Orthogonal
Orthogonal enables AI agents to instantly discover, access, and pay for hundreds of APIs through a unified payment layer and marketplace.
At a Glance
- AI Startups
- Autonomous Agent Developers
- Marketing & Sales Teams
AI Tools by Orthogonal
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Unified API Gateway for AI Agents
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Latest News
Orthogonal partners with PredictLeads to offer company intelligence APIs to AI agents.
Orthogonal announces partnership with Tomba for email finding and verification tools.
Sequentum validates enterprise-grade expertise via integration with Orthogonal.
Orthogonal launches Agentic Payments Layer for APIs as part of YC W26.
Products & Services
A curated library of reusable 'skills' and APIs that AI agents can discover and call using a single key.
A unified payment and integration layer that allows agents to instantly pay for and access hundreds of third-party APIs.
Image generation service using Gemini models, offering different quality and pricing tiers.
Market Position
Orthogonal positions itself as the infrastructure layer for the 'Agentic Economy', removing the friction of API key management and individual billing for AI agents.
Leadership
Founders
Christian Pickett
Former employee at Vercel (Payments/Billing) and Coinbase (Billing). Met co-founder Bera Sogut at McGill University.
Bera Sogut
Former engineer at Google (reCAPTCHA and Maps APIs) and Amazon Robotics. Two-time ACM ICPC World Finalist. Education: McGill University.
Executive Team
Christian Pickett
Co-founder
Vercel (Payments), Coinbase (Billing).
Bera Sogut
Co-founder
Google (APIs), Amazon Robotics.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founders Christian and Bera met at McGill and realized that APIs were built for humans, not agents. They combined their backgrounds in payments and API infra to build infrastructure for the agentic economy.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Developers purchase unified Orthogonal credits; Orthogonal handles downstream payments to API providers on a pay-per-request basis.
Pricing Tiers
Lower-cost image generation using Gemini Flash.
High-quality image generation using Gemini Pro.
Developers purchase unified credits to pay for any API in the marketplace per request.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Autonomous Agent Developers
- Marketing & Sales Teams
- Autonomous AI agents
- Sales prospecting
- Market research
- Content generation
- Olostep
- Andi
- Shofo
- Fiber AI