bundleIQ — February 2026

Where Alani Fits in the AI Landscape

How bundleIQ's three-product Alani platform maps to the $270B AI investment ecosystem, the categories delivering measurable enterprise ROI, and where the structural advantages are.

Executive Summary

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The problem: AI captured over 50% of all global venture capital in 2025, but 95% of enterprise GenAI projects are failing to deliver ROI. 25 The failure point isn't the models. It's the organizational data, workflow, and knowledge layer between the models and the business outcomes. 26

What bundleIQ builds: Alani is a three-product platform (Hub + Connect + Insights) purpose-built to solve that exact layer — organizing knowledge so AI can act on it. Protected by issued patent US12277125B2 for contextual AI recommendation technology. Knowledge management is the #1 most-reported agent use case in McKinsey's 2025 enterprise survey, 27 and the AI analytics market is projected to grow from $29B to $98B by 2030.

What the research confirms: McKinsey found only 6% of enterprises see transformative value from AI — blocked by fragmented data and workflows never redesigned for AI. 27 PwC quantifies it: technology delivers only 20% of an initiative's value; the other 80% comes from redesigning work around organized knowledge. 28 Deloitte's survey of 3,235 leaders finds companies feel less prepared in infrastructure and data than a year ago. 29 MIT confirms the failure point is "flawed enterprise integration" — tools that don't learn from or adapt to organizational context. 25

What follows: A breakdown of what bundleIQ builds and how it works, then five views mapping Alani's position in the AI ecosystem.

The Company

80–90%

of enterprise data is unstructured — emails, documents, meeting transcripts, presentations, PDFs, chat logs, call recordings. 32 It's growing 3x faster than structured data. Most of it is never analyzed. AI models can't act on it because it has no structure, no context, and no connections. This is the gap where enterprise AI projects go to die.

What bundleIQ does

bundleIQ builds Alani, a platform that organizes knowledge so AI can act on it. Three products, one system:

Insights BETA

structures enterprise data

An enterprise takes its unstructured data — internal documents, policies, reports, communications — and Insights transforms it into structured, queryable knowledge. From there, it generates automated workflows and uses AI to extract patterns, answers, and decisions at scale. Think of it as the bridge between "we have data" and "AI can actually use our data."

Connect

distributes industry knowledge

Each conference, association, or industry publisher runs a Connect room — think subreddit-style spaces with content and community. A financial analyst subscribes to rooms covering their sector. A compliance team joins rooms with regulatory expertise. AI agents access and transact through the same content via MCP (Model Context Protocol, the emerging standard for how AI agents connect to external data) with a built-in commerce layer. As more publishers come online, the network gets richer. Conferences and associations are already active on the platform.

Hub

powers individual research + creation

One Alani account gives a knowledge worker access to everything. Hub is their personal research and content creation engine: it builds on their own documents, notes, and work, but it also reaches into any Connect rooms they subscribe to and MCPs into their organization's structured data via Insights. An analyst writing a market brief can chat with HumanX and eMerge Americas content simultaneously while pulling from their company's internal data — all in one interface, all contextually surfaced by the patented AI agent based on what they're actively working on.

The patent (US12277125B2) is the connective tissue: an AI agent that watches what you're reading, writing, or asking, and surfaces relevant knowledge from across all three products without being prompted.

How Alani works in practice

Three real workflows. Each shows a different product leading, with the others supporting behind the scenes.

Insights

Operations lead at an enterprise company

Your company has ten years of board minutes, compliance reports, vendor contracts, and internal memos sitting across SharePoint, Google Drive, and email archives. Insights ingests all of it and transforms it into structured, queryable knowledge. Now your team can ask "what did we decide about the vendor consolidation policy in Q3 2023?" and get a sourced answer in seconds. Insights doesn't stop at search. It identifies patterns across documents, generates automated workflows based on what it finds, and flags inconsistencies between current policy and past decisions. The AI gets smarter as more organizational data flows in.

Without Alani: this answer lives in someone's head, or buried in a PDF no one remembers saving. The question takes days, not seconds.

Connect

Financial analyst covering the AI sector

You open the HumanX room in Alani. The latest speaker sessions, research papers, and community discussions from the conference are there, structured and searchable. You ask "what are the emerging consensus views on AI governance from the last two HumanX panels?" and get answers grounded in that conference's actual content, not generic web results. You flip to the eMerge Americas room for a Latin American market perspective on the same question. Each room is maintained by the conference or association itself. Meanwhile, an AI agent at a research firm accesses the same content programmatically via MCP, paying per query through Connect's commerce layer.

Without Alani: you're searching conference websites for outdated slide decks, or paying for expensive analyst reports that may not cover what you need.

Hub

Strategy consultant preparing a client deliverable

You're writing a competitive landscape analysis in Hub. As you type, the patented AI agent recognizes what you're working on and begins surfacing relevant material. It pulls from your own saved research and past work. It pulls from the Connect rooms you subscribe to: industry data from conferences and trade associations relevant to your client's sector. And it pulls from your company's structured data via Insights: past project deliverables, internal research, and institutional knowledge. One interface. Three knowledge sources. Contextually surfaced. You're not searching. You're not switching tabs. The right material appears because the system understands what you need.

Without Alani: you have six browser tabs open, three SaaS tools running, and you're copy-pasting between a Google Doc and ChatGPT. None of them talk to each other.

Where bundleIQ is today

What's live

All three products are live. Hub and Connect are in production. Insights is in beta with enterprise customers. A growing base of knowledge workers across the platform and an expanding network of conferences and associations active on Connect.

What's next

MCP commerce layer for Connect, enabling AI agents to access and transact for industry knowledge programmatically. Insights moving from beta to general availability. Expanding the conference and association pipeline on Connect's supply side.

Why now

Three forces are converging simultaneously. First, enterprise AI budgets are surging but 95% of projects fail at the integration layer — organizations are actively looking for the knowledge infrastructure that makes their AI investments work. 25 Second, the agentic AI ecosystem (MCP, agent-to-agent protocols, autonomous workflows) is creating a new demand channel for structured, commerce-enabled knowledge — but the plumbing doesn't exist yet. Third, infrastructure and model costs are commoditizing, pushing value and margin toward the application layer where bundleIQ operates. 1 The window to build the knowledge infrastructure layer is open now, before incumbents consolidate around closed ecosystems.

