New York: where AI meets Wall Street and media
New York isn’t the Bay Area, and that’s the point. Wall Street and the world’s densest cluster of financial institutions share zip codes with a media industry that now quietly consumes more AI in production than most tech hubs. Hugging Face’s New York office, Runway for generative video, Scale AI in Manhattan, Bloomberg’s in-house language models, and the AI teams inside Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley — they all run within walking distance. Startups from Flatiron to Brooklyn build on top of that demand.
The New York AI market is pragmatic. ROI comes up in the first meeting. Vendors ship secure, auditable systems that plug into enterprise stacks, or they don’t come back.
Known companies and institutions
- Bloomberg for financial data, terminals and in-house LLM work
- Hugging Face NYC for open source AI at the center of the Flatiron scene
- Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and the broader Wall Street AI buyers
Relevant use cases for New York
- Copilots for analysts and portfolio managers, wired deep into CRM and data rooms
- Document intelligence for legal, compliance and M&A workflows
- Content and editorial assistants for media, publishing and marketing teams
- Customer ops agents for DTC brands and e-commerce scale-ups headquartered in NYC
Talking about a project
New York runs 13 or 14 hours behind Seoul, so I ship overnight while you sleep. Book a 30 minute intro via Cal.com or email me directly.