Deloitte Launches Edisyl to Sell Expert Knowledge Packs for AI

Deloitte launched Edisyl on November 12, 2026, a Boston-based enterprise AI venture that sells Knowledge Packs combining curated domain expertise with a company's own proprietary information.

The company emerged from Deloitte's July 2026 acquisition of Flipside Crypto's AI business. Flipside's entire 24-person operating team joined the new company. Edisyl sits inside D71 Ventures, Deloitte's portfolio for AI-native businesses, which provides staged funding and hands-on company-building support alongside Deloitte's industry reach to create standalone ventures.

What problem does Edisyl solve?

Edisyl targets organizations that already run AI assistants and agents but lack business-specific context for specialized work. Generic models don't know a firm's terminology, policies or field-specific judgment. Deloitte says Edisyl's packs let existing AI systems answer business-specific questions with supporting sources and professional judgment attached.

Dave Balter, Flipside's former chief executive and now an Edisyl co-founder, framed the gap in terms of expertise that sits outside conventional corporate data: "What AI tools can't access is the judgment of the person who has worked a specific problem for 20 years. That's what we set out to package, and it's why the annotation layer matters just as much as, if not more than, the interface."

How do the two pack components work?

Each Knowledge Pack has two halves, built and installed as a unit:

• Domain Pack: a curated collection of field-specific material, annotated by practicing experts and updated on an ongoing basis. Edisyl's product site says it can draw on partner and market data, government and regulatory material, and standards and codes. Agent fleets assemble and update those resources, with subject-matter experts directing the work.
• Proprietary Pack: an organization's own terminology, definitions, policies and data, which remain under its control.

A semantic layer under both components maps the terminology in company systems to the words employees actually use.

Who owns the deployment?

Customers own the pack. Edisyl says buyers can install a Knowledge Pack in their own cloud or on their premises and use it with Claude, Codex, Gemini and Copilot. Portability lets the pack move between AI systems rather than require a fresh build for each tool.

The design goal is a knowledge layer that outlives the model underneath it. Edisyl treats context as an asset with owners, versions and ongoing maintenance costs — not as a disposable prompt.

Who is building the first packs?

The first packs are still in development with design partners and named domain experts, including Deloitte programs and Fortune 500 organizations across industries. That puts the initial product work directly with the organizations building field-specific knowledge bases.

Who runs the company?

Balter leads the venture as co-founder. His leadership team includes Kyle Fugere as chief operating officer, Jim Myers as chief technology officer, Andrew "Mo" Septimus as chief financial officer, Eric Stone as chief data scientist and Gabriela Serret-Campos as senior vice president of People Success.

Deloitte notes Balter has founded eight companies, including BzzAgent and Smarterer, acquired by dunnhumby and Pluralsight respectively. He subsequently led mergers and acquisitions at both acquirers.

What happened to Flipside's crypto-data business?

The Deloitte transaction excluded Flipside's crypto-data business. Sonaverse Inc. bought that unit separately, leaving Edisyl as a pure enterprise-AI play.

The design-partner work now ties the acquisition to the product strategy: Edisyl's central task is maintaining expert annotation and customer-owned context as a reusable enterprise asset while the AI systems around it keep changing. If the packs deliver, Deloitte will have converted a 24-person crypto-AI team into a venture selling the one thing model vendors don't supply — institutional judgment.