Our approach is rooted in a deep understanding of AI's potential combined with strong expertise in our core verticals and is brought to life through innovative human-machine collaboration. We don't just solve problems; we create quick, tangible results that serve as robust business cases, empowering our clients to advance confidently to be ready for today’s challenges and maximise tomorrow’s opportunities.
Unlock is our consultancy process which aims to swiftly transition from maturity assessment (if required) and identified challenge to the development of solid use cases. These cases are then transformed into a tangible reality through a Proof of Concept (PoC) with business case attached.
In the Deliver phase, we move from POC to MVP, training the solution on your data and integrating into your environment without disruption. The solution is continually monitored and can be iterated and improved over time.
Leveraging either your existing vision or through collaborative ideation, we craft a robust business case focused on value creation, complemented by defining precise success criteria and KPIs to gauge our performance and the successful delivery of the solution.
As we establish the business case and KPIs, we proceed to a concise, effective, and outcome-driven PoC phase to ascertain the solution's feasibility and corroborate the business case. This stage is designed to enable you and your stakeholders to review the solution in an initial iteration.
Following a successful completion, we integrate the PoC into your enterprise environment, ensuring its security, robustness, and capability to meet all enterprise-specific challenges. We embark on a continuous journey of learning and improvement, ensuring a stable, well-maintained, and evolving platform that caters to your specific needs today while preparing you to embrace the potential of tomorrow.
If you are looking to identify new ways AI could increase top line growth, we can run a full or half day Spark session to uncover new ideas for AI supported products, services or business models. This is a facilitated session combining inspiration, technical expertise and tried and tested methodologies to ensure innovative outcomes.
If you have an idea of a use case but aren’t sure how it might work or whether it will be valuable, we can run an intense 5-day Hackathon. Usually run at a single location, over the course of a week we move from initial idea to clickable prototype and high-level solution design. The Hackathon can also include a Spark session up-front if required for idea generation before one is chosen to progress to prototype.
Where a use case has already been identified, we can conduct a full investigation into technology and data feasibility including high-level solution design, business case and initial integration plan. This will prepare your teams and wider stakeholders for solution implementation.
We take a single use case and develop it into a proof of concept (POC) which is hosted in the vector8 environment. We start with a Discover process and move through to fully working POC which is accompanied by an impact business case and implementation plan to enable it to be moved into your environment and fully trained on your data.
We take use cases right through to production in your environment to unlock the true value of AI quickly. Either using a vector8 accelerator or designing a new solution from scratch, we move through discovery into solution delivery and training. We then move to monitoring, incremental development and optimization. Often the power comes from more than one AI solution combining to deliver a powerful outcome.
You may have some capability in-house but want to scale it in a cost-effective way. You may also be looking to create an AI center of excellence from scratch and lack the bandwidth to do it effectively. We use our in-depth market knowledge, recruitment capacity and technical expertise to hire and train a team dedicated to your business, providing you with a ready-made AI team. At an agreed point you can even opt to transfer the team in-house. We call this Build, operate, Transfer (BOT).
We advocate a ‘Buy before build’ approach to ensure you are able to release value early if possible and use ready made solutions until you need something more bespoke. We will help you evaluate the right technology to fit your needs.
Take suitable existing models and solutions and integrate them in your environment. It is non-client specific relies exclusively on the model selected. This approach will be approximately 80% solution fit with your exact requirement
Benefit
Quick value deployment through the use of existing and powerful models. It is fast and economical.
Take suitable existing model as a base but enrich it with client data to build more specific use cases. Specific requirements can be catered for. It requires more effort to implement, yet competitive edge is bigger.
Benefit
Identification and realization of unique gain potentials and added value for customers.
Build on standards yet enhanced with client data.
Relatively fast and economical
Scalable
This is a more bespoke solution using the wider potential of AI on a business model through deep industry knowledge and the best of Human-Machine collaboration.
Develop new business models and processes by capitalizing on unique proprietary data and new LLM’s.
This work would be supported by our AI Lab, SigmaNova.
Benefit
Launch of unique businesses, products and/or services. Gain market share and establish new industry standards.