---
name: The Codest
domain: thecodest.co
kind: product
relation: substitute
segment: platform payments and embedded finance
descGrounded: 0.65
---

# The Codest

A software development and staff augmentation service selling experienced developers to FinTech, banking, and scaleup clients.

**Route:** surfaced by the platform payments and embedded finance lane's de-branded queries → substitute to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** A buyer who needs payment infrastructure could instead hire this firm to build custom payment software in-house, making Stripe's pre-built APIs unnecessary.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Product-minded engineering partner for FinTech, digital banking and scaleups

> We build digital products for enterprises, scale-ups, and software vendors

> We help companies in scaling their IT departments by providing experienced senior developers from our team

**Edges:**

- competitor [[bill-com]]
