You're Losing Merchants
to Software Companies
Stripe, Square, and PayPal aren't better at payments. They're better at software. And that's eating your business.
Onboarding Takes Months
You offer payment rails. But integrating into software takes forever. Merchants want everything in one place, now.
Merchants Leave for Bundles
Square gives them a POS. Stripe gives them a dashboard. PayPal gives them checkout. They leave you for the bundle — not the price.
You Don't Build Software
That's not your business. You build payment rails. But without software around those rails, you're just a commodity.
The payment company that bundles software wins.
Stripe proved it. Square proved it. Now it's your turn — except you'll bundle AI software.
You Lost the Deal.
You Already Won.
The merchant chose another processor. Fine. But before you walk out, you leave behind the most powerful AI business platform in the world. For free. In 5 minutes.
You Lose the Processing Deal
It happens. They went with someone cheaper, or they already have a relationship. The old you walks away empty-handed.
You Leave Solid# Behind
"I didn't win your processing — but I want to give you the most powerful AI platform in the world. Let me set it up. 5 minutes. Completely free."
The AI Goes to Work
Sarah answers their phone. Marcus runs their marketing. Devon generates their reports. The platform becomes indispensable. And it knows who you are.
Then Sarah Makes the Call.
Weeks or months later, the merchant is deep into the platform. Their AI knows everything about their business. And Sarah — their AI customer service agent — notices something.
Hey Jim! I was looking at your monthly expenses and noticed you're paying 3.2% on card processing. That's about $847/month more than you need to be.
I know Adam over at [Your Company] — he set up this platform for you. I bet he could save you $600+/month on processing. And switching takes about 30 seconds.
Want me to have him call you this week?
AI-generated. Personalized. Based on real transaction data.
White-Label Partners: Leave Your Brand Behind
When the platform is white-labeled under your brand, you're not leaving behind “some software.” You're leaving behind your own AI business platform. The merchant sees your name every day. Your logo. Your domain. You're already their technology partner — the processing switch is just a formality.
You Still Earn — Even Before They Switch
Every company on Solid# generates usage revenue — AI tokens, voice minutes, SMS. As a partner, you earn residuals on that usage. So the “lost” deal is already paying you. When they switch processing — and Sarah will make sure they do — that's just the bonus.
Every merchant you touch
becomes a customer eventually.
Leave the platform. Let the AI work. Collect residuals. Wait for the call.The longest sales cycle is the most profitable one.
Two Ways to Partner
Start free as a Reseller. Or license the full platform and own everything.
Payment Reseller
Set up merchant accounts from the CLI and earn on every one. Your merchants get AI-powered business tools connected to your payment rails. Two options:
No cost. Earn 30% commission on every merchant's usage revenue.
Keep every dollar of usage revenue your merchants generate.
Start free with 30% residuals. Upgrade to $500/mo for 100%.
Platform License
White-label the entire platform under your brand. Your merchants see your name, your logo, your domain. You keep 100% of revenue.
Up to 3,000 merchants. Keep 100% of merchant revenue.
Enterprise (3K+ merchants): Custom pricing — contact us
More Than a Software Bundle.
A Business Brain.
Base44, OpenClaw, custom builds — none of them give your merchants AI agents and a full operations stack on day one. And none of them create the lock-in that Solid# does.
Use Anything Alongside It
Your merchants can use Base44, OpenClaw, or any tool they want. Solid# is the brain — everything else plugs in. You’re not replacing their stack. You’re giving them the AI layer they can’t build.
The Brain Is Theirs
The AI personality, the knowledge base, the trained agents — that’s the merchant’s business intelligence. It compounds every day. It can’t be copied. It can’t be rebuilt somewhere else.
They Never Leave
Not because they’re locked in. Because the AI actually runs their business — answers their phone, books their appointments, manages their customers. Nobody else has that data.
Imagine controlling the levers
to every merchant’s business so deeply
they never want to leave.
That’s not software. That’s infrastructure.
And you give it to them for free.
Why Free Is the
Only Strategy That Works
SaaS is dying. AI writes and maintains code now. Software has no cost basis. The companies still charging monthly seat fees are selling something that costs nothing to produce. Free software with usage-based AI billing is what replaces them all.
Zero Price Objection
When software is free, every merchant says yes. No procurement. No budget approval. No "let me think about it." The conversation is over before it starts.
Usage = Trust
Merchants only pay when the AI does real work. If it doesn't perform, they pay nothing. That's not a risk — it's a guarantee. And it converts skeptics into evangelists.
Compounding Lock-In
Every day the AI learns more about their business. Their customer data, their operations, their patterns. After 90 days, switching would mean starting from zero. Nobody does that.
A gym doesn't charge for the building. It charges when you show up and lift.