Layer 1

Infrastructure & Compute

$50B+ in 2025 · $300B+ hyperscaler capex 1

NVIDIA AWS Azure GCP CoreWeave

Alani relationship: Consumer, not competitor. Alani runs on top of this layer. The strategic implication: as compute costs continue to fall (GPU prices dropped 30%+ in 2024-2025), Alani's margins improve without any product changes. Infrastructure commoditization is a tailwind. 2

Layer 2

Foundation Models

40%+ of AI deals · Top 3 valued at ~$1.1T 3

OpenAI Anthropic Google xAI Meta

Alani relationship: Model-agnostic by design. bundleIQ uses foundation models as inputs rather than competing to build them. This is a deliberate architectural choice. 4 As models commoditize (and they are: Sapphire Ventures notes foundation model differentiation is narrowing), the value shifts to orchestration, data quality, and application-layer intelligence, which is exactly where Alani operates.

Layer 3

Application & Intelligence Layer Alani

$37B enterprise AI revenue · 3x YoY 5

Glean Notion AI Microsoft Copilot Alani Hub Alani Connect Alani Insights

This is the gap. Only 16% of enterprise deployments qualify as true agents. 6 60+ AI-native products have reached $100M+ ARR. The companies that bridge raw model capability to measurable business outcomes win the next cycle. Knowledge management is the #1 reported agent use case across enterprises (McKinsey, 2025). 7

Layer 4

Vertical AI

#2 in deal volume · Healthcare, fintech, manufacturing 8

Healthcare AI Legal AI Fintech AI Alani Connect

Alani relationship: Connect enables vertical AI without building vertical products. Conferences, associations, and industry knowledge providers package their expertise into AI-powered subscriptions accessible by both knowledge workers and AI agents via MCP. Alani provides the rails and the commerce layer, not the content. This is the platform play: one infrastructure, infinite verticals. 9

Why the Application Layer Matters Most Right Now

The AI market has a structural inversion underway. Infrastructure and foundation models absorb the largest absolute dollars, but their returns are compressing. Hyperscalers are spending $300B+ on capex with increasingly uncertain payback timelines. 1 Foundation model companies are raising at staggering valuations but competing on increasingly similar capabilities. 3

The application layer is where capital efficiency is highest. Enterprise AI revenue tripled to $37B in 2025, 5 with horizontal copilots alone representing a $7.2B market. Application companies consume infrastructure and models as commoditized inputs, meaning their margins improve as the layers beneath them get cheaper. Bain Capital Ventures calls the "boring middle" of embedding AI into specific workflows the category with the highest risk-adjusted returns. 10

bundleIQ sits in the middle of this inversion. It doesn't need to win the GPU race or the model race. It needs to win the knowledge orchestration race, which is a smaller, more winnable market with clearer enterprise demand signals.

Footnotes & Sources

$300B+ hyperscaler capex: Crunchbase reports that AWS, Azure, GCP, and Meta collectively committed over $300 billion in capital expenditure for AI infrastructure in 2025, including data centers, GPU clusters, and energy optimization. This spending is roughly 3x the 2023 level, raising questions about whether infrastructure investment is outpacing the revenue it generates. Source: Crunchbase, "6 Charts That Show The Big AI Funding Trends Of 2025," Dec 2025

Infrastructure commoditization as tailwind: Application-layer companies benefit from a dynamic where every dollar spent on infrastructure reduces the cost of their primary inputs. As GPU costs decline and open-source models improve, the unit economics for companies like bundleIQ improve structurally without requiring product changes. Sapphire Ventures projects this dynamic will accelerate through 2026 as foundation model differentiation narrows. Source: Sapphire Ventures, "Our 2026 Outlook: 10 AI Predictions," Dec 2025

~$1.1T combined valuation: OpenAI ($40B round, ~$300B valuation), Anthropic ($13B cumulative), and xAI ($20B round) represent the three largest AI companies by funding. Combined, these three firms account for roughly 14% of all AI venture capital deployed in 2025. Notably, 58% of all AI funding went to megarounds of $500M+, reflecting extreme concentration at the top. Sources: Crunchbase, ODSC, Intellizence, Sapphire Ventures

Model-agnostic architecture: bundleIQ's platform is designed to use any foundation model as an input rather than being locked to a single provider. This is a strategic hedge: if OpenAI, Anthropic, or an open-source model becomes the performance leader in any given quarter, Alani can switch without rebuilding. The defensibility comes from the proprietary knowledge graph and the patented contextual recommendation engine, not from model access. Source: bundleIQ architecture; see also Bain Capital Ventures on "model-agnostic" as a VC preference, 2025

$37B enterprise AI revenue: Menlo Ventures reports enterprise AI revenue reached $37 billion in 2025, split roughly evenly between user-facing products ($19B) and AI infrastructure ($18B). This represents more than a 3x increase year-over-year. Horizontal AI copilots (ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Microsoft Copilot) represent a $7.2B subset of this market. Source: Menlo Ventures, "2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise," Jan 2026

Only 16% qualify as true agents: Menlo Ventures found that while "agentic AI" dominates marketing narratives, only 16% of enterprise deployments and 27% of startup deployments qualify as true autonomous agents. The majority are still fixed-sequence or routing-based workflows. This gap represents a significant opportunity for companies that can deliver genuine agentic capabilities in production, which requires robust knowledge infrastructure. Source: Menlo Ventures, "2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise," Jan 2026

Knowledge management as #1 agent use case: McKinsey's 2025 survey of 1,993 participants across 105 nations found that the most commonly reported enterprise agent deployment was in IT and knowledge management. Service-desk management, deep research, and knowledge retrieval are the use cases with the highest adoption velocity. All three Alani products serve this category: Hub for personal knowledge management, Connect for industry-specific knowledge distribution, and Insights for structuring enterprise data to enable automated knowledge workflows. Source: McKinsey, "The State of AI in 2025," Nov 2025

Vertical AI as #2 in deal volume: While infrastructure commands the largest check sizes, vertical AI (healthcare, fintech, legal, manufacturing) ranks second in total deal count. This reflects a market preference for AI applied to specific industry workflows where ROI is concrete and measurable. Ropes & Gray reports that 100% of pharma and medtech leaders are now experimenting with AI. Source: Ropes & Gray, "AI Global Report H1 2025"; Gartner analyst forecasts

