LanternPartners.AI Launches to Put the "Main Back in Main Street" and Intelligence Back Into Business

NEW YORK, NY, February 4, 2026 – LanternPartners.AI today announced its launch with a clear mission: put the “Main back in Main Street” by empowering business owners and operators with AI-native operational intelligence to manage and grow their businesses.

Positioned as a disruptor in a market long dominated by slow, expensive, and inflexible enterprise software, LanternPartners.AI introduces LanternBRP™, an AI-native Business Resource Planning platform built for businesses across any vertical. Designed to be streamlined and cost-effective, LanternBRP™ reaches the entire market, including the 99.9% of small to medium sized businesses that make up the “Main Street” of America and the 90% of small to medium-sized businesses that make up the global economy.

Unlike rigid, traditional ERP systems, LanternBRP™ is an agile and efficient SaaS platform configured around industry specific workflows and industry-specific business needs. It replaces fragmented data stacks, expensive license and transaction fees, and disconnected tools while restoring operational intelligence and giving businesses a modern foundation to scale and compete efficiently.

LanternBRP™ is built on an AI-native architecture that continuously improves as businesses operate. The platform integrates data in real time, automates core workflows across finance, sales, operations, and supply chain, nearly every aspect of a business, and delivers predictive insights that help operators identify issues before they become problems. The result is a single, intelligent platform for managing an entire business from one native AI environment.

Ahead of its formal launch, LanternPartners.AI worked with early customers across multiple industry segments to deploy configured instances of LanternBRP™ tailored to each industry’s needs. The company has developed or deployed more than 32 industry configurations and plans to continue releasing new configurations on a regular cadence.

“Main Street businesses don’t need more software. They need better systems that actually work together, update in real time, and deliver value as opposed to complexity. That’s the power of native AI. Lantern is about restoring intelligence to operations, respecting the people running these companies, and helping them make better, faster, efficient decisions while improving both customer and employee experiences.”

— Craig Powell, Founder and CEO of LanternPartners.AI

A Smarter Alternative to Broken ERP Systems

LanternBRP™ replaces what most companies currently manage across 12 to 15 disconnected tools, often costing several hundred thousand to millions of dollars annually in license fees alone. By unifying finance, go-to-market systems, CRM, inventory, sales, supply chain, HR, and more into a single native AI-driven data ecosystem, LanternBRP™ gives business owners and their teams clarity, control, and confidence.

Traditional ERP systems often require up to 18 months to deploy, millions of dollars to maintain, years to deliver meaningful value. According to industry research, by 2027 more than 70% of recently implemented ERP initiatives will fail to fully meet their original business case goals, with as many as 25% failing catastrophically. LanternBRP™ can go live within as little as 90 days, delivering immediate operational impact with far less friction and at a more cost-effective price-point.

LanternPartners.ai’s value proposition is straightforward: Better. Faster. Cheaper.

• Better outcomes through AI-native, real-time operational intelligence
• Faster deployment and results without multi-year implementation cycles
• Cheaper operations, replacing fragmented IT spend with annual pricing ranging from approximately $25,000 to $150,000

Keeping Main in Main Street

LanternPartners.AI is intentionally focused on mid-market and small businesses, including family-owned companies, regional operators, and local employers that power the U.S. and global economies. By replacing complexity with clarity and fragmentation with intelligence, LanternBRP™ helps businesses remain competitive without losing their identity.

Learn more at www.LanternPartners.AI

About LanternPartners.AI

LanternPartners.AI is an AI-native Business Resource Platform (“BRP”) company founded by serial entrepreneur Craig Powell along with seasoned operators with extensive experience at the intersection of software, AI, and real-world business execution. Challenging decades of rigid, fragmented ERP systems, LanternPartners.ai delivers a modern, unified platform powered by native AI for the intelligent execution of every dimension of a business.