The best business decision I made this week happened at a dinner table.
No slides. No agenda.
25 people, 8 countries, 3 hours of unstructured time.
We move faster now. Not despite the workation. Because of it.
A contractor in Venezuela called at 11pm. Payment blocked.
Six months ago: we caught it manually. After it failed.
Now: the system flags it before the payment runs.
That's the AI nobody writes about. Because it doesn't make a good press release.
25 people. 8 countries. One dinner bill.
Someone opened Splitwise.
I opened the Ontop app. Money moved in 30 seconds.
The person next to me had no idea we could do that.
The people building the contractor economy are living it.
I just found out one of our teammates rescues at least 3 animals every year
That came from a dinner in Mexico. Not a 1-1. Not a Slack message.
The best intel I have on my team never came from a meeting.
Every fintech has an AI strategy. Almost none have rebuilt their compliance stack.
Real AI: a contract that used to take 3 days takes 30 seconds. A payment exception caught before it's a blocked account.
Nobody writes press releases about that. That's how you know it's real.
The best hire I made this year works from Manizales, Colombia.
Most US companies can't pay her. Not because it's illegal. Because the tools they're using were built before remote work became the default.
The talent arbitrage is real. The infrastructure gap is realer.
@ontop_hq Nobody hands you a playbook for building something that doesn't exist yet. The only skill that actually matters is getting comfortable with making decisions before you're ready.
Most startups talk about vision. Very few survive execution.
@MCamilaRamirez joined Ontop when nothing existed.
No rails. No systems. No playbook.
Today:
โ 190+ countries
โ $1B+ in cross-border payments
โ Profitable fintech at scale
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@brianrequarth Congrats on building a strong solution for Latam founders. Synced w/ this, we built Ontop Stronghold Account for non US co's connected to payroll, fully secured & backed by the strongest financial institutions. Proud we got a lot of help from Latitud, happy to help back @ontop_hq