What is happening
The commercial fact pattern, without the conference theater.
The Strategy Room
Stop collecting payments takes. Start building payments judgment.
A live monthly masterclass for people who build or sell payments. One topic, broken down end to end, so you walk into the next meeting with a frame instead of an open tab.
Adyen · Checkout.com · DataBright
33K+ LinkedIn · 8K+ Substack
LIVE MONTHLYFOR PAYMENTS OPERATORS
For PSPs, acquirers, fintechs, and infrastructure teams
Product · Strategy · Commercial · Risk · Founders
Not merchants. Not Payments 101.
The problem
You already get more content than you can use.
LinkedIn threads. Vendor webinars. Conference panels that expire by lunch. You finish them informed. You rarely finish them dangerous.
That gap shows up on Tuesday at 11:40, when the CRO asks which vertical to open next and the room fills with opinions instead of a decision.
- Which vertical should we underwrite next, and which should we refuse?
- Why can a specialist win a category the big platforms keep declining?
- What does this M&A move change for our roadmap in the next two quarters?
How it works
One topic.
Fully broken down.
Live.
Who wins and who loses
Where value moves in the stack, and who is structurally stuck.
The strategy frame
A usable model you can take into product, sales, and risk the same week.
Recording + archive
Miss live? Get the recording within 48 hours. The library compounds all year.
Sample year
Twelve sessions. One sharper operator by month twelve.
Exact calendar publishes quarterly. Month one opens with vertical underwriting: markets incumbents will not touch.
- 01
Vertical underwriting: markets incumbents will not touch
- 02
How elite PSPs decide what not to sell
- 03
Competitive teardown method for payments companies
- 04
Agentic commerce: what actually changes in the stack
- 05
Fraud as strategy
- 06
Debit, rails, and routing as a commercial weapon
- 07
Pricing power for payments companies
- 08
Selling into high-opportunity, high-friction verticals
- 09
Platform vs processor: when to rebundle
- 10
M&A: what the deal means for your roadmap
- 11
Building a personal monopoly inside a payments org
- 12
The year-ahead category map
Who it is for
Built for people who build or sell payments.
If you want merchant fee tips, this is not for you. If you want to become the person with the frame in the room, it is.
Fit
PSP, acquirer, fintech, infrastructure. Product, strategy, commercial, risk, founder.
Not a fit
Merchant optimization, beginners, people who want Slack more than a sharp monthly breakdown.
The offer
The Strategy Room annual membership.
Twelve live masterclasses. Recordings. Frameworks. A compounding archive. Founding price locked for your first year.
Founding cohort
$597/year
or $99/month · teams of 5 for $1,997/year
- 12 live monthly sessions (60–90 min)
- Recording + notes within 48 hours
- Full archive that compounds
- Quarterly AMA on live market moves
- Founding price locked for year one
Attend the first session or watch the recording within 7 days. If it does not make you sharper on that topic than peers in your circle, email for a full refund.