Depth over demos

From AI ambition to AI in production

Built and shipped by operators.
Outcomes over advice.

The problem

Enterprise AI rarely fails on the model

It fails in the weeks after launch, when the new way of working meets the old one. The reasons are predictable, and avoidable

01  /  Tool-first

The tool arrives before the problem

A tool chosen before the work is understood will find a workflow to fit. It rarely reaches the bottom line.

02  /  Bolt-on

AI is bolted onto a process nobody redesigned

A bolt-on inherits every constraint of the process beneath it. The ceiling is set before you begin.

03  /  Build-vs-buy

The company builds what it should have bought

Undifferentiated capability is cheaper bought than built. Spend the build budget where you are actually different.

Digital transformation changed the systems. AI transformation changes the decisions.

How we work

Build, deploy, adopt: hand in hand

In our experience the model is rarely the hard part. Most of the work is finding where the process breaks, rebuilding the workflow around it, and staying while your team learns to run it without us. The people who scope that work are usually the same people who build it.

STRATEGY What to build, why it matters ENGINEERING How to ship it, at enterprise scale MEGAPTERA LABS Strategy + build, in one room
STRATEGY
What to build · why it matters
MEGAPTERA LABS
Strategy + build, in one room
No handoff
ENGINEERING
How to ship it · at enterprise scale
01

Build

We rebuild the workflow itself, not a layer on top of it.

02

Deploy

Into production, inside your systems and your controls.

03

Adopt

Until your team runs it without us. This is the part that decides whether any of it counted.

Our work

What we bring

A product we built and run ourselves, a way of finding where the value sits, and the transformation work that follows. The same senior team across all three.

Deal intelligence

DealOS

An institutional deal-analysis terminal for private markets, built and run in-house.

Opportunity mapping

Value Creation Screen

Identifies where AI can improve business performance, and where to start.

The work itself

Service Transformation

We work alongside your teams to change how the work gets done: how decisions get made, and how quickly they turn into action.

Operators first

We have seen technology built end to end

Founded, scaled and exited technology companies, and backed others doing the same. It is why we start by building

Backed
Everlab Puralink PsiQuantum
Team

The people who scope it are the people who build it

No handoff between the strategy and the system. The same team is on both

James Guo
Strategy & Transformation

James Guo

Former Bain strategist and Head of Strategy at eBay ANZ, leading enterprise strategy and operating-model redesign across financial services, healthcare, technology and consumer.

MPH, Yale University
BSE, Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
BSE, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Han Xu
AI Engineering

Han Xu

Co-founder & CTO of Curious Thing AI and former Head of ML at Flamingo AI, running production AI at scale for over a decade.

PhD, AI & Machine Learning, UNSW

Sam Zheng
Product & Engineering

Sam Zheng

Co-founder of Hyper Anna (Sequoia-backed; acquired by Alteryx) and Curious Thing AI; actuary, angel investor and first backer of Relevance AI.

Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies), UNSW
Fellow, Actuaries Institute

Will Myer
Strategic Advisor

Will Myer

Former Investment Director for family office and private clients at Regal Partners; a decade at Bloomberg across London, New York and Sydney, latterly heading Analytics for Australia and New Zealand. Deputy Chair of the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal.

Bachelor of Arts (Economics, Asian Studies), University of Melbourne
Master of International Business, Hult International Business School

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