Tadashi Shigeoka· Sat, August 1, 2026 On August 1, 2026, I attended JP_Stripes Connect 2026 in person at Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College in Yokohama, and spoke at the track session The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products.
JP_Stripes Connect 2026、横浜にて現地参加してます!
— Tadashi Shigeoka (@codenote_net) トークセッション「AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル」でお話させていただきます🎙️[https://t.co/pErp74vuaQ]
会場を提供してくださった岩崎学園情報科学専門学校さま、本当にありがとうございます!!🏫[#JP_Stripes][pic.twitter.com/SpGDtgpR1e][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet:
Attending JP_Stripes Connect 2026 in person in Yokohama! I’ll be speaking at the track session “The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products.” 🎙️ Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue!! 🏫 #JP_Stripes
akiroom and Kana Kitagawa (Taiga) shared snapshots of the session on X.
トークセッション：AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル
— akiroom (@akiroom) ROUTE06重岡さん & ABEJA村主さんのセッション[#JP_Stripes]
[https://t.co/rNOUk1wxLf][pic.twitter.com/BcsDDaw5ZT][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet:
Track session: The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products. A session by Shigeoka from ROUTE06 & Murasu from ABEJA. #JP_Stripes
— Kana Kitagawa/たいがー🐯 (@knuna_t)
[#JP_Stripes]トークセッション始まった[pic.twitter.com/H3tJKBuDvr][August 1, 2026]
English translation of the tweet:
#JP_Stripes The track session has started
Session Themes #
The session covered the following themes.
- Q1. How are you using AI and Stripe inside your product?
- Q2. What are you doing on the cost side when using AI?
- Q3. What are you thinking about when it comes to pricing?
- Q4. In the AI era, what do you think really matters in product development to actually generate revenue?
The archive video will be uploaded to YouTube at a later date, so I’ll leave the specifics of what was discussed to that.
After-party #
After the session, in addition to the official after-party organized by the event, informal 2nd and 3rd after-parties (nijikai and sanjikai) gave us plenty of time to talk with attendees. Hidetaka shared the moment on X. Thank you.
— Hidetaka@SaaS Dev ( Stripe / AWS / etc..) (@hidetaka_dev)
[#jp_stripes]二次会＆3次会[pic.twitter.com/17Y6eVdHDN][August 1, 2026]
English translation of the tweet:
#jp_stripes Nijikai (2nd after-party) & 3rd after-party
Final Notes #
Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue, to the JP_Stripes community organizers, to all the sponsors, to the Stripe team, and to everyone I got to talk with at the venue on the day.
That’s all from speaking at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 on the reality of building and billing AI products, from the Gemba.
References #
The list of URLs I referenced during the track session.
JP_Stripes Connect 2026The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products (session page)ROUTE06, Inc.Giselle - Product HuntToken billing for LLMs | Stripe DocsUsage-based billing software for AI | Metronome, a Stripe productAcsim - AI Requirements Definition PlatformAcsim Test launches: AI-driven end-to-end automation of the testing processHono - Web framework built on Web StandardsAI Gateway - VercelAI Gateway | CloudflarePrompt caching for faster model inference - Amazon BedrockPrompt caching | OpenAI APIPrompt caching - Claude Platform DocsJP_Stripes Connect 2026 opens in Yokohama with AI monetization as its theme