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AI Model Quality Assessment & Governance Framework
Many AI initiatives fail because there’s no plan for scale and maintenance. Has your organization already deployed AI/ML models and you’re looking for proven ways to maintain it? Working with some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations, EK … Continue reading
Enterprise LLM Accelerator
Many organizations are looking for a reliable way to experiment with and understand the applications of generative AI such as ChatGPT and Copilot. These tools, built using complex ML components like LLMs and neural networks, offer a lot of promise … Continue reading
Tool Selection & Solutions Framework Development
We recognize that navigating the myriad of technology options and AI models available for enterprise-wide AI initiatives can be challenging. As a vendor-agnostic consultancy, we partner with and integrate a wide range of tools and AI solutions on the market. … Continue reading
AI Readiness Assessment, Benchmarking & Strategy
Many organizations are looking for a tailored framework to get started in their AI journey and help them prioritize potential projects based on relative effort and estimated return. EK’s Strategy approach consists of five core factors that are within the … Continue reading
Initiative-Specific AI Model Starter-Kit
There is no single AI solution that works in every situation, especially when considering the constraints of real-life problems, data types, and organizational diversity. We developed our Initiative-Specific AI Model Starter-Kit based on the experience and lessons learned from supporting … Continue reading
Women’s Health Foundation – Semantic Classification POC
A humanitarian foundation focusing on women’s health faced a complex problem: determining the highest impact decision points in contraception adoption for specific markets and demographics. Two strategic objectives drove the initiative—first, understanding the multifaceted factors (from product attributes to social influences) that guide women’s contraceptive choices, and second, identifying actionable insights from disparate data sources. The key challenge was integrating internal survey response data with internal investment documents to answer nuanced competency questions such as, “What are the most frequently cited factors when considering a contraceptive method?” and “Which factors most strongly influence adoption or rejection?” This required a system that could not only ingest and organize heterogeneous data but also enable executives to visualize and act upon insights derived from complex cross-document analyses. Continue reading
Humanitarian Foundation – SemanticRAG POC
A humanitarian foundation needed to demonstrate the ability of its Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GRAG) system to answer complex, cross-source questions. In particular, the task was to evaluate the impact of foundation investments on strategic goals by synthesizing information from publicly available domain data, internal investment documents, and internal investment data. The challenge laid in …. Continue reading
Unlocking Knowledge Intelligence from Unstructured Data
Introduction Organizations generate, source, and consume vast amounts of unstructured data every day, including emails, reports, research documents, technical documentation, marketing materials, learning content and customer interactions. However, this wealth of information often remains hidden and siloed, making it challenging … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Inject Business Context into Structured Data using a Semantic Layer (Part 3)
Introduction AI has attracted significant attention in recent years, prompting me to explore enterprise AI architectures through a multi-part blog series this year. Part 1 of this series introduced the key technical components required for implementing an enterprise AI architecture. … Continue reading
Entitlements Within a Semantic Layer Framework: Benefits of Determining User Roles Within a Data Governance Framework
The importance of data governance grows as the number of users with permission to access, create, or edit content and data within organizational ecosystems faces cumulative upkeep. An organization may have a plan for data governance and may have software … Continue reading