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Altus Consulting makes the machinery of money visible
Pension transfers, tangled data and platform migrations are where financial services promises meet reality. The Bath consultancy built its business there. Now it belongs to Accenture.
Tyler Jones Is Selling Insurance a Future It Can Audit
After two decades moving between data, operations and customer experience, Duck Creek's CMO has a precise brief for AI in insurance: make it useful, keep it accountable, and leave judgment where it belongs.
Paul Lewis Has a Rule for Enterprise AI: Make It Useful, Then Make It Replaceable
After three decades across banking, industrial technology, cloud and data, Pythian CTO Paul Lewis has arrived at a blunt test for AI: does it change the work, and can the architecture survive what comes next?
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.
The 3,000-Person Boutique Inside Omnicom
Credera sells the intimacy of a boutique and the reach of a holding company. Its real product is the difficult handoff between a boardroom idea and the systems that make it work.
Wavestone
Wavestone grew from a French telecom consultancy into a €954 million transformation firm by joining strategy to implementation. Its next test is whether a founder-controlled European challenger can turn enterprise AI from experiments into working systems.
Sigmoid
Sigmoid is an AI-first data solutions company that helps large enterprises turn complex data into measurable business value. Founded in 2013 by three IIT Kharagpur batchmates, the firm pairs deep data engineering with data science, MLOps, generative AI and agentic AI to build and operate the pipelines, models and analytics that Fortune 500 companies in CPG, retail, financial services and life sciences rely on for faster, data-driven decisions.
Cleartelligence
Cleartelligence is a Newton, Massachusetts-based data and AI consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise organizations turn complex, siloed data into clear, usable intelligence. Founded in 2011, it delivers analytics and visualization, data engineering and architecture, artificial intelligence, and data strategy advisory across finance, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, technology, and the public sector. Backed by private equity firm Align Capital Partners since 2022, the firm has grown through acquisitions of Winter Sun and Bardess Group and opened a delivery center in Hyderabad, India, in 2025.
Kim Parikh
Kim Parikh is Co-Founder and SVP of Data and Content at Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto-based company building the first safety-focused large language model for healthcare. With a background spanning leveraged finance at PIMCO and Western Asset Management and strategy operations at Health IQ, Parikh brings a cross-disciplinary lens to one of AI's most consequential bets: putting voice-enabled AI agents into direct, empathetic contact with patients. Hippocratic AI has raised over $438M, most recently a $126M Series C in November 2025, and has completed over 1.8 million patient calls at a 8.95/10 satisfaction rating.
Owen Frivold
Owen Frivold is the CEO of Cleartelligence, a modern data and AI consulting firm headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. A Stanford-educated co-founder of Hero Digital, Frivold brings 14+ years of experience shaping customer experience and digital transformation for brands like Apple, Sephora, Airbnb, and Lucid Motors. After founding Winter Sun LLC as a boutique strategy advisory, he joined Cleartelligence as President in April 2024 - when the company acquired Winter Sun - and was elevated to CEO in April 2025. He is known for turning complex data problems into actionable intelligence and driving enterprise AI readiness across financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, and retail.
Benn Stancil
Benn Stancil is a co-founder of Mode Analytics (acquired by ThoughtSpot for $200M in 2023), one of the most widely read voices in the data and analytics world, and an angel investor. He writes the popular newsletter at benn.substack.com - known for its witty, intellectually honest takes on the modern data stack, BI, AI, and startup culture. After a stint as Field CTO at ThoughtSpot post-acquisition, he now runs independently via benn.company, investing and writing with signature Friday dispatches that open with 'it's friday, and...' - a ritual his thousands of subscribers recognize instantly.