How Anthropic’s Ode bets AI services are the enterprise future
▼ Summary
– Ode with Anthropic is a joint venture that embeds forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs.
– Ode acquired Fractional AI, an applied AI services startup, to serve as its core.
– Ode’s leaders discussed why many enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production.
– They believe AI-native services will become one of the biggest categories in tech.
A small team of engineers could soon replace what once required a full-scale consulting operation. That is the central premise behind Ode with Anthropic, a new joint venture designed to embed forward-deployed engineers directly inside enterprise companies. The effort counts Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs among its backers.
In a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, host Rebecca Bellan spoke with Ode’s leaders, Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel. The pair originally founded Fractional AI, an applied AI services startup that Ode acquired earlier this year to form the venture’s operational backbone. The conversation zeroed in on a persistent problem in the industry: why so many enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production. Taylor and Siegel argue that the gap between experimentation and real-world deployment is not a technical one but a structural one, and they believe AI-native services are poised to become one of the most significant categories in tech.
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(Source: TechCrunch)
