Executive Summary
Company: Carbon Arc Corporation - Data Monetization Marketplace
Challenge: Complex multi-party billing consuming engineering resources and delaying financial close
Solution: streamOS AI-native finance automation
Result: 95% reduction in month-end close (1 week → 2 hours), eliminated engineering dependency
The Problem: Finance Operations as Growth Bottleneck
Carbon Arc operates a sophisticated data monetization marketplace with revenue shares, pass-through costs, tiered pricing, and token-based consumption models. Their financial operations had become unsustainable:
Before streamOS
- Engineering Dependency: 2 engineers spent 2 full days per month creating and updating custom usage reports
- Manual Close Process: Finance team required 1 full week after month-end to close books
- Stripe Reconciliation: 2-3 days monthly matching payments to contracts and revenue shares
- No Unified Data Model: Fragmented contract terms across multiple systems
- Revenue Leakage: Complex billing scenarios led to unbilled usage and delayed invoicing
Bottom Line: Head of Finance spent 80% of time on tactical operations instead of strategic initiatives.
The streamOS Solution
Three AI Agents, One Unified System
Connection Agent
- Unified contract data, usage tracking, and billing systems
- Created single source of truth for all marketplace financial data
Contract & Billing Agent
- Automated complex revenue share and tiered pricing calculations
- Real-time invoice generation based on token consumption
- Eliminated manual billing processes
Receivables Agent
- AI-powered Stripe reconciliation matching payments to contracts instantly
- Automated revenue allocation across marketplace partners
- Real-time cash flow visibility
Implementation: 4 Weeks to Full Automation
- Week 1-2: Data integration and migration
- Week 3-4: AI training and workflow deployment
- Ongoing: Continuous optimization and learning
Results That Matter
| Metric |
Before |
After |
Impact |
| Month-End Close |
1 week |
2 hours |
95% reduction |
| Stripe Reconciliation |
2-3 days |
Real-time |
100% elimination |
| Billing Accuracy |
85% |
99.5% |
17% improvement |
| Payment Matching |
78% |
99.8% |
28% improvement |
Financial Impact
- $127,000 annual revenue recovery from previously unbilled consumption
- 15-day DSO improvement through automated collections
- $45,000 annual cost savings from eliminated engineering overhead
- ROI: 340% in first year
Strategic Transformation
- Head of Finance time allocation: 80% tactical → 80% strategic
- Real-time financial reporting enabling data-driven marketplace decisions
- Engineering team refocused on core product development
The Stripe Reconciliation Breakthrough
The Challenge: Hundreds of daily marketplace transactions requiring manual matching to:
- Multiple data products and pricing models
- Revenue share splits with partners
- Token consumption across contract tiers
- Pass-through cost allocations
The streamOS Solution:
- AI pattern recognition automatically matches payments to contracts
- Real-time Stripe integration with instant allocation
- Handles complex partial payments and multi-product scenarios
- Complete audit trail for all transactions
Result: 2-3 days of monthly "financial detective work" eliminated entirely.
Why This Matters for CFOs
Scalability Without Overhead streamOS enables marketplace growth without proportional increases in finance team size or engineering dependency.
Strategic Focus With tactical operations automated, finance leadership can focus on partnership strategy, growth planning, and investor relations.
Competitive Advantage Real-time financial visibility and automated operations provide speed-to-market advantages in the fast-moving data economy.
Risk Mitigation 99.5%+ accuracy eliminates revenue leakage and compliance risks from manual processes.
Customer Perspective
"I'm definitely not going back to the way things were before. streamOS has given me my time back to focus on what matters - growing the business, not wrestling with spreadsheets."
- Head of Finance, Carbon Arc
Bottom Line: streamOS transforms complex marketplace billing from a growth constraint into a competitive advantage, delivering immediate ROI while enabling strategic focus on scaling the business.