We made CRN’s first-ever AI Innovators list. CRN named Lovelytics to its inaugural 2026 list, which honors solution providers building AI that delivers measurable impact for their customers.
That last part is what matters most to us. This recognition belongs to our team, who build the solutions, and to our customers, who trust us with their most ambitious AI projects. Thank you, CRN. You can see the full list here.
What the list recognizes
The AI Innovators list is for North American solution providers, including systems integrators and consultants, that show ingenuity and technical skill in delivering AI-focused solutions to end customers. A panel of CRN editors picked the honorees. It’s a list about shipping AI that delivers results, which is what we care about most in the work we do for our clients.
Why we made the list: AI in production
Most of the market is stuck in pilots. We ship to production, and we start every engagement from our library of 20+ industry accelerators so clients begin with working code instead of a blank page. In the past year, AI went from 6% of our business in 2024 to over 50% in 2026.
One example of our work in action is Xcel Energy. Engineers there used to investigate failing feeders by hand, pulling from work orders, outage logs, asset records and weather history one system at a time. We built 3RE on our Gridlytics accelerator, running on Databricks with Anthropic Claude as the foundation model. It scores feeder risk 14 days out, ranks repairs by customer minutes out, and sends recommendations straight into Xcel’s SAP work-order pipeline. The result: 85% to 95% less engineering effort on investigations and an estimated $2.5M to $3.4M in annual value. Read the full case study.
A few other client stories:
- Bechtel: a no-code, drag-and-drop AI workflow platform that lets Bechtel build governed AI use cases without writing code, with 130 use cases unlocked.
- Lippert: an AI virtual agent and Claude-powered supply chain insights that save the company $2.1M+ a year.
- Ecolab: 12+ AI tools unified into one Claude agent platform for 5,000+ employees, cutting task time 4x.
- Discount Tire: a custom AI accelerator that cut a Redshift-to-Databricks migration from two years to six months.
The past few months also brought us two Databricks Partner of the Year awards, announced at Data + AI Summit in San Francisco. Here’s what each one recognizes:
- 2026 Brickbuilder Partner of the Year: This award goes to the partner that has built standout Databricks solutions and accelerators that deliver repeatable customer value. Databricks judges quality, adoption and impact, joint customer success, platform usage growth and technical depth. Databricks pointed to our industry-leading, repeatable accelerators that go after the market’s highest-ROI use cases.
- 2026 Energy & Utilities Partner of the Year: This award goes to the partner transforming energy and utilities workloads on Databricks, judged on industry solutions, customer deployments and outcomes in reliability, forecasting and sustainability. Databricks cited our 23 live use cases across major accounts and large-scale Hadoop migrations.
For our CEO and founder, Scott Love, the recognition comes back to the people doing the work.
“AI is opening up possibilities we’re only beginning to explore, and our team is proud to help customers turn them into real results. Being named to CRN’s first AI Innovators list is an exciting recognition of that work, and it motivates us to keep innovating. None of this would be possible without our incredible team and every customer who has trusted us along the way.”
– Scott Love, CEO & Founder, Lovelytics
Put AI to work with your data
Want to make the best use of your data with AI? Contact us to learn how Lovelytics can help. And if you want to see who else made the cut, check out the full CRN AI Innovators list.
