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Founders Keep Losing Deals Because They’re Selling Technology, Not the Integration

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24.09.2026

Founders Keep Losing Deals Because They’re Selling Technology, Not the Integration

Here’s the AI mistake costing founders enterprise deals in regulated industries.

BY HILLARY REMY, FREELANCE WRITER

There is a version of this story that plays out constantly in fintech right now. A founder builds something genuinely good, gets in front of a compliance team at a bank, runs a strong demo, and loses the deal. Not because the technology failed. Because the conversation was about the wrong things.

And from what I keep hearing inside those institutions, the AI itself has kind of become the smaller part of the conversation. What compliance leaders are actually wrestling with is everything that shows up alongside a new........

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