PR Newswire announced Alternative Payments’ acquisition of Delmar Insights, marking a strategic move that positions the company as the first platform to deliver AI-powered payments automation combined with purpose-built business intelligence for B2B services companies. The acquisition brings together Alternative Payments’ proven financial automation workflows with Delmar Insights’ advanced benchmarking and analytics engine, creating what Baxter Lanius describes as a platform that doesn’t just give businesses better data, but “AI tools that proactively identify opportunities, anticipate challenges, and enable action before problems arise.” The integration addresses a critical gap for MSPs and B2B services businesses that have long operated with fragmented systems—powerful automation on one side, operational intelligence on the other, but rarely both working together to drive real-time decision-making.
The combined platform delivers unprecedented visibility by uniting payments data with operational metrics, enabling businesses to analyze cash flow trends, customer behavior, and performance benchmarks within the same system that processes their receivables and payables. Danny O’Hanley, founder and CEO of Delmar Insights, emphasized that Alternative Payments has “redefined how companies automate payments and brought financial innovation to the forefront,” with the acquisition creating opportunities to deliver AI-powered insights to industries historically overlooked by traditional fintech. The integration transforms Alternative Payments from a payments automation platform into what the company calls “the financial operating system for B2B services companies”—a unified solution where invoice creation, payment processing, reconciliation, and strategic intelligence converge to help businesses strengthen operations, improve margins, and get paid faster through AI-enhanced workflows.
