How Stripe Atlas’s scores are calculated
The full audit trail, recomputed from the verdict data at build time through the same code that produced the leaderboard: verdict × quality × story weight per cell, cells sum to dimension scores, dimensions blend into the PA Score. Every number on the product page is reproducible from this page alone; for why the formula looks like this, see the methodology.
verdict factors: full ×1.0 · partial ×0.6 · disputed ×0.3 · none ×0.0 · n/a excluded from both sides · cell points = weight × quality × factor · cell max = weight × 10
PA Score11/100
Agent-ready 32.0 × 0.30 = 9.60
API quality 0.0 × 0.20 = 0.00
Openness 0.0 × 0.20 = 0.00
Built-in AI 0.0 × 0.15 = 0.00
Automation n/a — excluded, its ×0.15 weight renormalized away
(9.60 + 0.00 + 0.00 + 0.00) ÷ (0.30 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.15) = 9.60 ÷ 0.85 = 11.3 — weights renormalized over the scored components
Scores are stored to 1 decimal; the product page’s pills round to whole numbers for display. Each dimension below shows the stories, verdicts, and cited evidence behind its number.
Agent-ready32.0/100×0.30 of the PA blend
Outside-in: can YOUR agent reach and drive this product — API, MCP, CLI, headless runs, agent docs.
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2
2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt # Stripe Documentation When installing Stripe packages, always check the npm registry for the latest version rather tha”
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 200 at https://docs.stripe.com/atlas.md # Stripe Atlas Start a US company from anywhere in the world. Stripe Atlas incorporates your startup and gives you eve”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas.md“It also gives you access to legal documents developed with Cooley (a law firm for startups), 50,000 USD in partner perks, and 2,500 USD in Stripe credits.”
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Use an official CLIweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3
3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/swagger.json, https://docs.stripe.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas“Stripe Atlas incorporates your startup and gives you everything you need to open a bank account, accept payments, and fundraise in two business days.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas“Learn how you can fundraise for your startup by creating, sending, and tracking Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs) from your Dashboard.”
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Build against official SDKsweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Agent-ready = 16.0 ÷ 50 × 100 = 32.0
API quality0.0/100×0.20 of the PA blend
The programmable surface once an agent is there — machine-readable spec, interactive docs, sandbox, versioning discipline.
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/swagger.json, https://docs.stripe.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt # Stripe Documentation When installing Stripe packages, always check the npm registry for the latest version rather tha”
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 200 at https://docs.stripe.com/atlas.md # Stripe Atlas Start a US company from anywhere in the world. Stripe Atlas incorporates your startup and gives you eve”
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
API quality = 0.0 ÷ 20 × 100 = 0.0
Openness0.0/100×0.20 of the PA blend
Can you leave, inspect, or self-host — data export, open source, portability.
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas“Learn how you can fundraise for your startup by creating, sending, and tracking Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs) from your Dashboard.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas/incorporation-documents.md“After you form your company, you can view your incorporation documents in the Documents tab of your Atlas Dashboard.”
- [probe] https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.stripe.com/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/swagger.json, https://docs.stripe.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.stripe.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3
3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.stripe.com/atlas/incorporation-documents.md“After you form your company, you can view your incorporation documents in the Documents tab of your Atlas Dashboard.”
Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Self-host the core productweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Openness = 0.0 ÷ 50 × 100 = 0.0
Built-in AI0.0/100×0.15 of the PA blend
Inside-out: how agentic the product itself is for its users — built-in assistants, autonomous features.
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Built-in AI = 0.0 ÷ 20 × 100 = 0.0
Automationn/a×0.15 of the PA blend
Depth of automation primitives — rules, scheduling, bulk operations, webhooks.
Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
every cell n/a — unscored (not zero), excluded from the blend