GSD Venture Studios Podcasts by Gary Fowler · 2026-06-30 · 30 min
Join Garth Coleman, CEO of Canvas Envision, for a pragmatic look at the next massive battleground in enterprise technology: Vertical AI. For the past few years, the tech sector has been fixated on generalized LLMs capable of writing poems or summarizing emails. Yet, these horizontal models remain completely blind to the specialized data sets, rigid compliance demands, and intricate 3D spatial models that govern heavy industry. Drawing from an elite two-decade trajectory at global product lifecycle titan Dassault Systèmes, Garth explains why the multi-trillion-dollar manufacturing sector cannot be optimized by a generic chat prompt - and how embedding AI directly into specialized engineering pipelines is the only way to solve the industrial workforce's greatest knowledge crisis. Insights You’ll Learn: The Vertical AI Thesis: Why horizontal, general-purpose models hit an immediate structural wall when faced with domain-specific industrial data and complex 3D CAD environments. Manufacturing’s Overlooked Crisis: How a widening frontline skills gap and aging workforce collide with hyper-complex engineering changes to spike production errors and scrap costs.
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