20+ YEARS IN DIGITAL; 12+ YEARS OF AI

Strategic AI Partners on AWS

As a strategic AI partner for AWS, OpenAI, Anthropic and Palo
Alto Networks, Metal Toad helps your organization to use artificial intelligence to build the engines of your future growth. Our focus is aligning AI’s capabilities with your most valuable business opportunities—not burning tokens.

With 4 AWS Competencies and 50+ AWS Customer Launches, we have helped industry leaders like Sony, Daimler, the Emmys, FOX, Siemens & DC Comics. With staff in both North America and Brazil, we support a diverse group of customers across multiple time zones.

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AWS AI ASSESSMENT

How does Metal Toad create AI Success?

The AWS AI Assessment is a program designed to evaluate opportunities, align capabilities with your organization’s goals, and deliver a tailored plan for succesful, future-proof AI adoption.

In the SMB Assessment, each stage is planned against KPIs - and many are eligible for AWS funding.

Ready for the AI era? We’ll show you how to get there.

 

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AWS AI ASSESSMENT

How does Metal Toad create AI Success?

The AWS AI Assessment is a program designed to evaluate opportunities, align capabilities with your organization’s goals, and deliver a tailored plan for succesful, future-proof AI adoption.

In the SMB Assessment, each stage is planned against KPIs - and many are eligible for AWS funding.

Ready for the AI era? We’ll show you how to get there.

DISCOVER THE AWS AI ASSESSMENT

You're not late to AI. You're right on time.

Only 16% of most workforces are natural adopters —2.5% innovators plus 13.5% early adopters. AI adoption is just entering the early majority, so there's still time to do it right.

Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (1962)

AI DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Ship faster, spend smarter

The top reason AI fails is lack of planning – according to Gartner, 36% of AI POCs failed to uncover additional needs to address
before deploying a solution.

“By 2029, over 70% of enterprise agentic AI initiatives will fail due to widespread agent-washing missing the importance of use-case optimization, user risk tolerance, compliance and audit requirements.”

Source: Gartner

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Keys to organizational AI success

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AI Assessment Phases

1. USE CASE DISCOVERY

  • Whiteboarding sessions

  • Tech Deep Dives

  • Interviews

2. DATA READINESS

  • Data Sources

  • Data Quality

  • Accessibility / Integration

3. SECURITY & RISK MIGRATION

  • Security Posture

  • Risk Assessment

  • Mitigation Strategies
4. MODEL & AGENT EVALUATION

  • Performance & Capabilities

  • Cost & Efficiency

  • Reliability & Consistency

5. ARCHITECTURE DOCUMENTATION

  • High Level AWS Architecture

  • System Integration Approach

  • Resource Shaping for POC

6. BUSINESS CASE & ROI ANALYSIS

  • Total Cost of Ownership

  • Define Success & KPI's

  • Executive Summary

7. ETHICS & WORKFORCE ADOPTION

  • Considerations for Ethical Usage

  • Workforce Adoption

8. END OF THE ASSESSMENT

  • AWS Funding Approval*

Cost: $15K or FREE*

*Subjected to availability and approval from AWS.

SPECIAL OFFER

The Enterprise Assessment

Includes all of the SMB Assessment and the following:

AI DLC WORKSHOP

AI DLC is a methodology replacing Agile that unlocks increased team productivity.

AGENTIC CODING TOOL SELECTION

Claude Code, Kiro, or Codex? Which AI IDE your organization is normalizing on is critical.

 

PROMPT MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

Evaluation of current prompt management standards and creation of a custom enterprise system.

AI GOVERNANCE DOCUMENTATION

Creation of comprehensive AI governance documentation and executive training around use of Chatbots, SaaS, and software development.

Cost: $30K or FREE*

*Subjected to availability and approval from AWS.

THE AI ROADMAP

From a 4-8 week assessment to a successful global AI release

The AI Assessment is the starting point your business needs to uncover the real potential of AI with AWS Funding. With that in hands, from PoC to MVP to feedback, hardening until Global Release, with a continuous support & features and KPI reporting to measure against established KPIs, your AI Success is guaranteed by expertise and method.

