About

Built by operators.For agents who would rather close than chase.

Ainsworth is a small team. Two principals, a focused engineering bench, three sponsor banks, and one sister platform that lets us underwrite differently than every other ISO in our tier.

The story

Why we exist.

The ISO category is begging for a brand that sounds like a builder, not a consultant. Every competitor in our tier reads the same. Generic value props. Race-to-the-bottom residual language. Decades of combined experience. We refuse to add to that noise.

We started Ainsworth because we had spent enough years inside the paper-and-PDF era of merchant services to know it could be a real product. Agents are technical enough to use software. Merchants are ready to fill out one form, not three. Sponsor banks are ready to underwrite faster when the application arrives clean.

And we own QuickRefund, a sister platform that intercepts disputes before they file. That changes what we can place. We can take harder verticals and clean them up after we win them.

The team

Two principals. Both run the work.

Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster
CEO & Co-Founder

30-year payments operator across merchant acquiring and high-risk processing. Built and scaled distribution at ISOs, PayFacs, and processors. Deep operational chops in chargebacks, fraud, and merchant portfolio risk. The person sponsor banks return calls from.

Mark Smith
Mark Smith
Chief Commercial Officer

Founder of 3Cinteractive, one of the earliest mobile messaging and payments platforms. Acquired by Cisco. 3Ci ran billions of consumer interactions across mobile channels for enterprise payments and telecom. Now runs commercial strategy and builds the Ainsworth portal itself.

That is the team. Now show us your book.

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