There are too many unglamorous taxes on business growth to count, but B2B onboarding has long been one of the most headache-inducing.
It’s a familiar story: a new client signs a contract, often after months of negotiation, only to be funneled into a gantlet of training webinars, static PDF guides and support queues. But for firms, the cost can be staggering. Every additional day between signature and successful adoption, after all, not just stretches the payback period but raises the risk of churn and drags down net revenue retention.
Fortunately, that math is starting to shift. Artificial intelligence (AI), in its rapidly proliferating generative, predictive and agentic forms, is slipping into what was formerly among monotonous corner of enterprise life.
The promise is bold — to slash onboarding timelines, improve satisfaction, and accelerate the elusive moment of “time to value.” For banks embedding B2B financial services like payments, credit and working capital products, AI may prove to be among the only ways to scale onboarding in a regulatory landscape where every client profile is unique. For a SaaS company, shaving two weeks off onboarding can mean millions in earlier recognized revenue.
The shift is not theoretical. Across financial services, supply chain management, and enterprise software, AI is showing how the math of onboarding can be transformed in three decisive ways: compressing time-to-value, cutting error and redundancy, and scaling personalization without scaling costs.
Source: https://www.pymnts.com/
