The Strategic Alliance combines infrastructure platforms with implementation expertise to help businesses ship production faster
Minneapolis, September 18, 2025 /prnewswire/ -Blank Metal today announced its selection as one of the first AI I-Implementation partners in Vercel's exclusive partner program, marking a strategic alliance between two companies addressing the key gap between AI innovation and enterprise deployment.
The partnership combines Vercel's comprehensive AI cloud platform, including AI SDKs, AI gateways and enterprise security infrastructure, with Blank Metal's expertise in implementing specialized knowledge. While most engineering teams spend their AI infrastructure from scratch to months, this collaboration offers proven production deployments and proven acceleration paths to scale.
“Vercel and Blank Metal were both founded on the same belief. The AI era means that we require that we rethink everything from the ground up,” said Vercel's COO Jeanne Dewitt Grosser. “Blank Metal, who built the AI infrastructure platform, has built its implementation expertise. This partnership shows that victory in AI requires both new tools and new builders that work in concerts.”
The companies refuse to push the industry to lock-in for vendors. Vercel has built a provider-neutral AI cloud platform that allows teams to switch models instantly, while Blank Metal has designed the service to provide that flexibility at the implementation level.
Matt Johnson, CEO of Blank Metal, said: “Versel built the roads for this transformation. We built the vehicles. They solve the gap between talent and experience while solving infrastructure challenges. So we are very excited about this partnership.
“What sets Vercel apart is its integrated platform for fast shipping of AI applications,” explained Eric Johnson, CTO at Blank Metal. “The comprehensive suite from AI SDKs to AI gateways deploy, scale and monitor secure AI applications without stitching together multiple vendors. Earn clients from concept to production.
Redefine your enterprise AI deployment
This collaboration provides what companies need most: speed, security and certainty. Vercel's production-enabled infrastructure incorporates DDOS mitigation and bot protection, web application firewalls and Fluid computing with proven implementation expertise in Blank Metal, allowing businesses to ship AI applications with enterprise-grade security from day one. While competitors are stuck in proof of concept purgatory, this partnership ensures production deployments that scale instantly and ensure that they perform under real-world demands.