Platform play via Connect: Alani Connect sidesteps the typical vertical AI challenge of needing domain-specific training data and industry expertise. Instead of building a healthcare AI product, a legal AI product, etc., Connect lets conferences, associations, and industry knowledge providers themselves package their content into AI-powered subscriptions. Knowledge workers subscribe directly; AI agents access and transact via MCP with a commerce layer. bundleIQ provides the platform infrastructure; providers supply the content. This follows the successful marketplace model (iOS App Store, Shopify, Salesforce AppExchange) where the platform captures value from the long tail of verticals without having to build each one. The MCP integration adds a critical dimension: it positions Connect as infrastructure for the emerging agentic AI ecosystem, where autonomous agents need structured access to authoritative domain knowledge. Source: bundleIQ product architecture; comparable marketplace models (Shopify, Salesforce AppExchange)

The "boring middle" thesis: Bain Capital Ventures describes the highest-return opportunity in AI as the "boring middle": taking proven AI capabilities and embedding them into specific industry workflows where the value is concrete. This contrasts with the frontier model race (exciting but capital-intensive with uncertain returns) and legacy SaaS (stable but being disrupted). The boring middle is where revenue growth is fastest relative to capital deployed. Source: Bain Capital Ventures, "The Boring Middle," 2025

Infrastructure

Compute, GPUs, Data Centers

$50B+ VC in 2025 · Largest check sizes · Hardware-dependent moats

NVIDIA CoreWeave AWS / Azure / GCP Custom silicon

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Foundation Models

LLMs, Multimodal, Reasoning Engines

40%+ of AI deals · ~$1.1T combined valuation (top 3) · Commoditizing

OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind xAI Meta Llama

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Application & Knowledge Layer

Where Alani Lives

$37B enterprise revenue · 3x YoY growth · Fastest path to ROI

Alani Hub Alani Connect Alani Insights Glean Notion AI Microsoft Copilot

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Vertical Applications

Industry-Specific AI Products

#2 in deal volume · Healthcare, legal, fintech, manufacturing

Drug discovery Legal research Financial analysis Connect-powered verticals

Value Flows Down

Commoditization Cascade

As infrastructure gets cheaper and models converge in capability, value migrates downward toward the application and vertical layers. This is the same dynamic that played out in cloud computing: AWS/Azure won the infrastructure race, but Salesforce, Shopify, and Datadog captured more enterprise value on top of it. 11

Data Flows Up

Knowledge as Moat

The application layer generates proprietary data (user behavior, knowledge graphs, organizational context) that improves model performance. This data doesn't flow to competitors. bundleIQ's patent protects the AI agent mechanism that surfaces relevant information from private knowledge bases based on what a user is actively working on. 12

The Cloud Computing Parallel

Anyone who lived through the cloud era recognizes this pattern. In 2010-2015, the conventional wisdom was that cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure) would capture all the value. In reality, the application layer built on top of cloud captured significantly more enterprise value per dollar of capital deployed. Salesforce (built on AWS) is worth more than most infrastructure companies. Shopify didn't need to build data centers. Datadog monitors the infrastructure it doesn't own.

The same inversion is underway in AI. NVIDIA and the model labs are essential infrastructure, but the companies that organize and activate enterprise knowledge on top of that infrastructure are positioned for the highest capital efficiency returns. bundleIQ's Alani platform is built for this layer: it doesn't need to win the $50B infrastructure race or the $1.1T model race. It needs to win the knowledge orchestration race in a $37B and growing market. 11

Footnotes & Sources

The cloud computing value distribution parallel: In cloud computing, the infrastructure layer (AWS, Azure, GCP) captured enormous revenue but required enormous capital expenditure. The application layer built on top of it (Salesforce, Shopify, Datadog, Snowflake) achieved higher capital efficiency and, in many cases, higher valuations per dollar of revenue. The same dynamic is emerging in AI: Crunchbase notes that 58% of AI funding is going to megarounds ($500M+) at the infrastructure and model layers, while the application layer is where revenue growth per dollar deployed is fastest. Sources: Crunchbase, Dec 2025; Menlo Ventures, Jan 2026; Sapphire Ventures, Dec 2025

Knowledge graph as defensible moat: bundleIQ's issued patent (US12277125B2) covers an AI agent that recommends useful information from a private knowledge base based on what a user is actively reading, writing, saying, asking, or highlighting. In practice, this means the system understands the focus of a user's work in real time and surfaces relevant knowledge without being asked. Unlike model weights (which can be replicated) or infrastructure (which is a capex competition), this contextual recommendation engine built on top of proprietary knowledge graphs creates switching costs that grow with usage. Each organization's deployment becomes more valuable as more data flows through it, creating a compounding advantage that competitors cannot replicate from the outside. Source: USPTO, US12277125B2; bundleIQ patent filing

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Alani Hub

Personal Research + Content Creation Engine

Market Position

Plays in Horizontal AI Copilots

Market size $7.2B (2025) 13

ROI tier Tier 2

Competes With

ChatGPT Claude Notion AI Mem

Strategic Role

The on-ramp and the daily driver. One Alani account gives every knowledge worker a personal research and content creation engine. Hub pulls from the user's own knowledge graph, any Connect rooms they subscribe to, and their organization's structured data via Insights. Not just a notebook — it's backed by the full Alani ecosystem. Every new Connect room makes Hub more powerful. Every Insights deployment gives Hub users more institutional data to work with. Low acquisition cost, high expansion potential. 14

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Alani Connect

Industry Knowledge Rooms + AI Commerce

Market Position

Plays in Vertical AI + Agentic

Market size ~$6.7B agentic (2025) 15

ROI tier Tier 2-3 (emerging)

Competes With

Substack Medium Vertical SaaS None (unique)

Strategic Role

The distribution layer and network effect engine. Each conference, association, or industry publisher runs a Connect room — a subreddit-style space with content and community. Knowledge workers subscribe to rooms; AI agents access and transact via MCP with a commerce layer. Every new room adds supply, every Hub user adds demand. Conferences and associations are already active, creating vertical knowledge markets without building vertical products. Two-sided marketplace = defensible moat + compounding supply. 16

