By way of an 8-week engagement, Kin+Carta provides its clients an opportunity to leverage its existing data assets to create new AI-enabled enterprise value. Through a combination of Azure Cloud capabilities and Kin + Carta’s proprietary Octain AutoML platform, customers go from data to deployment of value-producing AI models, with measurable outcomes.

Overview:

Octain, developed by Microsoft partner Kin + Carta reduces the time to value for AI within the enterprise from months or years to weeks. By automating the time-intensive tasks of data cleansing, integration, feature engineering, model creation/selection and ensembling, we quickly build a baseline model and then work collaboratively with clients to enhance and enrich the model with additional data foundations work to improve accuracy and outcomes.

In this quick-start, Kin + Carta, Certified B Corp, will help companies accelerate towards their automation goals by evaluating existing business priorities and matching opportunities to solutions to achieve objectives and improved KPIs.

Challenges:

- AI: Separation of hype from value-driving application.

- AI FOMO, Data anxiety (not doing enough with our enterprise data)

- Consumer Engagement, Demand Forecasting, Supply chain

- Fraud Detection and Risk Management, Customer Intelligence / Automated Intelligence, Contact Center AI

- Changes in the competitive landscape based on AI advancement

Outcomes:

- Strategy for Human in the Loop (HITL) design to accelerate known business opportunities.

- Identification of new opportunities for automation and acceleration leveraging Azure cloud ecosystem of products.

- Briefing of the Microsoft Roadmap and Automated ML strategies, including AzureML integration into Power Platform, Dynamics, Azure.

- Prioritization of projects based on estimated value generated.

Solution:

- QuickStart to advanced AI model development (Data cleansing and model ensembling for improved accuracy)

- Data Quality/Suitability Validation (signal and accuracy)

- Explanatory/Data Discovery; Fast iteration (Daily or faster enabled)

- AI Quickstart often leads to cloud data modernization opportunities