Building for Canadian SMEs · Q2 2027

The financial operating system for Canadian business.

Kost connects POS, real-time payments, Open Banking, cashflow intelligence, and embedded capital in a single platform — purpose-built for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Built on Canadian financial infrastructure
Real-Time Rail·Interac·Payments Canada·Open Banking·FINTRAC aligned
The problem

Businesses run their finances on tools that don't talk to each other.

Most small and medium-sized businesses stitch together a POS terminal, a bank account, an accounting tool, and a separate lender. The result: delayed cash, opaque fees, manual reconciliation, and credit decisions made on stale paperwork.

01

Payment fees compress margins

Interchange, processor markups, and assessment fees stack invisibly. Most operators cannot answer what a single transaction actually costs.

02

Settlement delays weaken cashflow

Funds captured Friday don't land until Tuesday. Owners cover payroll and supplier obligations on float they can't see.

03

No real-time visibility

Cash position lives in three tabs and a spreadsheet. By the time the picture is clear, the decision window has closed.

04

Manual reconciliation

Bookkeepers match POS exports to bank deposits by hand. Fees, refunds, and chargebacks fall between systems.

05

Credit on stale data

Lenders ask for last year's statements to fund this month's inventory. Live transaction performance is ignored.

06

Banks can't reach the segment

Banks and fintechs lack a contextual surface to deliver lending, deposit, or payment products at the moment of business activity.

The platform

Five layers. One operating system.

Kost replaces the fragmented stack with a single integrated platform. Every transaction flows through one ledger, one cashflow view, and one financing layer.

Pillar 01

Accept

All-in-one POS and payment acceptance built for the counter, the chair, the dining room. Tap, insert, swipe, Interac, e-Transfer.

Pillar 02

Move

Real-time and lower-cost payment movement. Card rails, account-to-account, and Real-Time Rail where available — selected automatically.

Pillar 03

See

Full transparency from the swipe through settlement, reconciliation, and the bank account it lands in. Every fee, every hop, exposed.

Pillar 04

Manage

Cashflow dashboards. Receivables visibility. Fee analytics. Settlement tracking. Forecasting that updates as the day moves.

Pillar 05

Fund

Embedded access to micro-loans and working capital, underwritten on Open Banking data and live transaction history — not last year's statements.

For operators

Why businesses choose Kost.

A POS terminal is a tool. Kost is a financial command centre — the difference between running on instinct and running on the numbers.

01Faster access to the funds you've already earned
02Lower payment and transaction costs
03Real-time visibility into cash position
04Reconciliation that runs itself
05Clarity on fees and settlement timelines
06Capital based on actual business activity
07One platform for POS, payments, cashflow, and funding
08Treasury discipline, without enterprise treasury tools
Cashflow · last 30 days
Live
Operating cash
$ 482,902.45
↗ $ 24,180 · 5.3% vs. prev. period
For institutions

Why partners work with Kost.

Banks, processors, fintechs, lenders, POS hardware providers, and Open Banking aggregators reach the SME segment through Kost — at the moment of business activity, with the data to underwrite it.

Reach underserved Canadian small medium business segments at scale
Embed financial products inside live business workflows
Underwrite on transaction and cashflow intelligence — not paper
Increase deposit, payment, lending, and merchant-services engagement
KOST
Banks
Acquirers
Processors
Lenders
Open Banking
Fintechs
For investors

The investment thesis.

Six structural shifts in Canadian financial services are converging on a single addressable surface — the business operating system. Kost sits at the intersection.

01 / Thesis

Convergence

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

02 / Thesis

Underserved demand

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

03 / Thesis

Open Banking

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

04 / Thesis

Real-Time Rail

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

05 / Thesis

Distribution

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

06 / Thesis

Position

Kost spans acceptance, movement, visibility, and embedded finance in a partner-first model built for Canada.

Case studies

Three operators. One platform.

Illustrative scenarios drawn from segments Kost is designed to serve.

FAQ

The questions investors and partners ask first.

Short answers. The longer ones live in the diligence package.

Ask a question
How is Kost different from a standard POS or merchant-services provider?+
Kost is not a terminal vendor. POS is one surface on a platform with ledger, cashflow, settlement intelligence, and capital access.
Is Kost licensed or regulated today?+
Kost is in pre-launch development. Regulated activity is conducted with and through licensed sponsor institutions under defined arrangements.
How does Kost work with banks and processors rather than competing?+
Kost is the embedded SME surface so partners attach products without rebuilding the front end.
What does the business model look like?+
Three layered streams: payment take rate, recurring platform SaaS, and lending economics.
Why Canada first?+
Real-Time Rail and Open Banking are arriving simultaneously, with strong unmet SME demand.
How do I get involved as an investor, partner, or pilot business?+
Request the investor brief, start a partnership conversation, or apply to the pilot program.
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Whether you're allocating capital, distributing financial products, or running a business that deserves a better stack — there's a way in.