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from Darden School of Business,                                           mobile is needed. Hence, we have
        USA. After MBA, he worked in                                              built highly skilled team who can
        high-end finance roles with General                                       work on several technologies.
        Motors, GE and McKinsey. In his       We make it super-easy to            Moreover, we have access to some
        last job with a Fortune 200 logistics   our customers by providing        of leading innovators in this field
        company, he was heading Treasury         a SaaS platform and              and have developed partnership in
        Operations. Alok is very passionate                                       academia in turning this challenge
        about solving Finance problems        having a simplified pricing         into a competitive advantage. We
        with technology and automation.      model that insulates them            see our investment in technology
        Vision: Our vision is to become         from all the underlying           research as an on-going process.
                                                                                  Our belief is that our customers
        partner of choice for innovative              complexities                will benefit not just from the
        solutions using AI in BFSI and                    ““                      product we have today, but also
        other domains. We give extreme                                            from continuous investment in
        emphasis on innovation, solving                                           innovations on long term basis.
        customer’s business problem,         their digitization journey to the    In this journey, we do face some
        and building long-term customer      next level – benefiting in several   challenges. One of the biggest
        relationships.
                                             ways. It also helps in significantly   challenges is - low technology
        Our solution (Digital Sense)         enhancing end-customer and           awareness among our customers. It
                                             end-user experiences. Some key       is really mind-boggling to see how
        Our solution “Digital Sense”         benefits are:                        their employees keep doing their
        captures variety of information                                           work manually which results in
        efficiently from physical            a. Business benefits: Faster         high operating costs, and take long
        documents, images / PDFs;            processing, more sales, efficient    processing time. This challenge
        transforms the information into      process, lower cost, enhanced end-   is also a business opportunity
        structured data; and routes the      customer experience.                 for us - as we use cutting-edge
        structured data to appropriate       b. Continuous technological          technology in our products to
        system seamlessly in real-time       innovation: With AIEdge’s ongoing  automate business processes for
        using RPA or traditional methods     investment in technology research    our customer with lower costs,
        such as APIs. Digital Sense          and business solution, customers     higher efficiency and much more
        encapsulates functionalities         get benefits of technological        satisfied end-customers.
        with an objective of helping         advances on continuous basis.
        businesses manage end-to-                                                 Another challenge is the sheer pace
        end process. A state-of-the-art      c. Out of box: With focus on         of innovation happening in the
        Artificial Intelligence engine runs   business solution, customer gets    areas of AI and ML. Therefore, we
        at the core of Digital Sense, which   several features out of box.        have decided to invest continuously
        automatically reads handwritten      Using New Technology to Solve        in technology. We have built
        documents / forms, extracts images                                        capability to iterate very fast on
        (such as pictures of applicant, or   Difficult Problems                   experiments and development to
        signature) and converts them into    At AIEdge, we are ambitious in       mitigate this risk.
        structured data with high degree     investing in and using cutting        AIEdge Technology’s strategies
        of accuracy. The solution can be     edge technologies for solving
        deployed in variety of use cases     some of the business problems        Some strategic points help us in
        such as customer onboarding and      that have proven to be difficult     tackling competitors are as follows:
        form processing.                     to solve. As an example, to          • Continuous innovation – making

        Benefiting the Customers             improve digitization and customer    us ahead of our competitors
                                             onboarding processes significantly,
        Digital Sense delivers tremendous    we realised that combination of      • Business solution (instead of
        value to not only enterprise         several technologies such as AI,     technical solution only) – to solve
        customers, but also to their end     Computer Vision, Deep Tech, RPA      real and present problems for
        customers. It helps businesses take   (Robotics Process Automation),      enterprise customers

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