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Jeavio finds the friction. Then builds it out.
A health chatbot lost people before it could help them. Jeavio’s fix offers a useful window into a company that sells engineering, institutional memory, and a practical route from AI experiment to working software.
Pythian Services for When the Database Is Only Half the Problem
The alarms, the stalled AI pilot, the spreadsheet nobody trusts. Find the right Pythian service across eight buying paths—and know who keeps it running after launch.
Enterprise Data and AI Operations Makes AI Clock In
The model is rarely what keeps an AI pilot from becoming daily work. The missing layer is the data foundation, workflow engineering and round-the-clock operational discipline that makes intelligence dependable.
Braintrust
Braintrust is the end-to-end developer platform for shipping AI products. It connects evaluations, observability, prompt iteration, and an agentic optimizer (Loop) into one workflow so engineering teams can measure, debug, and improve LLM applications in production. Teams at Notion, Stripe, Vercel, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, Ramp, Dropbox, Cloudflare and BILL use it to ship AI that doesn't silently regress.
Ankur Goyal
Ankur Goyal is the Founder & CEO of Braintrust, a San Francisco-based AI evaluation and observability platform that helps engineering teams ship reliable AI products. Previously VP of Engineering at SingleStore (MemSQL) and founder of Impira (acquired by Figma in 2022), Goyal brings over a decade of distributed systems and ML infrastructure experience to the challenge of making AI applications production-ready. Braintrust has raised $121M in total funding, including an $80M Series B at an $800M valuation in February 2026, backed by ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and a roster of elite angels including Greg Brockman and Elad Gil.
Unframe
Unframe is a managed AI delivery platform for enterprises that turns critical business operations into production-ready AI workflows in days, not quarters. Built by the former Noname Security team, the company packages agent orchestration, a knowledge fabric, data connectivity and modular building blocks into a single OS for production AI - and bills only for outcomes that ship.
Brain Co.
Brain Co. is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that deploys production-ready AI applications for the world's most complex, regulated industries - from government and healthcare to hospitality, energy, and supply chain. Founded by a constellation of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Elad Gil and Dan Ashton, and backed by an elite roster of investors including Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy, Brain Co. raised a $30M Series A in September 2025. Its core technology converts dense regulatory documents into executable rules engines that make AI decisions auditable and compliant - so that governments can permit faster, hospitals can care better, and supply chains can run leaner.
Distyl AI
Distyl AI is a San Francisco enterprise-AI company that rebuilds Fortune 500 operating models around frontier models. Founded by Palantir alumni Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, it pairs a proprietary platform called Distillery with embedded forward-deployed teams to put production AI in front of more than 120 million end users. In September 2025 it closed a $175M Series B at a $1.8B valuation.
Aurimas Griciūnas
Aurimas Griciūnas is a Lithuanian ML/AI engineer, founder of SwirlAI, and author of the SwirlAI Newsletter with 58,000+ Substack followers. A former CPO at neptune.ai (acquired by OpenAI), he now runs SwirlAI — an AI engineering education and consulting firm — and is a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI with 120,000+ followers. His newsletter covers AI engineering, LLMOps, RAG architectures, and agentic systems from a production-first, no-hype perspective.