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

12:41 AM IST · July 16, 2026

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’sEquitypodcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leadersChris TaylorandEddie Siegel,who founded Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Odeacquired earlier this yearto 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 onYouTube,Apple Podcasts,Overcast,Spotifyand all the casts. You also can follow Equity onXandThreads, at @EquityPod.