The Digital Executive featured Baxter’s analysis on how AI is revolutionizing B2B payment infrastructure in blue-collar industries. The piece examines the working capital crisis plaguing construction, manufacturing, and service businesses—where companies with solid customers remain trapped by antiquated payment systems that AI is finally ready to fix.
Baxter details how blue-collar businesses are hemorrhaging cash flow through manual reconciliation processes, with some companies waiting 87 days to recover $47,000 in working capital from simple invoice discrepancies. The article explores three operational capabilities where AI delivers transformative results: intelligent processing that reduces reconciliation time from hours to minutes, pattern recognition for fraud detection in complex supplier networks, and predictive cash flow optimization with 94% accuracy. With blue-collar industries experiencing unprecedented growth but running payment infrastructure stuck in 1995, early AI adopters will establish sustainable operational moats while competitors remain trapped in manual processes.
