagnoses declines and acts fast, targeting recovery where it's actually likely to work.Aug 18, 2026 · 8 min readEngineeringWhy usage metering breaks at scale (and how we fixed it) At a few thousand events a second, naive aggregation falls over. Here's the ledger design that doesn't.Jun 17, 2026 · 7 min readProductThe wallet pattern: prepaid credits done rightPrepaid credits look simple until burn-down, grants, and top-ups collide. A field guide to getting it right.Jun 3, 2026 · 6 min readPricing strategyWhat actually moves revenue in a pricing experimentTier boundaries matter less than most teams assume. Overage framing matters more.May 21, 2026 · 9 min readEngineeringRecovering failed payments without annoying your customersBlind retry schedules recover less money and burn more goodwill than a diagnosis-first approach.May 7, 2026 · 5 min readCustomer storiesHow one AI infrastructure team cut billing ops from 3 days to 0A monthly invoice run that ate three engineer-days became a number nobody thinks about anymore.Apr 29, 2026 · 8 min readProductIntroducing the Agent: an autonomous night shift for revenueBalances, failed payments, and expansion signals don't wait for business hours. Now neither does Kribana.Apr 13, 2026 · 4 min read