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Why B2B Deals Stall After the AI Shortlist: Winning the Internal Approval in 2026

calendar_today September 2, 2026 person syadav@g2.com (Sidharth Yadav) domain g2

Getting onto the shortlist used to be the hard part of a deal. Today, it is the easy part. The hard part moved downstream, into the buyer’s internal approval: the finance sign-off, the security review, the consensus your reps never sit in on.

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