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Alani Insights BETA

Structured Data + Automated Intelligence

Market Position

Plays in Data Structuring + AI Automation

Market size $29B → $98B by 2030 17

ROI tier Tier 2 → Tier 1

Competes With

Glean Microsoft Copilot Notion AI Guru

Strategic Role

The revenue engine. Takes unstructured enterprise data and structures it to create automated workflows, then uses AI to extract insights at scale. This is the structured data play: turning messy organizational information into queryable, actionable intelligence. Directly addresses the integration layer where MIT found 95% of GenAI projects failing. 25 18

Competitive Landscape — Application Layer

bundleIQ competes in the application layer against horizontal AI copilots, enterprise knowledge platforms, and vertical data tools. The key differentiator isn't any single feature. It's the three-product architecture connecting personal knowledge management (Hub), industry-specific AI subscriptions (Connect), and enterprise data structuring and automation (Insights) into one system powered by a patented contextual AI recommendation engine. No competitor spans all three. 19

Company	Focus	Personal KM	Industry Knowledge	Data Structuring
Glean	Enterprise search	Partial	—	✓
Notion	Workspace + AI	✓	—	Partial
Microsoft Copilot	Productivity suite AI	Partial	—	✓
Perplexity	AI search + research	Partial	—	—
Guru	Internal knowledge base	—	—	✓
Mem	Personal AI notes	✓	—	—
bundleIQ (Alani)	Contextual knowledge AI	✓ Hub	✓ Connect	✓ Insights

Footnotes & Sources

$7.2B horizontal copilot market: Menlo Ventures sizes the horizontal AI copilot market at $7.2B in 2025 enterprise revenue. This category includes ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Notion AI. Hub competes in this space but differentiates in two ways. First, it functions as a personal knowledge graph rather than a conversation-first interface: it builds and retains knowledge assets, not just answers. Second, Hub can access datasets from Connect and MCP into institutional data via Insights, giving individual knowledge workers a research and content creation engine backed by the full Alani ecosystem. No copilot on the market connects personal work to both curated industry knowledge and structured enterprise data in a single interface. Source: Menlo Ventures, "2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise," Jan 2026

Hub as on-ramp and daily driver: In SaaS platform economics, the most capital-efficient growth comes from landing with a low-friction, individual-user product, then expanding into team and enterprise tiers. Slack, Notion, and Figma all followed this pattern. Hub serves this function but with a critical difference: it's not a standalone tool. Hub users can access Connect datasets (industry knowledge from conferences, associations, and domain providers) and MCP into institutional data via Insights. This means a knowledge worker using Hub has a personal research and content creation engine backed by both curated industry content and structured enterprise data. The result: Hub isn't just sticky because of the personal knowledge graph a user builds. It's sticky because the connections to Connect and Insights make it exponentially more useful than any standalone copilot. Switching to ChatGPT or Notion AI means losing access to those datasets. Source: bundleIQ product architecture; comparable growth models (OpenView PLG benchmarks; Bessemer Cloud Index)

~$6.7B agentic AI market: Prosus/Dealroom research projects the agentic AI market at approximately $6.7B in 2025. Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will embed agent capabilities by the end of 2026, up from under 5% in early 2025. Connect's bundle architecture is inherently agentic: it provides structured, domain-specific knowledge that AI agents can consume and act on, which is the missing piece that most agent deployments lack today. Sources: Prosus/Dealroom AI research; Gartner analyst forecasts, 2025

Two-sided marketplace defensibility: Connect creates a marketplace where conferences, associations, and industry knowledge providers supply domain-specific content as AI-powered subscriptions, and knowledge workers plus AI agents (via MCP with a commerce layer) consume them. Two-sided marketplaces have the strongest network effects in software: more providers attract more subscribers, more subscribers attract more providers. Once meaningful content density exists in a given domain (e.g., financial analysis, legal research, healthcare policy), it becomes prohibitively expensive for a competitor to replicate that supply from scratch. The MCP integration adds a second demand channel: AI agents that programmatically access and pay for knowledge, creating machine-to-machine commerce on top of human subscriptions. Source: bundleIQ product architecture; marketplace economics (a16z Marketplace 100)

Knowledge management + AI analytics market sizing (triangulated): Multiple research firms project the convergent market bundleIQ addresses. Mordor Intelligence sizes the knowledge management software market at $13.7B in 2025 growing to $32.2B by 2030 (18.6% CAGR). Fortune Business Insights sizes it at $23.2B in 2025 growing to $74.2B by 2034 (13.8% CAGR). The broader enterprise AI market that includes AI-powered knowledge applications is $97.2B in 2025 growing to $229.3B by 2030 (Mordor Intelligence, 18.9% CAGR). The AI-specific knowledge management segment is sized at $62.4B by 2033 (25% CAGR, Market.us). The $29B-to-$98B figure from iApp Technologies falls within the range of these projections for the AI analytics and knowledge intelligence segment specifically. The variance across sources reflects different scope definitions, but all project 18-27% CAGRs for this category. Sources: Mordor Intelligence, KM Software Market 2030; Fortune Business Insights, KM Market 2034; Mordor Intelligence, Enterprise AI 2025-2030; Market.us, AI in KM Market; iApp Technologies, Dec 2025

The integration layer problem — what four research programs actually found: The thesis that enterprise AI fails at the knowledge/workflow layer (not the model layer) is supported by four independent sources, each identifying a slightly different facet of the same problem:

MIT (2025): The 95% failure rate "represents the clearest manifestation of the GenAI Divide." The core issue is "not the quality of the AI models, but the 'learning gap' for both tools and organizations." MIT's research points to "flawed enterprise integration" — generic tools that "don't learn from or adapt to workflows." Most GenAI systems "do not retain feedback, adapt to context, or improve over time." The failure is about fit and integration, not model capability. 25

McKinsey (2025): Only 6% of enterprises qualify as AI high performers with measurable EBIT impact. The dividing line is "not technical access" but "organizational plasticity." Three persistent blockers: "fragmented data and legacy tech, workflows that were never redesigned for AI, and a lack of clear scaling priorities." Companies thriving with AI "are doing more than building models — they're building systems that aggregate data, governance, and workflows into AI-ready infrastructure." 27