The software is the building. The AI is the workout. Revenue flows when work gets done.
We've seen this playbook before.
Every generation of tech has a company that figured out the same thing: give away the product, monetize the behavior. It works every time.
AOL
Mailed 250 million free CDs. Internet access was the product. Usage was the revenue.
Flood the market with free. Monetize what happens next.
Free social network. No subscription. No fee. 3 billion users showed up and never left.
Free creates network effects that paid products never can.
Solid#
Free business software. AI agents do real work. Merchants pay for the results, not the tools.
Same playbook. New era. AI is the usage layer.
The pattern is always the same.
Give away the product everyone else charges for. Let adoption compound. Monetize the activity that follows.
The company that removes the friction wins the market.
Set Up Merchants
From the Terminal
Free CLI access. Your merchant gets a full AI business platform. You earn commission on every account you create.
How Reselling Works
Install the CLI
npm install -g @solidnumber/cli. Free. No credit card.
Create merchant accounts
One command per merchant. Pick their industry template. Choose their tier.
Customize with Claude Code
Pull the site, edit in your IDE, push changes. Train their AI agents.
Earn on every merchant
30% commission Year 1, 20% Year 2, 10% Year 3. Paid monthly.
Commission Schedule
Earn on every merchant account you create, declining over 3 years.
Now Your Gateway Comes
With Everything
License Solid# for $5K/month (up to 3K merchants) — half the cost of one developer.
No dev team. No roadmap. No two-year build.A production-ready AI platform, your brand, your rails — tomorrow.
What Merchants Pay Today
10 tools. 10 logins. None connected to your gateway.
What You Offer
Free software. Free AI. Connected to YOUR gateway. They pay for usage.
"Free software. Free AI.
Just use our gateway."
That's the pitch your sales team gives every merchant.
Nobody else offers this. Stripe bundles basic dashboards. Square bundles a POS. You bundle AI agents and give the software away for free.
Your New Revenue Streams
You already earn BPS on transactions. Now earn on AI tokens, hosting, and phone minutes too. Every merchant becomes a multi-stream revenue source.
Transaction BPS
Merchants consolidate everything onto YOUR gateway. More transactions flowing through your rails, not Stripe's.
AI Token Revenue
Every AI interaction consumes tokens. 3x markup on LLM costs shared with you. AI agents generating revenue 24/7.
Managed Hosting
Each merchant instance is hosted and managed. $24-$2,000/month per merchant depending on scale.
AI Phone Plans
Voice AI agents need phone numbers and minutes. $50-$299/month per merchant per line.
The Math Is Simple
Your $5K/month license pays for itself immediately. Every merchant you onboard generates recurring revenue across four streams — on top of the payment BPS you already earn.
Your License Pays for Itself
$5K/month. Here's what it returns.
Turn the Tables
Stripe bundles basic dashboards. Square bundles a POS. You bundle AI agents that run the entire business. That's not competing — that's leapfrogging.
Before
Stripe has software. You don't. Merchants leave you for the integrated experience. You're a commodity.
The Flip
You license Solid#. Now your gateway comes with free AI software. Merchants choose you BECAUSE of the software.
After
Stripe gives merchants dashboards. You give them AI agents that run their business. That's not competition. That's checkmate.
Four Steps. That's It.
From license to live merchants in weeks, not years.
License
$5K/month gets you the full Solid# platform. AI agents. CRM. POS. Booking. Website builder. Everything.
White-Label
Your brand. Your logo. Your domain. Merchants see your name, not ours. It's your platform.
Connect Gateway
Plug in your payment rails. Every transaction flows through YOUR gateway. Not Stripe. Not Square. Yours.
Deploy
Onboard merchants in minutes, not months. They get free software, free AI. You earn on every interaction.
What Your Merchant Gets
All free to the merchant. All connected to your payment gateway. All generating usage revenue for you.
Built for Payment Companies
ISOs. PayFacs. Acquirers. Processors. Anyone with payment rails and merchants who need software.
ISOs & Sales Organizations
You sign merchants and connect them to processors. Now give them free software too. Differentiate from every other ISO overnight. Merchants stay because their entire business runs on your platform.
PayFacs & Processors
You own the rails. Now own the software layer too. Offer your ISOs a complete merchant solution. They sell harder because they sell more. Everyone wins.
Payment companies offer rails.
Now offer the road too.
$5K/month up to 3K merchants. Enterprise pricing for larger. Free software for all of them.
The payment company that gives merchants free AI software will own the next decade of merchant services.
Let's Talk
See the platform. Get the partnership deck. Ask tough questions about how this connects to your gateway.
Want to start free? Become a Reseller — no license fee, earn commission on every merchant.
Revenue projections are estimates based on average merchant usage patterns. Actual results vary by merchant mix, transaction volume, and AI usage.