Why Can't AI Agents Pay for the Tools They Need? [Ft. Jim Nguyen, CEO, InFlow]
Every trust and security system in payments was built around one assumption: a human is on the other end. CAPTCHA, email confirmation, UI-based checkout flows — none of it works when the buyer is headless. That's the wall AI agents are running into right now, and it's not a model problem. It's an infrastructure problem.
Jim Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of InFlow, has watched payments evolve through the online, mobile, and crypto shifts. Each one introduced a new buyer type and a new interaction model — and the payment layer always had to be rebuilt to match. This shift follows the same arc. The…
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