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: https://simplecheckout.substack.com/p/agentic-commerce-made-simple
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