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Payments engineering for startups.
From ledger to launch, we become your payments engineering team and ship your roadmap on a tight runway. Short on cash and long on upside? Build for Stake means we fund and staff the whole build and get paid in equity and upside, not invoices.
What we build for Payments Startups
- Core double-entry ledger that records every movement immutably and reconciles cleanly
- MVP builds that get a working, correct payments product in front of customers
- Processor and gateway integrations wired up and certified
- Compliance foundations (tokenization, secure data handling, audit trails) designed in from day one
- Rapid iteration as you learn from real transactions and feedback
- A senior, payments-native team under American management, aligned to your roadmap
Why payments-native matters
On a startup runway you cannot afford engineers learning payments on your clock. Our team already knows ledgering, settlement, and PCI, so we skip the ramp and put a correct payments foundation in place fast.
Proven in production
This is not theory. Here is where we have shipped it, live, for real payments companies. Names are under NDA.
Related services
The capabilities we lean on most for Payments Startups.
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Where else in the payments value chain we plug in.
$2.5B+ volume assisted60K+ merchants enabledBuilt for Top-10 US processors10+ years in payments
How we get paid
You choose how we get paid.
Same senior payments team, same product. Three ways to structure the deal, from owning it outright to us earning basis points on the volume we help you grow.
Not sure which fits? We'll recommend the right model on the call.
Twenty minutes, no obligation
See the products your merchants want that you don't offer yet.
Twenty minutes with a payments product expert. We'll walk your book, show what closing each gap could be worth, and tell you how we'd get paid.