Account brief · Codvo Engagement & Customer Success

Johnson & Johnson Services Inc.

Codvo already delivers J&J's applied AI work end to end. The near-term question is whether three stalled proof-of-concepts convert before the next quarterly renewal, or get replaced by the next pilot.

Prepared by Lavina Khandelwal, Engagement Manager III Industry on file: Pharmaceuticals (New Jersey) 30 deals, 4 contacts, owned in HubSpot
$4.67M
In delivery or completed · 8 deals
$810.7K
Open pipeline · 9 deals
$337.8K
Stalled on hold · 5 deals
$280K + $344.6K
Aborted (7) + lost (1)
Who buys
One named economic buyer, three working contacts

Nikhil Gulati (Global Head, Engineering & AI)

The only contact on file with a title. He sits across the account's largest active deals and is the closest thing this account has to a single technical and economic buyer.

  • Anand Pajjuru (no title on file), last activity the same day as the most recent pipeline updates. Reads as the operational point of contact currently moving deals.
  • Umut Eser (no title on file), has a staffing deal named directly after him ("POD | Umut Eser"), which usually means he is the placement's day-to-day manager.
  • Hup Lim Boon (no title on file), most recently added contact (August 2026).
What they care about
Read off the deal names, not a guess
  • Moving AI from proof to production. AI Surgical Video Annotation started as a $0 assessment phase and is now a $250K production proposal. It's the one active deal furthest along the funnel right now.
  • A shared data and AI platform. The Databricks-based Data Platform ($250K, delivered) and Polyphonic Edge AI & Databricks POD ($1.47M, in delivery) are the account's two largest single line items.
  • Robotics and edge deployment. Service and Commercial Robotics Dashboard ($900K, in delivery) and Edge AI Support UAE ($45K, in fulfillment) point at MedTech-adjacent, device-facing work, not back-office software.
  • Buying capacity, not just software. Roughly a third of the 30 deals are named staff placements or PODs (Operations Process Engineer, L&D Specialist, Onsite UI/UX, Databricks Staff Aug); they extend delivery headcount as often as they buy a project.
Where Codvo fits
Managed AI services: already running, not proposed

This isn't a pitch for a new offering. It's a description of what's already live: Codvo staff embedded as PODs against J&J Engineering & AI's roadmap.

  • $4.67M across 8 deals in active delivery or completed, anchored by the flagship J&J | All POD – Q3 Extension ($1.26M), a deal that gets renewed quarter to quarter rather than resold.
  • $810.7K in open pipeline across 9 deals: a mix of individual staff placements and one production-stage AI proposal (the surgical video annotation build).
  • The pattern across two years is consistent: land a POC, staff a POD around it, extend the POD. The next renewal is where this relationship actually turns, not a new sale.
The one risk
Pilots outrun conversions
Renewal risk
  • 7 deals worth $280K were aborted and 1 worth $344.6K was lost outright (Databricks Staff Aug). That's more churn than the account's steady renewal pattern would suggest.
  • 3 proof-of-concepts are on hold, worth $337.8K combined: two semantic-layer builds (on Databricks Gold layer and on PostgreSQL) and a conversational dashboard. All three were staffed and built, then paused.
  • Nearly all committed revenue depends on one flagship POD renewing every quarter, and the relationship runs through a handful of named contacts, only one with a confirmed title.

The account pilots AI ideas faster than it converts them. If the semantic-layer work is still on hold at the next renewal, it's more likely to be dropped for a newer pilot than restarted.

First email to Nikhil Gulati

90 words, opens with the renewal angle, references only what's in HubSpot. Draft only. Nothing here sends anything.

Reveal draft email
Draft: not sent, not scheduled
Subject: Unsticking the semantic-layer work before Q3 renewal Nikhil, the Q3 POD renewal is a good moment to unstick the three proof-of-concepts sitting on hold: both semantic-layer builds and the conversational dashboard, worth over $330K of work already done. Rather than let them lapse into a new pilot next quarter, I'd like to fold one into production alongside the surgical video annotation build. I can bring a short options memo to the renewal conversation, covering cost, timeline, and which one has the clearest path to production. What's realistic on your side this quarter? Lavina

Sources

No outside research. Web search was unavailable in this session, so nothing on this page comes from public reporting on J&J. Every figure above traces to a HubSpot record owned by Lavina Khandelwal, linked below. Check titles for Pajjuru, Eser and Boon, and re-verify any deal near a stage change, before using this on a call.

Account & contacts

In delivery / completed ($4.67M, 8 deals)

Aborted & lost ($280K + $344.6K, 8 deals)

  • Core FDE POD – Video Data Modeling Support $60,000 · aborted
  • C3 AI Staff Augmentation for Varun $25,000 · aborted
  • Data Generator Utility $5,000 · aborted
  • Network Monitoring & Managed Services $100,000 · aborted
  • Computer Vision Staff Aug, AI Benchmarking Phase 1 & 2 $90,002 combined · aborted
  • Databricks Staff Aug $344,616 · lost. Full detail in HubSpot deal list, filtered to this account.