Locus

Locus

Payment infrastructure for AI agents

San Francisco
2 employees
Finance
Seed

About Locus

We make your agents pay.

As agents evolve from tools into dependable, autonomous actors, they’ll need the ability to execute open-ended workflows end-to-end.

This inevitably means payments: accessing paywalled data, transacting for services or with other specialist agents. But autonomy requires guardrails. Businesses and developers will need a way to ensure their agents only spend how much and on what they’re supposed to.

The machine economy is coming, and Locus (YC F25) is building the connector businesses will need to participate. We connect agents securely to funds, letting you define permissions and limits for every transaction. Each payment is traceable, auditable, and fully reconcilable with your existing financial stack.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryFinance

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Cole Dermott

Cole Dermott

I like moving money.

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Eliot Lee

Eliot Lee

Ex-Scale AI, where he maintained data pipelines for large AI labs and witnessed the rise of AI models handling complex, open-ended tasks.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.