Razorpay bets on AI to become the operating brain for India's small businesses

Razorpay is expanding beyond payments to build an AI-driven platform for India's SMEs, embedding intelligence across financial services to help small merchants manage payments, operations, and decision-making. The move is framed as the company's biggest strategic bet.

— Filed Wed, 1 Jul, 2026, 22:18 IST · Source Inc42 · Quick Commerce · Updated

Razorpay is expanding beyond payments to become an AI-driven platform for India's small businesses, embedding AI across financial services to help SMEs manage payments, operations, and decision-making. Framed as its biggest strategic bet.

Why this matters

Razorpay is shifting from a payments provider to an AI operating layer for SMEs, following its recent push to build AI tools for small businesses and its RBI Payment Aggregator-Physical licence for in-store retail transactions.

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