Why We Started With the Hardest Problem in AI

Payman AI CEO Tyllen and CPO Akash kick off the Build Series with a raw look at what it actually takes to build AI agents that move money inside real banks.After hearing from big banks and Anthropic about their AI ambitions, Tyllen and Akash share what two years on the ground with community banks, regional banks, and fintechs has taught them. Why they started with the hardest problem (giving agents access to money), what breaks when you try to deploy agents inside banks, why MCPs alone don't cut it, the adoption curve from internal copilot to autonomous financial agent, and where agent commerce is actually headed.Deployed across multiple institutions with real dollars moving through the system, this is the story behind agentic banking from the team building it.