Just in case they're not on your radar already, I want to make sure you have Zaion in your bookmarks. They're a France-based Conversational AI company having quite a good bit of success, most notably with their client (and now investor) La Banque Postale. (Or, more
I’ve seen this movie before, dear reader. I watched the transformation of the mobile industry from a world where Nokia‘s one-million-phones-a-day position of absolute power was eroded, gradually and then suddenly, by the next generation of players. The executives at Nokia just could not see it. They had
I really enjoyed reading this blog post ("Beyond the AI MVP") over at technology news site The Stack from Lawrence Jones, an engineer at incident.io. In the post, Lawrence sets out how 'deceptively simple' it look to deploy AI. Lawrence wanted a little system to
Luke Budka was one of the first executives in the Public Relations industry to adopt the job title, "AI Director". I sat down and recorded a fascinating episode with him about how his company Definition is implementing Conversational AI for the whole company – and how they're
Hello, welcome and thank you to Neil Marley and the team at Qualyfi who are sponsoring next week's Conversational AI Mini Summit in London. I asked Neil to give us a quick overview of the company: Qualyfi was founded to help anyone forge a career in technology, regardless
I am excited to announce that the Koios team, pioneers in emotionally intelligent conversational AI, will sponsor next week’s Conversational AI Mini Summit. Tom Sherwood, Koios CEO, will speak about their innovative platform, which empowers organisations to scale personalised learning through AI-driven L&D coaches. He’ll explore
I've been meaning to make sure I wrote about what the team at Play.ht have been creating. The company offers AI Text to Speech, AI Voice Cloning and a Voice Generation API – and I have to say, the demos I've tried are really, really good.
I found this one online and thought it was worthwhile highlighting for several reasons. Firstly, someone reading might be interested in the opportunity. The direct link is right here. Second, it's a super insight into how Sage – a world leader in accountancy software – is approaching the role of
I recently wrote on FinTech Profile that I was deeply impressed with the way in which Santander UK had launched their mobile revamp. During that review I noted that the team had deployed "Sandi", their Chatbot (or conversational AI). I resolved to check it out later on. Today
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Thanks to reader Michal who highlighted this article in The Banker about leading British digital neobank Kroo Bank has partnered with the team at Forethought to drive their Conversational AI. I wanted to make sure I documented this as I know there are a lot of readers who are curious
I had to do a double-take earlier. It was one of those "You what?" moments. One of those, "Sorry, say that again?" situations. The FT reports that a customer was using the Virgin Money chatbot which, apparently, chided them for using the phrase 'virgin'
If you have an Enterprise agreement with OpenAI (show me a big company that doesn't?) and you're eligible for Zero Data Retention, then you can now choose to enable 'European Data Residency' for your consumption. This is according to the company's blog
Fascinating news from Tokyo – apparently – that apparently indicates the team at OpenAI are experimenting with a SDR ("Sales Development Representative") Agent capability. I found it via a post on Reddit. The poster, MassiveWasabi, took the above screenshot from tge Associated Press live stream featuring Sam Altman and some
Any kind of 'practice' - veterinary, doctor, dental - has the same sort of repetitive challenges that are ripe for a bit of a transformation. The back-and-forth messing about with appointment setting is a great example. Just think about the time and effort used doing this every single
When we bought our current house, the washing machine came with it. It’s a hulking Miele and it must be 10+ years old, if not much older. I’m a big fan of really well made machinery, but at the same time, I’ve also had a lot of
I always like to see what's coming out of Y-Combinator and here's one that caught my attention this week: Vogent: Vogent is an all-in-one platform for building voice agents by using intelligent building blocks, including drag-and-drop conversational flow builders, IVR detection models, spelling-optimized voices, custom phone-ready
Super congratulations to the team over at Conversational AI leader, boost.ai, who today announced their global deal with accounting behemoth, Sage. Back in July last year, I picked up on the news that Sage was hiring in the space and one imagines that this was – in part – to be
There's been a lot of handwringing (and, perhaps, blind panic in some quarters) over the past few days as a result of the general release and availability of DeepSeek. I wasn't surprised. I wasn't shocked. That's not because I'm some
Back in October, the team from Anthropic introduced their Computer Use capability – essentially it's Claude-with-a-computer, navigating your machine by simply taking screenshots and figuring out next steps. Sam, one of the Anthropic researchers demonstrated Claude using a computer to find and complete some organisational data management tasks. Well,
In the olden days, if you wanted an internal agent assist service, to help your contact centre team manage their interactions with customers, you had to engage a specialist Conversational AI vendor. Now, today, it's just $30 per user, free as part of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. That,
I've been following Capitec Bank's Conversational AI approach for quite a while, given their strong leadership in the domain, not just in South Africa, but globally. Capitec is South Africa's leading retail banks (40% of the nation banks with them) and they're
