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Ben Pfeffer

Sales Director

Ben Pfeffer is Sales Director at Meridian AI, a vertical CRM platform built for private equity, venture capital, and investment banking teams. He writes about deal software, AI adoption, and operational strategy in private markets.

Articles by Ben Pfeffer

The State of the Stack: 7 Signals Your Tech Stack Needs a Revamp

AI in Private Markets

Private Markets Insights

The State of the Stack: 7 Signals Your Tech Stack Needs a Revamp

How to tell that your firm's tech stack has degraded from deliberate to duct-taped, and how to fix it before the friction costs you revenue.

AI in Private Markets

The State of the Stack: The Responsible AI Gap

Most private markets firms have decided which AI tools to buy, but not whether they are ready to use them. Here are four questions to ask before scaling AI.

Private Markets Insights

The State of the Stack: The 3 Horizons

Most private markets firms are optimizing a tech stack that's already being replaced, and mistaking the transition for the destination.

Private Markets Insights

The State of the Stack: PE Hired a Tech Team — Now What?

PE firms are standing up internal AI teams. The hiring wave is real — the org design question is where most will get it wrong.

Private Markets Insights

The State of the Stack: Software in Private Markets Is About to Get a Lot More Connected

Every piece of software your firm buys in the next 18 months will either support MCP or it won't. The architecture question isn't on most procurement checklists yet. Here's why it should be.

Private Markets Insights

The State of the Stack: How Private Markets Firms Are Building (and Breaking) Their Tech Infrastructure in 2026

AI-powered deal software, CRM fatigue, and what 40+ firm conversations reveal about the tech stack actually winning in private markets right now.