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AI infra company taken from chaos to S-1 ready in 9 months

An AI inference platform doubling every six months, with finance held together by a controller, two spreadsheets, and prayer. We rebuilt the entire finance stack and walked the company to audit-grade close discipline.

Glowing GPU server racks inside an AI inference data center
S-1 ready
Filing posture
9 mo
End-to-end
$184M
ARR at filing

The AI startup that cut its inference bill 71% without retraining a single model

A fast-rising AI agent platform was one bad growth month away from drowning in GPU bills. We rebuilt the inference economics, the routing layer, and the unit-margin story — and turned a burn crisis into the cleanest round the founder ever raised.

Glowing server rack in a dark data center symbolizing AI inference infrastructure
−71%
Inference cost per request
$1.8M
Annualized savings
3.4×
Margin per query
38%

Average gross margin improvement in Year 1, across cohort, pricing, and supplier-terms work.

$1.2M

Average cash flow unlocked per engagement through working-capital and AP/AR re-engineering.

Faster fundraise close versus in-house-only finance teams, measured kickoff to wire.

92%

Client retention after the first retainer year. Founders stay because the numbers compound.

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