Fractional AI

Today, we’re excited to introduce Ode with Anthropic. In May, Fractional AI was acquired by this new AI services company backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and a consortium of global investors including Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), Apollo Global Management, Inc., GIC, and Sequoia Capital. Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice. Ode with Anthropic will be led by Fractional AI co-founders Chris Taylor as CEO and Eddie Siegel as CTO. Follow Ode with Anthropic for what comes next, and read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/emW4fjJx

We recently co-hosted our second agentic coding workshop with Scout, focused on workflows that separate AI-assisted coding from AI systems you can rely on in production Shoutout to our presenters for sparking thoughtful conversation and debate! 🎤 Niko Lazaris (Obvious) on autoresearch loops 🎤 Nicholas Bindela (Fractional AI) on eval driven development Huge thanks to Arjun Kannan (ResiDesk) for moderating, and to Randy Brown and the Scout team for bringing the group together!

The Fractional team had the chance to use Claude Tag internally for the past few weeks. So far it's taken over internal busywork, manages itself (it tracked its own bugs while we were testing), and writes and ships code via Slack alone. "There were no skeptics on our team. Everyone leaned in from day one - it felt like Claude Tag in Slack was something they'd been waiting for." - Darian Bailey, AI Engineer & Tag Admin

Live from a NYC penthouse, Vol 2! 🏙️ Fractional AI AI teamed up with Adam Sah (Zero Capital) for another edition of our AI Coffeehouse series — this time featuring guests from Anthropic's Applied AI team, 8 Chinese dishes from 8 different restaurants, and (as always) lots of talking shop about AI in production. Huge shoutout to our panelists: Garvan D. (Anthropic) Edward Gan (Anthropic) Engy Ziedan (Protege) Varun Lahoti (Fractional AI) and our incredible moderator Nicholas Bindela (Fractional AI) See you at the next one! Keep up with our events via our Luma: https://lnkd.in/eJykbGgK

We had a great time co-hosting a Staff+ engineering breakfast at our SF office last Friday with Leopard.FYI! 🥐 ☕ Lots of caffeine, genuine discussion, and bonding over engineering realities! Thank you to Lexi Lewtan and the Leopard team for bringing such a sharp group — and shoutout to our very own Emma Lindsay, Shirley Gaw, PhD, Rebecca Bilbro, PhD and Lauren Menon for making it happen! If you're a Staff+ engineer exploring what's next — we're hiring! Drop us a note or check out our open roles via the link in the comments!

Last week, we shared that Fractional AI is joining as the founding team of a new AI services venture — backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman. We're scaling the team as we build the next generation AI services firm across SF, NYC, Raleigh, and Dubai 🚀 We're hiring for: ✅ Senior and Staff Software Engineers ✅ Forward-Deployed Product Managers ✅ AI Architects ✅ Principals ✅ Talent Partners and a bunch of other roles! Check out our job openings and careers page linked in the comments for more information!

We’re thrilled to announce the first step in bringing our new AI native services firm to life. We are acquiring Fractional AI to act as our nucleus for growth – alongside Anthropic, Hellman & Friedman, and our fellow consortium partners. We’re excited to build knowing where the models are going, not just where they are today. We have developed a strong relationship with Fractional AI through their work across the Blackstone portfolio, and it’s clear they are a magnet for elite engineers with deep technical judgement who deliver business results. That combination is rare – and it is exactly what we need to help companies in the Blackstone portfolio and beyond bring Claude into their core operations and create durable value.    Wishing a warm welcome to the Fractional AI team!

Following the announcement earlier this month of the new AI-native services firm we’re building alongside Anthropic, we’re excited to share the acquisition of Fractional AI as a nucleus to scale from. Over the past 18 months, we’ve developed a close partnership with Fractional AI, whose architects, engineers, and data scientists have been instrumental in building AI solutions across the Blackstone portfolio. Fractional stands out for its ability to deploy truly elite engineering talent to tackle the most complex AI challenges our companies face. In partnership with Anthropic, Hellman & Friedman, and our broader consortium, we’re excited to accelerate this effort and help our companies unlock durable business value powered by Claude. Excited to build alongside the Fractional AI team!

Fractional AI has been acquired and will serve as the founding operational centerpiece of the new AI services venture focused on mid-sized companies. The new company is backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, as well as Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), Apollo Global Management, Inc. GIC, and Sequoia Capital. Fractional was built on a few simple convictions: 1 - Non-AI companies will be the biggest winners from this wave of AI 2 - Closing the gap between the potential of AI and what actually goes into production requires exceptional engineering talent 3 - Now is the time to deploy elite engineers against the highest impact AI transformation opportunities Our belief in those convictions has only gotten stronger. We are excited to supercharge our ambition of building a leading AI-native services firm, combining Anthropic's frontier models and collaboration with their applied AI team with the depth of a world-class investor portfolio and our elite team of builders and engineers. To every client, partner, and team member who trusted us on this journey: thank you. The work only gets harder and more consequential from here, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Read the full press release - linked in the comments below:

Prompt engineering is 10% writing, 90% iteration. GEPA automates the 90%. In our latest dev blog post, Nicholas Bindela breaks down how the framework takes a rough prompt and a dataset, spots what's failing, and rewrites until it works - so that you don't have to. Check out the full blog post below!