Finance AI Index

Index › Products › Lightspeed · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Lightspeed

3Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

1 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Lightspeed was named 1 time in Embedded payments, where Stripe Connect led with 53%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business87 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market103 of 110

under the label threshold

Enterprise83 of 86

under the label threshold

In embedded payments · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Lightspeed for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Embedded payments platforms	Receivables and billing	0%	103 of 110	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lightspeed yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Lightspeed across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

ShowHide

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Usio specifically calls out Lightspeed/Global/NMI as legacy or POS-focused and "not built for embedded SaaS monetization."” Perplexity Sonar · Embedded payments · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lightspeed, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lightspeed was named but was not.

ShowHide

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Adyen for Platforms3 of 30Not among the top eight

Stripe Connect3 of 30Not among the top eight

Clearent2 of 30Not among the top eight

Finix2 of 30Not among the top eight

Global1 of 30Not among the top eight

NMI1 of 30Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Lightspeed. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 3 answers that named Lightspeed and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

airwallex.com3

builtin.com3

consultancy.eu3

finix.com3

forte.net3

guideflow.com3

stripe.com3

usio.com3

whop.com3

wise.com3

Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Lightspeed came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/what-are-embedded-payments3

builtin.com/articles/embedded-finance-companies3

consultancy.eu/news/12856/the-dark-side-of-embedding-payments3

finix.com/resources/blogs/embedded-payments-for-saas-20263

forte.net/insights/embedded-payments-for-fintechs-scale-compliance-control3

guideflow.com/blog/embedded-payments-software3

stripe.com/resources/more/5-revenue-models-for-embedded-payments-platforms3

stripe.com/resources/more/difference-between-embedded-payments-and-integrated-payments3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

ShowHide

Addresses on light.inc

1,849

subdomains included

Content

310

counted in the table below

Documentation

460

Product · Integration

14 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Glossary or explainer	207	undated		ERP systems, Accounts payable automat
Blog	79	38	2026-09-26	Accounting software, Financial consolidation
Case study	13	undated
Conference or event	3	undated
Report or ebook	3	1	2026-07-20
Comparison	3	2	2026-07-20
Template or tool	2	undated

Most recent

2026-09-26The great flattening part ii blog
2026-09-21Copenhagen hackathon ii blog
2026-09-21We gave software an immune system blog
2026-09-17Stockholm hackathon blog
2026-09-17The first step to organic software blog
2026-09-16Flash 12 blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page light.inc exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Lightspeed

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Lightspeed; a claim can dispute any of them.

Lightspeed/Global/NMI 1

Follow Lightspeed

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Lightspeed is its own company.

ShowHide

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The agentic ERP for global businesses
light.inc
For: global businesses
light.inc
Integrations claimed: 600 light.inc
Certifications: SOC 1 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2GDPRE-invoicing mandatesSOC 2 Type IIISO-certifiedSOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifiedPCI compliant
Hosting: European UnionUKGermanyAustriaSwitzerlandDenmarkNorwaySweden
Customers named: TilloOfficeguruFamlyOcean.ioAll GravyKPMGKeyShotAlva Labs
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial

What Lightspeed's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: light.inc, light.inc/security, light.inc/products/workflows, light.inc/customers, light.inc/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Lightspeed's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Lightspeed, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Lightspeed by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Lightspeed is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Lightspeed, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.