Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Claude for Financial Advisors, workflow integration, and the evidence needed to establish advisor productivity gains.
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Tech Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on Atlassian’s move to governed agentic workflows and why staking the work surface as a control plane matters more than the feature list.
Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on GPT-6 Astra and what its cyber threshold and monitorability trade-offs mean for Anthropic and Google.
Alex Smith, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how the partner ecosystem is shifting from SaaS to infrastructure and custom services like AI consulting as new growth drivers in 2026.
Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it’s easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to sell proof of exploitability over volume.
Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models.
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on Anthropic’s 80% prompt cut and how frontier model releases write new technical debt into customer prompts, memory, and skills.
Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by strict agent control planes. Utilizing AI – Ep.