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Fractional AI (now core of Ode with Anthropic)

fractional.ai · San Francisco, CA, USA

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Category
Cloud & data consultancies — applied AI dev shop; acquired May 2026 to seed Ode with Anthropic (Anthropic + Blackstone + Hellman & Friedman JV)
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Services
Custom generative AI applications and agent systems for complex workflow automation; enterprise and PE-backed clients; post-acquisition: enterprise AI implementation at Ode scale
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Pricing
Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.
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Founded
2024 (by Chris Taylor, Eddie Siegel, Travis May — LiveRamp alumni)
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Team signal
not publicly available (described as top destination for applied AI engineers; scaled rapidly 2024-2026)
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Platform partnerships
  • Originally an OpenAI partner (launch coverage); now the operating core of Ode with Anthropic — pairs Anthropic frontier models with delivery engineers (Businesswire 2026-07-15)
PRIMARY SOURCEdirectory-verified entries are platform-computed credentials
Named practitioners
  • Chris Taylor — CEO (Fractional AI and Ode)
  • Eddie Siegel — CTO
  • Travis May — Co-founder
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Case-study claims
  • Workflow automation from content moderation to API integration for large enterprises (provider-claimed; no public numbers captured)
PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified
Lab note
Category-defining exit: 2-year-old AI dev shop became the core of Ode with Anthropic, a JV launched 2026-07-15 at a reported $1.5B valuation ($300M each from Anthropic, Blackstone, H&F); Ode then bought Casper Studios in Aug 2026
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Source register

All sources accessed 2026-08-31. Spot an error? Submit a correction — reviewed by a human, logged publicly.

  1. https://www.fractional.ai/press-releases/the-ai-native-enterprise-services-firm-announces-acquisition-of-fractional-ai (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260715205134/en/Anthropic-Blackstone-and-Hellman-Friedman-Introduce-Ode-with-Anthropic-an-Enterprise-AI-Services-Firm (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/anthropic-blackstone-bet-the-next-trillion-dollar-ai-business-is-implementation-not-models/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  4. https://travismay.medium.com/introducing-fractional-ai-3200c35db399 (accessed 2026-08-31)