Verity Payments
veritypayments.comPriya Raman, VP Product
Tuesday 11:00, 30 min · Intro call: portal rebuild
Prepared for Halyard Studio
Also attending: Tomas Beck, Head of Engineering
Bottom line. Verity has outgrown a customer portal it built in 2021 and has said so in public. Priya owns the rebuild and has no front-end team to give it to. Lead with the takeover you ran for Kestrel, and find out who signs before the call ends.
Why now
- March 2026
Raised $28M and named self-serve onboarding as the first thing it funds, so the rebuild sits on a funded roadmap rather than a wish list.1
- July 2026
Posted for a senior front-end engineer, then closed the ad after five weeks with no hire announced, so the internal route looks stalled.4
Ask these
What breaks first if self-serve doubles? Tells you whether the portal is the constraint or a symptom of one.
Who else has to agree before this starts? Surfaces the CFO in week one instead of week three.
Watch out for
Objections
“We should just hire for this.” They tried and stopped, so agree with the instinct, then price a team they can switch off rather than one they carry.
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