Financial Data Aggregation for SMB with Jason Dryhurst-Smith

Podcast Friday, December 9 2022

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Fintechs and traditional finance firms want to help their small business customers replace disorganized competing manual processes and multiple data sources with a single unified set of services and data. They could do that. They could more easily offer quicker decisions, better customer experience, and even get more first time customers founded in 2017.

Codat wants to be that universal API that can connect financial firms to the platforms their small business customers use. Codat seeks to create a single flow and view for the bus. Small businesses, many accounting, banking, and commerce systems. That goal requires specialized approaches to authorization, data normalization, and availability.

It also unlocks capabilities that small businesses can’t usually access, like real time risk scoring and predictive analytics. Today we are interviewing Jason Dryhurst-Smith, head of engineering and employee one at Codat, he’s an engineer who started in firmware and embedded systems. He has, uh, years of general development experiences, but now focuses primarily on platform engineering and building codat’s full engineering team.

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