Tech consultancy B13.AI has partnered with Tech WM to launch the West Midlands Digital Accelerator the place SMEs within the area are supplied 50 funded AI feasibility studies.
A feasibility report is a sensible place to begin for a enterprise that suspects expertise may assist them, however will not be certain the place to start, what it might price, or whether or not it might ship a return.
B13.AI will work with companies to search out the suitable instruments for transformance and can advise what a sensible roadmap may seem like.
The initiative follows the tech agency’s imaginative and prescient of democratising entry to AI and software program improvement, making it reasonably priced, accessible, and commercially viable for SMEs by eliminating massive capital expenditures.
In response to B13.AI, the normal mannequin of software program improvement has three well-known flaws for smaller companies – excessive upfront price, lengthy supply timelines, and an inclination to construct greater than is definitely wanted.
A current survey performed by B13.AI in partnership with Higher Birmingham Chambers of Commerce revealed 40 per cent of companies are blocked from AI or digitalisation adoption as a result of finances constraints whereas 43 per cent battle with undertaking delays or a scarcity of inner experience.
B13’s strategy is constructed round eradicating these obstacles by way of a trademarked Enterprise Mapping course of.
The agency works with companies to totally map their operations, outline clear outcomes, and ship software program inside a set scope and worth.
Final yr, they began constructing Cycl, an AI-enabled patent-pending instrument with a purpose of creating software program improvement much more accessible on a easy month-to-month subscription, with no massive capital required.
B13 additionally encourages companies to ask the next questions earlier than approaching a tech associate:
- The place in our enterprise can we lose probably the most time to handbook processes?
- What selections would we make in a different way if we had higher information?
- Is our customer-facing velocity – quotes, responses, fulfilment – as environment friendly {and professional} because it could possibly be?
- Are we paying for software program that does 80 per cent of what we want, however lacking the 20 per cent that might make an actual distinction?
Gabrielle Crofts (pictured), CEO of B13, mentioned: “We’re excited to be partnering with TechWM to convey 50 funded AI feasibility studies to the area.
“There’s clearly a robust urge for food to embrace AI throughout the area, and we’re wanting ahead to creating it extra accessible to West Midlands SMEs particularly.”
Visit the West Midlands Digital Accelerator website to find out more or to apply for a funded feasibility report or e mail hello@b13.ai