PwC (2026): "Technology delivers only about 20% of an initiative's value. The other 80% comes from redesigning work." PwC recommends a centralized "AI studio" that brings together "reusable tech components, frameworks for assessing use cases, a sandbox for testing, deployment protocols, and skilled people" linked to business goals. Their message: the failure is organizational and structural, not technological. 28

Deloitte (2026): Companies "feel less prepared in terms of infrastructure, data, risk, and talent" compared to a year ago, even as more believe their strategy is ready. Only 34% are using AI to "deeply transform" their business. Leaders emphasize "modular, cloud-native platforms that securely connect, govern, and integrate all data types" and call a "unified, trusted data strategy indispensable." Revenue growth "largely remains an aspiration" — 74% hope for it but only 20% have achieved it. 29

The convergence: All four sources agree that model capability is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the organizational data, workflow, and knowledge layer between the models and the business outcomes. This is the exact layer Alani Insights is built to serve. Sources: MIT, "The GenAI Divide," Jul 2025; McKinsey, "State of AI 2025"; PwC, "2026 AI Predictions"; Deloitte, "The Untapped Edge," 2026

Three-product architecture as differentiator: The competitive table above illustrates a consistent gap: every major competitor operates in one or two of the three knowledge domains (personal KM, industry knowledge, data structuring). Glean does enterprise search with a personal graph within its Enterprise Graph, but has no standalone personal KM product, no industry knowledge subscription layer, and targets only enterprise buyers. Notion is strong on personal knowledge management (notes, wikis, databases) but has no data structuring automation or conference/association content marketplace. Microsoft Copilot has enterprise reach but no industry knowledge marketplace, no MCP commerce layer, and no standalone personal knowledge graph. Perplexity has Spaces for personal research organization and file uploads, but no industry knowledge layer and no enterprise data structuring. bundleIQ is the only company spanning all three, connected by a patented AI agent that contextually recommends relevant knowledge based on the user's active focus. This full-stack approach creates compounding data advantages that point-solution competitors cannot match. Source: Competitive analysis; public product documentation; bundleIQ patent US12277125B2

Alani Hub — Capture + Create

Individual knowledge workers get a personal research and content creation engine. One Alani account gives access to everything: your own knowledge graph, any Connect rooms you subscribe to, and your organization's structured data via Insights. Connect rooms work like subreddit-style spaces — each conference, association, or industry publisher runs a room with content and community. As more publishers come online, Hub users gain access to more rooms. Want to chat with HumanX and eMerge Americas content simultaneously while pulling from your company's internal data? That's Hub. Every new Connect publisher makes every Hub user's research engine more powerful.

Hub drives low-CAC acquisition. Switching costs compound from two directions: the personal knowledge graph a user builds, and the Connect + Insights datasets they can't access anywhere else. The Slack/Notion playbook: land individual, expand to team, convert to enterprise. 20

Hub accesses Connect datasets →

Alani Connect — Enrich

Conferences, associations, and industry publishers each run a Connect room — a subreddit-style space with curated content and community. Knowledge workers subscribe to rooms that matter to their work. AI agents access the same content via MCP with a commerce layer. Every new room adds supply; every Hub user adds demand. Two-sided marketplace with built-in network effects.

Connect introduces a revenue-share model with publishers, creating an ecosystem with built-in distribution. Each room added increases platform value for all users. Marketplace economics: supply creates demand creates supply. 21

Organizational knowledge compounds →

Alani Insights — Activate

Takes unstructured enterprise data and structures it to create automated workflows, then uses AI to extract insights at scale. The patented AI agent surfaces relevant information from across all knowledge sources based on what each user is actively working on. This is where the ROI becomes measurable: automated processes, faster decisions, compounding institutional knowledge.

Insights is the enterprise revenue engine with the highest ACV and longest retention. The data each organization contributes makes the system more valuable over time, creating compounding switching costs. 22

Hub MCPs into Insights institutional data →

Collective Intelligence Flywheel

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Patent

Contextual AI Recommendation Technology

US12277125B2 — Issued

The patent covers an AI agent that recommends useful information from a private knowledge base based on what a user is reading, writing, saying, asking, or highlighting — the active focus of their work. This is the mechanism that makes the flywheel function: as users work across Hub, Connect, and Insights, the system learns what's relevant and surfaces the right knowledge at the right time without being prompted. The moat isn't a feature; it's the core intelligence layer that connects all three products into a compounding system. 23

Why the Flywheel Matters for Valuation

Single-product AI companies face a commoditization problem. If you only do enterprise search, a better model from OpenAI or Google can replace you. If you only do personal notes, the next AI assistant makes you obsolete. If you only do content distribution, any marketplace with more supply wins. 24

The flywheel architecture solves this by creating interdependencies that compound. An organization's Insights deployment gets better when its employees use Hub (more data flowing in). Hub users get a more powerful research engine when they access Connect datasets (curated industry knowledge) and MCP into Insights (structured enterprise data). Connect providers get more distribution when both Hub users and Insights deployments grow. Each product makes the other two more valuable.

The result is a defensibility structure that no single competitor can replicate by copying one product. Glean can't become bundleIQ by adding an industry knowledge marketplace with MCP commerce. Notion has strong personal KM but can't become bundleIQ by adding unstructured-to-structured data automation and industry knowledge commerce. Perplexity can't become bundleIQ by moving from search into enterprise data structuring and content marketplace infrastructure. The moat isn't any one layer; it's the patented contextual recommendation engine that connects them — an AI agent that understands what you're working on and surfaces the right knowledge from across all three products in real time. 23

Footnotes & Sources

Bottom-up SaaS growth model: The most capital-efficient enterprise SaaS companies of the last decade (Slack, Notion, Figma, Datadog) all followed a bottom-up adoption model: land with individual users at low or no cost, let usage spread organically within teams, then convert the organization to an enterprise contract. Hub plays this role for bundleIQ with a critical advantage over standalone tools: Hub users can access Connect datasets and MCP into institutional data via Insights. This means switching costs come from two directions. First, the personal knowledge graph the user builds (once 50+ documents are in the graph, leaving is expensive). Second, the access to Connect and Insights data they can't get anywhere else. A knowledge worker using Hub with Connect subscriptions and Insights MCP access has a fundamentally different tool than someone using ChatGPT or Notion AI alone. Source: Menlo Ventures enterprise adoption research; SaaS growth pattern analysis

