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Jeff Weinstein

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Jeff Weinstein is Product Lead for Agentic Commerce at Stripe. He works on ways for AI agents to buy from businesses, and co-authored Stripe’s explanations of the Agentic Commerce Protocol and Machine Payments Protocol.[1][2][3][4]

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Jeff Weinstein

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Product Lead, Agentic Commerce · Stripe

Career

Stripe Projects lets developers and agents add a service, obtain credentials and manage its billing from a command line. It moves setup work that often spans several dashboards into a repeatable workflow. Weinstein’s public profile also describes earlier leadership at Wagon and HyperPublic, acquired by Box and Groupon respectively.[3][4]

Contributions

Connect intent to a merchant’s checkout

Weinstein and engineering lead Steve Kaliski describe the Agentic Commerce Protocol as a shared format for communication between buyers, agents and businesses. The merchant retains its role in fulfilling orders and managing the customer relationship. Shared Payment Tokens let an agent present a scoped payment credential rather than expose a customer’s underlying card details.[2]

Services that can accept an agent’s payment

Their Machine Payments Protocol announcement addresses purchases that otherwise require an agent to create accounts, choose plans and configure billing through human interfaces. MPP coordinates payment programmatically, including small purchases and recurring services. The announcement illustrates this with browser sessions, physical mail and food orders. The standard was co-authored by Tempo and Stripe; Weinstein is a co-author of the announcement, rather than its sole inventor.[1]

Tools, writing & talks

Writing, research & talks

  • Start here

    An explanation of programmatic payments for agents and the businesses serving them.

    Begin with the browser-session example to understand why an agent needs a payment interface. The article requires no integration work; implementing it requires Stripe and the relevant APIs.

    Co-author with Steve Kaliski[1]
  • The merchant, agent and payment relationships behind the Agentic Commerce Protocol.

    Co-author with Steve Kaliski[2]

Tools

References

Latest source check 2026-10-30

  1. [1] Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol

    stripe.com · Checked 2026-10-30

  2. [2] Developing an open standard for agentic commerce

    stripe.com · Checked 2026-10-30

  3. [3] Jeff Weinstein: X

    x.com · Checked 2026-10-30

  4. [4] Stripe Projects

    projects.dev · Checked 2026-10-30

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