About Us · Who We Are

Payments built by operators, for operators.

We spent years watching approval rates drop because the tools weren't fast enough, smart enough, or connected enough. So we built the platform we wished we had.

Our Mission

Turn every decline into a decision.

Every declined transaction is a question the system should have answered differently. CascadX exists to ensure that when a provider says no, there's always a smarter path to yes — chosen in milliseconds, by an AI that never stops learning from your data.

Our Story

Payments are too complex for static rules.

Every PSP behaves differently depending on the card, the country, the issuer, the time of day. Static routing rules can't keep up. By the time your team spots a decline spike, you've already lost revenue.

CascadX was born from a simple idea: what if an AI could watch your entire payment surface in real time, predict where approvals are about to drop, and reroute transactions before the damage is done?

2024

Founded by a team of payments operators and ML engineers.

2024

First AI Copilot prototype — natural language queries on live payment data.

2025

Cascading Engine v1 — real-time failover across multi-PSP stacks.

2025

Signals & Forecasting — predictive anomaly detection across 30+ dimensions.

2026

Limited early access. 1,000+ PSPs connected. Open for pilots.

What We Believe

Principles that shape every decision.

Transparency by default

Every routing decision is logged, explained, and auditable. No black boxes. No surprises.

AI with guardrails

Our models recommend and draft. Your team approves and executes. Human oversight is built into every action.

Global from day one

1,000+ PSPs across every geography. From Stripe to Alipay, from Klarna to PIX — one API, infinite reach.

The Team

Operators who build.

We're a team of payment operators, ML engineers, and product thinkers who've spent decades inside the payment stack. We know the pain because we've lived it.

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Daniel Reyes
Founder & CEO

15 years in payment operations across LATAM and Europe.

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Anya Volkov
Chief Technology Officer

Ex-Adyen. Built routing engines processing $2B+ monthly.

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Marcus Chen
VP of Engineering

Distributed systems at scale. Previously Stripe and Cloudflare.

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Sofia Almeida
Head of AI & Data

ML researcher turned payments operator. PhD in reinforcement learning.

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Tomás Becker
Head of Partnerships

Built PSP networks across 40+ markets. Speaks five languages.

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Lila Okonkwo
Head of Customer Success

Scaled support orgs at two fintech unicorns. Operator-first mindset.

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