Ganesh Iyer
RESP 00 APPROVED Payments × applied AI Dubai · GST+4

I build AI that understands how money moves.

I'm Head of Product at Paysecure, a payments orchestration company. Before that I led payments product at Entain, across more than 20 PSPs and several regulated markets.

Outside work I build AI products end to end, test them on real people, and write down what I learn. This page is the record.

Ledger

What I'm building

Each one started with a problem I had myself. Status is honest.

  1. ALPHA

    Kiddly

    A WhatsApp concierge for busy parents. It keeps a shared memory of school, classes and events, and sends both parents the same morning update.

    What I learned: memory is the product. Concise, reliable messages matter more than clever ones, and my first user (my wife) told me so quickly.

    WhatsApp · AWS serverless · Supabase · OpenRouter · golden-set evals
  2. PROTOTYPE

    Interview answer coach

    Live cues that keep you on point while you answer, checked against your own prepared content, plus a summary after each answer.

    What I learned: a small, fast classifier beats a large model when the job is a quick yes or no in real time.

    Deepgram · Jev classifier · real-time audio
  3. IN PROGRESS

    Payments context kit

    An open-source, vendor-neutral context layer that helps any AI reason about card declines. Version 0 is a decline-event schema, a reusable question pack and a golden test set.

    Why it matters: models are interchangeable. The payments context you give them is not.

    Open source · model-agnostic · declines first
  4. LAUNCHING

    The AI Hotel

    Short YouTube explainers that teach AI concepts through one recurring hotel. The model is the concierge; evals are mystery guests; MCP is a plug socket.

    Why: I learn best through analogies, and most explainers skip where the analogy breaks. Every episode includes that part.

    React animation kit · ElevenLabs narration · 2–3 minute episodes

Also built: an AI payment compliance dashboard and a privacy and compliance new-tab browser extension.

Field notes

What I'm writing

Short write-ups from the builds above. First pieces are on the way.

Settlement history

Where I've worked

£30–40Bannual payment volume I owned at Entain
20+PSPs managed across regulated markets
15+ yrsin product, from ecommerce to fintech

I've worked across the whole ecommerce journey: checkout and payments at ASOS and Harvey Nichols, fraud integrations at Signifyd, the full payment stack at Entain, and orchestration at Paysecure. I know 3DS, PSP routing, decline handling and regulators like the UKGC from the inside.

I studied computer science, have an MBA, and I'm comfortable in SQL and APIs. These days I build with Claude Code and Codex most evenings.

Work with me

Deploying AI in payments?

I help payment teams, vendors and merchants, take AI from demo to something they can trust: the right use case, the payments context, and evals that tell you when it's working.

Open to a few advisory conversations. Tell me what you're working on.