Control outgoing payments with audit-ready evidence
TrustRelay is the control plane between payment rails and your ledger—ensuring every vendor payout is verified, policy-checked, and backed by immutable evidence your auditors will trust.
Our Mission
We exist to bring control, transparency, and audit-grade evidence to vendor payouts across all payment rails.
Every day, finance teams release millions in vendor payments without real-time verification of bank accounts, policy compliance, or sanctions checks. When fraud happens or auditors ask questions, there's no evidence—just email trails and manual approvals scattered across systems. TrustRelay changes that. We provide an infrastructure-grade control plane that sits between your ERP and payment rails, ensuring every payout intent is verified, policy-checked, and backed by immutable evidence before funds move.
Our Vision
We're building a future where vendor payouts are as controlled and deterministic as your general ledger. No more scrambling for email approvals when auditors ask why a payment was approved. No more surprise ACH fraud from compromised vendor credentials. No more month-end reconciliation nightmares.
TrustRelay will become the default control layer for enterprise payouts—providing real-time policy decisions, deterministic reconciliation, and cryptographically immutable evidence for every payment across ACH, wire, check, card, and instant rails. When companies think about vendor payment infrastructure, they'll think: ERP, Payment Rails, and TrustRelay.
Safer Payouts
Catch fraud before it happens with real-time verification, bank change detection, and sanctions screening built into the payout flow.
Deterministic Reconciliation
Match bank outcomes to payout intents automatically. No spreadsheets, no guessing, no month-end scrambles.
Audit-Ready Evidence
Export immutable evidence for every decision: vendor state, policy evaluation, bank outcome, and GL export—all timestamped and cryptographically sealed.
Our Founding Story
TrustRelay was founded after our team spent years observing the same problems across finance and AP operations: companies have no real control over vendor payouts.
ERP systems handle AP workflows but don't enforce real-time policies on bank changes, vendor status, or sanctions before funds move. Payment processors execute transactions but lack context on why a payment should or shouldn't be approved. When fraud happens or auditors ask questions, finance teams scramble through email chains, manual spreadsheets, and scattered approvals to piece together what happened.
We saw AP teams manually verifying bank account changes via phone calls. We saw controllers spending days reconciling ACH returns against payout intents. We saw CFOs unable to answer basic audit questions like "who approved this payment and why?" because the evidence simply didn't exist.
We knew there had to be a better way. Payouts shouldn't be a black box. They should be controlled, transparent, and backed by evidence—just like your general ledger. That's why we built TrustRelay: an infrastructure-grade control plane that brings verification, policy enforcement, and immutable evidence to vendor payouts across all rails.
Founded by a team passionate about financial infrastructure and enterprise operations.
Meet the Team →What We Believe
Our principles guide how we build products and serve customers
Trust Through Evidence
Trust isn't given—it's earned through verifiable evidence. Every decision, every payout, every outcome must have an audit trail backed by immutable records.
Real-Time, Not Reactive
Fraud prevention happens at decision time, not after the money's gone. Policies must execute synchronously, blocking compromised payouts before funds move.
Deterministic by Design
Reconciliation shouldn't involve guesswork or manual spreadsheets. Systems should deterministically match outcomes to intents—no human intervention required.
Clarity Over Complexity
Financial infrastructure should be understandable. We favor clear APIs, readable reasoning, and transparent operations over "black box" magic.
Infrastructure-Grade Reliability
Payments are mission-critical. Our platform must deliver ERP-level reliability: predictable latency, guaranteed delivery, and graceful failure handling.
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