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Vertice AI launches Vertice OPTIMIZE as a first-of-its-kind growth engine

Tuesday, September 01, 2026 — 15:07:45 (UTC)

Vertice AI Launches Vertice OPTIMIZE as a First-of-Its-Kind Growth Engine

~New solution designed to translate financial institution growth goals into automated marketing execution~

ATHENS, Ga. – Sept 1, 2026 — Vertice AI, the leading provider of AI-powered growth solutions for community financial institutions, today announced the launch of Vertice OPTIMIZE, a first-of-its-kind solution that links a financial institution’s growth goals directly to marketing execution. The newest module in the Vertice solution portfolio empowers community financial institutions of all sizes to engage and grow account holders more efficiently and effectively.

OPTIMIZE creates a closed-loop growth engine that connects institutional objectives, mathematical optimization, predictive intelligence, and automated campaign execution in a single workflow. After receiving an institution’s growth goals, the solution automatically builds an optimized campaign calendar, selects the audiences most likely to respond, and generates compliant, personalized content to turn a financial institution’s strategic priorities into actionable marketing.

Users can establish specific growth objectives, whether increasing auto loans, growing deposits, deepening relationships, or improving retention. The optimization engine then combines those goals with account-level propensity scores to develop a comprehensive, multi-month campaign strategy. It determines which campaigns to run, when to launch them, and which individuals should receive each message, while accounting for real-world constraints such as customer fatigue, channel capacity, campaign saturation, and compliance requirements.

“Too often, a community financial institution’s marketing efforts are disconnected from institutional strategy,” said Mitch Rutledge, CEO and co-founder of Vertice AI. “Many institutions lack clearly defined growth goals, and even when those goals exist, they rarely make their way to the teams who are executing campaigns. OPTIMIZE is the first fully automated marketing solution designed to close that gap. It starts by defining the institution’s goals, determines which campaigns will have the greatest impact, identifies the right customers to target, and when to launch each campaign. With a single click to approve, an entire quarter of goal-driven marketing can begin executing with personalized, compliant content delivered at scale.”

By streamlining campaign planning and execution, OPTIMIZE enables lean marketing teams to operate at significantly greater capacity while allowing larger organizations to reduce campaign-management workloads and free marketers to focus on relationship building and community engagement. Rather than spending hours building audiences, developing content and managing campaign calendars, marketers can review the recommended strategy and launch the plan with one-click approval.

The launch comes as institutions increasingly look to AI to move beyond insight generation and toward automated, outcome-driven execution. OPTIMIZE brings this next stage of AI adoption to community financial institutions, combining predictive models, optimization, and generative AI to translate business priorities into targeted, personalized marketing actions. ###

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, ICBA ThinkTech Bankers Choice Award Winner, 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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