Stigg buys Received.ai for usage-based billing
What's the deal? Stigg, a runtime platform that decides what customers, users, and AI agents can do when they try, has acquired billing-infrastructure startup ReceivedDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.ai. The deal, announced August 18, 2026, folds contract-to-invoice automation into Stigg, letting customers model pricing, enforce it in real time, and turn metered usage into invoices from one platform.
Why now? As AI and enterprise SaaS companies shift from per-seat pricing to credits and consumption, a gap opens between what a customer is entitled to use and what they actually get billed. Usage sits in one system, contracts in another, and invoices in a third, producing manual overrides and billing errors.
What the deal adds: Received.ai turns a signed contract into live entitlements and invoices without custom engineering. New capabilities, now in public beta, include contract management that provisions entitlements when a deal closes, formula-based pricing computed at invoice time, and consolidated invoicing that produces one clean invoice per customer across multiple products.
What changes for customers? The features toggle on and work alongside Stripe, NetSuite, Airwallex, and Checkout.com, covering contract management and sales-led amendments those systems do not handle out of the box. For AI startups without payment rails, Stigg now runs the full path from entitlements to invoice; existing product-led checkout flows are unchanged.
The hire: Received.ai founder and chief technology officer Shai Betito has joined Stigg as vice president of engineering to lead the integration, alongside the founding team. The technology is fully integrated as of August 18, 2026.
What they said: "For years those lived in different systems, and every enterprise deal paid the tax," said Stigg co-founder and chief executive officer Dor Sasson, referring to entitlements, contracts, and invoices. Betito said joining forces means taking Stigg's precision "all the way through to the invoice."
The signal: The acquisition reflects consolidation pressure around usage-based billing as software moves from seats to consumption. Broader general availability rolls out through 2026, following demand from a waitlist during the private beta.
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