Everyone assumed AI shopping would crush small merchants.
Last quarter on Shopify, 75% of AI-driven orders came from outside the top 100 categories.
Agents don't browse. They read your data.
Messy data means you don't exist.
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- Your churn number does not survive due diligence. A buyer recalculates it from your raw billing data. Their version comes back worse. A churn problem you explain is a conversation. A churn problem they discover is a discount. feinternational.com/blog/saas-chur…
- 7 questions a buyer will ask about your marketplace app. Answer them out loud. Count how many you clear without guessing. If you improvise on any of them, a buyer does not walk. They price the uncertainty instead. All seven, with the data: feinternational.com/blog/marketpla…
- Google paid $32B for Wiz. Palo Alto paid $25B for CyberArk. The real opportunity sits underneath. Every megadeal leaves a gap. Buyers fill those gaps with tuck-ins. What that means if you own a security business: feinternational.com/blog/cybersecu…
- There is a window open in tech M&A right now. Most founders will read about it after it closes. Our Mid-Year 2026 Tech M&A Report shows who it is open for: feinternational.com/blog/tech-ma-m…

