Partnering with Stigg to connect global payments and entitlement management for AI companies

By Dan Kim, VP of Product Partnerships, and Curtis Shoung, Associate Director of GTM Partnerships – Airwallex

AI companies are global from the start. A customer can sign up from Singapore, top up from Germany, and expand usage in Brazil. The company needs to know, at any moment, what a customer used, what they owe for it, whether the payment cleared, and what they’re still allowed to access.

Addressing gaps in that data would be manageable if prices rarely changed and purchases were infrequent, but that’s not how AI companies operate. Customer usage is continuous, pricing is fluid, and their products need to know in milliseconds whether to support or refuse the next request.

That’s why we’re partnering with Stigg. Stigg tracks what each AI customer is allowed to use, and keeps that decision updated as soon as a customer buys more, consumes more, or misses a payment. Together with Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure, AI companies get rapid payment acceptance and outcomes synced with Stigg in real time.

Connecting the payment and entitlement layers

AI companies often monetise through a mix of subscriptions, usage, credits, add-ons, and plan-based access. The business model can change quickly as products evolve, new capabilities launch, and customers scale their usage.

Airwallex provides a unified payments platform for global businesses, with support for 160+ local payment methods, like-for-like settlement, and AI-powered payment optimization to increase conversions and reduce fraud. Stigg’s integration with AIrwallex connects payment and entitlement workflows, so an AI company can:

• Accept payments through Airwallex across global markets.

Accept payments through Airwallex across global markets.

• Sync payment outcomes back to Stigg.

Sync payment outcomes back to Stigg.

• Update customer access in Stigg based on successful payments, failed payments, upgrades, top-ups, or plan changes.

Update customer access in Stigg based on successful payments, failed payments, upgrades, top-ups, or plan changes.

• Reduce custom work to keep payment status and product access aligned.

Reduce custom work to keep payment status and product access aligned.

AI companies record payment outcomes, and entitlement decisions reflect those outcomes, in the systems their finance and product teams want to use.

Built for global AI businesses

AI companies rarely scale to new markets in a linear way. Their product reaches customers anywhere an API key, app, or browser session can find them. That means their payments infrastructure needs to support international buyers, currencies, and payment expectations from the beginning.

With Airwallex, companies can accept payments globally in 130+ currencies across 180+ countries, hold funds in multiple currencies, convert money, pay suppliers and contractors, issue cards, and manage spend through one platform.

Instead of adding separate payment integrations as they expand, Stigg customers can use Airwallex as the payments layer and Stigg as the entitlement layer, with payment outcomes flowing between them. Stigg’s team recorded the whole flow so you can see how it works end to end.

Getting started

If you already use Stigg, connect Airwallex Payments in Stigg’s integration settings. The integration is in public beta for Stigg customers, and Stigg covers the setup in its docs.

The material presented here is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, regulatory, taxation, or investment advice. Readers should engage their own advisors or counsel for advice unique to their circumstances.