Can agents buy from your product? Three questions that tell you. Plus: Nate's Library MCP.

Decisions about agent access to products, including fraud, pricing, and onboarding, are crucial for business strategy. Stripe’s Radar, a fraud product, faced issues with users who consumed resources without making payments, revealing a need to differentiate good users from abusive ones. This distinction impacts a company’s ability to serve customers and understand true costs beyond token counting.

• Decisions about agent access to products are made through fraud, pricing, and onboarding processes.
• Stripe’s Radar product initially focused on payment fraud but struggled with users consuming free credits or services without payment.
• Distinguishing good users from abusive ones is critical for determining which customers a company can afford to serve.
• A company’s fraud rules are essentially distribution decisions.
• The acquisition of OpenRouter connects task costs to earnings, though accurate token counting doesn’t guarantee efficient spending.
• Knowing costs does not automatically determine pricing; understanding value and user behavior is also essential.
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