Brex for Zip: AI-powered orchestration meets global payments

Brex and Zip started on parallel, and at times competitive, paths, each building category-defining companies in modern finance and procurement. Founded three years apart, we recognized the same thing: the enterprise purchasing experience was fundamentally broken.

But we approached the solution from different directions. And when we first met in 2021, we could not have predicted that one day we’d come together to solve it. Not as rivals, but as co-creators.

What brought us together was a shared frustration. While finance and procurement teams have upgraded nearly every one of their systems—spend management, AP, ERP—over the last decade, one stubborn gap remained: the relationship between procurement and payments.

We’ve both seen it firsthand: a $1,000 software license stuck in limbo, blocking a critical project, or a $2,000 emergency repair delayed, risking an office closure. Teams constantly bypassing procurement systems to get what they need. Meanwhile, finance is left buried in manual invoice matching.

These are all symptoms of a system that was never built to be unified. Until today.

AI-powered orchestration meets global cards

Today we’re proud to announce Brex for Zip, a joint solution that combines Brex’s global card capabilities with Zip’s AI-powered procurement workflows in one seamless experience. Purpose built to help companies accelerate procurement, stay in control, and scale globally with confidence.

The result is a system where procurement and payments are finally in sync, enabling customers to:

• Issue Brex virtual cards directly in Zip to speed up purchasing, reduce manual handoffs, and eliminate onboarding for one-time vendors 
• Keep every purchase in policy with the Brex card's built-in budgets, transaction limits, and compliance controls 
• Gain greater flexibility and higher rewards by shifting procurement spend from ACH to Brex cards
• Scale globally without complexity and avoid FX markups with local-currency cards in 50+ countries

Brex for Zip is a fundamentally new way to orchestrate spend. Every intake form, every approval workflow, every payment—now part of one seamless motion. Enterprises can finally issue policy-controlled, pre-coded, ERP-synced virtual cards, instantly, with spend limits tied to the exact procurement request and vendor.

Collaboration powered by customer love

The right moment for us to collaborate came as many of our joint customers, including Anthropic, Coinbase, BetterUp, Zapier, Carta, and Gong, told us explicitly that they needed a better way to manage procurement and payments. So we moved fast and leveraged Brex Embedded to bring Brex cards directly into Zip’s orchestration engine.

The early feedback from our shared customers is exciting, and we cannot wait to get Brex for Zip to thousands of enterprises:

"As a longtime customer of Brex and Zip, we've experienced how each platform has transformed our financial operations and procurement processes respectively. The integration of these two best-in-class solutions is exactly what we've been waiting for,” said Adam Dix, Head of Financial Operations at Anthropic.

“Bringing together Brex's powerful global card capabilities with Zip's intuitive procurement workflows will eliminate the manual reconciliation work that currently consumes hours of our team's time each week. We're excited to be among the first to implement this game-changing solution."

We also heard positive feedback from Neuralink. “Zip procurement and Brex global corporate cards are the two smartest products in the market, and together they will allow Neuralink to dramatically increase spend control and operational speed across our business," said Dianna Ty, Head of Procurement at Neuralink.

"Everything will be seamlessly integrated and automated, from Zip request to card creation to transaction reconciliation. This product is an incredible unlock for enterprise companies.”

Faster purchasing and frictionless control starts now

Brex for Zip gives enterprises something they’ve never had before: a single workflow that empowers employees, streamlines procurement, and strengthens governance. All without slowing the business down.

In a time when every dollar counts and every inefficiency compounds, this isn’t just a product. This is what great partnerships make possible.

To learn more about Brex for Zip, visit ziphq.com/brex or get in touch here.

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