For two years the nicest way people told us Payman was a crazy idea was “trust between AI and money is hard, it’ll take time.”
Last week 100+ bankers in Boulder voted us the Bankers Choice Award for our tech. Not a panel, not an analyst, the people who’d actually have to trust an agent with their customers’ money.
The older you get, the less likely you are to get a trophy, and I didn’t realize that until our team got one.
Our product and engineering teams, with Prashanth and Akash, spent those two years making this safe, reliable, token efficient, fast, and actually delightful all at once, which is a bit like walking barefoot across glass. Scott and Sanjay figured out the other half, the real pain we solve, how to stage it into a bank even when we don’t start with money movement, and how to sell into one.
Trust is still built over time and through action, and an AI world doesn’t change that. It just means more people say it out loud once you’ve earned it.
Agentic banking is here. We’re not just pioneering it anymore, we’re laying the foundation.