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Method

Provider
Unified Payroll/HRISOpen Banking

Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 5 companies across 2 categories.

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CategoriesUnified Payroll/HRIS, Open Banking
Rank#10 of 23 in Unified Payroll/HRIS
Buyers5 companies
Founded2021
FoundersJose Bethancourt, Marco del Carmen, Mit Shah

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Founders & story · from Method’s own dossier

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.

Latest round: Series B, 2025
Recent developments
  • 2025-01$42M Series B led by Emergence Capital source ↗
  • 2026Launched Method for Commerce (card-linking for checkout & loyalty) source ↗
  • 2023-01-01Closed $16 million Series A funding source ↗
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Who uses Method
5 companies disclose Method in their stack
HitachiFlightglobalPlanneryInvoicing NetworksManchester City Football Club
Buyer mix · 5 of 5 classified
Fintech / Cross-border payments · 1Fintech / Lending · 1Horizontal SaaS / Conglomerate (Manufacturing & Digital Services) · 1Hospitality / SaaS · 1Vertical SaaS / Aviation Media & Intelligence · 1
UK · 2APAC · 1US · 1
What the disclosures say
Flightglobal
“Method publicly lists Flightglobal as a customer (method.com/work/flightglobal).”
Invoicing Networks
“IBS Intelligence publicly lists Invoicing Networks as a customer in the context of TreviPay launching a B2B payments method and invoicing networks for businesses (ibsintelligence.com/ibsi-news/trevipay-launches-b2b-payments-method-and-invoicing-networks-for-businesses/).”
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Alternatives to Method

Other Unified Payroll/HRIS providers in the index, by the number of companies that disclose them. A count of public disclosures, not a ranking of the products.

Finch48 buyers →Apideck9 buyers →Argyle8 buyers →Atomic7 buyers →Remote7 buyers →Merge6 buyers →Pinwheel5 buyers →ADP4 buyers →
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Ranked #10 of 23 in Unified Payroll/HRIS — Embedded Finance Index 2026
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Method — frequently asked

Which companies use Method?

5 companies are linked to Method in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, through their own public disclosures or Method's published customer list, including Hitachi, Flightglobal, Plannery, Invoicing Networks and Manchester City Football Club.

What does Method do?

Method is an embedded-finance provider in Unified Payroll/HRIS and Open Banking. It ranks #10 of 23 Unified Payroll/HRIS providers by linked companies.

What are the alternatives to Method?

The most-named Unified Payroll/HRIS alternatives to Method are Finch (48 buyers), Apideck (9 buyers), Argyle (8 buyers), Atomic (7 buyers), Remote (7 buyers) and Merge (6 buyers).

Who founded Method?

Method was founded by Jose Bethancourt, Marco del Carmen and Mit Shah and is founded in 2021.

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