Run the Conversation

The two-minute version for NetApp® account teams and partners — the pitch, the opener, the qualifying questions, and your one line for each buyer. Full detail lives in the companion brief, The Private AI Field Guide.

The pitch

Generate activates the terabytes your customer already stores in NetApp into a private, on-prem AI layer. Agents query and act on that data with nothing leaving the data estate.

The universal opener

“What’s stopping you from running AI directly on your stored data?”

Then listen. The answer is almost always one of four concerns: "security", "cost", "skills", or "compliance." Every one of those is a Generate strength. You are now selling.

Qualify on business, not bytes

An AI initiative underway — and who owns it?
A use case blocked by legal or security over data egress?
Exposure to per-token or cloud-AI cost?
The most painful document-heavy workflow?
A compliance-heavy, privacy-sensitive environment?

Buying signals

“We can’t send that data to the cloud.”
“Our AI pilot stalled in security review.”
“Our AI bill is getting scary.”
An active refresh, lots of unstructured data, a regulated vertical.

Four buyers, four one-liners

CFO / business owner

Cares about outcome, fixed cost, fast payback. “This platform provides tangible predictable results, as opposed to most AI pilot projects which are just slides in a deck.”

CISO / compliance

Cares about egress and audit. “Nothing leaves the perimeter. Ever. It’s all logged.”

CIO / infrastructure

Cares about turnkey, no new skills. “A working stack with one installation script on the storage you own.”

Data / AI lead

Cares about breadth and openness. “200+ agents, 56 connectors to common data lakes and business applications, and a SuperAgent to build agents”

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Get to the Point

Focus points

Tunkey Deployment Generate comes pre-validated on NetApp AIPod Mini, so you skip the months-long custom build cycle. Generate deploys in with a single script and ships with 200+ pre-built agent templates.
It's Private The AI stays on-premises, so data, IP and sensitive information never leave the customer's perimeter. Lead with this in healthcare, finance and other regulated accounts. It is backed by policy enforcement, audit trails and offline-capable operation.
Data Where It Lives Keep your data where it lives. Agents work on data in place. There is no replatforming or data migration. The data never leaves NetApp.
“Security will never approve AI.” That is exactly why it exists: zero egress, an immutable SnapLock audit trail, and model, data, and hardware all under the customer’s control.

Sizing at a glance — AIPod Mini

Small — proof of value

1× Dell PowerEdge XE7740 · 1× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (96 GB) · NetApp AFF A20 · no HA. Departmental pilots and focused workgroups.

Medium — production

2× XE7740 + 2× R260 control plane · 4× RTX Pro 6000 per server · AFF A20 · active-active HA. Multi-team deployments with uptime requirements.

Large — enterprise

4× XE7740 across two HA pairs · 4× RTX Pro 6000 per server · AFF A20 / A30 / A50. Org-wide and regulated deployments at scale.

The fastest path to a win

1. Find the blocked AI use case — where legal or security said no to the cloud.
2. Tie it to one document-heavy, high-dollar workflow.
3. Propose a Small-config proof of value on the AIPod Mini.
4. Land the outcome, then expand to HA and multi-node as teams adopt.

Where to start the pitch

Start with one blocked, document-heavy, high-dollar workflow. Land the outcome — the expansion funds itself.

Support & collateral

Deal support, references, demo access, and the installer: netappsupport@iterate.ai. Companion positioning brief: The Private AI Field Guide. Learn more — iterate.ai.

About this series

Internal sales enablement for the NetApp–Iterate.ai partnership; not for customer distribution. NetApp — the governed data-control layer. Iterate.ai — the private intelligence layer.

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