Marketplace economics and dual-channel revenue: Connect follows the proven marketplace model where the platform takes a share of transactions between providers (supply) and subscribers (demand). The critical milestone for marketplace businesses is "liquidity": the point where enough supply exists that new demand finds what it needs on the first visit. Each domain vertical has its own liquidity threshold. Connect has two demand channels: knowledge workers subscribing directly, and AI agents transacting via MCP with a built-in commerce layer. The MCP channel is particularly significant because it creates programmatic, recurring demand that scales with agent adoption across the enterprise. As the agentic AI ecosystem grows, every new agent deployment becomes a potential Connect subscriber. Source: Marketplace economics; comparable models: Shopify, Salesforce AppExchange

Enterprise switching costs and compounding value: An Insights deployment builds a knowledge graph that reflects the organization's unique connections, context, and decision patterns. The patented recommendation engine learns from how each user interacts with this knowledge, meaning the system gets smarter over time. Unlike a SaaS tool where data can be exported and reimported, this organizational knowledge asset becomes increasingly expensive to replicate elsewhere as it grows, similar to how a CRM system becomes more valuable (and harder to leave) with more customer data. Source: bundleIQ enterprise deployment analysis; Bessemer SaaS retention benchmarks

Patent as structural moat: US12277125B2 is an issued (not pending) utility patent covering an AI agent that recommends useful information from a private knowledge base based on the active focus of a user's work — what they are reading, writing, saying, asking, or highlighting. This is not a design patent or UI patent. It protects the core contextual recommendation mechanism: the system observes user intent in real time and proactively surfaces relevant knowledge from private data sources without requiring explicit queries. In practice, this is what makes the flywheel work — a user writing a report in Hub automatically receives relevant content from Connect bundles and organizational knowledge from Insights. A competitor cannot legally replicate this specific mechanism without licensing the technology, which means copying any one Alani product does not replicate the intelligence layer that connects them. Source: USPTO, US12277125B2, issued patent

Single-product commoditization risk: Sapphire Ventures notes that foundation model differentiation is narrowing, meaning application-layer companies that depend on a single AI capability (e.g., just search, just summarization) face the risk that the underlying model providers add that capability natively. Microsoft has already bundled Copilot into 365. Google has integrated AI across Workspace. OpenAI is expanding from chat into enterprise workflows. Companies that survive this consolidation wave will be the ones with defensibility beyond a single feature: either unique data, network effects, or multi-product architectures that create compound value. Source: Sapphire Ventures, "Our 2026 Outlook," Dec 2025; Crunchbase consolidation analysis

Every competitor on the market map occupies a lane.
Alani is the only one that crosses all three.

The application layer looks crowded because the market is comparing single-product companies on a flat list. The real structure is three distinct knowledge domains: personal knowledge management, industry-specific knowledge distribution, and enterprise data structuring. Every competitor tops out in one. bundleIQ connects them.

Company

Personal Knowledge

Industry Knowledge

Data Structuring

Glean$4.6B · Enterprise search

Partial

—

Strong

Notion$10B · Workspace + AI

Strong

—

Partial

Microsoft Copilot$3T+ parent

Partial

—

Strong

Perplexity$9B · AI search

Partial

—

Guru~$500M · Internal KB

—

Strong

Mem~$100M · Personal AI

Strong

—

Perplexity$9B · AI search

—

Partial

—

bundleIQ (Alani)Seed · Full-stack knowledge AI

Hub

Connect

Insights

Why This Structure Is Hard to Replicate

Glean could build a standalone personal knowledge tool beyond its enterprise personal graph. But their enterprise customers didn't buy a consumer product, and a consumer on-ramp would cannibalize their sales motion. Notion has strong personal KM but could not easily add data structuring and automation; their workspace DNA optimizes for collaboration, not transforming unstructured enterprise data into automated workflows. Perplexity has Spaces for personal research, but is fundamentally a search engine with no pathway to industry knowledge commerce or enterprise data structuring. Microsoft has the distribution, but Copilot is tethered to the 365 ecosystem and has no industry knowledge marketplace, no MCP commerce layer, and no conference or association partnerships. Every competitor would need to build two new products, acquire two new user bases, and create a cross-product intelligence layer to match Alani's architecture. That is not a feature gap. It is a structural gap. 19

Go-to-Market: Three Motions, One Compounding System

Motion 1 — Land

Structure the chaos

Alani Insights

Enterprises sit on mountains of unstructured data they can't act on. Insights takes that unstructured data and structures it, creating automated workflows and using AI to extract insights at scale. Enters through the buyer with budget: the CIO, Head of AI, or VP of Operations. Direct sales, high-ACV contracts.

Buyer: CIO, Head of AI, VP of Operations

Motion: Direct enterprise sales

ACV: Six-figure contracts

→

Motion 2 — Expand

Open the knowledge supply

Alani Connect

Conferences, associations, and industry knowledge providers run Connect rooms — subreddit-style spaces with content and community. Knowledge workers subscribe to rooms; AI agents access them via MCP with a built-in commerce layer. This creates a supply flywheel: more industry rooms attract more subscribers, more subscribers attract more publishers.

Motion: Industry partnerships + marketplace

Revenue: Platform take rate on subscriptions

Moat: Two-sided network effects + MCP distribution

→

Motion 3 — Compound

Capture the individual

Alani Hub

Individual knowledge workers get their own research and content creation engine. Hub accesses Connect rooms and MCPs into institutional data via Insights, so every user works with the full Alani ecosystem behind them. Bottom-up adoption, PLG motion. Every Hub user makes Connect more valuable (demand for industry content), and every Insights deployment makes Hub more powerful (access to structured enterprise data).

Motion: Product-led growth

CAC: Low (self-serve + organic)

Moat: Personal data lock-in

Key Questions

Does it solve a real enterprise problem?

Yes. 95% of enterprise GenAI projects fail at the integration layer, not the model layer. 25 Insights structures unstructured data into automated workflows. Hub and Connect give knowledge workers and AI agents access to organized, contextual knowledge. This is the prerequisite layer the market is missing.

Is the market real and growing?

