Orthogonal - Agentic Payments for APIs
APIs weren’t built for agents, we fixed that.
Details
- External ID
- 97308
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Orthogonal
- Product
- Orthogonal
- Website domain
- orthogonal.com
- Launched
- Jan. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2026
- Upvotes
- 31
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6470588235294118
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- agentic payment apis
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic unified API proxy and SDK wrapper can be vibe-coded, but running an ultra-low-latency financial proxy with automated per-call metering and multi-rail settlements requires complex backend infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The system requires a distributed reverse proxy (e.g., in Go or Rust with Envoy/Kong) deployed at the edge to handle authentication, rate limiting, and sub-10ms request routing for hundreds of upstream providers. It requires a transactional metering and double-entry ledger database (e.g., PostgreSQL with Redis caching) supporting diverse settlement rails (credits, crypto microtransactions, x402 protocol) with zero data loss under high concurrency. This demands senior distributed systems and fintech infrastructure engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1563 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #459 of 1564 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 92 days after the earliest competitor.
- Locus – Payment infrastructure for AI agents · yc · 2025-10-31 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- cave-agents · github · 2026-09-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- TaskFuel · hn · 2026-08-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Archal: API sandboxes, built for AI agents · yc · 2026-08-22 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- End Close: Solving payments reconciliation with AI Agents · yc · 2026-02-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Omnara: The API for Production-Ready agents · yc · 2026-08-24 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Rentahuman: the marketplace where AI agents coordinate and pay people to do real world work. · yc · 2026-05-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- receipt-protocol · github · 2026-09-26 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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