Writer CEO shares vision for “full stack generative AI” at VB Transform, addressing key challenges in enterprise AI adoption and showcasing the company’s latest innovations aimed at improving accuracy, efficiency, and user experience.
Obstacles to enterprise AI success: Habib highlighted three main challenges impeding the effectiveness of AI in business settings:
- Low accuracy: A survey of 500 AI executives revealed that only 17% rated their AI applications as “good or better,” indicating widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of enterprise AI solutions.
- Inefficiency: Many businesses struggle to efficiently implement and integrate AI into their workflows, leading to suboptimal results and slow progress.
- Poor adoption rates: Habib cited the example of Microsoft’s Copilot, where even the top 10% of companies see only 50% of employees using the tool once a week for simple tasks like email summarization, underscoring the need for more user-friendly AI solutions.
Writer’s “full stack generative AI” approach: To address these challenges, Writer has developed a comprehensive AI solution that combines advanced technologies with a focus on usability:
- Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): This technology maps semantic relationships between data points, enabling more targeted information retrieval and accurate responses to complex queries.
- Transparency tools: Writer’s new “thought process” feature provides insight into the AI’s decision-making process, breaking down broad questions into sub-questions and offering clear reasoning for its outputs.
- Specialized “modes”: The platform now offers task-specific modes to streamline the user experience and improve output quality, addressing the difficulty many users face in properly prompting AI systems.
Demonstrating the platform’s capabilities: During her presentation, Habib showcased Writer’s new features using a hospitality customer’s dataset:
- Personalized messaging: The graph-based RAG system effectively interpreted complex queries, broke them down into sub-questions, and provided clear reasoning for its outputs, enabling the creation of highly personalized messages.
- Empowering non-technical users: Writer’s user-friendly interface and specialized modes allow employees without technical expertise to work effectively with AI, focusing on boosting accuracy, efficiency, and adoption in real business settings.
Broader implications for enterprise AI: Habib’s presentation emphasized the need for more accessible and effective AI solutions in enterprise settings:
- Bridging the gap between promise and reality: Writer aims to address the discrepancy between the potential of AI and its current limitations in practical implementation, helping businesses realize the full benefits of the technology.
- Driving adoption through user-friendly design: By prioritizing usability and transparency, Writer seeks to overcome the low adoption rates that have hindered the success of other enterprise AI tools, such as Microsoft’s Copilot.
As businesses continue to navigate the challenges of integrating AI into their operations, Writer’s “full stack generative AI” approach offers a promising solution, combining advanced technologies with a focus on usability and transparency to drive better outcomes and wider adoption.
Habib at VB Transform: Writer’s vision for full stack AI
