Shane Burns

The first decade of institutional AI was research. The next decade is organization. The firms that win put the model, the capital, and the distribution onto one decision surface. Almost none are set up for this. The legacy stack — research siloed from execution, allocation siloed from product, distribution outsourced to platforms — was built for an environment that no longer exists.

The mismatch is the opportunity.

I advise the principals doing the work — operators, founders, and leadership teams building inside the institutional AI buildout.

If your firm has already proven the thing it is doing works, we should talk. If it is still promising, we should not.

I sit with the principal until the question is the right question, and then I stay until the decision is made. The work is the deletion of false optionality.

I do not produce decks. I do not run process. I do not source. I make the calls the principal cannot delegate.

New products under Shane Burns LLC are in development. Announced at launch.

Limited engagements with sitting principals and leadership teams. Decision-makers only.

Reply to shane@shaneburns.us with the engagement and a sentence about why now. I read everything sent here. I reply when there is something to discuss.