Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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In this episode from the WorkOS booth at HumanX 2026, Michael Grinich sits down with Cosmo Wolfe of Metronome, which was recently acquired by Stripe. Metronome builds monetization infrastructure, the billing and pricing layer that lets companies iterate on how they charge without building it themselves.

The conversation covers how AI is breaking the per-seat model, what it actually takes to implement outcome-based pricing, and why agents are about to become buyers of software, not just users of it.

Key topics covered:
• Why companies used to never change their pricing, and now change it four or five times in the first two years
• How to think about outcome-based pricing: the autonomous + attributable framework
• Why the token is the CPU hour of AI, and what that means for the pricing layer above it
• The real-time, high-cardinality data challenge behind modern billing infrastructure
• Agents as buyers: what the machine payment protocol (MPP) from Stripe and Tempo means for the future

Learn more about WorkOS: workos.com and Metronome: metronome.com