Retailgentic · 2025-09-30 · 50 min
On this special Retailgentic episode, we sit down with Jordi Montes, CEO & co-founder of SimpleCheckout.ai , who officially launched today. Jordi shares his journey from Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to building a unified checkout and payment framework for AI agents. We dive into why agentic payments matter, what SimpleCheckout solves, and how it could reshape the future of online retail. Timestamps: 00:01:55 - Jordi’s background: from TravelPerk to Lightning Network 00:05:30 - The “sci-fi moment” that inspired SimpleCheckout 00:12:00 - Why payments must evolve beyond the browser 00:18:00 - Mapping agentic commerce to the travel industry model 00:23:00 - Competing visions: SimpleCheckout vs. PayOS vs. Nacuda 00:31:00 - The role of personalization in agentic commerce 00:39:45 - Why SimpleCheckout is payment- and merchant-agnostic 00:43:30 - Looking ahead: the future of agent-to-agent payments SimpleCheckout’s launch marks a turning point in how AI agents will transact. As agentic commerce takes hold, Jordi’s vision of a universal, flexible checkout protocol could define the rails of the next decade. Checkout their substack announcement: Want to stay ahead in AI commerce? Subscribe and
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