Most companies have spent years buying tools, running pilots, and building dashboards - and they still can't answer the questions leadership needs answered. The problem isn't the technology. It's that no one fixed the foundation first.

Ilan Man is the Founder and CEO of Paradox Machines, a data and AI consultancy incubated through the Infinity Venture Studio in New York. A Data & AI leader with deep hands-on experience across the full stack strategy, engineering, and analytics - Ilan has built and scaled data functions at high-growth companies, including an exited consultancy, across multiple industries.

Paradox Machines exists because he kept seeing the same problems repeat: too much technology, not enough partnership, and teams left holding platforms that weren't delivering value. Paradox Machines is the company he wishes exis ...