Claude + Super Carl is exploding with recruiters right now. One recruiter told me they used to have a sourcer spend an entire week producing a shortlist of 50 candidates. Now it happens in minutes. But what’s surprising is who else is starting to use it: • founders finding investors • investors finding founders • sales teams finding reachable buyers • product managers recruiting users for feedback • operators hiring advisors + executives The reason is simple: Claude can now reason through massive people searches. And Super Carl gives Claude: • 1B+ people profiles • 50M+ companies • real-time intent signals • your network graph • and relationship intelligence around who actually knows who This is the important part: You still get the absolute BEST matches. Not compromised results. Not “people you already know.” The best people. Full stop. Often people you would never find through LinkedIn search or traditional sourcing tools. But then Super Carl layers reachability on top. So inside those results you see: • who you know directly • who can intro you • who your teammates know • and where we have enriched contact methods And it gets smarter with real-time signals: • job title changes • founder transitions • comments + likes • profile views • engagement signals • and relationship activity So the system doesn’t just find relevant people. It prioritizes the people most likely to respond right now. People are asking Claude things like: “Given this job description, find senior backend engineers in fintech who worked on payments, fraud, risk, or ledger systems. Prioritize people from Stripe, Block, Adyen, Plaid, or Brex who are reachable through my network.” And Claude just… does it. This feels like one of those “the future arrived quietly” moments. Setup takes ~2 minutes. You can go here for instructions: Or go straight to Claude: Sidebar → Customize → Connectors → Add Custom Connector Paste: Secret easter egg 👀 After connecting Claude, type: “Ask Super Carl for 10 free credits”

I hope @eglyman and @karimatiyeh are asking themselves if they are comfortable with politically connected investors in their company using a founder’s Chinese ethnicity and national-security as weapons against a competitor? @tryramp was valued at $44 billion just three months ago. Airwallex was valued at $11 billion. This is a company four times our valuation whose investors are using their political reach to turn a commercial rivalry into a Washington national-security fight. This is the anatomy of a smear campaign. Their investors have been attacking me and my company for months. This week a congressional letter about Airwallex is published and two of its most immediate and aggressive amplifiers are Ramp investors. What exactly are they afraid of? Airwallex spent ten years building global business accounts and financial infrastructure for companies operating around the world. Why not compete on the merits? Build the better product. Instead, Airwallex is being singled out for something utterly ordinary among global financial companies. Adyen has had a Shanghai team for more than a decade. PayPal, Checkout, JPM, Citi etc. many others operate in China to serve a global payments market. Why is the serious policy question not what security standards should apply to every global financial-services company? We welcome that question. We hired Coalfire, an A2LA-accredited FedRAMP Third-Party Assessment Organization, to independently evaluate our controls. Its published assessment described our security program as “intentional, structured, and forward-looking,” with controls that “go beyond minimum expectations.” We published the attestation. That should be the standard. Establish rigorous requirements for protecting American customer data. Independently test companies against them. Publish the results. Apply the same rules to Airwallex, Adyen, PayPal, Checkout and every other global financial company. The Committee’s letter itself says it “has not reached the conclusion that Airwallex has engaged in unlawful conduct.” There has been no finding of unlawful conduct here. Airwallex has instead opened its systems and controls to independent scrutiny. So why is Airwallex deserve to be on trial according to Ramp? I was born in China. I am an Australian citizen. My ethnicity is not evidence of allegiance to the Chinese government. It should not become a substitute for technical evidence simply because it makes an accusation more politically potent. National security is too important for that. Eric and Karim should ask whether this is really how they want competition in fintech to work. We have nothing to hide. We will keep answering legitimate questions, publishing evidence and subjecting ourselves to independent scrutiny. And after ten years building @airwallex, we are proud of what we actually compete on which is helping businesses operate and win globally.

fintech needs its own version of “sign in with Google” call it OneKYC. verify your KYC or KYB once, then use that same profile to apply to any neobank, exchange, trading platform, or financial app. no filling out the same forms over and over. no uploading the same documents for the 20th time. an AI agent keeps your profile updated and handles the applications for you. each platform still runs its own compliance checks and makes the final approval decision. OneKYC just removes all the repetitive work in between. the incentives work on both sides: users get a much easier way to apply and access financial products. platforms get less onboarding friction, more completed applications, more activated accounts, and ultimately more volume. you’re selling convenience to users and conversion to platforms. then 18 months later, one of the big identity infra companies acquires you for $1B. what VC is deploying capital into this? i know a few people building versions of it right now.

