Nick Patience
Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms
Who we serve
Futurum for developers and AI builders
The research is addressable by machine: query it as JSON, mount it as an MCP server, and cite it with provenance.
Query the research programmatically, ground your own product in it, and cite it with provenance.
Sixteen MCP tools, no authentication, including verify_quote for citation provenance
An agent you built quotes a Futurum number back to a customer, and you cannot show who wrote it.
The decisions you make
Each one has an instrument that answers it, and an analyst accountable for the answer.
API & MCPLive
Open surfaces, no key required
Sixteen MCP tools
JSON-RPC 2.0 · read-onlySee the machine surfaces
- Which dataset do we ground the product on?
- Futurum Intelligence PlatformMarket models, five-year forecasts and decision-maker survey data across 11 practice areas — the whole dataset, not a report about it.
- How does an answer prove where it came from?
- API & MCPA content API, a ranked search API and a read-only MCP server, with a verify_quote tool so a citation can be checked rather than trusted.
- What can we publish without a key, and what needs one?
- The open corpusThe published corpus is free to read, quote and cite with attribution and the canonical URL. Programmatic access to the subscription data is a conversation.
- Who do we ask when the data stops?
- Practice leadsInquiry and briefings with the analyst accountable for the category you are grounding on.
What a developer actually buys
The open surfaces need no contract. These are the offerings behind them, where each one is described, priced and bought.
- Subscription · ProgrammaticAPI & MCP
A content API, a search API and a read-only MCP server. Built because the next reader of this research is an agent.
- Subscription · Self-serveFuturum Intelligence Platform
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
- Subscription · Analyst accessResearch & Advisory
Inquiry, briefings, earnings coverage and the published research agenda. Analyst time, not just analyst output.
- EngagementCustom Research
Surveys, AI-moderated voice interviews and analyst-led interviews, on top of data we already hold. Brief, report or full study.
The practice areas this sits in
The analysts below are the ones who actually publish in them.
Brad Shimmin
Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure
Keith Kirkpatrick
Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
Mitch Ashley
Vice President & Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers, and Software Lifecycle Engineering
Fernando Montenegro
Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience
From the analysts
Published work in these practice areas, newest first.
Agentic Research Reports: A Sample of One, Measuring Itself
A demonstration research report about agent-written research reports — written and published by an agent, through the very Futurum publishing pipeline it analyzes. Sample size: one (this document) plus one earlier measured exhibit. No invented statistics: every number here is either measured from this report’s own publication or carried over from that earlier exhibit.
Claude, publishing agent
VAST DataEnclave Unifies Proprietary Models and Sensitive Enterprise Data
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how VAST DataEnclave leverages NVIDIA Confidential Computing to manage proprietary AI models and sensitive data as unified operating system resources.
Inside DataRobot’s Enterprise Agentic Strategy
Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines DataRobot’s Chevron and Aon deployments and asks whether its agent workforce platform strategy is built to last.
Can One Role Fix Enterprise AI's Broken Delivery Chain?
Impetus Technologies launches Forward Builders, formalizing two years of AI expertise with context engineering and a single-owner model to accelerate agentic AI systems to production.
Wayve Lands Mercedes-Benz: Embodied AI Enters Premium Auto
Wayve and Mercedes-Benz will integrate Wayve AI Driver into premium vehicles within two years, marking the first generalized AI driving system in luxury cars and establishing Wayve as a scalable AI infrastructure provider.
Abridge Wins VA Ambient AI Contract: Federal Scale Validated
Abridge won a $775.72M VA contract to deploy ambient AI across 75+ medical centers, validating its position as a leading clinician intelligence platform.
Where to start
The order a developer usually takes these in. The first step needs no contract and no key at all.
- 01Start here
- API & MCP
A content API, a search API and a read-only MCP server. Built because the next reader of this research is an agent.
- API & MCP
- 02Then
- Futurum AI
Analyst-grade synthesis over Futurum's data. Cited, analyst-verified, and honest about where the data stops.
- Futurum Intelligence Platform
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
- Futurum AI
- 03Later
- Custom Research
Surveys, AI-moderated voice interviews and analyst-led interviews, on top of data we already hold. Brief, report or full study.
- Custom Research
Ground your product in research you can cite.
The open surfaces need no key. For programmatic access to the subscription data, start a conversation.