Touchmark (touchmark.ai): Quality-Based Pricing Infrastructure That Charges AI by Value — Not Tokens | YC S26
Token-based pricing has dominated the AI industry since the beginning. It’s simple to implement but fundamentally misaligned: customers pay for volume of computation rather than the actual quality or business value of the output. As AI moves deeper into production workflows and agentic systems, this model creates friction, unpredictable costs, and poor incentive alignment between…