Agentic analytics for payment gateways and PSPs

Find the gateway revenue leaks before checkout conversion follows them down.

Bicycle watches authorization rate, fraud rate, settlement, chargeback rate, and processing KPIs across the gateway and PSP segments that matter. When a number moves, it explains the likely cause and recommends the next action to the team that can fix it.

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Detect
Payment success rate
cards · Germany · one provider · last 2h
-5.4ppvs 7-day baseline
Explain · likely causes, ranked
  • 1Issuer-side declines rising on one BIN rangehigh
  • 2Provider latency above the retry threshold on the same lanecontributing
  • 33DS step-up friction rising on mobile checkoutscontributing
business causetechnical cause
Act · recommended next step
Recommend to payments ops: reroute the affected lane to the backup provider and escalate the latency to payments engineering, with the BIN range, the geography, and the revenue at risk. Scoped, previewed, logged.
Evidence: auth results · provider response codes and latency · issuer BIN reference · 3DS step-up events · retry logs · settlement

A dashboard shows the drop. Bicycle finishes the investigation and recommends the fix.

Where gateway revenue breaks

Start with a single revenue KPI critical to your business.

Bicycle comes with payment gateway industry intelligence already inside. Pick one Bicycle-recommended KPI and watch it run: the KPI it watches, the causes it checks, the action it recommends to the owner, and what it keeps.

Pick a revenue problem
Authorization Rate Agent Drop
Authorization rateE-commerce merchants · Visa and Mastercard -4.1ppvs prior 7-day baseline
Auth rate drop · e-commerce merchant segment
D · DetectDetect · what moved
E-commerce segment authorization rate crossed -3.5pp below 7-day baseline. Triggered at 09:22.
Authorization rate monitor · e-commerce · Visa and Mastercard
Alert · Authorization ratejust now
E-commerce merchants · Visa and Mastercard-4.1pp
SignalE-commerce segment authorization rate crossed -3.5pp below 7-day baseline. Triggered at 09:22.
Authorization rate monitor · e-commerce · Visa and MastercardSubscribe
E · ExplainExplain · why it moved
3DS2 configuration
Gateway config
3DS2 challenge threshold lowered from high-risk only to medium-risk on e-commerce transactions 6 days ago; 34% more transactions now triggering full challenge
Challenge completion rate
Auth engine
3DS2 challenge completion rate 61%; 39% of challenged transactions are abandoned at the OTP step; reducing auth rate
Issuer response codes
Issuer response data
Soft decline codes up 28% on challenged transactions; issuers returning U (unable to authenticate) on incomplete challenges
Confidence
High
Ruled out
fraud rate unchangednetwork availability normalno issuer processing issues
Cause summaryranked
13DS2 challenge threshold lowered from high-risk only to medium-risk on e-commerce transactions 6 days ago; 34% more transactions now triggering full challenge
23DS2 challenge completion rate 61%; 39% of challenged transactions are abandoned at the OTP step; reducing auth rate
Ruled outfraud rate unchanged · network availability normal
High confidence
A · ActAct · what to do next
Revert 3DS2 challenge threshold to high-risk-only for e-commerce
Risk system
preview · 1-click
Review challenge completion UX for OTP step
Risk system
preview · 1-click
Model optimal challenge threshold using issuer response data
Risk system
approval required
Owner: Payments risk and gateway team
RollbackMonitor
Action previewPayments risk and gateway team
Revert 3DS2 challenge threshold to high-risk-only for e-commerceRisk system
Review challenge completion UX for OTP stepRisk system
RollbackMonitor
L · LearnLearn · what the loop keeps
Accepted cause saved: 3DS2 challenge threshold changes have direct impact on auth rate via challenge completion; changes require auth rate impact modelling. Add auth rate impact gate to all 3DS2 configuration changes; rollout in stages with monitoring at each.
Decision memory · routed to Payments risk and gateway team
Saved to memorysaved
Accepted cause3DS2 challenge threshold changes have direct impact on auth rate via challenge completion; changes require auth rate impact modelling
Next runAdd auth rate impact gate to all 3DS2 configuration changes; rollout in stages with monitoring at each
starts from the answer
Setup
1
Rapid activation
Approval logs, payment attempts, auth results, gateway, settlement, interchange feeds, already connected. No rebuild.
2
Vertical native context
Speaks merchant, card type, interchange code, card hierarchy, MCC, settlement. Answers in your language.
Detect
3
Always-on KPI intel
Watches effective interchange per merchant against a 7-day rolling baseline. Surfaces as settlement lands.
Explain
4
Multi-factor cause
Tests missing tax data, card-hierarchy transition, and AVS feed together, not in turn.
5
Defensible answers
Every flagged transaction cites the qualification gap and the source feed. Trust the number.
Act
6
Governed actions
Recommends the savings to payments ops and routes the fix to dev, processor, or merchant, with preview.

