 Hello everybody, welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast. We are live here from beautiful Honolulu a PTC 24 I am here with Robert Davidson founder and CEO of carbon technologies. Thanks for joining me Robert. No, thank you for having me Yeah, absolutely. So we were actually Went to your very beautiful Lou out party that you all hosted on the islands. When was that two days ago? Saturday night. Yeah, I mean beautiful night beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous Really amazing events and so you all have a big presence here at PTC so we want to get some insight out to our our JSA TV viewers about what you've got going on So I think because you've never been on JSA TV before it might be in order for you to just give us a quick run down of Who carbon is and and why you all were founded? All right, great, and thank you for the time. So as you mentioned carbon is new So we're a new startup company. We're looking to solve a critical aspect of the industry that I think has been hanging out there for way Too long. I Historically ran central Lincoln quest international network for 18 years and my single largest issue was working within dealing with the data center operators If you think about it, most of the data center operators are focused on you How do the cell services and it's a very bifurcated market? So I said well someone's got to take a look at how people want to consume So I took a step back and said I'm going to solve these problems So that's really what carbon does and what lattice our platform that went live last month effectively does So if you think about it, there are hundreds of data center operators out there any global telco or enterprise is going to be working with 40 6 to 80 a hundred of them that means a hundred different web portals business processes billing formats That gets to be an incredibly manual and incredibly analog process to sort through and figure out I had a team of five people who did nothing all day, but manually try to grind through bills order processes trouble ticketing But now carbon lattice is live and has the ability to talk to the API stacks of all the major operators and give people a single view effectively think of us as the Google translate for Data center infrastructure information So bills can come in in a consistent format. You can see your order queue all look the same If there's an escalation you need it, you'll know where it is We'll connect the data to where you need it to be without a number of people needing to do manual rekeys all the time Hmm very focused perfect. Well, that was beautifully stated. It's almost like you've you've given that before It's my pain. Yeah, all I'm doing is solving my single largest problem as an operator of telcos for 18 years, right? That's amazing. Awesome. So so tell us a little bit. Are there any like obviously the the lattice platform is live? Are there any More recent updates about like latest advancements coming out anything that you want to kind of give us the the latest on there Yeah, great. And thank you So the first product offering or function that we've released is with regard to cross-connect orchestration And that leads into the partnership that we've just recently signed with connect base, you know a global Platform for pricing provisioning and ordering of network services that could get you data center to data center in seconds We're partnered with them to get the ability to order flow the cross-connect So for the first time working with them rack to rack including the network So completing that final piece so people can Automatically order and not have to break up orders into little bits and pieces So what you'll be seeing coming from carbon next is what we call expense management carbonates Which effectively will be the market's first platform that will be able to pull your inventory pull your bill match it to your bill To be able to give you an exception report if you think about it How many companies out there are getting hundreds of PDF files from all these data center operators that teams of Analysts have to grind through to try to figure out what doesn't match No one wants to look through another three thousand line invoice, but they want is it a report that says these 20 items don't match Just focus here. We think this will be a huge win. I know when I was at central link I would have loved to be that focused and just honing in on what I needed to work Yeah, excellent excellent. So one last question What is carbon's kind of stake in the sustainability conversation? Everybody's talking about at this conference and all digital infrastructure conferences right now So how are you helping data center operators to be more environmentally focused? Well, we actually have a very interesting spin on that because many of the data center operators that we're speaking to actually produce Information around ESG or compliance around standards. The issue is is that they're all in different formats So it's very hard for their customers base to actually use that information in any really conceivable format So what we're doing is we're saying okay, we're going to connect to all of you We're going to pull in that information and we're going to get it into what we conveniently call sort of a CVR for ESG Royal Yotelco heads out there a call detail record for ESG a standard unit So that people can start to actually use and see what their consumption is in a fashion that they can now plug into their models They can look and put into their systems where we want to see people use that information is Where do I deploy my equipment if I deploy it here versus here? Am I actually achieving a better footprint? So those analysis are very difficult and very manual right now and we see this becoming very critical with the advent of AI People are looking for AI engines to make more decisions about how they're deploying infrastructure For AI to be of any use to anyone it needs access to that information and it needs access to the information In a consumable format that it can actually make analysis around. That's what we do Perfect, I think that's the perfect way to wrap it up. Thank you so much for joining us today Robert Thank you for your time. Yeah, absolutely And thank you to our viewers for hanging out with us here at live from PTC at 24. Happy networking. All right