The platform engineering analyst

The platform engineering analyst

Weave Intelligence is the independent research firm for platform engineering. We cover the discipline as it becomes the operating model for the agentic enterprise.

Tooling landscape

Reference architectures and frameworks you can apply today

Our tooling landscape is modeled after the reference architectures for Agentic Platforms. They are structured on three layers, supporting engineering and other main use cases within the Agentic Enterprise.

Practice areas

Depth in every layer

Depth in every layer

Seven areas where platform engineering is deciding how enterprise IT gets built. Each one carries market guides, reports, interviews, and benchmarks.

The future of enterprise observability is platform-native: automated, standardized, and scalable insights across the entire organization.

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The thesis

Platform engineering as the operating model for the Agentic Enterprise

Platform Engineering moved beyond its initial focus on DevEx and Cloud Infra and is taking over every enterprise that wants to stay ahead.

  • Started as developer experience and self-service: foundational concepts like Platform as a Product and golden paths.

  • Security, cost, observability, and data are all converging into the same unified platform layer.

  • AI Platform design and run the Agent Infrastructure that supports all agentic workflows and users across the enterprise.

300,000+

Practitioners

Practitioners

100+

Global events

Global events

5,000+

Enterprise teams

Enterprise teams

The book

Thinking in Platforms

The book behind the thesis, from Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante.

Read by platform teams at

Flagship report

State of AI in Platform Engineering 2026

Our annual benchmark on how platform teams are actually adopting AI: what they shipped, what they shelved, and what it returned. Built on original survey data from 350 practitioners, published in full and free to read.

For vendors

Work with our analysts

Market positioning

Pressure-test your category story against what practitioners actually say they need. We map your positioning onto the reference architecture, show where buyers place you today, and where your language breaks down.

Research programs

Commission original surveys, market guides, and benchmarks with published methodology. You get the data and the analysis, we keep editorial control, and every finding is disclosed exactly as our own research is.

Analyst briefings

Brief our analysts on what you are building, or bring them to your team for a read on where the market is heading. Sixty minutes, no slideware required, and you keep the written analysis afterwards.

Commissioned work is always labeled, always methodologically independent, and never buys coverage in our research.

Events

Where to find us

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Roundtable: Citizen developers in the enterprise on the rise: What platform teams need to know

Hosted by us

Business analysts and domain experts are building applications with AI and they expect the same infrastructure, security, and governance that professional developers get. Kaspar von Grünberg and SIXT CTO Boyan Dimitrov discuss what platform teams need to build to enable enterprise citizen developers without creating a compliance nightmare.

Introducing Agentic Development Platforms

Hosted by us

The way software gets built is changing structurally. AI coding agents are no longer tools inside the developer's editor, they are becoming actors across the entire software development lifecycle, and the platform needs to evolve to support them. Kaspar von Grünberg introduces the Agentic Development Platform: what it is, how it differs from an Internal Developer Platform, and why organizations that redesign their platforms now will operate on a different productivity curve from those that don't.

How to prepare for the agents: Platform engineering executive roundtable

Hosted by us

Enterprise software organizations are at an inflection point. The gap between teams that have structured their platforms for agentic development and those that haven't is widening every quarter, and it compounds. Kaspar von Grünberg and Ajay Chankramath bring together engineering leaders for a closed roundtable on what it actually takes to prepare an enterprise software organization for the agentic era: the platform changes, the governance challenges, and the organizational decisions that matter most.

RAISE Summit

Industry event

AMD Advancing AI conference

Industry event

The Platform Clinic in the age of AI: Fix what's not working, identify new investments

Hosted by us

Join Ajay Chankramath and Mallory Haigh for the first Platform Clinic of our virtual series, a working session on what's actually breaking on platforms in the age of AI. Bring a real problem. Leave with a clear read on where your platform gaps sit across adoption, value measurement, and AI readiness, plus practical next steps you can act on straight away.

Observability + Platform Engineering: The Market Guide

Hosted by us

Observability is no longer a developer concern; it's a platform infrastructure problem. Join two of the authors of the Market Guide for Observability Trends in Platform Engineering as they unpack what's changing: the shift to platform-owned instrumentation, cost as a first-class signal, and why agentic AI is forcing platform teams to rethink the entire observability stack.

