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Proof this is real, not a pitch
Connect "Avoid the generic-fintech pitch and the prestige pitch equally" to the decision you would make.
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If they push on whether AI-built finance work actually holds up, you can point at Cursor's own team. Their finance org built a deep cost-optimization analysis of processing fees with the agent, then sent it to Stripe and asked them to confirm it. Stripe came back saying it was the most detailed cost-optimization analysis they'd ever seen and couldn't believe a tool produced it - and it surfaced real categories where Cursor should have been optimizing to save money. That's the bar the seat is held to: agent-driven analysis a vendor will sign off on, not a slide.
“They actually said this was the most detailed cost optimization analysis they'd ever seen and they couldn't believe that it was actually produced by a tool.”
Avoid the generic-fintech pitch and the prestige pitch equally. “AI is the future” says nothing and “Cursor is a hot, well-funded company” signals you'd leave for the next hot company. The credible why names what about this finance stack, at this stage, you specifically want to build - and references the JD's real problems: O2C first, AI-forward automation, usage-based revenue.