Built for payment continuity when failure is not optional
BirdyFoot builds payment continuity infrastructure for gateways and operators that cannot afford to go dark. We exist to help teams maintain service during ransomware, upstream outages, operator mistakes, and recovery events where downtime turns into lost revenue, broken trust, and operational chaos.
Why we built BirdyFoot
BirdyFoot was founded by Josh Fischer, a St. Louis engineer with a background in infrastructure, identity, and resilient systems. Before technology, Josh spent ten years in hospitality, working behind the bar. That background shaped how BirdyFoot approaches hard problems: directly, practically, and with a bias toward systems that must keep working under stress.
Over time, he saw the same weakness across payment infrastructure again and again: when a gateway is impaired, most teams have alerts, playbooks, and vendor dependencies, but very little real continuity. Recovery is slow, coordination is messy, and merchants are left exposed at the worst possible moment.
BirdyFoot was created to close that gap. We are building infrastructure that helps payment operators preserve service, maintain control, and recover cleanly when primary environments are disrupted or unsafe.
The company is rooted in St. Louis and built on a simple belief: critical systems should remain controllable under stress, especially when failure carries real business consequences.
