After graduating from Virginia Tech in 2008, Payton began his career at Dixon Hughes Goodman in the DC Metro regions assurance department. While auditing primarily real estate and construction companies, Payton experienced firsthand the transition from paper based confirmations to the more reliable and efficient electronic confirmations.
In 2012 Payton founded the first electronic legal confirmation platform and in 2014 joined Confirmation.com to lead implementation, strategy and sales of the company's legal confirmation division. In July 2015, Confirmation.com made legal confirmations available to its 12,000+ accounting firm clients worldwide.