Maex Ament

17 Jun 2026Fable 5 Recall, EU’s AI Plan, UK Ban U16 Socials, Le Chaton Fat, Hex Sponsor etn

1:50:1510 min

Maex Ament (Causa Prima): $10M Seed for Agent-to-Agent Payments

Maex Ament announces Causa Prima's emergence from stealth with a $10M seed led by Creandum, building a network of AI agents that negotiate invoices, payments and terms between companies' accounts-payable and accounts-receivable teams. He traces his background writing SAP's payment program and building payments companies, explains the guardrails and human-in-the-loop design for moving money, and sizes the opportunity at global-GDP scale with tens of millions in discount capture per large corporate. He closes with his take on hiring AI-first, less hierarchical teams across Madrid and Munich.

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2:00:294 min

Maex Ament (Causa Prima) — AI-Native Hiring Trials & Europe's Wake-Up Call

Maex Ament closes his Causa Prima interview by detailing the company's full-day trial hires, where candidates get real tasks and are expected to lean on AI tools, plus a token leaderboard as a soft signal. He calls the recent model recall a wake-up call for European AI sovereignty, saying Europe needs its own models and multi-model architectures. He also explains the company name—Latin for 'first cause,' since the root cause of business is getting paid—and plugs open roles in Madrid and Munich.

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