Autumn Launches: Stripe for AI Startups

Autumn recently launched!

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^{"Autumn makes Stripe 10x easier to integrate and manages your billing infra as you grow."}

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Autumn is a layer over Stripe that makes it 10x easier to setup your app’s free / paid plans, and manage them as you grow.

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Founded by Ayush Rodrigues & John Yeo

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About The Founders

They were in the F24 batch building software for banks, before pivoting the day before demo day. The founders pivoted around for a few months before stumbling on this. Now they’re raising with S25.

Ayush was a PM at a company called checkout .com (Stripe competitor).

John studied computer engineering at Imperial College London, and has been building things / devtools for 6 years.

(and they do really ❤️ Stripe).

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The Problem

• Stripe is low level and it’s hard to build AI pricing. There’s 5 different functions to manage subscriptions, 5 different brittle webhooks and a bunch of DB tables you need to maintain (gate features, track usage etc)
• When you change pricing (which AI companies do A LOT), everything needs to be ripped out, replaced with different product/price IDs and migrated. This really sucks.

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What’s Autumn?

Autumn is your app’s DB for your customer’s subscription state, feature permissions and usage tracking. You make queries to them and they’ll tell you if a customer can access something:

1. Model your pricing plans in the dashboard / CLI (set pricing, feature limits, usage-billing, credits etc.).
2. /checkout to handle billing. Use the same function for new subs, upgrades/downgrades, add-ons etc.
3. /track usage events when a customer does something (eg uses a credit).
4. /check for feature access to handle usage limits / paywalls. Autumn tells you yes/no in realtime.

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The founders built the integration so that it can be reused no matter the pricing model (including org / centralized billing). When you want to change pricing, just update your dashboard / config file, migrate any customers you need to and everything’s done. You can also set custom pricing for enterprise customers in a similar way.

https://youtu.be/0IBujDkuieE

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It’s open source, used in prod by 100s of developers, and by YC startups that are processing millions.

“The only thing I regret is not moving onto Autumn sooner” (one YC founder the Autumn team works with).

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Learn More

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^{🌐 Visit useautumn.com to learn more.}

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