Help build the technical layer behind modern payment connectivity
Okards is a payment orchestration platform built on technical clarity, security by design, and operational scalability. We're always open to hearing from people who share that mindset.
A team built around precision and clear scope
We build a purely technical orchestration layer – no shortcuts, no black boxes. That mindset shapes how we work internally, too: clear ownership, clear communication, and a focus on getting the fundamentals right.
Technical Clarity
We value work that's documented, explainable, and built to last.
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Security by Design
Security isn't an afterthought here, it's part of how we build from day one.
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Operational Scalability
We think about how decisions hold up as the platform and team grow.
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Structural Transparency
We believe in knowing how things work, and why.
See what your payment stack isn't showing you yet
Talk to our team about how Payment Intelligence surfaces risk signals and routing insight across your acquiring and payment partners.
Scope, depth,
and discipline others don't apply
Scope and depth of risk intelligence
Innovation in risk
intelligence
Mastery of complex payment environments
Risk-to-revenue balance
Speed of integration
Intelligence layered on
a technical foundation
Payment Intelligence runs on top of OKARDS' orchestration layer – the same single integration that connects you to your acquiring banks and payment service providers. Signals and recommendations flow through that layer; funds, settlement, and regulatory obligations remain exactly where they already sit, with your acquiring and payment partners.
Intelligence without added data exposure
OKARDS holds PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider status – the top tier the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council assigns to companies handling payment processing.
Reaching Level 1 isn't a matter of filling out a questionnaire. It calls for an on-site audit, performed each year by a Qualified Security Assessor – an independent, accredited auditor who checks the platform's controls against the entire PCI DSS framework. That verification happens annually, not once.
Generating strong risk signals depends on seeing transaction and behavioral patterns clearly – it doesn't depend on OKARDS ever touching raw card numbers. A certified third-party tokenization partner handles the collection and tokenization of payment card data before any of it reaches our systems. From that point on, OKARDS works only with non-sensitive tokens, paired with the transaction and behavioral context needed to build risk scores and support routing logic. Raw cardholder data never enters, moves through, or rests within our platform.
The certification spans the full payment orchestration environment:
Payment-processing systems are hardened, kept network-segmented from everything outside the payment scope, and monitored continuously for emerging vulnerabilities.
Role-based permissions, least-privilege design, mandatory multi-factor authentication anywhere the cardholder data environment is touched, and complete audit trails.
Modern TLS protocols protect data on the move; data at rest within PCI scope is encrypted; key management follows a documented process with scheduled rotation and controlled access.
A certified external provider captures and tokenizes card data before it ever reaches Okards – our platform interacts solely with tokens, never raw payment details.
Security reviews and application-level testing are embedded directly into a documented development lifecycle, not bolted on afterward.
Ongoing internal and external scans, backed by fixed remediation timelines for anything flagged as critical.
A rehearsed response plan spanning detection through post-incident analysis, including dedicated procedures for card-data-compromise scenarios and the notification duties owed to acquiring banks and card networks.
A centralized SIEM pulls audit logs from across the payment environment, flagging anomalies in real time.
An annual QSA audit, quarterly vulnerability scans, and independent penetration testing once a year.
A certification is only useful if it changes what merchants actually have to deal with. Here's what PCI DSS Level 1 at Okards means in practice.
Because raw card data never reaches our platform, integrating Okards does not pull your business into a wider cardholder data environment. Your own PCI scope doesn't expand just because you're now generating richer risk signals – the tokenization boundary holds regardless of how deep the intelligence layer goes.
That has a few concrete effects:
Connecting to Okards doesn't introduce new systems, endpoints, or data flows that your own PCI assessor needs to review. The compliance perimeter around cardholder data stays exactly where it was before the integration.
Merchants often assume that "more risk intelligence" means "more sensitive data to protect." Here it doesn't – you're not taking on additional storage, encryption, or access-control obligations to use the platform.
When your security or vendor-risk team evaluates Okards, the answer to "do they touch cardholder data" is simply no. That tends to shortcut a large part of standard vendor due diligence, since the highest-risk category of data exposure is off the table from the start.
sits with us, not you.
Maintaining Level 1 status – the annual audits, the quarterly scans, the documented controls – is Okards' ongoing responsibility. Merchants get the benefit of that infrastructure without having to build or maintain any of it themselves.
Banks and card networks hold their processing partners to exactly this bar, because it addresses security across the entire payment environment. For merchants, the outcome is more risk visibility without any expansion of where sensitive payment data actually lives.
See what your payment stack isn't showing you yet
Talk to our team about how Payment Intelligence surfaces risk signals and routing insight across your acquiring and payment partners.