We would rather understand the problem first.
We want to understand your AI problem first. If we can help, we will tell you how and what it will take. If we can't, we will say that too.
We saw the same pattern break every time.
Between us we have spent decades inside national health plans, global pharmaceutical companies, integrated health systems, asset managers and industrial technology groups. We watched enterprises pour money into AI initiatives that looked great in steering committee decks and went nowhere in production.
The models were not the problem. Neither was the data. What broke every time was everything else: who owns the outcome, what governance looks like in practice, what it costs to run, and what happens when the pilot ends.
We started 8thElement to build a partnership where we don't get paid unless you get results, and where walking away means you are ready to run without us.
How we are paid.
| Status quo | 8thElement | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Time, resources, milestones | Measurable outcomes: revenue, cost, productivity |
| Incentive alignment | Paid regardless of impact | Paid only when outcomes move |
| Risk ownership | Customer carries the risk | Shared outcome related risk |
| Definition of success | Delivery completed | Business impact delivered |
| Execution model | Project-based, linear | Continuous, agentic optimisation |
| Cost visibility | Cloud bill, discovered late | Argos: cost per outcome, live |
Operators who have run these systems.
Everyone on our leadership team has run production systems at the kinds of organisations we work with today.
35+ years in health plan technology leadership, across national and regional payers.
Marketing and sales leadership across enterprise technology and services.
25+ years running operations and technology at industrial, software and asset management groups.
Serial entrepreneur. Delivery leadership across payers, providers and global pharma.
200B+ decisions a year on healthcare and contracting platforms at national payers.
30+ years in top tier strategy consulting. Healthcare transformation.
Cloud, data and AI delivery across the US, Europe and Australia, for global pharma.
AI and data led solutions bridging business and engineering.
Builds the culture that keeps operators inside the pods.