Deployed in Weeks, Not Years
Move from pilot to production in weeks. No 18-month integration projects. No configuration paralysis. Your team is working inside the platform from day one.
The Enterprise Operating System for the Age of AI
Everyone Has Access to AI.
Almost No One Can Get It Working.
Your competitors are moving. AI spending has grown 22× since 2023. But 70% of initiatives fail—not because the AI doesn’t work, but because the infrastructure to operationalize it doesn’t exist. Until now.
$37B enterprise AI market in 2025
87% of enterprises implementing AI
$3.50 return for every $1 invested
82% of leaders using AI weekly
34% efficiency gains within 18 months
27% cost reduction reported
The Problem
The Gap Between “Testing AI” and “AI That Works”
Organizations aren’t failing because they lack ambition or budget. They’re failing because there’s no clear path from pilot to production. That gap is where initiatives go to die.
70–85%
of AI initiatives fail to meet expectations—not because AI doesn’t work, but because the infrastructure to deploy it doesn’t exist.
42%
of companies are abandoning most AI initiatives in 2025—more than double the rate from last year.
Only 6%
of organizations qualify as “AI high performers” with meaningful bottom-line impact from their AI investments.
18+ mo
average time to get AI approved and deployed—while competitors who’ve solved this are already compounding their advantage.
“The technology isn’t the problem. Your systems don’t connect. Security won’t approve it. Compliance takes months. The AI stays in test mode—and the window of opportunity keeps closing.”
What We Do
The Platform That Gets AI Working in Your Business
Next Focus sits between AI and your business—handling the connections, security, governance, and deployment that nobody else solves. You decide what AI should do. We make it work.
Connects to Everything You Use
Your CRM, ERP, databases, and existing tools—connected cleanly. No rip and replace. No custom development. Standardized connectors in days, not months.
Security & Compliance Built In
Enterprise-grade governance from day one. Role-based access, audit trails, and compliance controls that satisfy your security team and your board.
Humans + AI, Working Together
Manage your AI agents alongside your team with the same oversight: assignments, budgets, permissions, and audit trails. You choose the level of autonomy for every task.
White-Labeled & Yours to Own
Branded as your platform. Your IP. Your competitive advantage. Not a rented tool that a vendor controls—a strategic asset proprietary to your business.
No Vendor Lock-In. Ever.
Works with any AI model—swap providers as capabilities improve without rebuilding your systems. Your business logic stays stable while AI evolves underneath.
Who We Serve
Built for Every Stage of the AI Journey
Whether you’re a founder getting AI into your first product, or a Fortune 500 executive scaling across business units—this is the infrastructure that separates the 6% who succeed from the 70% who fail.
SMBs: Enterprise-Grade AI Without the Enterprise Price Tag
“We know AI can help us grow—but every solution we find is built for companies ten times our size.”
Ready on day one
Production-ready AI infrastructure out of the box. No six-figure consulting engagement. No waiting for a dev team you can’t afford to hire. Just start.
Punch above your weight
Access the same AI capabilities that Fortune 500s are spending millions to build—at a fraction of the cost. Compete on intelligence, not headcount.
Grow without rebuilding
Start with one workflow. Add more as your business scales. The platform grows with you—no migrations, no re-platforming, no starting over.
→ Enterprise AI at SMB speed. Start small, scale fast, never outgrow it.
Mid-Market & Growth: Stop Rebuilding the Plumbing for Every AI Use Case
“Leadership wants AI deployed yesterday. My team is drowning in integration work, security reviews, and vendor chaos.”
Free your engineers
Next Focus handles connections, security, and orchestration so your team stops wiring infrastructure and starts building what actually differentiates your business.
One platform, not 12 vendors
Consolidate the sprawl. CRM, ERP, databases, AI models—connected cleanly through one governed layer instead of duct-taped together project by project.
Ship the first use case, then scale
Deploy your first AI workflow in weeks. Prove ROI. Then expand across teams and departments without starting over every time.
→ Unblock your team. Ship AI that works. Scale without the chaos.
Enterprise & C-Suite: Finally—AI You Can Measure, Govern, and Defend to the Board
“We’ve spent millions on AI pilots. I still can’t tell you the ROI, and governance is a nightmare.”
See the ROI—clearly
Unified cost tracking across human and AI work. Know exactly what you’re spending, what you’re getting, and where to double down—in real time.
Governance that scales
Role-based access, full audit trails, and compliance controls that satisfy your security team, your board, and your regulators—from agent one to agent one hundred.
A financial model for the blended workforce
Manage AI agents alongside your team with the same rigor: assignments, budgets, permissions. Build the operating model for the next era of work.
