Today we’re giving Replit Agent two new jobs: buying supplies for your business with Link and Visa, and helping you reach customers with Google Ads.
In September 2024, we launched Replit Agent, the first generally available coding agent that enabled anyone to build software by describing it in their own words. That opened the door to a new class of founders: people whose ideas had been held back by the high upfront cost and capability required to build software.
But once an idea gets off the ground, a sprawl of new work follows: forming a company, keeping the app running, getting found, buying supplies, reaching customers. Each one is a new barrier to growth, even for engineers who can build the product but don’t know how to find customers.
Since May, we’ve seen a ninefold increase in the number of entrepreneurs connecting their Replit-built businesses to Stripe for monetization. We’ve invested more in helping these founders grow, with agents as teammates that expand what they can do. Businesses on Replit can already accept payments, incorporate, find prospects and enrich leads, monitor app health and security, and optimize for SEO using Replit Agent.
Today, we’re adding two more jobs, giving Replit Agent the ability to buy supplies and run ads on behalf of businesses, with the owner in full control of the spend.
Agentic Commerce powered by Link, built by Stripe, and Visa
Replit can now buy what your business needs, using what it already knows about your product.
Ask it to "find 50 shipping boxes that fit this product, under $75 including delivery," and Agent uses what it knows about your business to find options and prepare the merchant's checkout. Then it waits for you to approve the final total before anything is charged.
Replit Agent coordinates the purchase while a browser subagent navigates the merchant's site, prepares checkout, and returns the purchase details to Agent for your approval.
Stripe and Visa work together to power different parts of the payment flow. Link, Stripe’s consumer network with more than 300 million users globally, lets users choose a saved payment method and approve the final total while protecting their payment details. Link facilitates the transaction scoped to the approved purchase, while Visa provides trusted payment infrastructure and capabilities designed to support secure agent-initiated transactions.
“A founder’s to-do list doesn’t end when the product is built. With Link agent wallet, Replit Agent can help buy the supplies the business needs, with every purchase approved by the founder.”
~ Jay Shah, Business Lead, Link @ Stripe
“Replit is helping turn agentic commerce into something tangible for small businesses. As AI takes on more of the work, Visa provides the trust, control, and safeguards that help ensure agents transact within the boundaries people set”
~ Rubail Birwadker, Global Head of Growth, Visa
Replit Agent shops on the merchant’s website using a browser provided by Browserbase, so we don’t need a separate integration with each store. Replit Agent selects the product options and fills the cart. If you need to sign in, you can take over, then let Agent continue.
The browser session is isolated, and Agent stops at the checkout for approval. It never gets open-ended permission to spend. During payment, shell access and general browsing are disabled, and approval checks are enforced in code, not left to the model.
Agentic Commerce is available for Core and Pro users, starting in the US and limited to one-time purchases.
Learn more about Agentic Commerce here.
Agentic Ads with Google
You can now use Replit Agent to run Google ads across Search, YouTube, Display, Discover and more—all without leaving Replit.
With a few prompts in your Replit chat, you can connect or create a Google Ads account to build assets and prepare a campaign. Replit analyzes your website or app content, drafts ad copy, generates images, and recommends daily budgets. You can then review, approve, and launch in minutes.
A founder selling bid-writing software might write: “Get us in front of contractors who bid on public projects. I’m willing to spend $40 a day for 30 days.” You set the campaign goal, targeting, budget, and landing page. Replit Agent guides you with recommendations to make this simple, even if you’ve never run ads before. Because Agent built your app, it can also add the conversion tracking that ads depend on. That lets you measure campaign results through sign-ups and sales, not just clicks.
Replit users can create a new Google Ads account with the help of Agent. Replit creates and manages the account, and can ask agent for the latest performance stats and ways to optimize.
Ads with Google are available for Pro users worldwide, starting today.
Learn more about Agentic Ads with Google here.
Creating Self-Driving Companies of all Sizes
In a Self-Driving Company, agents take on more of the work so people can focus on strategy, ideas, and creativity. Our ambition is to help anyone turn an idea into a thriving business with Replit.
Take Jon Cheney. After a development shop quoted him $105,000 for an app he'd been thinking about, he built the website, admin tools, and product on Replit in a weekend for under $400. The business made six figures in its first six weeks. Or Austin Eckman, who paid a dev studio $50,000 for a first version he couldn't use. He now runs Crafting Table, which teaches electronics and sells physical kits, from one Replit project, including an ads engine he built himself. In 30 days, he brought in $170,000, with a return on ad spend of roughly 4X.
Jon and Austin had to piece much of this together themselves. Now any founder on Replit can ask Agent to help.
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