Orb

Orb has presented 1 V-Sum technical briefing. Alvaro, co-founder and CEO of Orb, demos Orb — billing and invoicing built for the hybrid usage-based pricing models common in fintech, cloud infrastructure, and developer platforms. Orb\'s primitive is the event: API calls, sessions, or any product action, ingested via direct API push or warehouse sync from Snowflake/Redshift/S3 with a name and a payload of tags and values. From events, operators define metrics — simple filters and aggregations (count of API calls at a balance endpoint) or full custom SQL for more sophisticated MAU or dimensional cases. Plans compose any number of fixed fees (e.g. a $100k annual platform-access fee) and usage-based fees (flat rate per call, tiered volume discounts, dimensional pricing tagged into event properties), with out-of-the-box support for minimums, discounts, trials, and "phases" that stage fee schedules over a customer\'s onboarding ramp. The payoff: billing becomes a real-time process instead of a month-end batch — live next-invoice previews, transparent customer invoices tied to underlying usage, webhook alerts on cost/usage thresholds (upsell banners, CSM alerts, Zapier/Slack), and a Salesforce integration that syncs usage into opportunity pages for sales reps experimenting with consumption-based pricing.

Topics: Payments, Developer Tools