We have some difficult news to share - we’ve decided to start the process of ending Artanis. It’s been 26 months since we started, and 15 months since we raised funding to transition from consulting to a product. Across several iterations, we haven’t been able to find product-market fit. We no longer believe Artanis will work as a venture-scale company, and have decided it would be better to return capital than continue iterating.

This was a tough call, because we continue to believe in our thesis that domain experts will own AI applications, and better tooling is needed to enable this. However, our team hasn’t been strong enough on GTM, particularly top-of-funnel, and we haven’t been able to fix that at the founder level. For a more detailed explanation, we’ve written a full post-mortem here.

Over the next couple of months, we’ll be offboarding customers, speaking with potential acquirers, and preparing for a clean wind-down. We’ll also be thinking about what’s next in our careers!

What’s next for us?

We (Olly, Yousef and Sam) are broadly interested in applied AI roles. We each combine an AI PhD, full-stack engineering and commercial experience - a mix that’s well suited to delivering real-world value from AI. We’re open to a range of roles across company sizes and industries, so please get in touch if you come across anything that may be a good fit.

Lastly, we want to say a big thanks to you all for reading these updates. Every response has been a boost along our (often tumultuous) journey. We hope you’ll keep in touch in the future!

En Taro Tassadar,
Artanis Team