Will AI really recommend a specific fintech provider?

Yes. Ask an AI "which payments platform should we use?" and it increasingly answers with named providers and a source, not generic advice. The only question is whether yours is one of those names. The Recommendation Index measures it across seven engines.

Every public claim we make is a financial promotion — is this compliant?

Yes. We work to the FCA's financial-promotion standard: clear, fair and never misleading. Every piece we publish is checked by a person and signed off by you, claims are kept accurate and current, and nothing ships that your firm couldn't stand behind.

Do you work with global payroll or employer-of-record providers?

No. We stay strictly on the regulated-facing side — payments and e-money, lending and credit, and wealthtech. We don't work with global payroll, employer-of-record (EOR) or 'pay anyone anywhere' providers, and we don't target that query space.

No, though good SEO helps. Search ranks pages; AI names providers and cites sources. We work the signals an engine uses to decide who to recommend — entity clarity, retrievable content, third-party citations — most of which a normal SEO programme never touches.

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FIG. 01 — What AI says

User prompt: “What's the best payments platform for a UK SME?”

ChatGPT

A few names come up: Lytton & Crowe and Pennington Wealth, both known for SME payments and reconciliation.

(Is your product in this answer? The Recommendation Index tells you.)

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Fintechs can't see where they stand

Buyers ask an AI which provider to trust before they contact anyone. If your name isn't in the answer, you never knew.

75%of UK financial-services firms now use AI

Up from 58% in 2022, with more planning to adopt (Bank of England and FCA, AI in UK Financial Services survey, 2024). The sector runs on AI now — and customers increasingly pick providers through it too.

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If you carry out regulated activities you answer to the FCA, and every public claim is a financial promotion. So does how we work — clear, fair, never misleading, checked by a person and signed off by you. Nothing ships that your firm couldn't stand behind.

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The shift is already in the numbers

83%

of UK fintech founders now use AI in their operations, and 84% see it as an opportunity (Fintech Founders survey, 2025). The sector is all-in.

14%

of consumers now let AI select a financial provider for them, and 21% use it for product recommendations (EY Global AI Sentiment Survey, 2026 — global). Discovery is already moving to the engine.

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Visibility is a growth question

Win customers who arrive already trusting you, and your cost to acquire drops. Paying to reach buyers you should have been recommended to for free is what caps your growth today.

£0what an AI recommendation you never earn is worth to you

Every quarter you stay invisible, better-fit buyers sign with the provider the engine named. The retainer pays for itself by winning customers who arrive already sold.

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What the Recommendation Index shows for a fintech

Inside a week you'll know where you stand, who's getting recommended instead, and what it takes to change it.

How your product appears today when a buyer asks AI for a payments, lending or investing provider, across seven engines.
Which providers get recommended instead, and why those names.
Whether the engines understand you, confuse you, or know nothing about you.
The high-intent questions no provider yet owns in your category.

Then a plan, sequenced over four quarters.

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Keep

The content that's already earning you citations.

Start

The pages and proof the engines need before they'll quote you.

Stop

The effort going nowhere AI can read.

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By firm type

Payments & e-money

Buyers shortlist by trust and reconciliation — be the platform the engine names for a UK SME, not the one it can't verify.

Lending & credit

Where accuracy is everything: the engines must cite your terms and eligibility correctly, or not at all.

Wealthtech / investing

The most scrutinised answer of all — the engine only recommends what it can stand behind, so the proof has to be where it looks.

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Fintech questions

Will AI really recommend a specific fintech provider?: Yes. Ask an AI "which payments platform should we use?" and it increasingly answers with named providers and a source, not generic advice. The only question is whether yours is one of those names. The Recommendation Index measures it across seven engines.
Every public claim we make is a financial promotion — is this compliant?: Yes. We work to the FCA's financial-promotion standard: clear, fair and never misleading. Every piece we publish is checked by a person and signed off by you, claims are kept accurate and current, and nothing ships that your firm couldn't stand behind.
Do you work with global payroll or employer-of-record providers?: No. We stay strictly on the regulated-facing side — payments and e-money, lending and credit, and wealthtech. We don't work with global payroll, employer-of-record (EOR) or 'pay anyone anywhere' providers, and we don't target that query space.
Isn't this just SEO?: No, though good SEO helps. Search ranks pages; AI names providers and cites sources. We work the signals an engine uses to decide who to recommend — entity clarity, retrievable content, third-party citations — most of which a normal SEO programme never touches.

AI can't recommend what it doesn't know.

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