The industry over-invested in reasoning and ignored access. Models can plan, but the second an agent has to act, there is nothing beneath it. Developers are forced to build fragile integrations to run code, call services, and move money. Intelligence without access is a demo.
Sapiom is the execution platform for agents in production. We manage the entire stack so developers can convert intent into real-world outcomes. Today, we are accelerating our platform by acquiring Fewsats, the payment infrastructure for AI agents.
The Shared Vision
To understand this acquisition, look at Fewsats founder Jordi Montes.
Jordi is a technologist with deep roots in distributed systems, payments and AI infrastructure. Before the industry was thinking about how software would interact with the real economy, he was at Lightning Labs building the tools to make it possible. He spent years improving what would become L402 – an open standard that lets services accept machine-native payments over HTTP with zero API keys and no human in the loop.
When LLMs gained the ability to reason and plan, Jordi saw the immediate bottleneck: how does the agent actually execute a task that costs money?
He founded Fewsats to solve this, enabling AI systems to handle real-world micro-transactions autonomously. Building that a few years ago was contrarian. Today, it's the most critical missing layer in AI.
That's the same bet we've been making at Sapiom.
What Fewsats got right
Most teams attempting to solve this problem built rigid payment infrastructure and assumed agent developers would adopt it. Jordi realized developers do not want to think about payments. They want their agents to execute an outcome. The payment must be invisible.
Fewsats built the abstraction that makes the underlying rails irrelevant – one integration, every major payment method, from ACH and wire to cards and stablecoins, with settlement handled by licensed processors, down to micropayments under a cent.
Why this, why now
At Sapiom, we provide the managed runtime and dynamic routing that allow agents to operate safely across the machine economy, enabling them to access compute, intelligence, data, and APIs. True autonomy requires that an agent never has to pause a workflow to ask a human for a credit card or an API key. Money is the universal API key.
When we met Jordi, we weren't looking for an acquisition. We were looking for builders who understood that payments cannot be an integration bolted onto an agent after the fact; they must be a primitive at the execution level.
He chose Sapiom because we have what most teams in this nascent space do not: real platforms deploying real agents with real transaction volume today. We chose Jordi because he is one of the few engineers globally who has operated at the intersection of machine protocols and AI long enough to know the difference between what sounds right and what actually works.
The Endgame
Every generational shift in commerce requires a new infrastructure layer. In-person commerce needed card networks. Internet commerce needed developer payment APIs. The agentic economy requires an execution engine that allows software to safely procure, route, and spend across the API economy.
Jordi joins Sapiom to lead payments and accelerate our access network and orchestration layer, ensuring that when an agent needs a capability, the access is already available on Sapiom.
Backed by Accel, Anthropic, Okta Ventures and Gradient, we are scaling the execution layer for the next era of software. If you are deploying agents in production and hitting a ceiling on what they can execute autonomously, we should talk. Get in touch today.
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