Enterprise Account Plan

Walmart Inc. AI Foundry Integration

Securing the "Super Agent" supply chain. Layering immutable ModelKit provenance into Walmart's Element platform for secure, edge-optimized ML deployment at 10,500+ locations.

Strategic Hypothesis

Why Walmart needs Jozu to scale their "Element" platform.

The "Model Sprawl" Gap

As Walmart shifts to Agentic AI (Sparky, Marty), "Element" handles orchestration but lacks an immutable registry. Models are being passed as loose files, creating security and versioning chaos at the Edge.

The Solution: ModelKits

Jozu packages models, datasets, and configs into OCI-compliant ModelKits. This allows Walmart's DevOps teams to treat AI exactly like Docker containers—secure, signed, and auditable.

The Trusted Brand

By automating EU AI Act compliance and NIST RMF through cryptographic signatures, Jozu enables Walmart to fulfill Doug McMillon's mandate: being the "world's most trusted retailer."

Deployment Velocity Modeler

Demonstrate how standardizing the ML Supply Chain reduces time-to-production for "Super Agents" across Walmart's multi-cloud environment.

10 (Pilots) 500 (Enterprise Scale)

Standard Cycle

21 Days

Jozu ModelKits

3 Days

Annual Engineering Hours Reclaimed: 4,500

Persona Messaging Matrix

Tailored hooks for Walmart's AI Buying Committee.

CISO / Security (Jerry Geisler III)

The Pain

How do we guarantee a "Super Agent" isn't poisoned before it's deployed to 10k stores?

Discovery Question

"How are you verifying the cryptographic integrity of model weights between your cloud and your private edge data centers?"

  • Automated CVE & Poisoning scans
  • Signed OCI artifacts (KitOps)
  • EU AI Act compliance automation

Technical Pivot

"Jozu isn't another scanner. It's the Private Ledger for your ML Supply Chain. Every Super Agent is tagged with an immutable SBOM before it touches a store server."

Compliance Ready

VP DevOps / Platform Engineering

The Pain

Model Sprawl. Data Scientists send folders, we need containers. Standardizing "Element" workflows.

Discovery Question

"When your Data Scientists hand off a model, are they giving you a standardized artifact, or a manual list of dependencies and YAML files?"

  • Fits into existing Jenkins/GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes-native deployment
  • 7x Faster Hand-offs

Technical Pivot

"A ModelKit is like a Docker container for AI. It bundles weights and code into a single, OCI-compliant object that your existing pipelines already know how to handle."

Standardized Hand-off

Head of AI / Data Science

The Pain

Models sitting in 'Lab Purgatory.' Blocked by DevOps security hurdles. Inability to reproduce results at the Edge.

Discovery Question

"How often are your models failing at the edge because of environment drift or missing config files during the hand-off?"

  • No Infrastructure headaches
  • Immutable 'Gold Copies' of experiments
  • Faster path to business impact

Technical Pivot

"Get your models out of the lab 7x faster. Jozu ensures what you built in the sandbox is exactly what runs in the store, every time."

Lab to Prod

Competitive "Kill Points"

Tactical pivots for the Walmart technical review board.

"We Built Element"
Objection

"We've spent millions building our own MLOps platform (Element)."

The Pivot

"Element is a world-class orchestrator. Jozu isn't a replacement; it’s the Secure Registry that sits under it. We are the 'Private Docker Hub' for AI that makes Element's output secure and compliant."

"We're 100% Azure"
Objection

"We have a massive partnership with Azure ML."

The Pivot

"Azure is perfect for the cloud, but Walmart is a Hybrid/Edge company. Jozu provides the single, unified ModelKit registry that works identically in Azure and on your private store servers."

"Legal Handles Compliance"
Objection

"Our legal/compliance teams are already tracking the EU AI Act."

The Pivot

"Legal defines the rules; Jozu enforces them. We automatically generate the cryptographic provenance required so your engineers don't have to spend weeks documenting every model tweak."

Launch Outreach Sequence

Persona-targeted templates ready for execution.

CISO Play Securing "Super Agents"

Subject: Integrity of the Super Agent supply chain at Walmart

Jerry, Walmart’s pivot to Agentic AI is transformative, but as you’ve noted, traditional security isn’t enough for autonomous models. While **Element** handles deployment, how are you ensuring the **integrity of the model artifacts** themselves before they hit production at the edge? Jozu provides an on-prem Model Registry that acts as a "Secure Checkpoint" for ModelKits. We automate: * **Cryptographic Signatures:** Ensure no "Super Agent" is tampered with. * **Supply Chain Scanning:** Automated CVE/Poisoning detection for weights/data. * **On-Prem Sovereignty:** Proprietary retail data never leaves your perimeter. Open to seeing how we can harden the "Element" supply chain?
DevOps Play 7x Faster Edge Deployment

Subject: Solving "Model Sprawl" in the Walmart AI Foundry

Hi [Name], You've done an incredible job abstracting cloud complexity with **Element**, but we’re hearing that "Model Sprawl" is becoming the next big friction point for Walmart's platform engineers. Jozu treats AI models as **OCI-compliant ModelKits**. This means your DevOps teams can manage AI models exactly like Docker containers within your existing pipelines. **Why Jozu for Walmart?** * **Edge Optimized:** Immutable artifacts for reliable store-level deployment. * **Bridge the Gap:** Standardize the hand-off between Data Scientists and Ops. We’ve helped teams deploy models 7x faster by standardizing the supply chain. Can we chat about fitting into the Element stack?