come to face continuously. Once again, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in the demand for Smart Engines’ services as remote service has become Fintech’s ‘new oil.’ “Our AI-driven technology has become highly in demand, which has necessitated the rapid growth of our company,” states Vladimir. Specializing in artificial intelligence research with a particular focus and expertise in computer vision software, the company’s AI solutions have been in constant demand with the ongoing difficulties of the pandemic. As a result, the company’s software and intelligence programs have been highly regarded as a modern-day necessity with a heavy reliance on Vladimir and his team for the development of such innovative and precise technological advances. Today and the Future And so we come to where Smart Engines is today. Regardless of being reinforced by the impact of COVID-19, Smart Engines has long been considered a pacesetter in the greater industry, spearheading digital solutions and AI based technologies. Some of its core products - Smart ID Engine, Smart Document Engine, Smart Code Engine and Smart Tomo Engine – remain peerless on the landscape, while its clients remain some of the largest organisations and brands across the professional business sphere. These include Raiffeisenbank, Kaspi Bank, Sheremetyevo Airport, Russian Railways, Royal Caribbean Group, Tessi, Alfa Capital, Caribbean Airlines, Oman Arab Bank, Emirates NBD and The Republic of Seychelles, among many others. Currently, Smart Engines is planning to release new products to aid users with the latest regulatory rules. Thus, streamlining the registration processes effectively. As aforementioned, the company’s main objective is to create AI developments that reduce end-user friction. Simply improving the quality of products isn’t good enough for the company as it continuously strives for newer, better, and more innovative AI advancements. Vladimir explains, “When the quality of OCR is high, seemingly minor improvements are actually huge - for example, if you have 99.99% quality, then an increase of 0.005% means half as many errors as before. The error cost can be very high, and the bigger your company is, the more expensive the errors in document scanning become. Many of our clients are fintech giants, so half as many errors mean half as many expenses for them.” Smart Engines and the team of researchers, developers, and scientists are working within one of the world’s most fast-paced and evolving industries. Therefore, the company has an objective to maintain innovative and new developments consistently and constantly in order to sustain its reputation as the top leader in the industry and unmatched by its competitors. By using a science-first approach, Smart Engines is able to develop all technical elements. “We invest in research and development, conferences, and scientific publications to stay on the cutting edge. For us as scientists, this process is natural,” states Vladimir. “The creation of new technologies in AI requires extensive and deep knowledge of mathematics and cybernetics and an understanding of current trends in the scientific environment. That is why we are hiring and educating young scientists to ensure our products’ functionality is always up to date with our client’s requirements.” In order to stay ahead of the modern world’s competitive industry, Smart Engines understands the pressure of being able to deliver productivity, quality, and customer service gains. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Smart Engines was pushed to mainly use electronic channels of interaction in order to keep up to date, connected, and relevant throughout the challenges. Essentially, the company’s goal is to be prepared for when things ‘get back to normal,’ which they anticipate will include participation in conferences, symposiums, and other events on-site. For Smart Engines, its employees are absolutely essential and integral to its success. Therefore, in the recruitment process, the company ensures that new hires have relevant qualities such as curiosity, responsibility, intelligence, critical thinking and are results-focused. Essentially, a fundamental personality that corresponds well to the concept of a scientist. Therefore, when choosing youthful employees, the company tends to evaluate their scientific and engineering potential, which is then compared to its scientific ethics and business values. SE ensures that each recruiter will become quality scientists within their chosen field of expertise with the guidance and encouragement of the company’s fellow staff members. By inspiring its younger scientists to indulge deeper into scientific research, these individuals gain the confidence, experience and knowledge that pushed them to receive PhDs. Due to its intense passion for providing education and developing state-of-the-art AI technologies, Smart Engines has been able to grow its team’s qualifications by three Ph.D.’s per year. It is recycling knowledge and producing innovative and inspiring developments for future generations. “For us, culture means science, so being cultural implies getting one step ahead in technology. Therefore, our internal culture is best described as a design bureau with a highly sophisticated scientific department and our own AI-design office. To achieve that, we invite and ‘breed’ students, teach them while allowing them to combine work with studying. This approach best illustrates that we are not afraid to experiment and take risks,” explains Vladimir. Moreover, Smart Engines checks the compliance of ethical principles against the company’s values. An essential part of the hiring process is to merge values and ethics to encourage and inspire employees to be happier and dedicated within their job. Overall, this is a motivator for the company as it drives team members to contribute to the overall success of Smart Engines, which in turn, positively impacts the industry. Recognized as Russia’s Best Computer Vision Software Company, Vladimir and his significantly impressive team at Smart Engines are leading the industry, one innovative AI development and passionate young scientist at a time. Company: Smart Engines Service Limited Liability Company Name: Vladimir Arlazarov, CEO Email:
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