Y2 & GTM Y1 @Neuralift

🚀 After Year 1 of building Neuralift AI we set out in 2025 to create a market: neural network segmentation as a first-class application connected directly to the data warehouse. What we found wasn’t curiosity. It was market readiness.

Our work carried us horizontally across brand’s first-party data in media, sports & entertainment, real-money gaming, omni-channel retail, travel & hospitality. Our Year 1 lighthouse customer became our first power user, running 100+ segmentations from their Databricks. Time-to-value from data transformed their operations. Targeting precision improved their results. Customer insights that were once opinions became actionable deep learning discoveries based on data.

Behind the scenes, we scaled. Securely processing first-party customer data to discover segments and KPI insights on “customer 360” tables with 1,000 to 100 million rows. Firing up NVIDIA GPUs automatically as needed. Hardening our infrastructure while all underlying models and systems got more intelligent. Federating data across Snowflake, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Databricks. Our customers didn’t have to think about any of this. Our deep learning application just worked.

We did all this with a team of four. Shout out to Soren Macbeth, Dave White and Mike Maloney. Funding the company ourselves, staying focused, and letting the work compound was a blessing. Believe everything you’ve heard about small teams being the optimal way to build world-class AI systems.

As we head into Year 3, we’re encouraged by a >90%+ pilot conversion rate (though even the pilots we did not convert in 2025 all want to regroup in 2026) and a growing base of 2026 commitments.

We’ve established partnerships across our customers and the AI infrastructure layer that are beginning to compound. The gap between what’s possible with Neuralift AI and what’s common is widening. And we’re growing the team to ensure we can continue to capture the global market we are creating.

I’m extremely grateful to everyone who’s been part of the journey so far. I didn’t plan to start another company, it just sort of happened. And in summer of 2023 when I looked for pre-seed funding it wasn’t well received despite my previously building & leading the 2nd fastest growing tech company in North America. It didn’t matter. Neuralift AI is growing even faster than that one without any VC.

The best work, the coolest AI and most impressive results are ahead. You’ll be hearing from the market-leading operators who have transformed their businesses with our AI in 2026. Until then, Happy New Year & stay optimizing. 📈