Your AI transformation will fail without a system.
Next Lab: The Intelligent Innovation System for Financial Services
AI transformation is where billions will be spent (and wasted) over the next 5 years.
Only an Intelligent Innovation System can connect strategy to action, capital to outcomes, and AI to actual value.
Next Lab gives finance and insurance the system to turn AI ambition into execution.
Turn AI into a system for continuous transformation.
AI creates possibilities faster than most organizations can process them.
Finance and insurance leaders aren’t starved for vision. They’re overwhelmed by the velocity of choice and the cost of guessing wrong.
NextLab filters the noise, structures the chaos, and builds the muscle to turn AI ambition into a repeatable advantage.
How Next Lab works.
We partner with transformation leaders to stand up real, runnable systems—fast.
Next Lab gives your team the tools to:
Systematically identify and prioritize the right AI plays
Most orgs chase noise. Next Portfolio aligns AI bets to capital-building strategy—not hype.
Make strategy stick
AI changes the rules of the innovation game. The Next Lab helps leaders make sure teams play by them from strategy to execution.
Shape bold ideas into fundable bets and scalable outcomes
The Next Lab equips transformation teams to turn fuzzy AI pilots into capital-ready solutions—generating certainty building LFI (Learning From Investment) through discovery-driven development.
Bring rigor to go/no-go
Replace hunches and heroics with structured, capital-aware decision frameworks. AI dashboards show data—Next Criteria drives action.
Don’t chase AI miracles
The Next Lab anchors investment to evidence, ensuring every bet builds real capital—not just burn it.
The Next Lab Innovation Stack.
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What It Reveals: Where effort is wasted chasing weak or ill-defined opportunities
Why It Works: Focuses energy on high-potential, testable opportunities—accelerates validated learning
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What It Reveals: Who holds decision rights—and where approvals stall
Why It Works: Enables fast, transparent progression through stages—builds confidence and accountability
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What It Reveals: How your AI transformation efforts interact, overlap, or compete.
Why It Works: Prioritizes investments based on signal strength and alignment—avoids duplication and drift.
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What It Reveals: What organizational constraints are stalling transformation
Why It Works: Codifies new rules, rhythms, and roles—replaces legacy defaults with adaptive governance
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What It Reveals: Where capital is leaking or being locked in low-learning bets
Why It Works: Shifts from performance-based budgeting to learning-based investment—stops waste early
Who we’re built for.
We’re for the insiders who see the cracks:
Financial execs with bold mandates and old infrastructure.
Insurance leaders stuck between compliance and change.
VCs/PE firms who know “just add AI” doesn’t create value.
Transformation heads tired of being “strategy-adjacent”.
Why now?
AI doesn’t create one big opportunity—it creates a flood of them.
Without a system, the signal gets lost in the noise.
Winners will be those who govern the flow, not those who try to ride the wave.
Why we exist.
We’ve watched transformation fail—buried in slides, stalled in silos, and lost to experiments that never shared what worked.
We built NextLab to change that. A system that captures learning, connects effort, and actually moves the work forward.
Let’s talk.
If you’re a leader building AI transformation in a financial services, and you’d rather get it right than follow the herd:
You’re our kind of person.