Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Ode, a joint venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, and others, is betting that AI-native services can replace traditional enterprise consultants. The startup acquired Fractional AI and aims to help companies move AI pilots into production by embedding forward-deployed engineers.

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/equity/ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorcd/ and Eddie Siegel, https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiesiegel/ who founded Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode acquired earlier this year https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/the-ai-native-enterprise-services-firm-backed-by-anthropic-blackstone-and-hellman-friedman-announces-acquisition-of-fractional-ai/ to serve as the new venture’s core. The three discuss why so many enterprise AI pilots never make it to production and why they think AI-native services are about to become one of the biggest categories in tech. Subscribe to Equity on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@TechCrunch , Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1215439780 , Overcast https://overcast.fm/itunes1215439780/equity , Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul g94iCRgpQ and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X https://twitter.com/EquityPod and Threads https://www.threads.net/@equitypod , at @EquityPod.