Extreme close-up of a monitor screen showing a terminal payment confirmation line — green text on near-black background, a single transaction hash and timestamp visible, flat studio lighting, no reflections, no human faces, framed tight to the screen surface
Extreme close-up of a monitor screen showing a terminal payment confirmation line — green text on near-black background, a single transaction hash and timestamp visible, flat studio lighting, no reflections, no human faces, framed tight to the screen surface
/ Why we exist

Built for the case no one else designed for.

Every payment platform we evaluated assumed a human business as the paying party. We built Payman because that assumption breaks the moment an AI agent needs to compensate a person for real work.

AI agents need to pay people. Nothing handled that.

— The founding rationale

Gig platforms route humans to human employers. B2B rails move money between companies. Neither model accommodates a machine as the originating payer — with its own wallet, its own task logic, and its own settlement requirements.

So we designed the infrastructure from that starting point: the payer is an agent, the payee is a person, and the transaction must close without a human approving it on the sending side.

+ Open by design

Fees, uptime, and ledger — all public.

Transaction ledger

Fee structure

Uptime record

Every payment routed through Payman is logged with a verifiable record — task ID, agent ID, amount, method, and timestamp. Queryable via API.

Flat per-transaction fee. No percentage rake on worker earnings. No hidden conversion spread on crypto settlements. Published in full at status.paymanai.com.

Rolling 90-day uptime posted publicly. If the payment rail is down, you see it before we tell you — because your agent's task queue can't wait for a status email.

Wide environmental shot of a minimal desk workspace — a mechanical keyboard, a monitor showing a code editor with payment routing logic, flat even daylight from a window off-frame left, no person visible, no decorations, only the tools of systematic work
Wide environmental shot of a minimal desk workspace — a mechanical keyboard, a monitor showing a code editor with payment routing logic, flat even daylight from a window off-frame left, no person visible, no decorations, only the tools of systematic work
Who built this

Payment engineers and AI infrastructure builders.

The team holds direct experience across payment processing rails and AI agent orchestration — not adjacent consulting, not product management of other people's systems. We ran the systems we're now rebuilding for a new payer class.