Most early-stage SaaS founders treat payment infrastructure like they treat legal entity formation: something to handle eventually. The product ships, the first customers pay, Stripe works fine. Then the company starts selling internationally, a customer disputes a charge, sales tax…
tldr You have done the research, talked to a few vendors, and now everything sounds the same. Every BaaS provider promises fast API integration, bank-grade compliance, and a dedicated implementation team. The decks all look nearly identical. Most founders evaluating…
tldr Most early-stage fintech teams put fraud tooling in the same mental bucket as compliance infrastructure: something to sort out later, once volume justifies the investment. The reasoning sounds defensible. You have a small user base, known customers, and limited…
tldr Most SaaS founders pick a fintech API the same way they pick a font: they go with what they recognize, assume the alternatives are roughly equivalent, and move on. That works until it does not. The real cost of…
