Ai for Business

  AI for Sales in Made-to-Order Companies 🚀 In Made-to-Order (MTO) businesses, winning an order often depends on how fast and how well a proposal is crafted. Yet, the effort behind it is rarely visible. Sales teams in these industries face unique challenges. Preparing proposals and responding to RFPs involves reading long specification documents, creating BOMs, preparing estimates and collating inputs from multiple teams — all under tight deadlines ⏳. Answering client queries requires deep knowledge of capabilities and past projects, which is often scattered across documents and individuals. Creating impactful collateral that truly reflects organizational strengths is another ongoing effort. AI can significantly ease this burden 🤖. It can assist in understanding RFPs, generating proposal drafts, and even supporting BOM creation and estimation by leveraging past data. An AI-enabled knowledge base can help teams quickly respond to client queries with accurate and relevant informati...

India is at a fascinating moment in its AI journey 🇮🇳✨ Over the past few years, most of the AI systems we’ve used have been built elsewhere 🌍. They are powerful, but not always designed for how India actually communicates. Recently, I spent some time testing Sarvam AI’s new models (30B and 105B), specifically through an India lens. Real prompts, real languages, real use cases. Here’s what stood out: ✅ Strong multilingual capability (Hindi, Marathi, and code-mixed queries) 🗣️ ✅ Clear, structured, and accessible responses 📊 ✅ Early signs of promise for India-specific use cases 🚀 But also: ⚠️ Gaps in factual accuracy, especially for policies and current affairs ⚠️ Cultural nuances still need deeper grounding ⚠️ High confidence even when unsure (a broader LLM challenge) Building AI for India is not just a smaller version of building global AI.
It comes with its own complexity including languages, dialects, code-mixing, and deeply local context. That is what makes this effort so impor...

  ⚙️Many industries operate in the Made-to-Order (MTO) model — where products or projects are designed and delivered only after receiving a customer order. This includes sectors like industrial machinery and equipment, aerospace and defence manufacturing, custom electronics, construction, shipbuilding and HVAC 🏗️🚢. While this model enables customization and strong customer value, it also brings unique challenges. Every order is different, so teams repeatedly create proposals, designs, plans and documents. Large volumes of technical information are generated across the lifecycle, but knowledge often remains scattered. Coordination across sales, engineering, procurement, manufacturing and execution becomes complex — leading to delays, estimation errors and rework. Expertise is unevenly distributed, and learning from past projects is not always systematic. This is where AI can make a meaningful difference 🤖. By helping organizations reuse knowledge and automate effort across the li...

  Why Multimodal Embeddings Could Change Enterprise Search Imagine this. A field technician sees a machine component on a factory floor, takes a photo of it, and the system instantly retrieves the relevant manual or maintenance documentation. No part numbers. No exact keywords. Just a photo. This kind of search experience is becoming possible with multimodal embeddings. In simple terms, embeddings convert things like text or images into numerical representations that capture their meaning. When two things are conceptually similar, their embeddings end up closer to each other in vector space. Recently, Google released Gemini Embedding 2, which creates embeddings for multiple types of data such as text, images, audio, and video, all in the same shared space. This means that a photo, a written description, or even a video frame of the same object can be understood as related by a search system. I ran a quick experiment using the Gemini API. I compared a sports car image with two text...

  In parts of Phoenix, it is no longer unusual to see a car arrive without a driver. Robotaxis from Waymo have been operating there for years, picking up passengers, navigating intersections, and completing trips in regular city traffic. Similar pilots have appeared in areas of San Francisco through Cruise, and in Chinese cities such as Wuhan through Baidu’s Apollo Go program. And yet, these places are exceptions. Autonomous cars have been under development for more than two decades. The required technologies—advanced sensors, high-performance computing, machine learning algorithms, real-time mapping, and connectivity—are all available. So the vehicles are adequately intelligent. The progress has not stalled for lack of time or innovation. So why are self-driving cars operating in only a handful of cities across the world? The answer lies not inside the car, but outside it. Autonomous driving succeeds where the environment supports it—where conditions such as roads and regulations ...

Strange as it may feel, I’m sitting inside Google Docs, writing an article about the AI that’s been helping me all along. Google Docs is one of those apps where AI has been quietly working for years, long before “AI features” became a marketing headline. In Microsoft Word, AI is easy to spot—Copilot is front and center. In Google Docs, it’s different. The AI has been there for a long time, quietly helping users without making a big deal about it. That’s what this article explores. Smart suggestions you barely notice Smart Suggestions is one of the ways AI quietly works in the background in Google Docs, though you might not see it depending on your account type. It uses machine learning to help you write faster by suggesting words and phrases as you type, kind of like having a helpful assistant looking over your shoulder. However, features like Smart Compose are primarily available for certain work or school accounts with specific Google Workspace plans, and they work in English, Spanis...

Image by Rajashree Rajadhyax WhatsApp is one app that we use everyday. I’m sure with many that is the default way of staying connected with the world. Its easy to use, always available and the best thing is that its associated with your mobile number. I think the success behind WhatsApp over any other messaging tool is its association with the mobile number. While the interface is clean and simple and there is no bragging about use of AI, yet AI is working in the background to make our WhatsApp experience smooth. Let’s do a deep dive. Smart and optimised message delivery When you send a message on WhatsApp, it feels simple and instant. But real-world networks are messy. Signals drop, phones switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, battery savers kick in, and the person on the other side may be offline. Yet messages usually do reach. This is because WhatsApp doesn’t just send a message once and forget about it. That would be a purely programmed or deterministic behaviour. Instead, when the...