Crowdfund Insider featured Baxter’s analysis of how AI is transforming B2B payment infrastructure for blue-collar industries historically overlooked by fintech innovation. The comprehensive interview explores contextual automation that understands industry-specific payment patterns, from construction project milestones triggering progress payments to manufacturing workflows that reconcile purchase orders against delivery confirmations before releasing payment. Baxter highlights how traditional fintech has a “Silicon Valley problem,” building solutions for tech-like businesses while leaving behind the $5 trillion in combined construction and manufacturing sectors that received less than 4% of fintech investment over the past decade.
The piece showcases real-world AI impact through case studies, including a regional electrical contractor who reduced collection cycles from 47 days to predictable cash flow forecasting with 94% accuracy by analyzing municipal versus private developer payment patterns. Baxter emphasizes that AI’s breakthrough lies in understanding how businesses actually operate versus how they appear on paper, enabling intelligent automation that recognizes a plumbing contractor’s NET-15 terms carry different cash flow implications than a law firm’s NET-30. The interview positions AI as the key to unlocking modern payment infrastructure for underserved industries that traditional platforms required to change their operations to fit the technology.
