Jordi Montes: Founder+CEO Simple Checkout, From Crypto to Agentic Payments
A special Retailgenic conversation on the future of payments, personalization, and the next era of e-commerce.
Jordi Montes is a technologist and entrepreneur with deep roots in distributed systems, payments, crypto and AI infrastructure. From early roles at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and TravelPerk to building on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, Jordi has been focused on scaling secure, high-volume and low-latency systems. He has published and spoken widely on the intersection of AI agents and payments—co-authoring work on agent economics and pioneering ideas like the L4O2 “payment-required” protocol for AI. Now, as co-founder and CEO of SimpleCheckout.ai (Fewsats Inc.), Jordi is building the infrastructure to enable seamless, merchant-friendly transactions in the era of Agentic Commerce.
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Congrats to Jordi for launching SimpleCheckout.ai this week!
To mark the occasion, we sat down with co-founder and CEO Jordi Montes for a special Retailgentic podcast drop. From Barcelona to Vancouver, from TravelPerk to the Lightning Network, Jordi has been obsessed with the problem of how AI agents will pay on our behalf, and now, with today’s launch, he’s putting his solution into the world.
Episode highlights:
How Jordi’s background in travel and crypto shaped his vision for payments
Why MCP wasn’t enough and why a universal checkout protocol is needed
The origin of the L4O2 standard and its role in SimpleCheckout
Why catalog, carts, taxes, and shipping all had to be solved together
SimpleCheckout’s agnostic stance on merchants and payments
Agentic Commerce is here. SimpleCheckout is aiming to be a key agnostic infrastructure layer that enables it and works well between all the competing interests and infrastructure players to make it easier for agentic builders.
👉 Learn more and explore SimpleCheckout at simplecheckout.ai
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