Notes from the new procurement era.
How enterprises buy software now: marketplace mechanics, committed spend, and the AI-era stack.

FORT LAUDERDALE





An intimate, peer-level dinner with security and platform leaders. Off the record, no slides, no vendor pitch. Hosted by Ghost with PointFive, 7AI, JetStream, and Snyk.

BOSTON






An intimate, peer-level dinner with executives and technology leaders. Off the record, no slides, no vendor pitch. Hosted by Ghost with Factory, PointFive, 7AI, Realm Security, and Upwind Security.
Posture told you what could happen. Runtime tells you what is.
Upwind raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation for runtime-first cloud security, then became a Cisco Cloud Control launch partner. Why the posture era produced backlogs instead of security, and what changes when the sensor sits inside the workload.
The enterprise AI data finally exists. Glean is all over it.
a16z published hard data on where enterprise AI is actually landing. Glean owns one of the three winning categories. Why it anchors our portfolio, and what the data says about how to buy AI.
The first wave of AI coding made engineers faster. The next wave changes what an engineer does.
Factory just raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation for autonomous engineering agents that run the full software lifecycle. Why it is on our radar, and should be on yours.
The AI bill became a black box. Token FinOps is how you open it.
Why token-based billing breaks the FinOps playbook, what PointFive's AI efficiency platform actually does, and what enterprise buyers should take from it.
The SOC's real bottleneck was never the alerts. It was attention.
The SOC was never an alert problem. It was an attention problem. Why the shift from playbook to reasoning is the real inflection point in security operations, and why we partnered with 7AI.
Advisor360° Optimizes Procurement Strategy with Ghost
How Advisor360°, the Autonomous Financial Platform™, partnered with Ghost to align pricing, simplify procurement through AWS Marketplace, and unlock an additional 1% in AWS credits.