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Vertice AI wins Best of Show at Finovate Fall 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 — 16:37:03 (UTC)
Vertice AI Wins Best of Show at Finovate Fall 2026
Growth and personalization solution recognized for the second consecutive year, highlighting the evolution from AI-powered insights to intelligent execution
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 15, 2026 – Vertice AI, the leading provider of AI-powered growth solutions for community financial institutions, has been named a Best of Show winner at Finovate Fall 2026 for its innovative approach to applying advanced analytics to financial institution growth and marketing execution. This marks the company’s second consecutive year earning Best of Show recognition at Finovate Fall, underscoring the industry’s growing interest in solutions that move beyond insight generation toward automated execution.
Finovate Fall, one of the industry’s premier fintech conferences, featured more than 70 live product demos from leading fintech companies across banking, payments, lending and digital engagement. Audience members voted to select the Best of Show winners, honoring companies for demonstrating innovation, technical excellence, and transformative market potential.
Vertice AI earned this year’s award for Vertice OPTIMIZE, the newest addition to its growth and personalization solution portfolio. OPTIMIZE connects strategic business objectives with predictive insights, high-propensity audiences, and personalized marketing execution, enabling institutions to move beyond identifying growth opportunities to determining and activating the next best steps to achieve measurable results. The solution is designed to adapt as conditions change, continuously evaluating performance against institutional goals and enabling teams to reoptimize when priorities shift.
“Congratulations to Vertice AI on earning Best of Show for Vertice OPTIMIZE,” said Greg Palmer, host of Finovate. “Its solution demonstrates how advanced analytics can support financial institutions in turning strategic goals into actionable marketing execution. We are pleased to recognize Vertice AI for its innovation and the potential it brings to the future of financial services.”
The Finovate demo showcased how Vertice AI combines predictive models, optimization, and generative AI to convert an institution’s growth goals into targeted, personalized marketing actions. The session illustrated how OPTIMIZE reduces weeks of cross-departmental campaign planning and execution to minutes by generating a prioritized action plan, identifying the audiences most likely to support each objective and creating personalized, NCUA-compliant content across channels.
“Earning Best of Show for the second year in a row is a meaningful validation of where we believe data-driven personalization is headed in financial services,” said Mitch Rutledge, CEO and co-founder of Vertice AI. “AI has already proven its ability to help marketers understand their customers and create content. OPTIMIZE represents the next evolution of advanced analytics in financial services that translates those insights into targeted, outcome-driven action. Recognition like this reinforces what we set out to accomplish with OPTIMIZE by fundamentally changing how financial institutions connect strategy to execution.”
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About Finovate
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 member growth solutions leveraging predictive analytics to help credit unions employ data to drive smarter business decisions. By harnessing artificial intelligence and member data, Vertice AI delivers actionable, member-centric insights that enable credit unions to optimize marketing investments, foster deeper relationships, and achieve measurable growth. Vertice AI has been recognized as a Finovate Fall Best in Show 2025 and 2026, ICBA ThinkTech Bankers Choice Award Winner, Top 25 Startup to Watch by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Industry Game Changer Award Winner by Finopotamus, honored as a Finalist at VentureTech 2023, named the 2023 Innovation Challenge Winner and the 2026 Fintech ADVANCE AI Award winner by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).
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