How this list is built (real data)
Every company here is a real, licensed EU/EEA financial firm — no invented names. Click any card's source link to verify it in the public register or GLEIF.
Sources: EBA Payment Institutions Register (PSD2), ESMA MiFID investment-firm register, EIOPA insurance-undertaking register — joined to GLEIF for registered address, then geocoded. ~320k payment agents and cross-border duplicates are removed.
The target (ICP): a scaleup — not a giant (wants bespoke / has a team), not a micro/startup — with lots of customer cases and no AI yet, likely to try a built solution. Fintech & insurtech lean.
Fit score raises for high-case sectors (payments, insurance) and a case-heavy public site (FAQ / claims / booking / complaints / portal); it cuts known incumbents and reinsurers, and drops any firm we crawled and found already runs a chatbot/AI vendor (the sharpest disqualifier).
Honest limits: size is a low-confidence proxy — precise "is this a scaleup" data isn't free EU-wide, so some incumbents leak in and some good scaleups sit lower. The AI check only ran on firms that publish a website in their filing (the rest are marked un-crawled). Markers are city-level. Treat ranking as a hypothesis to qualify, never proof of intent.
Outreach: pitch one narrow first workflow — the angle on each card — and lead with the suggested demo.