Our CEO on the AI Landscape: What's Changing, What's Next

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Our Ceo Tom sat down with GTM Associate Ben to ask a simple question: what's actually changing out there and what's coming next?

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"It's a great question, one I get asked all the time," he says. "I don't have a crystal ball, but there's clearly a shift happening from vanilla automation to agentic automation. And now we're moving into reasoning and truly autonomous capabilities, which is a lot of what we're working on."

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One of the biggest shifts Tom's noticed is a wider appreciation for the full AI stack, the model is just one piece of the puzzle.

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"People are focusing more deeply on the data layer. Knowledge graphs, memory, context layers, how integral they are to actually reasoning across that data. There's a real appreciation now for the wider stack."

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That extends beyond generative AI too. Tom points out that large language models and transformer architecture get most of the attention but there's a whole "blue ocean" of machine learning that existed long before generative AI became the headline act.

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Furthermore, as companies get more hands on experience with these systems, the limitations of these models are becomming even more apaprent.

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"They only become more capable when lots of other things are overlaid,"

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This is leading to a growing recognition that vanilla, off the shelf AI tools deliver limited value in isolation. Real, tangible impact has to be built from within, custom and bespoke to each organisation.

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As Tom puts it, it's a bit like plumbing or wiring in a building. You can't just bolt something on and expect it to work... you have to build it in properly to see real change.