Company Overview
Ryan Walden is Founder & CEO at Rosenblatt AI, an AI engineering services firm that specializes in AI transformation for mid-market, tech-enabled businesses. Learn more at https://rosenblatt.ai/.
Can you tell us a little about your background before starting at your company?
During undergrad, around 2018, I noticed neither software engineers nor data scientists knew how to individually create AI/ML solutions end-to-end. Full stack engineers were in high demand, but full stack AI engineers were yet to be realized. I became obsessed with the idea of becoming a truly full-stack AI engineer and skipped grad school to self-teach through real world execution. 8 years later, I sit at a unique intersection in AI engineering and leadership experience at both startups and enterprise. My company Rosenblatt is my extension of that journey: identifying, enabling, and pairing talented engineers with companies struggling to find the benefits from AI.
How did you start at your company? What were the first steps you took to get it off the ground and how did you identify the need for your product/service in the market?
I bootstrapped Rosenblatt in 2024 during my wind-down from my first startup, ECGO. Initially focused on helping startups, we developed several proprietary data science models for production applications. In 2025, we grew to 8 full time members after seeing repeated success on GenAI projects with ProService, a Silver Lake portfolio company, and the largest HR company in Hawaii. Today, Rosenblatt continues to operate with SMBs in professional service markets and continues to expand its network throughout private equity.
What innovations or unique features set your company apart from others in the industry?
Over its short existence, Our innovations have rapidly evolved and compounded. Initially, I curated a team of unique individuals who each held backgrounds in both data science and full stack development. In 2025, my focus shifted towards AI-first development practices, upskilling our team on agent harness like Claude Code. Over the past 12 months, the Rosenblatt team developed solutions that allowed ProService to recapturing dozens of lost clients and over $1 million in LTV. As of early 2026, we’ve embraced cybernetics as foundational to our company philosophy, creating digital twins of each team member; always on – always working. Today our focus is towards AI-native operations; teaching our digital twins everything about us and how we work.
What has been the most effective strategy for scaling your business?
Growth is an ongoing challenge as sales in IT services are heavily dictated by personal network effects, not cold marketing. Ryan continues to develop his network through private equity, the Atlanta entrepreneurship community, and professional services conferencing. Notably, OpenAI and Anthropic have recently announced new partnerships within private equity and are actively hiring PE GTM leads. For that reason, I’ve begun a small angel round to expedite hiring our own GTM lead and fund enablement efforts towards our AI-native operations.
Looking ahead, what are your goals for the future of your company?
Every week we see increasing signals from Anthropic and OpenAI building networks between private equity and partnering service providers to bring AI talent into mid-market, PE-backed, professional services firms. This is both a threat and opportunity as we have already operated in this space over the past year and continue to grow our own network in this space. My best advice for other founders reading this is to invest deeply into your advisors and mentors. The ProService introduction came from a personal mentor and advisor of my first startup, and subsequent recent intros have come from a new advisor who joined Rosenblatt earlier this year.
