The payment industry is saturated with storytelling, lobbying, and narratives designed to sell. This noise doesn’t just cloud your judgment. It makes critical decision-making harder.
Spill the Tea exists to rebalance the scale
This is a research-driven space that analyses, challenges, and reframes the forces shaping payment systems. I don’t look at the surface; I look at the structural tensions. Every piece of research here exists to sharpen how the industry thinks, designs, and governs its systems.”
Every bite exists in this space to sharpen how the industry thinks, designs, and governs its system.
Dismantling the dominant industry narratives. I dissect the political forces and technical dead-ends that corporate storytelling chooses to ignore.
I document the gap between industry promises and structural constraints, turning observation into actionable frameworks for decision-makers
Because nuance doesn’t always fit on a slide. Raw conversations with those who thinks the power dynamics shaping the global payment ecosystem.