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Debbie Umbach Put an Engineer's Question at the Center of Marketing: Why?
The M-Files CMO learned to speak before every thought felt perfect. Now she is teaching a global marketing team to question the machine, measure the outcome, and keep the people in the system.
Nathan Rawlins Makes Enterprise Software Feel Human
From Jive’s social-business era to Puppet’s grown-up rebrand and Lucid’s viral dog diagrams, Nathan Rawlins has spent two decades giving serious software a pulse. Now he is drawing the map between AI promise and the untidy way work actually happens.
Dan Slagen Wants Marketers to Build, Not Just Brief
After learning to sell bathroom products, wedding speeches and weather intelligence, Zapier's Chief Marketing & AI Transformation Officer is giving his team a harder assignment: rebuild the work itself.
Raphaël Dabadie Is Teaching AI to Read the Room
Before Foaster tried to map a company, its CEO made language models bluff through Werewolf and vote in elections. The same curiosity now points at a harder puzzle: how work really gets done.
REV Global Wants to Turn the Mid-Market’s Messy Back Office Into Deal-Making Leverage
The Los Angeles firm combines M&A advice, tax-aware capital and hands-on AI installation for executives and owners who cannot afford a year of consultants. Its wager is simple: the dullest workflow in a good business may be the cheapest source of new enterprise value.
York IE Wants to Be the Startup Department You Forgot to Hire
The New Hampshire firm has turned a familiar founder complaint - too many advisers, not enough doers - into a business spanning investment funds, market intelligence and embedded operating teams.
The AI Consultancy That Wants to Make It Past the Pilot
Most companies do not need another AI demo. Artefact has built a 2,500-person consulting business around the less glamorous job of turning scattered data, stubborn workflows and wary employees into systems that get used.
Kerry Ok Sells Trust for a Living
She built a career marketing the least glamorous product in tech - the login box - and turned it into a story about who you are online.
Adaca
Adaca is a Sydney-founded software consultancy that builds custom software, embeds senior engineers inside client teams, and helps businesses put AI to work. With over 100 full-time engineers across Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, and Manila, the firm pairs Australian and New Zealand delivery leads with engineering scale in the Philippines. It offers staff augmentation, managed teams, AI-augmented development, and a staged 'Crawl, Walk, Run' approach to AI adoption, plus Lovelace, its own AI-powered coding assistant.
Foaster.ai
Foaster.ai is a San Francisco startup building an AI-native alternative to management consulting. Its AI agents run 30-45 minute interviews across a company to rebuild an 'operational graph' - a structured map of workflows, handoffs, bottlenecks and information flows - then surface where AI should be deployed first. Human experts review and prioritize the roadmap. Founded in 2026 by Raphael Dabadie and Alexandre Combes, the company joined Y Combinator's Spring 2026 (P26) batch after building two widely shared LLM benchmarks, including the Werewolf Benchmark for social intelligence.
Fortisphere
Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.
Vitaly Gordon
Vitaly Gordon is the co-founder and CEO of Faros AI, an AI-native engineering intelligence platform he started in 2019 with former Salesforce colleagues. Before Faros, he founded Salesforce Einstein and led it as VP of Engineering and Data Science, scaling it from zero to a platform serving billions of predictions per day. Earlier in his career he was a data science lead at LinkedIn and a data science manager at LivePerson. He now builds tooling that helps engineering organizations measure and improve productivity, and navigate the shift to AI-augmented software development.
Reveal HealthTech
Reveal HealthTech is a New York-based AI transformation partner for U.S. healthcare and life sciences organizations. Founded in 2023 and incubated by W Health Ventures and 2070 Health, the company pairs clinical expertise with engineering and design to turn AI concepts into deployed products for hospitals, pharma, and digital health innovators. Its flagship products include BioCanvas for clinical trial recruitment, Prism AI for workflow automation, and CareIQ for care coordination. Reveal raised a $7.2M Series A led by Leo Capital in September 2025 and runs teams across the U.S. and Bengaluru, India.
Faros AI
Faros AI is an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that pulls data from the tools software teams already use - GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, incident systems and more - and turns it into a single view of how engineering work actually flows. Founded by the ex-Salesforce team that built Einstein, Faros helps engineering leaders measure DORA metrics, track delivery, quantify the ROI of AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, and automate R&D cost capitalization across the full software development lifecycle.
Percepta
Percepta is a New York-based AI transformation company, wholly owned and incubated by venture firm General Catalyst, that embeds teams of researchers, engineers, and product managers directly inside large enterprises to move them past AI pilots and into AI-native operations. Founded in 2025 by CEO Hirsh Jain (a former Palantir SVP) and General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja, the company pairs applied engineering with a frontier research lab to rebuild core workflows in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government - working closely with founding partners Anthropic and AWS.
Quantum Rise
Quantum Rise is a Chicago-based AI transformation company founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur Alex Kelleher. It sells what it calls 'Consulting 2.0' - a products-not-projects model that pairs an enterprise AI operating system (QR/OS), a repeatable methodology, and forward-deployed experts to help mid-market and enterprise clients turn AI into measurable revenue and cost savings. Backed by a $15M seed round from Erie Street Growth Partners, the company argues the traditional billable-hours consulting model is about to collapse under automation, and it aims to fill the gap between the Big Four giants and smaller boutique shops.
Andra Munteanu
Andra Munteanu is a product and technology executive who became Onfleet's first Chief Product Officer in October 2023, steering the roadmap of one of the fastest-growing last-mile delivery management platforms. With more than two decades across consulting, SaaS, enterprise software and fintech, she has built and led research, engineering and design organizations at Craft.co, Experian, Checkr and Visa. Beyond the C-suite, she is an angel investor with Pipeline Angels and an advisor with Future VC, channeling capital and mentorship toward founders who are usually overlooked.