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  "markdown": "Chief Product Officer.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashdesai1/\n\n## What Akash builds\n\n- [Payman Genie MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/payman.md), graded D, 52.8/100, in Payment \u0026 monetisation platforms. Banking and payment tools for agents. Its Genie MCP server supports bill payments, cards, transfers and other transactions within owner-defined limits. Chief Product Officer, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Hrishikesh Patil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hrishikesh-patil/), Developer Relations Engineer; Genie MCP bridge contributor\n- [Prashanth Pillareddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/prashanth-pillareddy/), Co-founder and CTO; Genie MCP bridge maintainer\n- [Tyllen Bicakcic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tyllen-bicakcic/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Visa Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/visa-ventures/)\n- [Coinbase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coinbase/)\n- [Circle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/circle/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Akash Desai?\n\nAkash Desai is chief Product Officer.\n\n### What does Payman AI make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Payman Genie MCP from Payman AI. Banking and payment tools for agents. Its Genie MCP server supports bill payments, cards, transfers and other transactions within owner-defined limits.\n\n### Who has invested in Payman AI?\n\nThe sources our research read name Visa Ventures, Coinbase and Circle.\n\n### How are Akash's tools graded?\n\nPayman Genie MCP is graded D, 52.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://paymanai.com/about-us\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyllenbicakcic/\n- https://x.com/0xTyllen\n- https://github.com/onerandomgig\n- https://github.com/PaymanAI/genie-mcp-stdio/commits/main/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanthkreddy/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashdesai1/\n- https://github.com/hrishi0102\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrishikesh-patil-2002/\n- https://x.com/hrishikeshhh_\n- https://paymanai.com/\n- https://genie.paymanai.com/\n- https://paymanai.com/terms-of-use\n- https://github.com/PaymanAI/genie-mcp-stdio\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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