Strategic advisory for executives and technology companies. We help turn complexity into clarity and emerging technology into established categories.
Executives building authority, technology companies building market position, and associations building value for members.
Leaders looking to develop expertise, earn certifications, and build authority in their fields.
B2B technology companies looking to build market position and reach practitioners through trusted channels.
Industry organizations looking for valuable content and certification programs to offer their members.
Strategic thought leadership that educates and builds frameworks practitioners can use.
A framework for rethinking how enterprises approach payments, turning them into strategic performance drivers.
Broader insights on B2B technology, market positioning, and category development beyond payments.
A new publication expanding beyond payments to cover the full landscape of emerging B2B technology.
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The Payment Economics Journal and Clear Paths Overlook: strategic thought leadership delivered to your inbox.
Payment Economics Certification provides formal recognition of expertise in the discipline.
Direct strategic guidance tailored to your specific challenges, goals, and growth trajectory.
Collaborative learning with peers facing similar challenges. Shared insights and accelerated growth.
Start with the publications. When you're ready for deeper engagement, we'll be here.
Explore PublicationsWe connect technology companies, industry associations, and businesses to create categories together.
We connect technology companies with the associations and businesses that can help them build market authority. Whether you're creating a new category or establishing leadership in an existing one, the path runs through practitioners.
We build the bridges between innovation and adoption, helping each partner reach the practitioners who matter.
Gain credibility and reach practitioners through trusted channels
Offer members new certifications and relevant content
Train practitioners and adopt new disciplines
We focus on long-term partnerships where both sides are invested in creating something meaningful. Complex products and markets require careful attention to detail. We work to connect the right people at the right time.
From initial strategy through market leadership, we build the infrastructure that helps your innovation reach the right practitioners.
Members often look for emerging disciplines that can advance their careers. We create that content. You distribute it through your trusted channels.
Certification programs built on genuine expertise, not vendor marketing. Thought leadership that advances the profession, not just promotes a product.
Practitioners who want to grow benefit from new frameworks that drive real results, along with certifications that validate their expertise. When a team learns Payment Economics, they execute better and approach payment decisions with new perspective.
Direct licensing for enterprises ready to build internal capability.
Payment Economics didn't exist as a discipline until we created it. The pattern emerged from conversations with AP Copilot CEO Dan Hughes, recognizing that enterprises were treating payments as administrative overhead rather than strategic opportunity.
From that insight came The Payment Economics Journal, a 38,000-word foundational book, and a framework now being adopted by Fortune 500 treasury teams.
"Payment Economics was always there in the patterns we saw across enterprises. We gave it a name, a framework, and a home."
Tracking the growth of a new category
Decision-makers at Amazon, DuPont, BP, ING and hundreds more
How AP Copilot became the voice of Payment Economics.
For decades, accounts payable has been treated as a back-office function. Pay the invoice. Move on. But inside every payment decision is an economic opportunity: early payment discounts, dynamic discounting, supply chain financing, working capital optimization.
AP Copilot recognized this pattern and partnered with Clear Paths Growth to build the category infrastructure. The result is Payment Economics: a discipline with its own journal, framework (Payment Yield = Capital Return × Supplier Acceptance), certification curriculum, and growing community of practitioners.
This isn't thought leadership as marketing. It's category creation as strategy. AP Copilot doesn't compete for market share in accounts payable automation; they define what the market should be measuring in the first place.
Over a decade driving growth for B2B technology through direct communication with the practitioners who use it. Understanding how to share new ideas with people in a relevant and enjoyable manner. That's the foundation of everything we build.
I created Payment Economics as a discipline because I kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant technology that the market didn't have language for. Category creation is the bridge between what you've built and the market that needs it.
Working with companies and executives who see something others miss and need help making the market see it too.
Whether you're an executive seeking strategic clarity or a technology company ready to build a category, it starts with a conversation.