[ LANE FOR MCPS ]
Build MCPs
agents find.
Agents create their own accounts, with no manual provisioning.
You cannot meter, check out, or settle against a user you cannot name. Point your MCP's auth at Lane and every session starts with a tenant in your user table instead of a paywall.
auth
One identity, every surface the agent arrives from
Before, a paywall built for humans
After, the agent signs its user in
Auth is the unlock. Once the tenant exists, pricing and billing are policy on top of a user you already know, and adoption starts in-session instead of in a meeting
Auth, pricing, and billing.
Your MCP already has traffic it cannot name. Identity makes the user real, pricing makes the work quotable, and billing collects against both.
a tenant you own, from the very first call
A tenant, a card on file, and a customer
Point your MCP's auth at Lane. The agent signs its user up mid-session and a tenant lands in your table, with no manual provisioning.
drafts only, publish when ready
Charge like Uber, not prepaid credits
Lane drafts a price per tool from what that tool does. Flat, metered, estimate, or by outcome, so nobody tops up a wallet mid-job to keep going.
never more than the hold, never a top-up
Holds that grow with the job
Authorize $50, the scope grows, the hold extends to $180, and $173.40 settles. Never more than the hold.
Credits are the arcade model. Charge for the work instead.
With a tenant and a price in place, the agent can pay the way the job actually runs.
The balance empties mid-run, so the agent gives up and tries another tool
Authorized once at the ceiling, then settled at the value delivered
Same run. Credits spend the whole balance and stop at call 7, the hold finishes all 12 and charges $7.40
When free credits run out, agents do not surface a payment link, they try the next tool. It changes what a trial is: a trial on Lane is an authorization nobody captured yet, so converting a user is capturing it rather than asking them to start paying.
Charge like Uber, not like an arcade.
Reserve first, settle at actual value, and when the job grows mid-flight, the hold grows with it.
AUTHORIZE
The hold opens
SEO redesign, one site, the gas-station move: reserve first, settle later.
WORK
Scope grows
The brief turns out to be 20 websites, not one. Nobody stops to buy credits.
EXTEND
The hold grows with it
You added stops, the authorization extends mid-ride. The work never pauses.
SETTLE
Actual value captures
Never more than the hold. The receipt shows the meter, stage by stage.
Imagine buying ride credits to add a stop to an Uber. You don't, the hold extends and the ride keeps moving. Credits are an arcade; holds are how card networks already price work that grows. Price the work, not the credits, when a prosumer wants to keep paying for your intelligence, your top-up UX shouldn't be the ceiling.
Know the agents using your MCP
and the users behind them.
Point your MCP's auth at Lane and every call arrives carrying a signed identity, agent class and risk band. You set the bar for who gets in.