Payments are instant. Payouts still take 90 days. SettleMate closes that gap by attaching rules to money, so one sale settles every party automatically.
$3.9T
Borrowed against money already owed
60-90+ days
Typical payout lag
30-40%
Finance time lost to reconciliation
What we believe
The invoice layer is the problem
The payment takes seconds. The payouts take months. Companies borrow trillions against money they are already owed. Finance teams spend a third of their time chasing, reconciling and collecting. The invoice layer is the last manual layer in payments.
The agreement is the automation
Two parties agree once on percentages, thresholds, caps, and who gets paid. Then every qualifying sale executes automatically. Proof on every line. Refunds unwind themselves. No POS changes. No new rails.
Team
Co-founder, SettleMate.
James Dickson
Product leader with 18 years across retail, fintech, q-commerce, and turnaround environments. Now building the product and protocol layer for self-settling payments.