OneAI
Company

Built by payments operators. For payments operators.

We started OneAI because compliance teams shouldn't need eight tools and a spreadsheet to do their jobs. We're building the single operating system regulated payments businesses actually run on.

Our mission

Move payments compliance from a reactive cost centre to an autonomous system of record.

What we believe

Four operating principles.

Merchant-centric

Payments compliance is about merchants — MIDs, aggregators, risk posture — not just transactions. Every design decision starts there.

Governance by default

Maker-checker, versioned policies, and audit trails are not enterprise upsells. They ship on day one for every tier.

Honest AI

Every decision comes with the evidence that produced it. If we can't explain it, we don't ship it.

Publish what we can't do yet

Our public scorecard shows the five things we lead on — and five gaps with real dates against them.

8
tools replaced
on average per customer
48h
typical RFI response SLA
tracked to close
9.2 / 10
our published scorecard
with roadmap to 9.7
Milestones

The short story.

  1. 2024
    Founded
    Built by an ex-acquirer risk team frustrated with juggling eight tools.
  2. 2025
    First customers
    Deployed with African PSPs and payment facilitators processing regulated volume.
  3. 2026 · Q1
    RFI Automation shipped
    Autonomous alert → merchant response loop closed.
  4. 2026 · Q2
    MID Governor shipped
    Autonomous MID-level policy with maker-checker.
  5. 2026 · today
    Full Compliance OS
    One platform. One merchant record. One system of record.
Team

Senior operators, in one room.

A small, senior team — every hire has shipped compliance software at scale.

Co-founder & CEO
Ex-acquirer risk lead
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-fintech platform
Head of Compliance
Ex-sponsor bank
Head of Engineering
Ex-payments platform

Initials shown for now. Full team bios published under NDA on request.

Headquartered
Lagos, Nigeria
With customers across West Africa, EMEA, and select US deployments.
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