Every quarter, I get a front-row seat to what the best product teams are building and what’s actually working in the market.
This time we looked at cybersecurity, fintech, and health tech. Three high-stakes industries, each demanding trust and technical depth. And what stood out most was how these products are embedding themselves into workflows, turning compliance into strategy, and reshaping expectations with real results.
The top-performing companies this quarter are going deep in their verticals: owning payment rails for SaaS, transforming nonprofit fundraising, hardening crypto custody, even rewriting how AI teammates show up in enterprise workflows. And they’re not waiting to scale. Many already have millions in volume, serious user retention, and infrastructure others rely on.
It’s a clear pattern: the strongest products today combine domain expertise, operational rigor, and defensibility.
We’ll go deeper in the upcoming eBook and Roundtable, but for now, meet the Q2 winners and see who’s setting the pace for the future of product.
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