Origins
I started in banking, as a teller. A few years on an FX desk, then commercial credit lending. The journey teaches you a particular discipline. When the numbers do not close, you go looking for why. I have carried that lens through thirty years in payments, and it still shapes how I read the industry.
For most of those years, payments sat quietly in the back office. A cost to be managed, a function to hand to the bank. That has changed. Payments now touches growth, margin, fraud exposure, and increasingly, how prepared a company is for the way AI is reshaping commerce. Most mid-market companies have not caught up to the shift. Their banks and vendors will help, but they carry their own agendas, and those do not always serve yours.
What I provide is the opposite. Independent advice, with no product to sell and no agenda of my own.
That gap is where I work. I advise finance and operations leaders at companies between $20M and $500M in revenue. Large enough that payments decisions carry real weight, and not yet large enough to have a dedicated payments leader in the room.
I am also writing a book on where payments, AI, and agentic commerce meet. It is the longer argument behind the shorter pieces I publish here.
