“Can a soft-pull-based liability graph plus payoff rails become the default connectivity layer for consumer debt, the way Plaid did for deposit accounts?”
Founded 2021 by GradJoy alumni who hit the wall of screen-scraping and manual paperwork when trying to build debt-repayment UX. Method's wedge is a soft-credit-pull-based liability discovery approach (no bank login credentials) plus rails to pay creditors directly, positioning it as the 'Plaid for liabilities & payoffs'. Expanded from lender/PFM use cases into commerce (card-on-file for checkout & loyalty) in 2026.
Method processes payments through Method Pay (self-operated) and checkout.
Method was founded by Jose Bethancourt, Marco del Carmen and Mit Shah and is founded in 2021.
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