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Our customers say it best

  • “In addition to being a highly competent technical vendor they never failed to call out issues proactively and ensure that all our needs - both at a business and technical level - were being met.  I consider Metal Toad a true technology partner.”

    Jason Krajewski Director of Truck Connectivity at Daimler Trucks North America

  • “One of the best relationships we have ever had with a vendor.”

    Tom Paasch Product Manager at Warn Industries

  • “The cloud computing environment that Metal Toad built provided significant savings on our traditional in-house hosted environment while delivering a more reliable site, and providing a better customer experience.”

    Gerard Lomonaco VP Operations/Technology, Sony

  • “Metal toad's ability to solve problems with a humble approach has earned them a lot of respect with everyone who's had a chance to work with them throughout our organization. I look forward to collaborating on more projects in the future.”

    Nathan Johnson CoverOregon

  • “ They have been a great partner and easy to work with. We can't say enough positive things about Metal Toad - technically competent, professional, and probably most important, they understand customer service”

    Joe Holland Securesheet Technologies

  • “We needed a way to show our senior leadership team that marketing was producing results, and that’s hard when your metrics are scattered. This dashboard saved the day.”

    Natasha Brown MARKETING MANAGER, DRIVE
POWERFUL FEATURES

Why Choose Us as Your AWS Managed Services Provider?

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GROW YOUR BUSINESS

Identify high-impact initiatives, quick wins, and areas that require additional discovery to guide your strategic planning.

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OPTIMIZE FOR COSTS

Manage your cloud spend and identify architectural, operational and financial ways to drive savings

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OPERATE EFFICIENTLY

Free your business from the distraction of cloud operations maintenance and monitoring.

WE DELIVER THE BEST

Case Studies

We are proud to be trusted by some of the most well-known brands in the world. Learn more about how we've set our clients to success.

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ABC
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

The sales team at ABC was feeling a lot like substitute teachers, bogged down with cumbersome old tech and processes at crucial moments.

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

A clear solution emerged: a single app that the sales team could use with any mobile device or computer

 
IMPACT

The new system revamped the entire sales process, making it faster, easier, and more efficient. 

Wheel of Fortune
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

Whenever a big sweepstake was launched, avid fans would descend on the website and often overtax its servers. 

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

Moving the site’s servers to the cloud provided the elasticity Wheel of Fortune needed. 

 
IMPACT

When the team launches new sweepstakes, preventative scaling is used to double, triple, or even quadruple their capacity to match expected traffic.

DC
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

DC Entertainment site is routinely crawled by third parties looking for security vulnerabilities or new leaks ahead of announcements.

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

ML Log evaluation. We started by setting up a data pipeline that replicated the manual process Metal Toad had been doing for years

 
IMPACT

Quickly identified new threats. The ML Log Monitoring solution quickly found two groups of IPs for evaluation. 

Fox
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

Fox needed a transformation to streamline operations, maximize efficiency, and optimize coordination. 

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

The new platform will replace legacy systems with a solution that unifies viewer experience and aligns operations across the enterprise. 

 
IMPACT

Fox now has in hand the detailed plan they need to make Fox Mississippi a reality.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

When approaching Metal Toad for a potential partnership, they made it clear that their current website was falling short.

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
Metal Toad improved usability, access to interactive modules, and site-wide responsiveness while optimizing Orchestra content for online search.
 
 
IMPACT
Visitor experience enjoyed vastly improved overall site usability, including ordering tickets, access to events calendar, quick-and-easy donations, and social sharing.
 
Sony
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BUSINESS PROBLEM

Search results were stale, poorly ranked, and simply not delivering the content that users demanded. 

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
Metal Toad proposed a custom search solution that was scalable, reliable, and free from licensing costs or vendor lock-in.
 
 
IMPACT
A 40% increase in relevant hit rates, drastically reduced search page load times, and overall improved visitor satisfaction were reported within the first week of launch.
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