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Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed


Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

Paid promises to help agent makers “start charging for points of margin saved by their customers,” Medina describes. But charging a monthly fee for a limited number of credits — following the model makers and vibe coders — is risky for agent-makers, too. After billions spent on AI pilots, some 95% of enterprise projects were found to have no value, with only 5% put into production, according to a recent study from MIT.

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