# Mattia Ciuni | Founder & CEO @ Payle

> Founder & CEO of Payle, the money layer for AI agents. Building controlled spending infrastructure for the agentic economy. YC applicant, relocating to San Francisco.

- URL: https://mattiaciuni.pages.dev
- Type: Home

## Cards
- [Thoughts index](thoughts.md)
  - [Artifact-based hiring: ship code before titles · Mattia Ciuni](thoughts/artifact-based-hiring.md) - Everyone who joins Payle shipped working code before we ever talked about roles. How artifact-first recruiting filters for builders.
  - [The money layer for AI agents · Mattia Ciuni](thoughts/money-layer-for-ai-agents.md) - AI agents can research, compare and execute, then they stop at the payment step. Why controlled spending power is the missing infrastructure of the agentic economy.
- [Notes index](notes.md)
  - [Why AI agents need idempotent payments · Mattia Ciuni](notes/idempotent-payments-for-ai-agents.md) - An agent that does not retry loses money, but retries are exactly what breaks naive payment flows. Why the idempotency key is the memory of an agent's intentions.
  - [The agentic economy is a trust problem, not a technology problem · Mattia Ciuni](notes/the-agentic-economy-is-a-trust-problem.md) - Agents can already research, compare and execute. The hard part is deciding what they may do with money, and proving what they did. A case for wallets with rules.
  - [On boring systems · Mattia Ciuni](notes/on-boring-systems.md) - The most advanced thing you can build around an AI is often a system that is boring on purpose. A note on determinism, monotonicity and the craft of unremarkable software.