Stand Up Usage-Based Billing and Catch Under-Metered Revenue (Claude Cowork Self-Install Kit)

Set up metered billing in Stripe and reconcile it against your own usage logs so you stop leaking revenue you never charged for.

We bill on usage but we're not sure the meters are right, so we're probably leaking revenue on usage we never charged for. Every month we invoice and just hope the numbers line up with what we actually delivered.

That's the leak. It isn't effort; the meters run on trust instead of on a reconciliation you can measure.

What this kit does

You define meters and dimensional rate cards in Stripe using the 2026 dimensional-pricing and usage-analytics capabilities, wire credit grants with balance alerts and automatic top-ups, and build a reconciliation job that compares Stripe meter events against your product's own usage logs to surface under-metering and silent revenue leakage. It turns 'we think we're billing usage correctly' into a metered billing system that is measured and reconciled.

What you can expect

Usage billed matches usage delivered, under-metered or unbilled usage recovered, credit balances and top-ups automated, and revenue-leakage incidents caught before the invoice goes out.

Figures shown are illustrative examples, not guarantees. Actual results depend on your business, tools, and usage.

Who it's for

Built for usage-billed SaaS and AI startups and the solo operators who own their billing stack.

What's included

Skip building from scratch. No coding. You get the exact workflow, prompts, and setup guide, and your own AI agent installs it step by step at your own pace:

• Start Here: your tailored starter prompt and a map of the whole kit
• Project Instructions: the brain your own AI agent runs on for this build
• Your Business Context: a guided fill-in so the agent tailors the build to you
• Workflow Briefing: the plan, the inputs, and what done looks like
• Task List your agent follows to stand it up
• MCP Connection Guide for the tools involved
• Tool Setup Checklist for accounts, keys, and permissions
• Prompt Library, including the ready-to-run prompt for this workflow
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance guide for the common snags
• Next Steps and Roadmap: what to install next
• How to Run This Workflow once it is live

How to install this kit

Connect Stripe at claude.com/connectors and authorize your account. Open the kit in Claude Cowork and run the included prompt. Step-by-step instructions ship inside every kit, so you're never guessing.

See How Self-Install Kits Work for the full walkthrough.

Tools

Required: Claude with Cowork, plus Stripe Billing. Recommended: access to your product's own usage logs for the reconciliation step. If you've been pricing usage-billing or metering software, this is the install-it-once alternative, an automation kit, blueprint, and workflow template you set up yourself with your own AI agent.

Requires Claude with Cowork enabled (a paid Claude plan). This is a self-install kit you run yourself with your own AI agent, not a done-for-you service.

Premium install kit. One workflow, set up and running with your own AI agent.