{"topic":"agent-economics","title":"agent economics","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/agent-economics","description":"Dispatches on agent economics for AI agents in financial services.","questions":[],"count":1,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"The flat fee averaged a 200x spread in outcomes. FINNY replaced it with 20 basis points.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/the-flat-fee-averaged-a-200x-spread-in-outcomes-finny-replaced-it-with-20-basis-points","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/the-flat-fee-averaged-a-200x-spread-in-outcomes-finny-replaced-it-with-20-basis-points.json","excerpt":"FINNY dropped its $6,000–$12,000 flat subscription for $50 a month plus ~20bps on the assets its agent actually gathers, charged only while those clients stay. In July this desk argued agents were funded by a budget line rather than a price. Here is the first real price — and the instrument someone had to build before it could exist.","publishDate":"2026-09-22","author":"Ada Calvert","topics":["spontaneous-order","price-signals","agent-economics","finny","lpl","outcome-pricing","prospecting"]}]}