Summary:
This UK data and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist company works with start-ups, SMEs, scale-ups and other organisations, offering a range of services to help them develop data and AI solutions to augment their business. Led by an expert in ethics management, hybrid cloud, data and AI design, the company now seeks to expand into international markets through outsourcing and / or subcontracting agreements or through joint ventures.
Description:
Many start-ups and small companies are increasingly aware of the power of data and AI, but are struggling to understand how they might deploy these tools in their business and use them to grow and scale. The UK company was established in 2019 to plug this gap, by offering a range of specialist, yet affordable, services to help these businesses explore the potential of data and AI and develop high quality, ethical solutions.
Led by a specialist with many years of experience in the fields of business intelligence and AI, the company has developed several flexible service packages tailored to the needs of smaller businesses:
• Data and AI accelerator: a programme running over a number of weeks (typically 8) and designed to help organisations who are processing customer data and who wish to create new intelligent systems. The programme comprises several phases, including the identification of a case for the use of AI, defining data and AI best practices, understanding AI ethics and the design of a data and AI solution.
• AI ethics assessment: ideal for established SMEs & scale ups working on AI for the first time, this service includes workshops for ethics design thinking, a review of their AI ethics stance and ethics awareness training.
• AI advisor as a service: this service provides an AI resource for emerging SMEs and start-ups, offering an initial assessment of their data and AI governance and on-going assistance with the development and execution of an AI strategy.
As an SME itself, the company is very aware of the time and resource pressures which many smaller businesses face and therefore its offer is flexible and can be tailored to the needs of its clients.
To date, the company has focussed on the UK market, but is now keen to grow internationally and it is therefore looking to offer its services to partners overseas under outsourcing or subcontracting agreements. It would wish to work with these partners on a medium- to long-term collaborative basis, providing its expertise to them or to their clients. The company is also open to the establishment of a joint venture with other providers offering complementary services or expertise, in order to be able to develop comprehensive data and AI solutions and services to customers.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
For the outsourcing agreements, partners should be companies who
• have outdated, slow or poorly structured data systems;
• have an ambition to become ethical, data-driven enterprises; and
• would benefit from external expertise to help them design and deploy the new data and AI solutions required.
For the subcontracting agreements, partners could be other IT or data consultancies who wish to source specific expertise around the assessment, design and deployment of AI solutions and / or the ethics of AI. Such organisations could also be potential partners for joint ventures in the field of ethical AI and data solutions design.
All potential partners should be committed to a long-term collaborative arrangement and be willing to work with the UK company to develop the solutions required.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
External code:
BOUK20211203002
