A small crew of developer-infrastructure veterans made a contrarian bet: once AI could write code quickly, verification would become the expensive part. Their fix-the-fix loop attracted enterprise users, $9 million, and a buyer with 7 million developers.
Avahi has built a business around the least glamorous part of the AI boom: making pilots survive contact with production. Its bet is that AWS fluency, fixed-scope experiments and a growing managed-services practice can turn corporate curiosity into systems that actually work.