Lantern’s AI-native business resource planning “BRP” disrupts outdated ERP systems and restores people-first operations
new york, February 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LanternPartners.AI today announced its launch with a clear mission. It’s about “bringing Main Street back to Main Street” by providing AI-native operational intelligence to business owners and operators to manage and grow their businesses.
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LanternPartners.AI is positioned as a disruptor in a market long dominated by slow, expensive, and inflexible enterprise software. Lantern BRP™is an AI-native business resource planning platform built for businesses across all industries. LanternBRP™ is designed to be streamlined and cost-effective, reaching the entire market, including the 99.9% of small businesses that make up America’s “Main Street” and the 90% of small businesses that make up the global economy.
Unlike rigid traditional ERP systems, LanternBRP™ is an agile and efficient SaaS platform built 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 enterprises a modern foundation to scale and compete effectively.
LanternBRP™ is designed on an AI-native architecture that continually improves as your business operates. The platform integrates data in real-time and automates industry-specific workflows across marketing, sales, finance, accounting, human resources, product development, inventory management, and operations across industry-specific supply chains and workflows. LanternBRP provides predictive insights that help operators identify problems before they occur. The result is a single intelligent platform to manage your entire business from one native AI environment.
LanternBRP™ is built on an AI-native architecture that continually improves as your business operates. The platform integrates data in real-time, automates core workflows across finance, sales, operations, supply chain, and nearly every aspect of the business, and provides predictive insights that help operators identify problems before they occur. The result is a single intelligent platform to manage your entire business from one native AI environment.
Prior to its official launch, LanternPartners.AI worked with early customers across multiple industry segments to deploy instances of LanternBRP™ configured to meet the needs of each industry. The company has developed or deployed over 32 industry configurations and plans to continue releasing new configurations on a regular basis.
For decades, small and medium-sized businesses have been forced to operate on systems not designed for them, resulting in bloated technology stacks, rising costs, and limited visibility into how the business actually operates. Lantern was created to fundamentally change that equation.
“Main Street businesses don’t need more software. They need better systems that actually work together, update in real time, and deliver value, not complexity,” said Craig Powell, founder and CEO of LanternPartners.AI. “This is the power of native AI. Lantern aims to restore intelligence to operations, respect the people who run businesses, and help people make better, faster, more efficient decisions while improving the experience for both customers and employees.”
A smarter alternative to broken ERP systems
LanternBRP™ replaces the 12 to 15 disconnected tools that most businesses currently manage, often costing hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars annually in licensing fees alone. LanternBRP™ gives business owners and their teams clarity, control, and confidence by unifying finance, go-to-market systems, CRM, inventory, sales, supply chain, HR, and more into a single native AI-driven data ecosystem.
The platform provides real-time visibility, automated workflows, predictive analytics, inventory management, exception handling, quality control controls, regulatory compliance, and more across multilingual capabilities and provides adaptive AI insights that help operators understand what’s happening now and predict what’s going to happen next.
Traditional ERP systems often take up to 18 months to implement, millions of dollars to maintain, and years to deliver meaningful value. According to industry research, by 2027 70% of recently introduced ERP initiatives fail to fully achieve their original business case goalsas many as possible 25% fail catastrophically. LanternBRP™ can Published within 90 days at the earliestdelivering immediate operational benefits with far less friction and at a more cost-effective price point. Because the platform is AI-native, it continuously adapts to the way your business operates, reducing the need for extensive customization, ongoing consulting, and complex data integrations and integration teams.
LanternPartners.ai’s value proposition is straightforward. Better. Faster. Cheaper.
better Results from AI-native real-time operational intelligence
Faster Achieve implementation and results without the need for multi-year implementation cycles
cheaper Replace fragmented IT spending, consultants, and integration costs, ranging from approximately $25,000 to $150,000 per year, depending on industry complexity and apparent savings.
The company is led by a team of operators and entrepreneurs with over 50 years of experience successfully founding, scaling, and exiting software companies, and we understand first-hand what it takes for real businesses to operate efficiently and grow sustainably. This includes my experience of overcoming a failed ERP implementation.
Keep Main Street Main Street
LanternPartners.AI intentionally focuses on small and medium-sized businesses, including family-owned businesses, regional owners, and local employers who drive the U.S. and global economies. LanternBRP™ helps businesses stay competitive without losing their identity by replacing complexity with clarity and fragmentation with intelligence.
LanternPartners.AI is up and running, hiring select partners, and continues to be in high demand from forward-thinking small business owners across a variety of industry segments.
Learn more here www.LanternPartners.AI.
About LanternPartners.AI LanternPartners.AI is an AI-native business resource platform (“BRP”) company founded by serial entrepreneur Craig Powell with seasoned operators with extensive experience at the intersection of software, AI, and real-world business execution.
We are driven by the belief that it is time to bring Main back to Main Street. And native AI provides a path to do just that.
LanternPartners.ai challenges decades of rigid and fragmented ERP systems, a patchwork of software platforms needed to run a single business, and provides organizations across industries with a modern, integrated platform powered by native AI to intelligently run all aspects of their business, from customer-facing and core operations to administrative functions and financial management.
LanternPartners.AI and LanternBRP are built for owners and operators who value speed, clarity, and true accountability, providing the intelligent foundation they need to scale with confidence, compete effectively, and endure for the long term in today’s real-time economy, while improving employee and customer experiences.
See how Lantern can transform your business. www.LanternPartners.ai.
Media contact: Katie Riess, Public Relations LanternPartners.AI comms@lanternpartners.ai
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