Your AI team isn't doing AI. They're rebuilding infrastructure.

From weekend POC to production: the 24-month gap nobody talks about.

From weekend POC to production: the 24-month gap nobody talks about.
A few weeks ago, we were at the HQ of one of our largest clients (close to 70bn AUM) for a week and although I had this post in draft for a couple of months, these words resonate even more with me now as we experienced this FDE work first-hand.

At the recent AI Engineering Summit, BlackRock unveiled their Aladdin Copilot - a platform remarkably similar to what we've built at OpenBB, but with a key difference.
While they've invested massive resources into building a closed system, we've created an open-source solution that achieves the same goals: multi-application support, seamless agent integration, explainable AI, and enterprise-grade security. Here's a deep dive into how the world's largest asset manager validated our approach to AI-powered financial workflows.