Ascendion
How Ascendion is Engineering Value With AI Arbitrage
Ascendion's CEO Karthik Krishnamurthy frames "AI arbitrage" as an operating-model shift measured only by business outcomes — revenue, margin, and speed.
KK
Karthik Krishnamurthy
CEO · Ascendion
14:48
The numbers, across the talk4 moments · 14:48
01 · Revenue acceleration
A UK bank
By reframing the operating model rather than the technology, Ascendion is pulling a bank's revenue-generating strategy forward by four quarters against a plan the bank thought would take 26 months.
00:02:41
▲£2B
Revenue
Additional revenueprojected
“in the UK, 2 billion pounds of additional revenue, and we're getting them there four quarters ahead”
00:01:56
▼4 quarters early
Cycle time
Strategy pulled forwardprojected
“a bank that we're working with where we're accelerating revenue for them four quarters. They thought they'll take them 26 months to get to that strategy”
02 · Margin improvement
A Fortune 100 client
A Fortune 100 client is putting 200 basis points back onto its EBITA by changing the way it builds software.
00:02:41
▲+200 bps EBITA
Cost savings
EBITA margin recovered
“a Fortune 100 client that is putting 200 BIPs back on their EBITA as a result of moving to a new way by which they build software”
03 · Ascendion's own AI-native operating model
Ascendion
Ascendion targets a 10x expansion of human impact rather than headcount cuts, and scaled to 15,000 agents in six months — versus the many years it took to reach 10,000 people.
00:06:05
▲10x
Productivity
Impact per personprojected
“how can you get 50 people [to] do the work of 500 people. So you've got a 10x everybody.”
00:09:53
▲15,000 agents / 6 mo
Scale
Agents stood up
“many, many years to get to 10,000 people, and we took about six months to get to 15,000 agents”