

Who Pays the Robots?
When an agent makes a purchase, who actually pays, and who is on the hook when it goes wrong? That is the argument for the night.
A small, off-record dinner in San Francisco on Thursday, August 27. Twenty to thirty people, one table, one hard conversation about agentic commerce.
Who is in the room
Founders building payments and commerce infrastructure for autonomous agents
Fintech and payments engineers shipping the rails underneath
Operators backed by a top-tier venture firm who have seen this movie before
The format No slides. No pitch. A real debate over dinner about the money layer of agentic AI: authorization, liability, fraud, and who owns the transaction when no human clicked buy. You leave with sharper takes and a few people worth texting after.
Agentic commerce is moving faster than the plumbing under it. This is the room where the people building that plumbing argue it out.