AI-powered platform recognized for empowering institutions with actionable customer insights

Vertice AI, the leading provider of AI-powered growth solutions for community financial institutions, was named Best of Show at this year’s Finovate Fall for its agentic growth solution that provides AI-based personalization recommendations to grow wallet share, reduce churn, and acquire new customers.

Finovate Fall, one of the industry’s premier fintech conferences, featured more than 60 live product demos from leading technology providers. Presentations highlighted the latest innovations in banking, payments, lending, and digital engagement. Audience members voted for the Best of Show winners, honoring Vertice AI for demonstrating transformative market potential and technical excellence.

“Congratulations to Vertice AI on their Best of Show win,” said Greg Palmer, Host of Finovate. “Their platform demonstrates how AI can simplify growth for institutions by turning complex data into actionable insights. We’re excited to see the impact the Vertice team will continue to make in reshaping financial services engagement.”

CEO and co-founder Mitch Rutledge co-presented the Finovate demo with Head of Community Banking Tyler Brantley, showcasing how Vertice AI drives more efficient and effective cross-sell, targeted acquisition, and measurable ROI through data-driven, personalized engagement. The session highlighted the platform’s ability to transform customer data into powerful audience insights and enable institutions to launch compliant, tailored campaigns in minutes.

“Being named Best of Show reaffirms the industry’s desire for pragmatic, AI-enabled solutions that deliver both growth and operational efficiency,” Rutledge said. “Our demo highlighted how we empower community FIs to turn data into smarter business decisions, more personalized engagement, and tangible results. The feedback following our demo was incredibly positive. Audience members shared that our intuitive workflows take the complexity out of data-driven personalization, making the shift from insight to action completely achievable.”

Vertice AI distinguished itself by showing how community banks and credit unions can compete with big banks and digital-first neobanks. Its intuitive, AI-powered tools equip existing teams across marketing, retail, and strategy to better understand customers, refine outreach, and accelerate growth without in-house data science expertise or overextended resources.

About Finovate

A subsidiary of Informa Connect, Finovate is a research and events firm focused on innovation in financial and banking technology. Its team runs the Finovate conference series and authors the popular Finovate blog. Finovate is the only conference series focused exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. Finovate conferences consistently attract large, high-impact audiences of senior financial and banking executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers, regulators and entrepreneurs. For more information visit www.finovate.com.

About Vertice AI

Vertice AI is a leading provider of AI-powered growth solutions leveraging predictive analytics to help community financial institutions employ data to drive smarter business decisions. By harnessing artificial intelligence and customer data, Vertice AI delivers actionable, customer-centric insights that enable community financial institutions to optimize marketing investments, foster deeper relationships, and achieve measurable growth. Vertice AI has been recognized as a Top 25 Startup to Watch by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, honored as a Finalist at VentureTech 2023, and named the 2023 Innovation Challenge Winner by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

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“Being named Best of Show reaffirms the industry’s desire for pragmatic, AI-enabled solutions that deliver both growth and operational efficiency."