AI transformation, built on trust.
An applied-AI advisory and engineering firm for the companies that drive the real economy.
We do not stop at the strategy deck.
Catalyst·Wayfare is an AI transformation firm. We build production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains — finance, professional services, energy, industrials, healthcare, and beyond. Every engagement is designed to end with working systems in the business, owned by the people who run it.
The firm was founded by Dr. R. David Edelman, who spent six years in the White House advising three U.S. Presidents on emerging technology, national competitiveness, and security, and six years teaching in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with joint appointments at CSAIL and the Center for International Studies. He is a judge for the Forbes AI 50.
The wider team's backgrounds span MIT, McKinsey, the White House, and senior roles at some of the most recognized names in technology and AI. Meet the team →
Three phases. Six workstreams.
The methodology is C·W AI360: three phases, six integrated workstreams, one engagement model — collaborative, executive-sponsored, accountable.
- Navigate — 3 to 6 weeks. Map the opportunity, build the foundation. A prioritized roadmap and the governance framework to support it.
- Evolve — 3 to 6 months. Build, deploy, adopt. Custom AI capabilities shipped into priority workflows, with organizational adoption built in parallel.
- Transform — 6 to 12 months. Compound returns. AI integrated across the business, and internal capability strong enough that we can step back.
Bespoke, unshackled, empowering, governed.
- Bespoke. Every engagement is designed for the specific business, its data, its team, and its priorities. Built once, for you.
- Unshackled. Vendor-neutral. We are not a reseller and take no commissions from AI providers, so we are free to recommend commercial or open-source models on the merits.
- Empowering. Your people are the competitive advantage. AI is deployed to enhance their work, with training and adoption woven through every engagement.
- Governed. Compliance, data security, and ethical AI use are built into the foundation from the start, not bolted on at the end.
The right fit, by design.
Established, profitable, mid-market businesses that drive the real economy — typically 50 to 1,000 employees, post-product-market-fit, with a CEO committed to business-wide change rather than a tool procurement. Where appropriate we partner with an in-house IT leader, team, or managed service provider, while remaining accountable directly to business leadership.
We are not the right fit for companies looking to add a few AI tools for a single task, to run AI as an IT procurement, or to lock their data inside a single AI platform subscription.
DC. London. San Francisco. New York.
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