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Morning Consult asks again tomorrow
A battery retailer needed to see beyond the national average. Morning Consult’s answer reveals how daily polling became a business in its own right.
Aily Labs wants the boardroom in your pocket
A former finance executive found that AI could compress months of planning into weeks. Now Aily Labs is selling large companies a more ambitious idea: connect their data, then help them decide what to do.
Aaru asks a crowd that does not exist
Aaru builds simulated populations to test real decisions. Its most revealing result is the distance between what customers promise and what they actually do.
Ikigai bets the business on a better spreadsheet
The MIT-born company built AI for messy tables, uncertain demand, and the people who must make the call. Its move into Celonis shows why forecasting needs a place inside the machinery of a business.
Lone Star Analysis makes a business of what you don’t know
A grounded model can be worth more than a mountain of data. Lone Star Analysis turns engineering knowledge, uncertain inputs and simulated futures into decisions about aircraft, maintenance and the price of winning.
Bamboo Rose and the $28 hiding in an invoice
Retail loses money in the gaps between design, buying and delivery. Bamboo Rose builds software to close those gaps - and its most revealing success story begins with a very ordinary bill.
Provenir puts the credit decision back in the hands of the risk team
A loan can be approved in seconds while a change to its rules waits weeks. Provenir sells financial institutions a way to close that gap - and its customer results make the argument more interesting than the AI label.
GoodData.AI wants your AI to agree with your accountant
A tourism platform and a financial software company reveal GoodData.AI’s bet: before machines can make useful decisions, someone has to decide what the numbers mean.
Accrete and the things nobody writes down
The expensive part of expertise is often the part missing from the manual. Accrete wants to turn that unwritten knowledge into software that can trace a supplier, follow a narrative and question an IT change.
The Sponsorship That Finally Met the Spreadsheet
A company built to answer marketing's awkward question - did that expensive idea actually sell anything? Alembic is taking the question from the campaign dashboard to the executive budget meeting.
Daybreak Wants to Know Who Was Right Last Tuesday
The supply chain has plenty of forecasts. Daybreak wants a record of who changed them, why, and whether the change actually helped.
The Forecast Was Never the Problem. The Missing Machine Was.
Xfactor.io wants executives to stop admiring last quarter's dashboard and start rehearsing next quarter's decisions. Its wager is simple: revenue needs a flight simulator, not another rear-view mirror.
Bianca Anghelina and the Business of Seeing Sooner
She learned to read a company through its numbers, then built a company to make those numbers answer back. The Aily Labs founder is betting that the next executive advantage is not more data, but less delay.
Michael Ramlet Asked One Question. It Became a Data Company.
A student newsletter, a $30,000 bet and one well-timed survey became Morning Consult. Now its co-founder is wagering that the next research revolution will make answers faster - while making judgment more valuable.
Peak finds the money hiding on the shelf
The Manchester AI company turns inventory and pricing data into commercial decisions. Now owned by UiPath, it is taking the next step: helping businesses act on them.
The Software Behind the Awkward Conversation About Money
EXUS has spent decades turning collections from a blunt sequence of calls into a configurable system of decisions. Its pitch is less about chasing harder than helping banks know whom to contact, when, how - and when to give a customer another route.
The Phone Bill Is the Product: Inside MDS Global's Quiet Telecom Engine
MDS Global began by solving its own billing headache. Nearly four decades later, that operator-built logic sits behind MVNOs, wholesale providers and major carriers trying to launch faster without losing track of who owes what.
Palantir Wants to Run the Room Where Decisions Happen
Palantir turns an institution’s scattered data into a working model of the institution itself. For teams with expensive decisions and tangled systems, that can be useful - but this is a serious commitment, not a dashboard you buy on Friday.
Sisu Data Could Explain the Drop. Then It Disappeared.
Sisu turned the most dreaded dashboard question - why did that number move? - into a machine-scale investigation. Its standalone run is over, but its sharpest idea now looks less like a feature and more like the direction of analytics.
SAS Stayed Private for 50 Years. Now It Has to Outrun Open Source AI
The mainframe-era statistics company is betting that regulated enterprises will pay for something free AI stacks struggle to guarantee: one governed path from messy data to a decision someone can defend.
Fractal Spent 26 Years Learning the Part of AI That Demos Skip
The models get the attention. Fractal built a public company around the less glamorous work - clean data, redesigned workflows and enough trust to let an algorithm influence a real decision.
r4 Technologies Wants to Fix the Most Expensive Part of AI: Nobody Acts Together
Most enterprise AI predicts inside one department. r4's XEM is built for the awkward moment after the prediction - when inventory, pricing, logistics and people all have to move together.
Folia Grace Has Spent Two Decades Teaching Enterprise Software to Speak Human
From Oracle finance software to Aera's agentic decision intelligence, Folia Grace has made a career of translating complex systems into useful stories - while treating the sentence, the team, and the customer as parts of the same craft.
Aera Wants to Turn the Enterprise Dashboard Into an Autopilot
Most enterprise software tells you what already happened. Aera is betting that the valuable layer is what comes next: a governed machine that recommends, executes, and learns from thousands of operational decisions.
Lumivero Bought the Boring Software Experts Refuse to Quit - Now It Has to Make the Bundle Add Up
Lumivero assembled a cabinet of stubbornly useful research and risk tools. Its next test is whether a collection of specialist products can behave like one decision system without sanding off what made each one trusted.
ToolsGroup Spent 33 Years Teaching Supply Chains to Expect the Unexpected. Now It Wants Them to Decide for Themselves
The Boston software veteran built its reputation by admitting forecasts are wrong. Its new Decion platform makes a bigger bet: probabilistic AI can help 400-plus customers act on uncertainty without handing the warehouse keys to a chatbot.
Keith Hartley Wants Procurement to Stop Staring at the Rearview Mirror
Raised around factories and trained as an engineer, LevaData CEO Keith Hartley has spent his career closing the gap between the data manufacturers possess and the decisions their sourcing teams can actually make.
Saif Elhager Keeps Teaching Machines to Predict What People Do Next
After building software for the measurable world of Amazon ads, the Sapien founder is taking on a stranger problem: modeling human decisions before the real world sends back the bill.
DecisionNext Wants Commodity Buyers to Upgrade Their Gut - Before the Market Sends the Bill
Commodity teams still make million-dollar calls with backward-looking data, stubborn spreadsheets and institutional instinct. DecisionNext turns that messy judgment into transparent forecasts, testable scenarios and decisions a CFO can defend.
The $3.7 Billion Bet on Giving Big Business a Better Memory
o9 Solutions wants to replace the monthly spreadsheet séance with a living model of the enterprise. Its wager: the company that remembers why a plan failed can make the next decision faster - and waste less along the way.