Fast Insights

What Fast Insights does

Fast Insights is a private AI and HPC infrastructure consulting firm based in Denver, Colorado. The company delivers consulting services and solution design — rather than proprietary storage or compute products — to organizations running AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads, principally medical research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and AI research labs. Its core offering positions a unified "AI-ready data platform" combining high-performance flash storage, exabyte-scale predictable linear scaling, high-throughput ingestion, data reduction technology, zero-trust-compliant global access, and high availability, integrated as a single simplified stack. The firm explicitly relies on "industry-leading tools and platforms from the most innovative companies" as the technological substrate, distinguishing itself through integration expertise and consulting rather than first-party technology.

The firm operates a consultative, sales-led go-to-market with the Founder and CEO, Bob Ghia, personally driving lead generation, client relationships, and content. Revenue is generated through custom, quote-based professional services engagements — no standard pricing tiers, rate cards, or contractual minimums are publicly disclosed — with stated use cases spanning drug discovery acceleration, exabyte-scale model training, and next-generation genome sequencing. Target segments include pharmaceutical and life sciences R&D, AI/ML and HPC research organizations, and genomics/precision medicine. Marketing consists of a corporate website, the CEO-authored "2 minute Fast Insights" bimodal email newsletter, and direct outreach; there is no reseller or partner channel and no named customer logos.

Operationally, Fast Insights is a micro-entity with 1–10 employees and only the CEO publicly identified. It is founder-owned with no institutional backers, no disclosed funding, and no parent company. The firm commits 10% of revenue to three charitable organizations (American Diabetes Association, ALS Association, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital). No patents, regulatory actions, awards, third-party certifications, revenue figures, or named customer references are disclosed in the public record.

Name

Fast Insights

Legal name

Fast Insights

Website

https://fastinsightsai.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fast Insights is a Denver-based, founder-led consulting firm providing AI and HPC infrastructure expertise to medical, pharmaceutical, and AI research organizations, delivering custom engagements that integrate third-party exabyte-scale data platform tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI and HPC Infrastructure Consulting

NAICS

Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Analytics & AI Consulting (BPAHAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Platforms for Drug Discovery & Experiment Optimization (HLAGAJAO), HPC-as-a-Product / On-Prem Managed HPC (Integrated Hardware + Ops) (HDACAOAK), AI/HPC Converged Systems (Hybrid Training/Simulation) (HDACAOAD)

Keywords

• AI infrastructure consulting
• HPC infrastructure solutions
• Exabyte data platform
• Enterprise AI consulting
• High performance computing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. AI/HPC Infrastructure Consulting: Fast Insights generates revenue through consulting engagements, providing expertise and guidance on AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The company leverages industry-leading tools and platforms to deliver measurable outcomes to clients. The model is project/engagement-based professional services with recurring advisory components.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Fast Insights delivers AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure consulting to medical, pharmaceutical, and AI research organizations. The company combines an AI-ready exabyte-scale data platform with professional services, enabling clients to ingest, store, train, and analyze petabyte- to exabyte-scale datasets with predictable linear scale, high-performance flash, Zero Trust compliance, and data reduction at archive cost. Engagements are consultative, leveraging industry-leading partner technology and the founder's expertise to deliver measurable outcomes such as faster drug R&D, genome sequencing, and AI/ML model training.

Product overview

Fast Insights provides a single unified AI/HPC infrastructure platform combined with consulting services. The platform delivers high-performance flash, exabyte predictable linear scale, high throughput, resiliency, high availability, global data access, AI-ready data platform capabilities, and data reduction technology—all integrated into one simple-to-use AI platform operating at archive costs. The company also offers consulting services leveraging AI/ML, inference, neural networks, and predictive analytics solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI/HPC Infrastructure Consulting Consulting engagements delivered to enterprises in medical, pharmaceutical, and AI research sectors that help clients design, deploy, and operate AI and HPC infrastructure at exabyte scale. The service leverages industry-leading partner tools and platforms, with the founder providing direct advisory and solution-development expertise covering AI/ML, inference, neural networks, and predictive analytics.
• AI/HPC Infrastructure Platform A unified AI and HPC data platform combining high-performance flash storage, exabyte predictable linear scale, high throughput ingestion, resiliency, high availability, global data access, Zero Trust architecture, and proprietary data reduction technology, delivered as a simple-to-use AI platform at archive costs. Offered in conjunction with consulting services to enterprises operating large-scale AI/ML and HPC workloads.

Quantifiable outcome

• Elimination of traditional performance vs. simplicity trade-off at exabyte scale
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Industry-Leading Technology Companies and Platforms (unspecified)coreTechnology or IntegrationFast Insights partners with and leverages industry-leading tools and platforms from the most innovative companies to deliver AI/HPC infrastructure solutions. The specific names of partner companies are not disclosed on the website. These partnerships enable Fast Insights to offer a comprehensive, integrated solution stack and reduce clients' investment risk by relying on proven, established technology providers alongside their consulting expertise.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Global consulting incumbent where Fast Insights' founder previously worked; Accenture runs large-scale data, analytics, and AI/HPC transformation practices serving pharma and life sciences, and represents the upper bound on competition for enterprise advisory engagements.
• DDN (DataDirect Networks): Established leader in HPC and AI data storage infrastructure, serving pharma, genomics, and large research organizations; relevant as the dominant incumbent in the exabyte AI/HPC data infrastructure space that Fast Insights consults on.
• Slalom: U.S.-headquartered technology and business consulting firm with healthcare/life-sciences vertical depth; competes for similar AI and data platform transformation engagements with enterprise pharma and research buyers.
• Vast Data: AI data platform vendor offering exabyte-scale storage with simplified architecture — directly aligned with the 'eliminating performance vs. simplicity trade-off' value proposition Fast Insights articulates on behalf of its partners.

Direct peers

• BioTeam: BioTeam is a scientific computing and HPC consulting firm that serves life sciences, pharma, genomics, and biomedical research organizations — a near-identical target customer profile and consulting-led delivery model to Fast Insights.
• R Systems: Digital engineering and analytics services provider with HPC, data platform, and AI consulting capabilities, often serving enterprise and research customers — comparable in scope and delivery model to a small AI/HPC consultancy.

Emerging players

• Hammerspace: High-performance parallel file system and data orchestration vendor targeting AI/HPC and exabyte workloads; representative of the partner-platform category that Fast Insights positions around and a potential competitor if it expands its own product footprint.
• Weka: Provider of a high-performance, exabyte-scale data platform for AI and HPC workloads — the type of 'industry-leading tool' Fast Insights likely wraps, and a direct channel competitor if it expands into platform delivery.
• Pavilion Data Systems: High-performance data acceleration platform for AI/ML and HPC workloads; representative of the partner-ecosystem hardware/software category Fast Insights leverages when delivering exabyte-scale infrastructure recommendations.
• DNAnexus: Genomics and biomedical data platform company serving pharma R&D, clinical research, and genome sequencing programs — overlapping with Fast Insights' life sciences and genomics customer segments from a platform perspective.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fast-insights

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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