Brand
Metrecept — the black box for autonomous AI agents. Every call that crosses the pipe — a model completion, a compliant web fetch, an agent's mid-session call to a third-party business API — becomes a cryptographically signed, independently verifiable receipt.
Lead metaphor: the black box. A flight recorder does not fly the plane — it does not stop an agent from making a bad call — it guarantees that what happened survives the session, undisputed, and that a stranger with zero Metrecept credentials can check the claim instead of trusting it. The pipe (exact-replay cache) and the org ledger (SSO, policy, cost centers) are both still real and billed exactly as before — they are the plumbing that makes metering, and therefore receipting, possible at all.
Value system
Design principles for the black box — what we optimize for and what we refuse.
- Verify, don't trustEvery claim the product makes about itself — usage, cost, what an agent did — ships as a checkable, signed artifact, not prose.
- Recorder, not governorThe black box does not stop a bad agent decision — it guarantees the decision survives the session, dispute-proof.
- Crossing truthEvery request is HIT or MISS and always metered. Metrecept rents the pipe — not lab wholesale.
- Exact replayIdentical requests only. No semantic or fuzzy cache theatre.
- Labs stay labsBYOK generation stays with providers. Metrecept is the traffic utility, not a model lab.
- Governed browsePublic web only through purpose, robots, SSRF, and PII gates.
- Trust isn't a toggleNo discount tier for surrendering training rights or receipt coverage — both are fixed, not for sale.
Promise
Every agent session becomes one independently verifiable receipt — signed, timestamped, checkable by anyone with nothing but a public key and the claim itself. What the agent called, how many times, against which endpoints, and what it cost.
Change one base URL (or one Cursor attach). Keep your keys and SDKs. Gain a receipted session — and, as that same metering's original byproduct, exact-replay hits that still cost zero upstream tokens.
Lead with verifiability, not savings. The bill is still pipe rent — Metrecept has never sold the model, only the plumbing — but what the rent buys is stated as proof, first, and savings from that same plumbing, second.
Strapline: Trust should never need to incur transactional debt. The signed receipt on every call is a free byproduct of the pipe running at all, not a feature financed by paying more.
Value system
| Principle | Means |
|---|---|
| Verify, don't trust | Every claim the product makes about itself — usage, cost, what an agent did — ships as a checkable, signed artifact, not prose |
| Recorder, not governor | The black box does not stop a bad agent decision — it guarantees the decision survives the session, dispute-proof |
| Crossing truth | Every request is HIT or MISS and always metered |
| Exact replay | Identical requests only — no semantic cache |
| Labs stay labs | BYOK generation stays with providers |
| Governed browse | Purpose, robots, SSRF, PII gates |
| Trust isn't a toggle | No discount tier for surrendering training rights or receipt coverage — both are fixed, not for sale |
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docs/BRAND_VISUAL_IDENTITY.md companion in the repo.