→ Real ROI visibility. Governance that satisfies boards. AI that compounds.
Partners & PE Firms: Accelerate AI Across Your Entire Portfolio—in Weeks
“We need to accelerate AI across our portfolio—but every company is building from scratch.”
Standardize, don’t start over
Deploy the same proven AI infrastructure across portfolio companies in weeks. No per-company custom builds. No duplicated spend. One platform, many companies.
Aggregate insight, drive valuation
Cross-portfolio visibility into AI performance, costs, and outcomes. Turn data into strategic leverage that drives the next round of value creation.
Own the capability, not the vendor
White-labeled, proprietary AI assets that increase enterprise value—not dependencies on vendors your companies don’t control.
→ Cross-portfolio AI. Faster value creation. Owned capabilities, not rented ones.
Entrepreneurs: Turn Your AI Vision into a Product You Own
“I have the idea and the market—but building AI infrastructure from scratch would burn my entire runway.”
Launch in weeks, not quarters
Go from concept to live AI-powered product in weeks. Skip the 18-month build cycle. Your MVP ships on enterprise-grade infrastructure from day one.
White-label it as your own
Brand the platform as yours. Your name, your IP, your competitive moat—not a dependency on someone else’s API that disappears when they pivot.
Build to sell, not to maintain
Create proprietary AI capabilities that increase your valuation. Investors back owned technology, not rented tools. Build the asset from the start.
→ Ship faster. Own everything. Build a company worth acquiring.
Proof
Same Platform. Different Problems. All Working.
Real organizations that stopped testing and started shipping—with Next Focus as the layer that made it possible.
Healthcare Compliance
1 week → 5 min
HIPAA-compliant AI compliance system deployed in weeks—not the 18+ months quoted by legacy vendors. Now a proprietary capability with pricing power and defensibility.
Marketing Operations
100+ → 1
100+ disconnected tools consolidated into one coordinated platform. AI-powered workflows that eliminated vendor chaos and created a unified marketing engine.
Private Equity
18 mo → Weeks
Portfolio-wide AI capabilities that used to take 18 months of custom work—deployed across companies in weeks. Proprietary, white-labeled, and owned.
How It Works
Start Tomorrow. Adapt Forever.
No 6-month implementation projects. No configuration paralysis. The platform works immediately and grows with your business—indefinitely.
Week 1
Foundation
Production-ready systems running. Your team working inside the platform. Core workflows operational.
Week 2–4
Fit & Connect
Customize to your processes. Connect priority systems—CRM, ERP, databases. Deploy first AI agents.
Month 2–3
Scale & Measure
Expand AI deployment with proven governance. Track blended costs. Establish performance baselines.
Ongoing
Compound
Optimize allocation from real data. Expand capabilities confidently. Build institutional knowledge that competitors can’t replicate.
Leadership
The Team Behind the Platform
Operators, builders, and strategists who’ve shipped enterprise software at scale—now focused on closing the AI infrastructure gap.
James Word
Founding CEO/CTO
Ex-Bluescape. AI systems architect, 10+ years building large-scale ML & automation platforms. Recognized expert in workflow & AI.
Kaveh Farshad
Founding CRO
Ex-Bluescape, 2× founder, Product, GTM, and operations expert with deep enterprise sales and AI solutioning experience.
Demian Entrekin
Founding COO
Ex-Bluescape. Serial entrepreneur with 6 successful exits, deep expertise in enterprise software and workflow design.
Noah Alegria
Founding Developer
Ex-Bluescape. Back-end engineer with deep expertise in scalable systems and infrastructure. Architected core platforms from zero to launch across multiple startups.
Ryan Stover
Founding CFO
Investor and operator with a proven track record in finance and private equity. Drives growth and innovation in complex markets.
JuHee Kim
Founding CMO
Ex-Disney & Dentsu. Marketing executive and consultant with 20+ years leading brand strategy, GTM, and performance marketing transformation for Fortune 500s and venture-backed startups.
Partner With Us
This Isn’t a Moment to Navigate Alone.
The window is open. It won’t stay open. The organizations capturing AI’s $4.4 trillion opportunity aren’t doing it with pilots and hope—they’re doing it with the right infrastructure and the right partner.
We work alongside your team to get AI operational—fast, governed, and owned by you. Let’s talk about where you’re stuck, what you need to connect, and how to close the gap between where you are and where the market is heading.
6%
That’s the Percentage Who Get This Right.
The difference between the 6% who achieve transformative results and the 70% who fail isn’t better AI. It’s better infrastructure. Next Focus is that infrastructure.
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