Paystack embeds AI agents into Nigerian consumer payments

Paystack isn't launching a finished product here. It's deliberately planting a flag at the edge of something uncertain — letting AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude complete purchases on a user's behalf, starting with airtime, money transfers, and food orders.

The CEO says he doesn't expect real traction for at least a year. That's a remarkably honest thing to say at launch.

But that's precisely the point. Whoever builds the payment infrastructure that AI agents route through becomes the invisible default — not because they won a feature war, but because they were already there when the habit formed.