About Alec Gutman
I learn by doing, then use what I learn to do it better. I hope it makes you want to try something, too.
Director at Visa Crypto Labs. I work on how agents spend money.
Chicago → a lot in between → San Francisco.
Now: Visa Crypto Labs
Visa bought the rights to my ProductRank work, and I joined Visa Crypto Labs, a pilot studio for stablecoins and cards.
2026: Sabbatical → ProductRank
On sabbatical I shipped OpenClaw skills, a Claude Code plugin, and Stumble. One night a Stumble script ran loose on Google Maps. I woke up to a $7,000 Google bill and had to appeal it.
ProductRank grew from that bill.
2025: Building full-time
My first mini app, Friends of Friends, hit Farcaster’s top 10 before I could really code. A hackathon project became Hypesino, but I didn’t want to build gambling, so I walked away.
2019 → 2025: HFT → ConsenSys Mesh → Peeple Work
I hired engineers for Chicago trading firms, led recruiting at ConsenSys Mesh, then started Peeple Work.
I met more engineers than I could place, so I paid some to build with me at night. That became interested.fyi, backed by Optimism and Purple grants.
Things I’ve worked on
Visa CLI (My job). Lets agents pay, with limits you set.
ProductRank (Sold to Visa). A map of developer tools, so agents pick the right one.
OpenClaw skills (Made by me · 19k downloads). Skills for OpenClaw agents.
CodexBar (Contributor · 44 commits). Peter Steinberger’s AI usage app. I built a lot of its spend tracking.
poidh (Contributor · 16 PRs). A friend’s bounty app. I made it work with agents.
Nested (Made by me). My shopping lab: Shopify’s catalog over UCP, open to agents over MCP.