General models are commodities. AGI cannot buy the tacit wisdom of your frontline operators. I build the platforms and deployment forces that turn industrial champions into AI winners.
Stefany Barker · Head of AI Deployment, Arrakis Technologies · Ex-Palantir
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General intelligence models are a commodity. What industrial leaders must build and protect is their own proprietary intelligence: a compounding Company Wisdom model, held by their people.
Leaders who fire operators "because of AI" give away the one advantage no competitor can buy, not even with AGI. Keep them, and their wisdom compounds: every industrial operator becomes an agent manager and software creator, the way frontline workers became dashboard owners in the 2010s.
This level of re-invention takes a deployment force that builds the software and agents the business needs, shoulder-to-shoulder with frontline experts.
Why commoditized foundation models put the enterprise moat in operator-level tacit knowledge.
General models are a commodity; what industrial leaders must build and protect at all costs is their own proprietary intelligence. A compounding Company Wisdom model, held by their people, is the one advantage no competitor can buy, not even with AGI.
Frontline teams evolving from machine operators to autonomous system orchestrators.
Keep the operators, and their wisdom compounds. Every industrial operator becomes an agent manager and software creator, the same way frontline workers became dashboard owners in the 2010s, when nobody thought those processes could be so data-driven.
Deployment economics that make the case in weeks, not quarters.
One customer hit 4x return in their first week on our platform, and they are on track for 50x. Undeniable ROI is the design constraint of a deployment force: value-based, measured, and compounding.
Head of AI Deployment · Founding Executive Team
Fresh out of stealth, backed by Accel and angels including the founder of Datadog. Turning industrial champions into AI winners with a relentless focus on undeniable ROI. Building the deployment force shoulder-to-shoulder with frontline experts.
We are hiringLed 9-figure AI & data programs · Global portfolio
Life Sciences, Aviation, Manufacturing. First project Forward Deployed to Asia; went on to lead teams and build products across a global portfolio.
Product Lead · Experience systems
Enterprise experience systems at global scale. Products that let the world's largest organisations hear, weigh, and act on the signal of their own customers.
Zero-to-one builder DNA
Member of Entrepreneur First's second cohort, the talent investor that backs individuals before they have a team or an idea, and the origin of Code First. Co-founded Girls in Tech Switzerland, now Hello 50:50 World (2016), TechFace (2018), WaaS (exited), and PA Power Club (exited). Always re-imagining the default business models of each sector.
LSE, City University of London, Code First
Formal economics training beneath the technology career: the deployment math of ROI, incentives, and market structure is native language. Code First, the coding course Entrepreneur First ran to teach founders to build, keeps the engineering side personal: still comfortable in the code, not just the roadmap.
Speaking, keynotes, and podcast conversations on AI deployment in industry and the operator-level intelligence behind it.
Keynotes, board and advisory inquiries, enterprise advisory, or joining Arrakis.