Vertical: Life Sciences

Domino Data Lab From MLOps Platform to Governed AI Application Factory
July 2, 2026

Domino Data Lab: From MLOps Platform to Governed AI Application Factory

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Domino Data Lab's pivot to governed AI application delivery, its agentic AI governance framework, and what the strategy means...
Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem
May 22, 2026

Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem

Brad Shimmin at Futurum unpacks the data announcements from Google I/O 2026, exploring how the Antigravity platform and open protocols drive an evolution away from monolithic data architectures and toward...
Mistral Forge Takes Aim at RAG. But Who Actually Needs Custom Models
March 25, 2026

Mistral Forge Takes Aim at RAG. But Who Actually Needs Custom Models?

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Mistral Forge, a custom enterprise AI model training platform, and argues that while its approach is sound, the addressable market may...
GitLab’s Salvo in the Agent Control Plane Race
January 16, 2026

GitLab’s Salvo in the Agent Control Plane Race

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Delivery at Futurum, analyzes how GitLab’s GA Duo Agent Platform positions the DevSecOps platform as the place where agent-driven delivery is controlled,...
Dynatrace Brings Feature Management Into the Observability Control Plane
January 15, 2026

Dynatrace Brings Feature Management Into the Observability Control Plane

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, analyzes how Dynatrace’s move to native feature management inside observability enables agent-driven delivery, tighter release control, and runtime...
Can Red Hat and NVIDIA Remove the Friction Slowing AI Deployments
January 14, 2026

Can Red Hat and NVIDIA Remove the Friction Slowing AI Deployments?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, analyzes Red Hat and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration around the Rubin platform and RHEL for NVIDIA, examining how Day...
5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026
January 9, 2026

5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Snowflake’s acquisition of Observe signals a shift toward AI observability platforms and why this move reshapes...
Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint
December 30, 2025

Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines why industry researcher Andrej Karpathy’s X thread signals a breakpoint in AI-driven software development and what it...
Microsoft Agent Framework: Advancing The Agentic DevOps Vision
October 15, 2025

Microsoft Agent Framework: Advancing The Agentic DevOps Vision

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, analyzes how Microsoft’s Agent Framework extends its Agentic DevOps strategy and moves enterprises closer to adopting the agentic development...
IBM HashiCorp Stakes Its Claim to Agentic Infrastructure
October 14, 2025

IBM HashiCorp Stakes Its Claim to Agentic Infrastructure

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on HashiCorp’s definitive move to own agentic infrastructure with Project Infragraph and MCP Servers, leveraging IBM’s...
Balancing AI Goals and Core Strengths: Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform
October 3, 2025

Balancing AI Goals and Core Strengths: Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform

Keith Kirkpatrick and Mitch Ashley with Futurum share insights on Twilio’s shift to a unified customer engagement platform, its pragmatic AI strategy, and the company’s challenge of winning mindshare while...
Neo4j GraphSummit The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI
September 9, 2025

Neo4j GraphSummit: The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI

Brad Shimmin, Analyst at Futurum, shares insights on Neo4j's Infinigraph, its bold bet on becoming the data layer for agentic AI, and if it's a future-proof strategy or a solution...

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

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And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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