A consulting firm's decades of expertise should be the starting point for its AI.
At @capitolai, we’re helping firms like EY turn that expertise into world-class work product, with their own methods, sources and standards built in. For consulting and financial services, our ambition is to make that institutional memory useful in every assignment.
This new film introduces what we’re building, and the conviction behind it:
You can’t prompt your way to trust. You have to design it.
2026 is the year water cooler conversations go from ideas to full flight in a matter of days on the @capitolai platform. Meet the Prop 40 tracker. It's an interactive voter information source that two members of our team came up with and built in a day because they found California's paper voter information pamphlet confusing.
Check it out here 🔗 prop40.usecapitol.com
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote that a company renting an AI model “essentially pays for intelligence twice”:
Once in money, and again in the proprietary knowledge it has to reveal to make the model useful.
This mechanism is called the learning loop: every prompt and correction captures some of the company's know-how.
That knowledge is distilled and, with a closed model, the provider keeps that information.
If your usage data is worth more than the token cost to serve, providers might end up paying you to use their models. The precedent exists: OpenAI created an opt-in program that gives accounts up to 1M free tokens a day on certain models in exchange for training rights on that traffic.
Chips can be rented and algorithms can be leaked or distilled, but the prompts and corrections flowing through a model compound privately for whoever holds them.
Government services touch us every day, moments big, small, and sometimes frustrating. Accessing them should be simple. Good design is how that’s done.
Good design is an experience that just works. And my dear friend @jgebbia and the @ndstudio just made the biggest step forward in digitally enabled government services for the United States, since the internet was invented.
What impressed me most was everything Joe and his team did to make this pipe dream a reality. He brought together tier 1 talent from industry and worked across government to turn a vision into something people can actually use. That takes craftsmanship, creativity, and care. This is a bi-partisan foundation where the bar is high.
Congratulations to the National Design Studio. 10/10, no notes. 🇺🇸
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Looks like today may be a record day for token volume % of open models on Vercel AI Gateway:
🟦 Open 78.4% 🟨 Closed 21.6%
While spend 💲 usually tells a different story, #3 and #4 today are Moonshot AI & DeepSeek. Adding Z.ai, their combined spend surpasses OpenAI (#2).
(Do note that's the spend for inference of the model across providers (mostly in the US), not revenue going directly to the open weight labs.)
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Deep expertise. More possibilities.
We’re working with EY to turn years of know-how into AI systems built around how experts actually think.
Meet EY × Capitol →
capitol.ai/case-studies/ey
Proud of the extraordinary work @capitolai’s team is doing for @ey at the tip of the spear. Across EY’s 400,000+ person global organization, Capitol is bringing advanced, exquisitely designed AI into mission critical environments.
Check out the case study below. MUCH more to come soon. 🤠
capitol.ai/case-studies/ey
Trojan horse has been the first slide of @capitolai’s deck for months. Chicken’s coming home to roost!
🇺🇸 JD Vance says he finds it strange that frontier AI companies keep coming to Washington and asking to be regulated.
“𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦.”
When the people building the horse keep asking you to make the door narrower, it’s probably worth checking who already fits through it.
Writer: Oliver
Shaun Modi retweeted
Your AI strategy is a very long prompt. We should probably fix that.
Capitol AI encodes your company’s knowledge, rules, and systems into workflows teams can design, test, and reuse.
How much of your company are you explaining every time?
Joined The Innovators & Investors Podcast to talk @capitolai, enterprise AI, government, finance, and why this is one hell of a time to be building. Give it a listen. youtube.com/watch?v=PLD2nBHO…
Value accrues to business outcomes, not tokens.
cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token…
This was fun!
Last week, Capitol AI CEO @ShaunModi joined senior defense and intelligence leaders including former @DefenseIntel Agency Director LTG Robert (Bob) Ashley Jr., Maj Gen Robert Kinney of the DIA, and Cameron Stanley, the United States @DeptofWar’s Chief Digital & AI Officer, for “From Frontier to Field: Scaling Mission AI through Alliance and Culture.” The challenge is getting AI out of pilots and into real mission use, with the trust, infrastructure, and operating discipline to make it work at scale. Thanks to @GDIT for bringing the group together.
Read more here:
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