Ayush Rodrigues
| Ayush Rodrigues | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, software developer |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founder of Autumn (Y Combinator S25) |
Ayush Rodrigues is a software entrepreneur best known as co-founder of Autumn, an open-source billing infrastructure platform designed for artificial intelligence and SaaS companies. The platform is built on top of Stripe and is intended to simplify usage-based pricing, subscription management, and credit ledgers for developers. Autumn was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 (S25) batch.[1]
Career
Recase
Prior to founding Autumn, Rodrigues co-founded Recase, a fintech automation startup focused on helping financial technology companies automate onboarding and underwriting processes. Recase's product connected with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) data sources to build custom risk-scoring models and AI workflows, with the stated aim of reducing the need for manual review during user onboarding. Rodrigues co-founded Recase in 2024 alongside John Yeo.[2]
Autumn
In 2025, Rodrigues and Yeo founded Autumn to address challenges developers face when implementing billing systems for AI products. The company's core premise is that monetisation models for AI applications—particularly usage-based and credit-based pricing—are difficult to implement using existing payment infrastructure alone. Autumn positions itself as a layer on top of Stripe that replaces the custom billing logic developers would otherwise need to build themselves.[3]
The platform supports multiple pricing models, including usage-based billing, credit systems, seat-based pricing, and subscription management. According to the company, developers can integrate Autumn's billing functionality with as few as three API calls, handling subscriptions, metering, and access control within a unified system. The product is designed to eliminate the need for developers to manage Stripe webhooks and billing database infrastructure directly. Autumn's codebase is fully open-source and publicly available.[4]
Autumn launched publicly in August 2025 and was featured on Product Hunt around the time of its launch. As of late 2025, the company was hiring for engineering roles based in London, England, with compensation listed at £80,000–£120,000 plus equity, reflecting the company's early-stage, venture-backed status following its acceptance into Y Combinator's S25 cohort.[5] According to the company's privacy policy, Rodrigues is the owner and operator of the Autumn website.
Autumn operates in a market alongside other billing infrastructure providers such as Lago, Orb, and Metronome, each of which offers metered and usage-based billing capabilities for software companies. Autumn's distinguishing approach is its emphasis on open-source availability and tight integration with Stripe as a payments layer, rather than acting as a standalone payments processor.
References
- ↑ "Autumn: Billing infrastructure for AI". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "How Recase Is Transforming Fintech Onboarding". 'HireTop}'. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Autumn — The drop-in infra layer for AI and SaaS billing". 'Autumn}'. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Autumn: Stripe made easy for AI startups". 'Product Hunt}'. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Founding Engineer at Autumn". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2025-08-01.