{"id":3490949,"date":"2026-07-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/inside-ode-featuring-anthropic-the-startup-wagering-on-ai-solutions-is-the-future-of-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:00:00","slug":"inside-ode-featuring-anthropic-the-startup-wagering-on-ai-solutions-is-the-future-of-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/inside-ode-featuring-anthropic-the-startup-wagering-on-ai-solutions-is-the-future-of-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Ode featuring Anthropic, the startup wagering on AI solutions is the future of businesses."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tc-backlight-e1689786273147.png?w=1200\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it truly possible for a small group of engineers to accomplish the tasks of numerous consultants?\u00a0This is the premise behind Ode with Anthropic \u2014\u00a0a collaborative effort focused on integrating forward-deployed engineers within enterprise companies, supported by\u00a0Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman &amp; Friedman, Goldman\u00a0Sachs, and others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity\u00a0podcast, Rebecca Bellan converses with the leaders of Ode, Chris Taylor\u00a0and\u00a0Eddie Siegel,\u00a0who are the founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services firm that was acquired by Ode earlier this year\u00a0to become the backbone of this new venture. The trio discusses the reasons why numerous enterprise AI pilots fail to transition into production and their belief that AI-native services are on the verge of becoming one of the largest categories in technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0YouTube,\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Overcast,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0and all other platforms. You\u00a0can\u00a0also follow Equity on\u00a0X\u00a0and\u00a0Threads, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tc-backlight-e1689786273147.png?w=1200\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it truly possible for a small group of engineers to accomplish the tasks of numerous consultants?\u00a0This is the premise behind Ode with Anthropic \u2014\u00a0a collaborative effort focused on integrating forward-deployed engineers within enterprise companies, supported by\u00a0Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman &amp; Friedman, Goldman\u00a0Sachs, and others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity\u00a0podcast, Rebecca Bellan converses with the leaders of Ode, Chris Taylor\u00a0and\u00a0Eddie Siegel,\u00a0who are the founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services firm that was acquired by Ode earlier this year\u00a0to become the backbone of this new venture. The trio discusses the reasons why numerous enterprise AI pilots fail to transition into production and their belief that AI-native services are on the verge of becoming one of the largest categories in technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0YouTube,\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Overcast,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0and all other platforms. You\u00a0can\u00a0also follow Equity on\u00a0X\u00a0and\u00a0Threads, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}