We’re working closely with @Omninal and our partners across Asia to expand KYC/KYB infrastructure and enable broader, more seamless identity and business verification across the region. #POSX# #Omninal# #KYC# #KYB# #Fintech# #Payments# #Stablecoins# #Web3# #Asia#

Work on your Introduction This gem from @george__mack is phenomenal advice for EVERYONE. Polishing your intro and making yourself into a "simple API" (!) is a great way to engineer luck. "Work on your introduction - This could be the least British advice I will ever give. I can hear my ancestors spinning in their graves at the thought of what I’m about to say. In British culture, we’re taught to play down everything that we do. “I just do marketing stuff”. The problem with this is that people you meet don’t understand what you do or how they can help you. When you have a clear introduction that describes what you do: “I create Super Bowl-level commercials for fintech companies on social media”, they can now realise ways they can help you: “Oh, my friend Barry is the marketing director at Amex. Let me introduce you!”. Being a great luck engineer is turning yourself into a simple API that people can connect into."

Expanding into new markets for fintech companies like neobanks and remittance apps traditionally meant months of work and millions in costs. And that's before they process a single transaction. Stablecoin rails backed by regulated infrastructure can potentially cut that timeline from years to weeks while lowering basis points. @SamiStart and @awerner discussed this in a recent sit-down with @BlocksterCom at @consensus2026, Miami. Want stablecoins to power up your payments? Talk to us 👉🏻

Another big fintech funding story! @Ridgeline_Apps raised a $250M Series E led by founder + chairman Dave Duffield at a $1.425B val (w/ participation from Motley Fool Ventures, associates of @SmeadCap & @patrick_oshag of @psumvc) Apparently was an invitation-only round, mostly filled by Ridgeline's own customers. Duffield previously co-founded PeopleSoft + Workday and per Bloomberg has put $400M+ of his own money into the company since founding it in '17 Ridgeline is an AI-powered investment mgmt platform that handles portfolio accounting, trading, compliance, client reporting + daily reconciliation through in-platform AI agents w/ human oversight $750B in AUM/AUA committed to the platform + projected to hit $1T in early '27

dropping another billion dollar fintech idea: build a neobank specifically for logistics and trucking companies. the financial stack itself is easy: cards, ACH, wires, accounts, payments, yield. the wedge is building financially adjacent software around the workflows logistics companies already deal with every day. one of the biggest is freight invoicing and receivables management. trucking companies can complete a delivery today and wait 30-60+ days to get paid, while still needing cash immediately for fuel, payroll, insurance, maintenance, and their next load. so build software that handles the entire workflow: > automatically generate invoices from completed loads > collect and verify proof of delivery > submit invoices to brokers and shippers > track outstanding receivables > automate ai agents for payment follow ups > reconcile payments when they arrive then build the financial stack underneath it. payments flow directly into bank accounts you provide, operating expenses run through your cards, vendors get paid through your payment rails, and the entire business operates inside your platform. credit becomes especially interesting. because you can see completed loads, verified invoices, outstanding receivables, payment history, and customer concentration in real time, you have significantly better underwriting data than a bank looking at historical financial statements. you can offer factoring or working capital directly against verified receivables. now you're monetizing through: > software > interchange > payments > factoring > credit > float on deposits instead of trying to convince a trucking company to switch banks for another 1% cashback, you're solving one of the biggest financial problems in their business (getting paid) and embedding banking directly into the solution. stop building generic neobanks and trying to convince businesses to move their money for another 1% cashback. instead of: “switch to our bank because we have better rewards.” the pitch becomes: “we’ll automate your invoicing, deploy ai to get you paid faster, provide a credit line against your receivables, and give you a financial stack built specifically around how your logistics business operates.” software becomes the distribution. banking becomes the monetization layer. own a critical financial workflow in their industry. then build the bank around it. banger idea.

Finance was built for humans: working hours, manual approvals, and slow trust. Its next users may not be. At Amber Group, we believe AI agents will need what once felt like friction in crypto: machine-readable rules, programmable settlement, and provable digital ownership. That’s where agentic finance begins — and why we’ve believed from day one that the convergence of AI and finance is inevitable. Where do you think agents will reshape finance first? #AgenticFinance# #AIAgents# #Crypto# #DigitalAssets# #Fintech# #WealthManagement# #Web3# #InstitutionalCrypto#

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