What we do · For enterprises adopting AI
We bring Silicon Valley inside the enterprise.
Startup speed and a Silicon Valley network, applied to what sits below the line: the workflows, data and ownership that decide whether AI scales. Built on 25+ years in enterprise infrastructure and a network of the operators who run it.
What we do
Scale AI into Production Sprint
Find where your AI and Physical AI deployments will break, before they do, and what to fix first — including whether a startup should fill the gap or your internal technology can scale it.
Assessment & consulting
Startup search and Silicon Valley briefings
Find and vet the startups solving your problem, and meet the founders and investors a year ahead of you.
Scoped to your use case
Design-partner pilots
Run startup pilots built to reach production, with owners, permissions and success measures agreed up front.
Structured with your teams
Outcomes
What clients gain
AI that reaches production
An independent view of what will break between pilot and production, and what to fix first.
An aligned leadership team
Clear priorities, decision owners and conditions for adoption, agreed across IT, security and the business.
Silicon Valley, filtered
Leading startups and ideas, measured against your TCO, security, governance and peers.
Research design
Where we look below the line
Infrastructure
- Compute and accelerators
- Power and data center
- Networking
- Storage
Architecture
- Data architecture
- Cloud and edge
- Workload orchestration
- Interoperability
Risk
- Cybersecurity
- Governance
Economics and people
- Agentic economics
- Culture and adoption
Twelve areas, one question: what breaks next as AI moves from pilot to production?
Enterprise access
Direct access to enterprise perspectives
Who we speak with
- CIOs and CTOs
- CISOs and security architects
- Chief AI and data officers
- Infrastructure and platform leaders
- Business and operational leaders
Relationships we can draw on
- Senior technology and operator networks
- Enterprise relationships
- What Breaks Next research contributors
- Relevant buyers to augment your pipeline
How an engagement starts
Start with the decision, not the research.
- 1
A 30-minute call
Name the AI decision you need to get right in the next two quarters.
- 2
A one-page scope
Within a week: the question, who we will talk to, what you receive, and the fee.
- 3
One answer
An Assessment or Sprint that ends in a recommendation and a working session with your leaders.
Next step
What sits below your line?
Tell us the AI decision you can’t afford to get wrong. A 30-minute call tells us both whether a Sprint or an Assessment can answer it.