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Plaid and DoorDash have launched a direct integration allowing more than 2 million DoorDash Crimson account holders to securely connect their accounts to over 9,000 apps and services on Plaid’s network. The partnership is intended to help Dashers use Crimson earnings in budgeting, money management, payment, and lending applications without moving funds through another account, while enabling lenders to consider their income more fully. Plaid describes the integration as part of its broader effort to expand open-finance data beyond traditional bank accounts to include financial apps, wallets, payroll platforms, and other sources where consumers earn and manage money. DoorDash Crimson is a banking product offered through Starion Bank, an FDIC member, while DoorDash itself is not a bank.

Plaid plans to open a 11,466-square-foot Seattle office in Westlake in January 2027, expanding its established local engineering presence and aiming to grow from roughly 40 area employees to about 80 by July 2027. The company cites Seattle’s cloud computing and machine learning ecosystem as a key reason for the investment, particularly as it develops AI models intended to better understand financial data across its network. Designed to support in-person collaboration, experimentation, events, and community building, the office will include Lake Union views, an outdoor deck, flexible gathering spaces, and catered meals. Plaid is primarily recruiting Seattle-based engineering talent, with openings spanning machine learning and data science, data infrastructure, product engineering, AI and product security, site reliability, and network health.

Plaid has partnered with Anthropic to power account connections for Claude’s new Personal Finance feature, allowing U.S. users to securely link financial accounts and receive tailored guidance based on their real transaction data. The read-only integration uses Plaid to authenticate accounts, organize and refresh financial information, while Claude can help users track spending, identify fees, assess budgets, understand APR costs, and develop debt repayment strategies without being able to move money. Plaid cites consumer interest in AI-supported financial services, noting that 69% of U.S. consumers are willing to share personal information when there is a clear benefit and that many users connecting accounts to AI assistants are new to Plaid-powered finance apps. The partnership is presented as part of a broader shift toward “intelligent finance,” with Anthropic joining more than 800 AI companies using Plaid’s infrastructure for personalized financial products.