Cadrian AI gets the answers out of your employees' heads and into your hands.

You can feel the bottlenecks. Your team can explain them. Cadrian talks to all of them and shows you where to start.

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How it works

The clearest view of how a company works comes from the people operating it. So Cadrian asks them directly, no consultants and no surveys.

1

Define what you want to learn

You set the question. Cadrian scopes it and finds the right people to talk to, across every level and team.

2

Interview every one of them

Cadrian runs hundreds of real interviews at once, each one shaping where it digs next. People say things they'd never put in a form.

3

Map the work end to end

Cadrian maps your workflows end to end to surface the bottlenecks and opportunities. You get what to fix first, each with an ROI.

Get a straight answer to your hardest question.

The kind a dashboard can't answer, because the answer lives in people's heads.

Where most teams start

You've been told to "go do AI." Start by seeing where it actually pays off.

Cadrian runs an AI audit of your whole company. You find out where AI is worth it, ranked by impact and effort, backed by what your people said. "Where would AI pay off?" is really a stack of smaller questions Cadrian digs out:

  • Why does onboarding a new customer take so long?
  • Why do customer issues take so long to resolve?
  • Where are your best people stuck doing work a machine could do?

Find a bottleneck

"Why does the close take so long?" Cadrian finds the step quietly costing you weeks.

Check a rollout

"Is the new tool actually landing?" Cadrian hears what people leave out of status updates.

Plan a change

After a reorg or acquisition, "how does work actually flow now?" Get the real map, not the slide.

The team

The team that's diagnosed companies and built the products.

We've told companies where to focus, and we've shipped the AI that delivered it. So we know the difference between an opportunity and a slide.

Dan Preiss, Co-Founder & CEO at Cadrian AI

Dan Preiss

Co-Founder & CEO

Partner at Ardent Venture Partners. Principal at BCG's digital group. Founder and product leader at VC-backed startups.

Chris Young, Co-Founder & Chairman at Cadrian AI

Chris Young

Co-Founder & Chairman

Former EVP at Microsoft. CEO of McAfee. Senior leadership at Intel, Cisco, RSA, AOL, and VMware. Currently CEO of Vertex and on the boards of American Express and Qualcomm.

Akash Gupta, Co-Founder at Cadrian AI

Akash Gupta

Co-Founder

Stanford CS (BS and MS). Accel Fellow.

Jonathan Betz, CTO at Cadrian AI

Jonathan Betz

CTO

Early Google engineer, VP Engineering at Yext, SVP Engineering at Rent the Runway. Engineering leadership at Meta. Co-Founder and CTO of Continua AI. Carnegie Mellon CS.

Schedule a call with us

Tell us a bit about your team and the bottlenecks you're facing. We'll reach out to find a time that works for you.