Reading
Three books on the agentic payments stack
On the shift from manual back-office finance to autonomous settlement. Chapter 1 of each is on-site. Full book on Amazon.
2026
The Last Invoice
How AI Agents Are Ending the Back Office and What Comes Next
Why service-as-software replaces SaaS in the back office, payments first. Why AP is the proving ground for autonomous enterprise software, and what comes after.
2025
Agentic Payables
The Dawn of Autonomous Finance
A first-principles roadmap for building autonomous financial workflows. Diagnoses why the corporate back office stays broken and provides a blueprint for replacing the fragile machine.
2024
The Great Payments Upheaval
How Software Is Eating Money
Two decades inside B2B payments compressed into a roadmap. Why the future of finance belongs to companies that think like software, not banks.
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