Five Crafts was founded by people who spent years building payment products and financial solutions inside fintechs, banks and regulated companies.
Long before Five Crafts existed, we worked together on payment products, card programmes and financial infrastructure that ran under central bank supervision.
We kept seeing the same thing. Founders with good ideas, stuck on the operational side. Payments, regulation, security: each its own world, each needing someone who had actually done it before. Big consultancies meant hierarchy and overhead, not someone hands-on. Specialist advisors covered one piece and left the rest.
So we built Five Crafts.