Private Beta · 2026

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The OpenRouter for
specialized task-APIs

One account, one endpoint, one prepaid bill — across the speech, vision, search, document, and data APIs every AI product depends on. You call one endpoint; we hold the provider accounts, keys, and invoices.

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A live wrapper already runs in production.

The Problem

Every AI Product Is Accidentally Running a Procurement Department.

A single agent that talks, sees, searches, and reads touches five to ten different APIs — and each one is its own signup, key, credit card, monthly minimum, and invoice.

N signups, keys & cards

← a separate account for every provider you call

Monthly-only seats

← occasional use, but you pay for a full subscription

Credential sprawl

← a dozen secrets to store, rotate, and leak

No per-call door

← the best providers have no metered pricing

Integration drag

← every provider's API churn becomes your problem

5–10

specialized APIs a single
AI agent touches

N×

accounts, keys & invoices
you manage by hand

Monthly

only — top providers sell seats,
not per-call access

aggregators for the task-API tail
(OpenRouter stopped at LLMs)

"OpenRouter solved exactly this for LLMs: one API, one key, one balance, hundreds of models. No one has done it for the long tail of task-APIs underneath AI products. That's LobsterFarm."

How It Works

OpenRouter, for the Long Tail of Task-APIs

Customers buy prepaid credits through a simple fiat subscription. They call one LobsterFarm endpoint; we route each call to the right upstream provider on enterprise accounts we hold, and return the result. No provider accounts, keys, or invoices to manage — we do that.

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Your App / Agent

One key, one balance

one call · debits credits →

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LobsterFarm Router

Check · meter · route · record

on our enterprise account →

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Upstream Providers

We hold the accounts

// One endpoint. Every specialized API. One prepaid balance.

POST api.lobsterfarm.net/v1/route  { capability: "speech.tts", ... }
  LobsterFarm: credit check ✓  → routes to ElevenLabs (our account)
  ← audio returned · 1,240 credits debited · usage recorded

POST api.lobsterfarm.net/v1/route  { capability: "document.ocr", ... }
  // provider is monthly-seat-only — we hold the seat
  LobsterFarm: routes to premium OCR  → you pay per page, not per month
  ← text returned · metered per call · tamper-evident trail

// One bill at month end — across every provider you touched.
Speech $42.10 · Vision $18.60 · Search $9.30 · OCR $6.40
    

One key, one bill

Prepaid credits (Stripe)

Metered overflow

Per-call pricing on monthly-only APIs

Provider failover & version churn handled

Per-agent budgets & audit

The Model

Three Stacked Margins — One Defensible Wedge

A high-margin recurring base, a commission that scales with usage, and a per-call price on subscription-only services that didn't exist before.

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Aggregation

One account replaces a dozen. One bill replaces a dozen invoices. One key replaces a dozen secrets to leak. We handle provider sign-up, enterprise pricing, failover, and version churn.

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Subscription→Per-Call Arbitrage

For providers that sell monthly seats only, we hold the seat, pool demand across many customers, and resell competitive per-call pricing. The defensible margin — a competitor can only match it by also aggregating demand.

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Fiat Subscription + Credits

Customers buy prepaid credits through a simple Stripe subscription — Free / Starter / Standard / Premium, with metered overflow. Recurring, high-margin SaaS is the floor under revenue.

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Metering, Attribution & Audit

Every routed call is metered and recorded as a tamper-evident usage trail — so customers get per-call audit, attribution, and accounting-grade billing reports out of the box.

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Developer-First, Agent-Native

Developers and companies first; autonomous agents close behind. An agent can't hold a credit card, but it can hold a credit balance and call one endpoint — with per-call budgets and audit.

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AI Infrastructure, Not Crypto

Customers pay in dollars and see credits and usage — never a wallet. The on-chain ledger is invisible plumbing, the way Stripe uses card networks without making you think about them.

The Team

Built by people who've done this before

Production engineering meets cross-border finance and operations.

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Jerry Chan

Founder & Engineering Lead

Jerry is an engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo with a 14-year tenure in financial technologies at Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. He built LobsterFarm's live API wrapper — running in production on Cloudflare Workers — and the BSV SDKs (Rust/WASM + Elixir, 309+ tests) behind the credit ledger and per-call metering. The routing and accounting layer is reuse, not research.

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Ming Chen, CFA

CFO / Operator Advisor

Ming is a CFO and finance & operations leader with 23+ years across corporate leadership, regulated banking, and investment banking. A former Deutsche Bank TMT banker (~$11bn in deals) and General Manager / Director at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (digital P&L for ~1.4m customers), he most recently served as CFO & Head of IT for a global IoT startup — leading Series B fundraising and building finance controls for IPO readiness. Columbia MBA, CFA.

Deutsche Bank

Commonwealth Bank

Columbia

The OpenRouter forspecialized task-APIs