ENTA · AI & Capital Markets · Sonny Sood

Find the use case.
Prove the value.
Scale the business.

I work with technology companies and their customers to find the use cases worth solving, prove them in pilots, and build the strategy to win and expand.

Market entry · Solution selling · Customer-led pilots · Enterprise growth Sonny Sood · London · Seed to FTSE-250
Enterprise sales has changed

The product is no longer the starting point.

For AI and complex technology, the product's capabilities reach far beyond its first use case. The commercial job is finding where they create the most value.

Traditional GTMCustomer-led commercialisation
Start with the productStart with the customer's workflow
Sell featuresIdentify valuable problems
Demonstrate capabilitiesDevelop a solution around the use case
Offer a generic trialStructure a pilot around measurable outcomes
Close a licenceEstablish a commercial case for adoption
Upsell more seatsExpand into adjacent workflows and business units

The best enterprise relationships don't begin with a sales pitch. They begin with understanding what the customer is trying to achieve.

How I work

From opportunity to adoption.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Find the market and the problem.

    Map the market, the economic buyers and the workflows. Find the use cases worth pursuing.

  2. 02

    Design

    Build the solution with the customer.

    With customer teams and product engineers: workflows, agents, integrations, pricing.

  3. 03

    Prove

    Turn interest into evidence.

    Design partnerships and structured pilots with sponsorship, success criteria and measurable outcomes.

  4. 04

    Win

    Navigate the institution.

    Account strategy, the buying committee, legal, risk and procurement, and the case for adoption.

  5. 05

    Expand

    Make what works repeatable.

    Repeatable propositions, playbooks and partnerships across customers, workflows and business units.

What problems I solve

Where I can help.

Entering a new market

Your technology fits several markets. Which customers and use cases first?

Finding product-market fit

Customers are interested, but the use case or the commercial value isn't clear yet.

Turning pilots into enterprise growth

The pilot worked. Turning it into adoption and expansion hasn't.

Selected work

Selected work.

Copper

Product commercialisation, strategic partnerships and enterprise sales for institutional settlement.

copper.co ↗
SyntropyX

Institutional customer discovery, commercial positioning and strategic design partnerships.

syntropyx.com ↗
Crymbo

Commercial playbook, positioning and enterprise pipeline for compliance infrastructure.

crymbo.com ↗
Coinchange

Retail-to-B2B repositioning, product consolidation and enterprise pipeline.

coinchange.io ↗
Nominis

Use-case focus under FCA, MiCA and ADGM; demand generation and pipeline.

nominis.io ↗
Untangle AI

Use-case definition, positioning and go-to-market for enterprise AI interpretability.

untangle.ai ↗
Yaspa

Board advisory on institutional go-to-market and capital markets.

yaspa.com ↗
Systm

Board advisory on go-to-market and capital markets.

systm.xyz ↗
Avail

Institutional segment mapping and first-account strategy.

availproject.org ↗
Albertine

Stablecoin on-ramp design: provider selection, compliance flow and settlement.

albertineapp.com ↗
Manifest

Repositioning, curator network and capital activation for tokenised private credit.

manifest.finance ↗
Dopp Finance

Market structure and incentive architecture to bootstrap volume.

dopp.finance ↗
Rho Trading

Institutional liquidity bootstrapping, fee and risk frameworks for a new venue.

rho.trading ↗
Byzantine

Institutional capital markets and vault architecture for treasuries.

byzantine.fi ↗
IG Group

Market-entry strategy, product architecture and commercial operating model for digital assets.

ig.com ↗
Bluechain

Licensing, scheme partnerships and EMEA commercial build from employee one.

bluechain.com ↗
Ericsson Wallet

Regulatory model, vendor selection and rollout plan for lending on wallet across 24 markets.

ericsson.com ↗
Wimpole

AI agents and product for private healthcare practices.

wimpole.io ↗
Templewood

Founder: agentic due-diligence platform for onchain vaults.

templewood.io ↗
Netopia

Buy-side diligence and post-acquisition capital markets and go-to-market mandate.

netopia.ro ↗
Endava

Private-equity operating partner: technology diligence and post-acquisition go-to-market.

endava.com ↗
Why me

Both sides of the table.

Sonny Sood
Sonny Sood
Founder, ENTA · London

A career in capital markets: sell side, buy side, and building the infrastructure institutions depend on. I've been the customer evaluating the product, the founder building it and the operator selling it.

Trained on the buy side · Tested as a founder · Paid on the sell side
  • The trader

    Fifteen years on credit and trading desks

    Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, ING. I sat on the committees your story has to survive.

  • The founder

    Founded, built, exited

    Funda, zero to acquisition. I know what it costs to own the number.

  • The seller

    Solutions commercialised and handed over

    Copper, SyntropyX, Crymbo, Coinchange, IG. Institutional products taken from first close to running engines, and handed over.

Ways to work together

Three ways in.

Market entry

Where to play, and how to enter.

Markets, customers and use cases. The positioning and strategy to enter.

Solution development

Design it with the customer.

Design with target customers, structure pilots, prove the value.

Enterprise growth

Win and expand the account.

The commercial case, the buying committee, and a repeatable way to win and expand.

Project-based or ongoing. One or two at a time.

What it feels like

In the market. With the customer.

  1. 01

    Customer conversations, not assumptions

    We work with actual buyers and users to establish where the value lies.

  2. 02

    Product and commercial teams together

    Solutions are shaped around customer workflows, technical feasibility and commercial economics.

  3. 03

    Evidence before expansion

    Pilots have measurable outcomes, clear ownership and a commercial decision at the end.

  4. 04

    Built to scale

    Successful solutions become repeatable propositions and processes your team can own.

Open to one new engagement, or the right full-time seat

Bring me the opportunity.

A new market, a product looking for its use case, or a pilot that needs to become a business. Tell me what you're building and where you're stuck.