Thinking in Platforms: Thrive in the agentic era

Hosted by us

Ahead of the August 2026 launch of Thinking in Platforms, join authors Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante for a live session on platform engineering as the operating model for the AI era. See how leading organizations turn recurring knowledge work into reliable production systems, and why a strong platform is the real prerequisite for AI-driven productivity.

Domain-driven Platform Engineering at scale in financial services: A leadership panel

Hosted by us

Three senior platform engineering leaders from Fiserv, Visa, and AvidXchange share what's different about building platforms in financial regulated industries - where compliance, scale, and legacy systems intersect.

TailscaleUp 2026

Industry event

VMWare Explore

Industry event

Platform Engineering book club: Thinking in Platforms

Hosted by us

Join us for a book club session on Thinking in Platforms: Platform engineering as the operating model for work in the AI era, with authors Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante joining us live.

Coder executive forum: Building the agentic enterprise

Hosted by us

AI agents are moving fast, but speed without control creates a new set of executive problems meaning runaway token costs, questions of ownership and sovereignty, and a bottleneck that has quietly shifted from writing code to everything downstream of it. This executive forum brings senior leaders together to work through those problems in the open, not to be talked at, but to contribute. These are hard, shared problems, and the people in this room are already living them.

AI Infra Summit

Industry event

Lead Dev New York

Industry event

Regulated by design: Where compliance can't fail

Hosted by us

Senior platform engineering leaders from CVS Health and Empower share how they turn compliance from a gate into a guardrail, in industries where audits, regulators, and legacy systems shape every delivery decision.

AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026

Industry event

HumaX Amsterdam

Industry event

AI Engineer Paris

Industry event

PlatformCon Paris

Hosted by us

EVOLVE by Cortex

Industry event

Enterprise AI Summit

Industry event

AI Engineer

Industry event

SREcon EU

Industry event

AI Platform Leaders: Executive conversations & bites

Hosted by us

SwampUP Barcelona

Industry event

GTC NVIDIA Europe

Industry event

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

Industry event

HashiConf Global

Industry event

Platform Engineering Meetup: Agents broke the balance (& how to fix it)

Hosted by us

PE Leaders Breakfast Sydney: Agentic Development in the Enterprise

Hosted by us

PlatformCon Sydney

Hosted by us

GitHub Universe

Industry event

House of Kube @ PlatformCon Sydney (Yacht Edition)

Hosted by us

PlatformCon São Paulo

Hosted by us

Building the agentic enterprise with GKE

Hosted by us

Executive roundtable: Is AI bringing bare metal back? On GPUs, Neoclouds & platforms with Latitude

Hosted by us

Build your own managed K8s in 2 hours: Hosted Control Planes @ KubeCon Salt Lake City

Hosted by us

House of Kube @ KubeCon Salt Lake City

Hosted by us

Executive roundtable: How to build an agent-ready platform with open source tools with WSO2

Hosted by us

AI Engineer Code Summit

Industry event

Executive roundtable: Scaling secure and governed AI platforms

Hosted by us

Platform Engineering Meetup: Building the agentic future

Hosted by us

DevOpsDays Barcelona

Industry event

QCon SF

Industry event

Microsoft Ignite

Industry event

PortCon

Industry event

AWS Re:Invent

Industry event

House of Kube AWS re:invent

Hosted by us

Black Hat Europe 2026

Industry event

AI Engineer London

Industry event

PlatformCon San Francisco

Hosted by us

AgenticCon San Francisco

Hosted by us

HumanX

Industry event

GTC NVIDIA

Industry event

KubeCon Europe

Industry event

Google Next

Industry event

Red Hat Summit

Industry event

PlatformCon London 2027

Hosted by us

PlatformCon New York 2027

Hosted by us

All Research

Practice Areas

Observability + Platform Engineering

FinOps + Platform Engineering

Enterprise Model Layer

Application Security

Enterprise Identity Stack

AI Platform Teams

Agentic Enterprise

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