Forward Deployed Engineering in AI for financial services, primarily for private equity firms and their portfolio companies
Forward Deployed Engineering in AI for financial services, primarily for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. They target areas where these firms are not using AI, implement solutions, and create cost savings. Most of the market is focused on productizing first, but the issues of every PE firm and portco do not translate to each other due to differences in SOPs and cultures at those layers, and as a result cannot be productized away. There is no vendor for the LMM and MM of private equity as a category, and a significant gap exists between true AI engineers and go-to-market towards this ecosystem. Anton comes from M&A deal work (Ecuador oil and gas field acquisition on deal team under managing partner). CTO Ethen is a former Eigenlayer Sr AI Engineer who led his company's agentic direction. CBO Jan has 3 years of M&A experience. The team combines deal-side financial services knowledge with deep AI engineering capability. Three years ago AI was not at a point where this was possible. Three years from now someone else would have figured this out and already attacked the GTM, so the window is now.