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Technology & Media

Software, platforms and media businesses have to grow, defend margin and rebuild around AI at the same time. The next advantage sits inside the product organisation — in decision loops, distribution economics and the platforms that let teams ship without breaking each other.

Our view

Where the sector is going, and why it matters now.

The technology and media sector is going through its second major re-platforming in a decade. Cloud consolidation, generative AI, an unforgiving cost of capital and evolving content and platform regulation are all moving in parallel.

The winners are re-organising around product economics, not headcount. They are investing in the platforms and data foundations that let smaller teams ship faster. And they are treating AI not as a feature launch but as a change in how the whole organisation designs, sells and serves.

Market challenges

The pressures we see, in the language leaders actually use.

01

Growth after easy money

Growth strategies that assumed cheap capital and unlimited paid acquisition no longer clear the hurdle rate.

02

AI-native competition

New entrants and re-tooled incumbents are compressing timelines for feature parity and pricing pressure.

03

Platform and content regulation

Data-protection, competition and content regimes now shape roadmap trade-offs, not just legal review.

04

Talent density and cost

Engineering and product talent is expensive, distributed and increasingly AI-augmented — requiring different management models.

05

Distribution economics

App-store, ad-network and streaming economics keep re-writing themselves; product and finance have to react in weeks.

Executive priorities

What CXOs in this sector are trying to solve right now.

  1. Rebuilding growth models around unit economics, retention and monetisation quality.
  2. Standing up internal AI platforms so product teams can safely embed generative capabilities.
  3. Consolidating and modernising data infrastructure to support decision speed at lower cost.
  4. Re-organising go-to-market to match a product-led, AI-augmented sales motion.
How we work

How we engage this sector.

01

Product-economics lens

We reason about strategy through cohort behaviour, unit economics and product surface — not slideware.

02

AI as an operating model

We help product, engineering, data and go-to-market re-organise around AI, not just adopt tools.

03

Ship, measure, repeat

Our engineers work inside the client's stack. We ship real code and calibrate strategy against real telemetry.

Capabilities

The capabilities we bring to bear.

Technology & AI

Sector-specific technology and AI opportunities.

01

AI-native product surfaces

Assistants, copilots and agentic workflows built inside existing products, evaluated on retention and revenue, not novelty.

02

Content generation and rights

Production tooling and rights-management systems that pair generative content with clear provenance and licensing.

03

Growth and retention modelling

Causal and uplift models that direct acquisition spend and lifecycle interventions where they actually change behaviour.

04

Internal developer platforms

Golden paths, evaluation harnesses and cost controls that let product teams ship AI features safely and cheaply.

Selected work

Client work from this sector.

Technology & Media

Growth-Stage Technology Company

Helping a growth-stage software company rebuild its product organisation, data platform and go-to-market motion around generative AI.

The client is now shipping AI-native product surfaces on a defensible platform and reasoning about growth and retention on cohort economics rather than lagging indicators.

Detailed write-up coming soon
Insights

Reading for leaders in this sector.

Laminin Perspectives

What an AI-native product organisation actually looks like

AI-native is not a launch — it is an operating model. Here is how product, engineering, data and go-to-market re-organise when the model becomes part of the product.

Laminin Editorial 8 min read
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Laminin Signals

Provenance is becoming a first-class content requirement

Regulators, platforms and audiences are converging on the same question: where did this content come from? Media businesses need a serious provenance strategy — not an addendum.

Laminin Editorial 5 min read
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Talk to us

Ready to rebuild your product and growth engine around AI?

Bring the roadmap, the numbers or the org chart — whichever is holding you back — and we will show you the shortest credible path forward.

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