
Mattia Ciuni
Founder & CEO at Noesia
I'm building the money layer for AI agents at Noesia. AI agents can already research, compare and execute entire tasks. Then they stop and ask you for a credit card. Noesia gives each agent a wallet with rules: per-agent budgets, merchant allowlists, a deterministic authorization engine, and a verifiable receipt for every transaction.
Before this I built Celeste, an AI browser, and watched users finish the hard part of a task, then abandon it at the payment step. That observation became Noesia. We're applying to YC and relocating to San Francisco.
I ship code under strict acceptance tests and hire on artifacts, not titles. Reach me at [email protected] or on @mattiaciuni, GitHub and LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, the Spotify podcast and Crunchbase.
Who is Mattia Ciuni?
Mattia Ciuni is an Italian founder and the founder and CEO of Noesia, a company building the money layer for AI agents. He works on the rules, authorization and receipts that let software spend money safely on behalf of people.
What does Mattia Ciuni do? Before Noesia, he built Celeste, an AI browser. Today his work sits at the intersection of AI agents, payments infrastructure, fintech and software engineering.
Principles
Build the hard part first.
Everyone ships the demo; the money path is where products die. I start where the risk lives.
Verification over vibes.
If a claim can't survive an audit, a test, or a skeptical engineer, it doesn't go on the internet. Including this site.
Small teams, heavy leverage.
AI tools multiplied my output; discipline multiplied the AI. Two people with tests beat ten with meetings.
The best ideas survive attack.
I post my architecture before I have a pitch. What survives the comments is what gets built.
Now
Building the money layer for AI agents at Noesia. Applying to YC, relocating to San Francisco.
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Projects
Thoughts
- Welcoming Raj Koli, Founding Engineer (Agent Experience): the interviewThoughts
- Welcoming Alex Mwaniki, Founding Engineer (Core): the interviewThoughts
- Finding Ghassen: the co-founder question, answered in three weeksThoughts
- Artifact-based hiring: ship code before titlesThoughts
- The money layer for AI agentsThoughts
Notes
All notesLonger, slower pieces on the systems, people and ideas behind the work.
Feedback
All feedbackEngineers attack Noesia's architecture in public. I publish what their attacks changed, corrections included.
Field notes
in progressSome things are better heard. Some are better seen. I am making room for both.


