NOVEMBER 2017CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM 19Activity Stream's approach is different in several ways: user experience design, how we work with our customers, our delivery model, and our go-to-market strategydo we all need to be successful in our jobs? And how do we want to receive those data sets and insights?" All of our delivery decisions started with this premise first, the proactive employee, instead of the data scientist. So we designed the interface to be intuitive, customizable, and hyper-relevant to any end user. From a technical perspective, creating the ultimate empowered employee scenario forced us to solve this from many angles. It required us to have a holistic approach: provide infrastructure, analytical capabilities, and delivery. We simultaneously built infrastructure to collect and combine data; adaptive modeling for complex data combinations in real-time; analytical capabilities leveraging an arsenal of AI; and real-time delivery that is sticky, almost gamified.5.Is AI applicable in every industry?We say yes, but we chose a go-to-market strategy based on our strengths. Our entry market was one that we knew well, one where we had a good network. This allowed us to engage from the get-go with our customers as partners, which is fundamental to our entire customer success strategy. We are now replicating our success in other markets like energy, building management, and retail to name a few. AI is the 4th industrial revolution, already spawning new AI-first businesses, ready to disrupt most existing value chains and models. We simply believe it will not be friendly to the late-arrivers, and our strategy is to partner with you to get an edge on *your* market. So your success is our success.6.What is your product vision?To leverage the ethical application of AI for galactic progress. We say that with humor, the "galactic progress" part, but truly we seek to become an indispensable partner in AI. In the near term, we are creating an augmented analytics platform, with the end user experiences as gamified work intuition. If we hit our mark, this will empower people-- the exact opposite of the fear that automation will destroy jobs, it will save money on operations, improve customer relationships, and help employees excel. Stefán Baxter, Founder & CTOEinar Saevarsson Co-founder & CEO
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