Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) CEO Evan Gappelberg talked with Proactive about the company's major expansion of Kraftylabs, which now includes 35 U.S. cities and 58 in-person experiences.
Gappelberg described this development not merely as growth in locations, but as the launch of an asset-light, high-margin infrastructure that merges AI, blockchain, and physical reality.
He highlighted that this infrastructure positions Nextech3D.ai at the forefront of the $1.5 trillion experience economy.
Proactive: Welcome back inside our Proactive newsroom. And joining me now is Evan Gappelberg. He is the CEO of Nextech3D.ai. And it's nice to see you again. How are you this morning?
Evan Gappelberg: Great to be back.
Yeah. So the company out with news today — we've talked a lot about Kraftylabs and the work you wanted to do to try and expand the brand. And right now you're already seeing some real legs towards doing that, adding 35 U.S. cities, 58 in-person experiences. This is a big announcement.
It is, and that's really just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, we're continuing to push hard on adding more product to the Kraftylabs offering. We didn’t just add 15 cities — we really deployed the first high margin, asset-light infrastructure that unifies AI, blockchain, and physical reality. And so I see this as the Intel inside for the $1.5 trillion experience economy, which is a huge deal.
And the global brands that we have on our platform — like Google, Oracle, Netflix, and Spotify — have decentralized workforces. They're not all in one location. They don’t want just a software-only solution. They want something in the real world. So now, by having 35 cities, we've secured that physical last mile that no pure-play AI or software company can touch.
We now have both the physical in-person and the virtual components. We use our AI to manage the complexity of those two, and that's how we get our 90% margins for the business. So it's an exciting time for the company.
The key to all of this is those companies are looking for something different all the time. They don’t want the same thing year after year. And Kraftylabs' portfolio is now adding a bunch of things — wellness, fitness programs, development. So there's a lot of different opportunities and options here.
There are. The truth is, we're leveling up. Our competitors have a lot of similar options — we have some different variations — but that's not the real story. The real story is that we're really a technology company. Most event tech is just a database.
We’re actually launching a semantic brain, which is an AI engine of intent. We've essentially paired OpenAI with Pinecone. Our platforms don’t just find people — they understand why they should meet. So it’s precision connection. And it’s a totally different ROI for Fortune 500 companies. That’s kind of the message under the message.
Yeah, we’re expanding with 58 new offerings. We also announced BitPay last week. But you know, data is the new oil — and context is the new currency. Our AI concierge learns from every interaction across all 35 cities. We're building a proprietary dataset of human professional intent. That’s really non-disruptive. That’s our moat.
So it’s more than just adding more offerings — it’s way bigger than that.
And even with all of that, obviously at the end of the day it comes back to revenue generation for the company and where you see the company moving forward in 2026.
Yeah. And investors really need to ask themselves: who else is successfully merging a $1.5 trillion market with 90% margins and a national footprint? We’ve stopped really being just a collection of platforms with Eventdex, Map D, Kraftylabs. We’ve now emerged as an AI-powered operating system for how enterprise interacts. For us, it's really about this flight to quality — and Nextech is that destination.
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