$29B today, $98B by 2030 (27% CAGR). Knowledge management is the #1 agent use case per McKinsey. 27

Is it defensible beyond features?

Issued utility patent (US12277125B2) on the contextual recommendation engine. Three-product architecture creates structural moat no single competitor can replicate. 23

Does it compound?

Each product makes the others more valuable. Hub users access Connect rooms and MCP into Insights, making Hub a more powerful research engine with each new data source. Connect content gets consumed by both Hub users and AI agents. Insights deployments justify more Hub seats. Data flows in one direction: toward bundleIQ.

Is there a credible GTM sequence?

Land with Insights (enterprise sales). Expand with Connect (publisher partnerships). Compound with Hub (PLG). Each motion is distinct and validated by existing SaaS playbooks. 14

Does it ride macro tailwinds?

Infrastructure commoditization improves unit economics. Model competition reduces input costs. Enterprise AI budgets are growing 2-3x annually. All tailwinds push value toward the application layer where Alani sits. 1

The Signal Through the Noise

The application layer is crowded because it works. Enterprise AI revenue tripled to $37B in 2025. 5 But the market map is misleading if you read it flat. Most companies on that map are single-product, single-domain tools competing on features that foundation model providers can absorb in a quarterly update. 24

bundleIQ is not competing on a feature. It is competing on architecture. The three-product structure spanning personal KM, industry knowledge rooms (with MCP + commerce for AI agents), and enterprise data structuring, connected by a patented contextual AI agent, creates a system that gets more valuable with each user, each knowledge provider, and each enterprise deployment. That is not something a competitor adds in a sprint. It is a different kind of company.

The question is not "can Alani beat Glean at enterprise search" or "can Hub beat ChatGPT at chat." The question is: who builds the knowledge infrastructure layer that makes all enterprise AI work? That is a $98B question by 2030, and bundleIQ is the only company architected to answer it across personal knowledge management, industry knowledge distribution, and enterprise data automation.

Footnotes & Sources

GTM sequencing and SaaS expansion playbook: The Land-Expand-Compound motion follows proven SaaS patterns. Insights-first mirrors Palantir's wedge (sell the high-value enterprise data structuring product, then expand platform usage). Connect's industry knowledge marketplace mirrors Shopify (create supply-side incentives with conferences, associations, and knowledge providers, then monetize via subscription take rate plus MCP agent transactions). Hub's PLG motion mirrors Slack, Notion, and Figma (land with individuals, expand to teams, upsell to enterprise). The key insight from Bain Capital's "boring middle" thesis is that the highest risk-adjusted returns in AI come from companies that take proven capabilities and embed them into specific workflows, exactly what this GTM sequence does at each stage. Sources: Bain Capital Ventures, "The Boring Middle," 2025; Menlo Ventures, Jan 2026; OpenView Partners SaaS benchmarks

Competitor structural constraints: The lane diagram reflects real architectural limitations, not just product gaps. Glean's entire go-to-market is top-down enterprise sales with 6-month deployment cycles. They recently added a personal graph within their Enterprise Graph, but it's scoped to enterprise users, not a standalone personal KM product. Adding a consumer on-ramp (like Hub) would conflict with their sales motion and require a fundamentally different distribution strategy. Notion's product architecture is built around blocks, pages, and workspaces. Their personal KM is strong (notes, wikis, databases) but their AI features enhance document editing, not unstructured-to-structured data transformation or automated workflow generation. Perplexity has Spaces for file uploads and personal research, but is fundamentally a search engine, not a knowledge management platform, and has no pathway to industry knowledge commerce or enterprise data structuring. Microsoft Copilot is deeply integrated into the 365 suite. It can search SharePoint and Outlook, but cannot ingest industry knowledge from conferences and associations via a commerce-enabled MCP layer, and it cannot build a standalone personal knowledge graph that travels with the user outside the Microsoft ecosystem. None of these competitors have a pathway to AI-powered content subscriptions with a dual-channel revenue model (human subscribers + AI agent transactions). These are not feature gaps that competitors close with a sprint. They are structural constraints embedded in business model, architecture, and distribution. Source: Public product documentation; competitive analysis; MSFT Q3 2025 earnings

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Core Thesis: The Integration Layer Problem

The claim that enterprise AI fails at the knowledge and workflow layer — not the model layer — is central to bundleIQ's investment thesis. Below is the evidence from four independent research programs, with direct sourcing.

Thesis Evidence — Source-by-Source Breakdown

MIT — "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025" (July 2025)

Finding: 95% of enterprise GenAI projects fail to deliver measurable P&L impact. Based on analysis of 300+ public AI deployments, 150+ executive interviews, and 350 employee surveys.

Root cause (direct quote from report): "The 95% failure rate for enterprise AI solutions represents the clearest manifestation of the GenAI Divide." The core issue is "not the quality of the AI models, but the 'learning gap' for both tools and organizations." MIT's lead author told Fortune: "While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT's research points to flawed enterprise integration." Generic tools "don't learn from or adapt to workflows." Enterprise-grade systems are being abandoned: "60% of firms evaluated them, but just 20% reached pilot stage and only 5% went live."

Key distinction: MIT explicitly states the failure is not about "having the best model, the fastest chips, or dodging regulations." It's about how tools are applied and whether they integrate deeply with real workflows and organizational context.

Relevance to bundleIQ: The Alani product suite addresses this failure point at every level. Insights takes unstructured enterprise data and structures it into automated workflows, solving the "flawed enterprise integration" MIT identifies. Hub and Connect provide the knowledge management layer that gives AI tools organizational context to learn from. Together, they close the "learning gap" that is the root cause of the 95% failure rate. Source: MIT Media Lab Project NANDA, "The GenAI Divide," Jul 2025. Reported by Virtualization Review, BigDATAwire.

Cross-source convergence — the precise claim and its limits

The thesis statement "the failure point isn't the models, it's the knowledge infrastructure underneath them" is a synthesis. Each source identifies a slightly different facet of the same structural problem:

• MIT calls it the "learning gap" — tools that don't retain context, adapt, or integrate with enterprise workflows.
• McKinsey calls it "organizational plasticity" — fragmented data, unredesigned workflows, and lack of scaling priorities.
• PwC frames it as an 80/20 rule — technology is only 20% of value; the rest is workflow redesign around organized knowledge.
• Deloitte identifies the "proof-of-concept trap" — pilots built with clean data and small teams that collapse under real-world complexity.