A gateway problem not listed here? Book a demo and we will map it.

The cost of finding out late

A dashboard shows the drop. It never finishes the investigation.

Before Bicycle

Payment success drops on one method. The manual chase begins.

The dashboard shows the decline. The team still checks issuer codes, provider health, retries, and 3DS by hand, across five tools, while checkout keeps failing.

  1. Payments ops checks the provider status page
  2. Risk pulls decline codes by BIN
  3. Engineering checks retry and timeout logs
  4. Analytics cuts by geography and method
  5. Nobody can separate the issuer from the provider while checkout keeps failing
Hours to days. Revenue keeps leaking.
With Bicycle

Bicycle starts the investigation the moment the KPI moves.

It detects the drop, ranks the affected BINs and issuers, tests business and technical causes in parallel, attaches the evidence, and routes the issue to the owner with the next step.

  1. Detect the movement, ranked by impact
  2. Test business and technical causes together
  3. Attach the evidence, rule out the rest
  4. Route the safe action to the owner
  5. Learn the accepted cause for next time
Minutes. The owner gets the cause and the move.
Capabilities · purpose-built for payments

Trained on the KPIs, patterns, and root causes of payments.

Six capabilities, set up once and run continuously. Business teams move faster, analysts keep governance, everyone trusts the number. Pick one to go deeper.

Multi-factor cause analysis

"What caused this?" turns into a three-day Slack thread across data, product, ops, and engineering, and the answer still arrives without evidence.

What Bicycle does

1

Open the cause summary. Ranked business and technical causes. The likely driver is named, with confidence and impact.

2

See the evidence. Logs, deploys, pricing changes, supplier behavior, and search relevance, with the data attached.

3

Know what was ruled out. The negative findings close the debate before it starts.

What it looks like for your team

In practice

When a rate spikes, the team sees the specific qualification gap, AVS failure, missing tax amount, or wrong hierarchy level, not just the aggregate move.

Capabilities work together in one continuous loop. Detect → Explain → Act → Learn.

Who runs this in payments

Business teams need answers fast. Analysts ensure conclusions are trustworthy.

Same governed intelligence underneath. The payments agent for the teams who own the number, the controls for the team who owns the data.

Business teams · act on it

See what changed, why, and what is safe to do.

The move finds you, ranked by revenue impact, with the cause and the next step attached. No dashboard hunt, no three-day ticket.

Data & Analytics · keep it trusted

Govern the definitions, evidence, and safe actions.

Analysts review first-pass causes instead of rebuilding them. Leaders give the business self-service inside one governed boundary.

What Bicycle becomes for your payments operation

The agentic analytics layer on top of your stack.

Your stack stays the system of record. Bicycle turns payments signals into alerts, triage, stories, dashboards, chat, and governed actions on top of it. No rip-and-replace.

Bicycle the agentic layer
Surfaceswhat business teams touch
AlertsTriageStoriesDashboardsChatActions
Governancethe self-serve safety rail
access · approved definitions · evidence · audit · rollback
AgentsAI · your business analyst

Frames the question, orchestrates the investigation, writes the story, recommends the next step. It reasons.

Interchange optimisationApproval trackingPayment success rateSettlement anomalyInvoice processing
IntelligenceAutoML · your data analyst

Detects movement, ranks drivers, computes confidence, forecasts. The numbers are calculated, not generated.

Pattern EngineCause EngineDriver TreesForecastingImpact Ranking
Business modelthe semantic layer
MerchantIssuerBINCard typeInterchange codeGatewayTransactionSettlementModel version
Connectorsthe bridge, in and out
Signal Cause Action Knowledge
reads ↑ · acts ↓ · Bicycle sits on top
Your stack · system of record
Settlement dataProcessor / PSP feedsApproval decision logsAuth resultsModel deployment repoSnowflakeRunbooks / ticketsSlack+ more

And the rest of what you run: settlement data · processor feeds · auth results · fraud signals · observability · Slack

Bicycle runs on top of your existing systems. The payments pack supplies the starting KPIs, causes, stories, and action paths.

Vibe Analytics · self-serve start

Start with one authorisation KPI in your gateway stack.

Bring one revenue-critical gateway KPI, connect a trusted source, and watch Bicycle turn a prompt plus your data into a gateway analytics agent. Zero to a working agent in about 15 minutes.

Prompt + data
"Watch effective interchange rate by merchant and card type, and tell me why it moves across tax-data and AVS dimensions."
Snowflake · connected
Analytics agent
Builds the model, detects movement, tests business and technical causes.
Outputs
AnswerStoryAlert
Teams usually start withInterchangeApproval ratePayment success

Grow into the full product when your team is ready.

Test ride Bicycle on a gateway KPI.

Bring one payment success or authorisation metric that matters. We will show how Bicycle detects the move, explains the cause, and recommends the next step on top of the stack you already run.

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