Deep dives with the founders, engineers, and product leaders building at the intersection of AI, payments, and financial infrastructure.
Not analysts. Not journalists. Operators. Every episode puts a builder in the chair and unpacks how they're shipping real products. The real decisions, real trade-offs, and real lessons that conference talks never get into.
Each episode maps to one or more of these pillars. Focused enough to go deep. Broad enough to cover the full landscape.
How AI agents are reshaping merchant experiences and buyer journeys. Building systems that handle real money — the trust and safety challenges that come with it.
Auth rate optimization, intelligent routing, cost reduction. Cross-border payments and how orchestration layers actually work at scale.
Stablecoins as payment rails — what's real vs. what's hype. How traditional finance and crypto infrastructure are actually merging.
Shipping fast while staying compliant. AI/ML model governance, engineering culture inside compliance-heavy orgs, and the operator's playbook.
B2B fintech go-to-market. Platform vs. product decisions in payments. Scaling from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10 — from people who've done it.
Three types of guests, one thing in common: they're building, not just advising.
People who've built companies in payments, lending, banking infra, or AI-native fintech. The ones who made the bet.
The people making the hard technical decisions at companies like Stripe, Plaid, Adyen, Square, or fast-growing startups.
Operators navigating innovation inside large, regulated organizations. Banks, payment networks, and everything in between.
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