Your AI prototype works. Now make it a product.
BNE Advisory helps companies take AI from demo to production — the architecture, reliability, security, and cost decisions that separate a promising prototype from a durable business, and the team to run it after I'm gone.
Prototypes are the easy part now
AI has collapsed the cost of building something that works in a demo. The bar for shipping a first version has never been lower.
Production is the moat
Reliability, security, and the unit economics of inference decide who survives contact with real customers. That part hasn't gotten easier.
Operators are rare
Two decades running infrastructure at internet scale — data center, cloud, and hybrid — and still hands-on with production AI systems today.
Deep engagements, designed to end.
Embedded work, typically three to nine months, on-site where it helps. You keep the capability — not a dependency.
Scale & architecture decisions
Cloud, on-prem, local inference, or hybrid — the answer is a cost-benefit analysis, not a default. Capacity planning, the unit economics of inference, and an architecture that won't need rewriting at ten times the traffic.
Reliability & SRE practice
SLOs, observability, incident response, and on-call that doesn't burn people out. The practices that let you put your product in front of paying customers — and sleep.
Security & production readiness
Secure infrastructure as a foundation, not a retrofit. Hardening, secrets management, access control, and the audit trail your enterprise customers will ask about.
Build the team, then hand off
Hiring plans, interviewing, training, and interim leadership while your permanent DevOps and SRE team comes together. The engagement is designed to end — that's the point.
Built where scale was non-negotiable.
Behruz Nassre — two decades of technical operations and infrastructure leadership at internet scale, across data center, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Operations at scale
VP of Technical Operations & IT at Fandom. Senior Director of SRE, Security & IT at BlueJeans (Verizon). VP of Infrastructure, Data & Security at Change.org. Senior Director of Site Engineering Services at eBay. Compliance driven to certification: SOC 2, FedRAMP, GDPR, NIST. BS and M.Eng, Cornell University.
Still hands-on
Through pro-bono work with collecting nonprofits, I personally architect, secure, deploy, and operate production AI systems — search and research platforms in daily use by national societies. The advice comes from systems I run, not slideware.
Working with private equity?
Operational due diligence before the deal, and the cost, scalability, and team work that makes the thesis real after it.
Giving back to the hobby.
I'm a lifelong philatelist — Chairman of WESTPEX, a member of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's Council of Philatelists, and a board member of national collecting societies. My mission there: help collecting organizations adopt AI responsibly — opening the hobby to newcomers through search and discovery, and giving advanced collectors deep research tools. It's also where I keep my hands on the tools.
Let's talk about what's between your prototype and production.
A short conversation is the fastest way to find out whether this is a fit.
behruz@bneadvisory.com