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Generative AI, providing enhanced customer insight

Artefact, a French AI and data solutions company, successfully implemented a generative AI tool for a major French bank, leveraging IBM watsonx.ai. This solution creates intelligent avatars representing customer segments, allowing bank professionals to interactively gain crucial insights into consumer habits in a secure and compliant manner.

Artefact France over 1,500 people worldwide
Artefact
One month
The demonstrator was developed by Artefact in just one month. Each cluster is made up of personas representing 2 to 3 million real customers.

The Business

Artefact, a French AI and data solutions company, successfully implemented a generative AI tool for a major French bank, leveraging IBM watsonx.ai. This solution creates intelligent avatars representing customer segments, allowing bank professionals to interactively gain crucial insights into consumer habits in a secure and compliant manner.

Artefact · over 1,500 people worldwide.

Before AI

A major French bank sought to expand its service offering by more effectively harnessing customer data and providing professionals with crucial insights into consumer habits. Existing anonymized raw data offered limited value for this purpose.

What Changed

Artefact leveraged IBM watsonx.ai to develop a generative AI tool that creates intelligent avatars representing customer clusters. Bank professionals can now interact with these AI entities in a chat-like exchange to inquire about consumption habits, gaining valuable, targeted insights almost instantaneously.

The Result

Artefact developed the demonstrator for the generative AI solution in just one month with a small team. The application provides near-instantaneous creation of customer clusters and allows interactive querying of AI avatars, leading to significant interest and new project requests, including one for AI to generate emails directly.

Why this matters

Dynamic AI Personas Revolutionize Market Research and Customer Insight

Instead of relying on static, anonymized data or costly, time-consuming traditional market research, businesses can now create dynamic AI personas that accurately simulate specific customer segments. This approach enables interactive querying and rapid insight generation, democratizing access to in-depth consumer understanding. This method offers a scalable, cost-effective, and efficient way to explore various market segments, predict behaviors, and tailor services, providing an agility that traditional methods often lack. It demonstrates how AI can transform raw data into actionable, conversational intelligence, opening new avenues for product development and marketing strategies.

Technology Used

IBM watsonx.ai
by IBM

Used for:

generative AIcustomer data analysisintelligent avatarspersona creationcluster analysisAI-generated emails

Source

IBM
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Generative AI, providing enhanced customer insight
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