Date: 2026-09-16 5:00 PM EDT Attendees: Michael Houck, Mona Darwish (Agree), Will Hubbard (Agree)
Summary
Product deep-dive and commercial alignment call with Agree.com (payments, invoicing, contracts, subscriptions platform). Michael evaluated Agree as a replacement for Stripe + PandaDoc. Key outcome: Michael committed to migrating pending one pass-through fee sanity check with existing customers. Will agreed to include API/MCP access (normally enterprise-only) at no extra cost on the Growth plan.
Product Fit
- Agree is built on free e-signature, revenue on payment processing (2.75% vs. Stripe’s 2.9%)
- Workspace structure suits a holdco: each business gets its own bank, accounting, and CRM connections
- Subscriptions supported with autocharge, smart retries (10x), agentic follow-ups based on payment link behavior
- Pass-through fees available: surcharge added to customer invoice so Michael receives the full amount (needs customer check before committing)
- Built-in Stripe migration tool: existing subscriptions port without customers re-entering payment info
Hermes/MCP Integration
- MCP wraps the full Agree API (~50 endpoints): anything clickable in the UI can be triggered via Hermes
- Contracts: direct Hermes to send a template to a contact, it executes
- Invoices: direct Hermes to invoice for an amount, it executes
- Goal: consolidate signatures, invoicing, and payments the same way ops are consolidated in Hermes
Decisions
- Michael committed to moving Rye Valley from Stripe + PandaDoc to Agree, pending pass-through fee check with existing customers. (See Migrate Rye Valley payments and contracts from Stripe + PandaDoc to Agree.com)
Action Items
- Michael: Sanity-check pass-through fee reception with a few existing customers before committing
- Michael: Review and sign Growth plan agreement (Will is sending it; includes API/MCP access at no extra cost)
- Michael + Will: Schedule implementation call with Agree solutions engineer to wire up the Hermes/MCP integration
- Michael + Will: Schedule onboarding kickoff call (Will-led, recorded) to train the team
- Michael: Plan audience promotion of Agree to the 60k-founder newsletter once onboarded (follow up with Mona on details)
Notable Transcript Excerpts
“Will agreed to include API and MCP access in the Growth plan at no extra cost (normally enterprise-only)… MCP wraps the full API (~50 endpoints): anything clickable in Agree can be triggered via Hermes.”
Me: “We have about 60,000 subscribers to our founder newsletter… one is build the content engine for your startup… Another one is to become the face of your niche… We also have an SEO, GEO, AEO, whatever you want to call it, agency. And now an AI company brain install and agentic optimization play as well.”
Will Hubbard: “I’m onboarding 3 companies today. One does 2 of them each do $25 million a year. One does $10 million a year, and then I have another one that does $30 million a year that I’m just trying to convert all of their payments and stuff onto Agree.”
(Full transcript: Granola ee455bbe-2074-41d0-8049-a20e241d2535)