What they all agree on: Model capability is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the organizational data, workflow, and knowledge layer between the models and the business outcomes. "Knowledge infrastructure" is the umbrella term bundleIQ uses for this layer; the sources use varying language but describe the same structural gap.

What they don't all say: McKinsey and PwC emphasize organizational redesign and change management as much as data infrastructure. MIT focuses more on tool integration and adaptive systems. Deloitte highlights skills gaps alongside infrastructure. The thesis is strongest when framed as an integration-layer problem (which encompasses data, workflows, knowledge organization, and tool adaptation) rather than purely a "data infrastructure" problem. Sources: See fn-25, fn-27, fn-28, fn-29 for individual source citations.

McKinsey — "The State of AI in 2025: Agents, Innovation, and Transformation" (November 5, 2025)

Finding: Only ~6% of organizations qualify as AI high performers with more than 5% of EBIT attributable to AI. Survey of 1,993 participants across 105 nations.

What separates the 6%: "Establishing robust talent strategies and implementing technology and data infrastructure similarly show meaningful contributions to AI success." High performers are "nearly three times as likely to fundamentally redesign their workflows." The dividing line is "no longer technical access" but "organizational plasticity — the willingness and ability to rewrite workflows, structures, talent architecture, and governance around AI."

Three persistent blockers: "Fragmented data and legacy tech, workflows that were never redesigned for AI, and a lack of clear scaling priorities that elevate a few capabilities to 'enterprise infrastructure' status."

Knowledge management finding: "Knowledge management is now one of the functions with the most reported AI use." Agent use is "most commonly reported in IT and knowledge management, where agentic use cases such as service-desk management in IT and deep research in knowledge management have quickly developed."

Bottom line from McKinsey analysis: "The companies thriving in the AI era are doing more than building models. They're building systems. They're aggregating data, governance, and workflows into AI-ready infrastructure that delivers at scale." Source: McKinsey & Company / QuantumBlack, "The State of AI in 2025," Nov 5, 2025

PwC — "2026 AI Business Predictions" (2025)

Finding: "Only a few companies are realising extraordinary value from AI — surging top-line growth and valuation premiums. Many others see measurable ROI, but most companies report modest gains in efficiency, capacity and productivity — these don't add up to transformation."

The 80/20 rule (direct quote): "Technology delivers only about 20% of an initiative's value. The other 80% comes from redesigning work — so agents can handle routine tasks and people can focus on what truly drives impact."

Why success is concentrated: "Organisations often spread efforts thin with small bets, and early wins mask deeper challenges. Real results require precision — choosing a few areas where AI can deliver wholesale transformation, then executing with disciplined leadership."

The "AI studio" prescription: PwC recommends a centralized hub that "brings together reusable tech components, frameworks for assessing use cases, a sandbox for testing, deployment protocols, and skilled people. This structure links business goals to AI capabilities so you can surface high-ROI opportunities."

Note: PwC's emphasis is on organizational redesign and centralized knowledge infrastructure, not just data quality. Their framing aligns with bundleIQ's thesis that the knowledge layer (capturing, organizing, and activating information across an enterprise) is the prerequisite for AI ROI. Source: PwC, "2026 AI Business Predictions," 2025

Deloitte — "The State of AI in the Enterprise: The Untapped Edge" (2026)

Finding: Survey of 3,235 director-to-C-suite leaders across 24 countries and six industries. "Compared to last year, more companies (42%) believe their strategy is highly prepared for AI adoption — but they feel less prepared in terms of infrastructure, data, risk, and talent."

The proof-of-concept trap: "Pilots are typically built with small teams, clean data, and limited risk. Production deployments, by contrast, require infrastructure investment, integration with existing systems, security and compliance reviews, monitoring, and long-term maintenance. Use cases initially scoped for three months can stretch to 18 months or more."

Revenue gap: "Revenue growth largely remains an aspiration, with 74% of organizations hoping to grow revenue through their AI initiatives in the future compared to just 20% that are already doing so."

Data infrastructure emphasis: Leaders are "enabling modular, cloud-native platforms that securely connect, govern, and integrate all data types" and "break down silos with domain-owned data products." Deloitte calls "a unified, trusted data strategy indispensable."

Biggest barrier cited: "Insufficient worker skills" ranked as the #1 barrier to integrating AI. This is worth noting: Deloitte emphasizes skills alongside infrastructure, not infrastructure alone. Source: Deloitte AI Institute, "The State of AI in the Enterprise: The Untapped Edge," 2026

The unstructured data problem (Gartner / IDC)

Gartner estimates that 80-90% of all enterprise data is unstructured — emails, documents, presentations, meeting transcripts, PDFs, chat logs, call recordings — and growing 3x faster than structured data. IDC projects that 80% of worldwide data will be unstructured, with organizations generating over 73,000 exabytes annually. Only 26% of companies use mostly automated methods to analyze their content (IDC). CDO Magazine reports that the 80/20 split between unstructured and structured data "presents a quantifiable gap in most organizations' AI capabilities."

Relevance to bundleIQ: This is the foundational problem Insights (currently in beta) solves: transforming unstructured enterprise data into structured, queryable, actionable knowledge that AI can work on. The scale of the problem (80-90% of all data) explains why enterprise AI projects fail at the integration layer, and why organizations need purpose-built infrastructure to bridge the gap. Sources: Gartner, "Market Guide for Text Analytics"; IDC/Box, "Untapped Value: Unstructured Data"; CDO Magazine, "Unstructured Data: Hidden Bottleneck," Mar 2025

The Bottom Line

Infrastructure and models get the headlines.
The application layer is where the revenue is growing fastest.

Alani doesn't compete with NVIDIA or OpenAI. It sits in the integration layer where MIT found 95% of enterprises failing 25, in the exact category (knowledge management) that McKinsey identifies as the #1 agent use case 27, addressing the organizational knowledge gap that PwC says accounts for 80% of an AI initiative's value 28. A patented AI agent that contextually surfaces the right knowledge based on user intent connects personal KM, industry knowledge rooms, and enterprise data structuring into one compounding system. The market is $29B today, growing to $98B by 2030.