Hugo Rodriguez
Co-founder & CEO
Payments and capital-markets experience at Félix, J.P. Morgan and Carta. Connecting businesses, infrastructure and opportunity.
For the person doing the work and running the business.
Your business, at its best.
We’re building a simpler way to get paid, follow your payments and understand your business’s money.
Starting with businesses like yours.
We want to hear from the people who clean, care for gardens and improve our homes. Whether you work on your own or run a small crew.
Cleaning
Homes, recurring customers and the next service.
Landscaping
From weekly maintenance to the bigger project.
Home improvement
The work, the materials and the people who make it happen.
U.S. service businesses with less than $5M in annual revenue. Latino owners are our starting point, not our limit.
You finish the job. What comes next?
Imagine Luis has just finished a $500 landscaping job. Try how he could prepare the request, let the customer know and see the payment in one place.
Say what to collect.
A message with the customer, job and amount.
Review and share.
You approve the request before sending it.
See the payment connected.
The confirmation and balance keep the job’s context.
Example: a landscaping job becomes a $500 request. The customer pays and the sample balance goes from $2,300 to $2,800.
Everything in this example is fictional. No messages are sent and no money moves.
First we listen. Then we build.
We’re Hugo and Mauricio. We’ve built financial products, and now we want to better understand the work behind everyday businesses.
Mauricio Pérez Romero
Co-founder & CTO
Former CTO at Félix. Experience building financial technology and engineering teams across the U.S. and Latin America.
We’re in the research phase
Tell us about your business.
What makes getting paid difficult? What would actually help? We want to hear your experience before we build.
Taking part is a conversation, not a sales pitch. No need to connect accounts or share your customers’ information.
Thank you. We start by listening.
We’ve received your details. The alcien team will contact you to learn more about your business and your experience.
Meanwhile, explore the ideaGood to know.
Is alcien available yet?
We’re researching the problem and choosing where to start. The demo shows a product concept. Features, payment options and the business model may change as we learn.
Does the demo make a real payment?
No. Every business, customer, amount and transaction in the demo is sample data. We don’t send messages, connect accounts or move money.
Is it only for Latino-owned businesses?
Latino business owners in the U.S. are our starting point. We also want to learn from other people running service businesses. The vision is to serve everyday businesses.
Will you ask for bank details?
Not to take part in research. We only ask for the contact and business details you choose to share in the form.